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I'm torn. Is this not doing the same thing they claim to be against "wokeism", for it's partitioning of the populace? I'm definitely team divergent - I mean "We
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I'm torn. Is this not doing the same thing they claim to be against "wokeism", for it's partitioning of the populace? I'm definitely team divergent - I mean "Weird" if forced to pick, but this only further makes us vs them. Which then lead me to my original issue with this, issue. Words, or language. "Normal" which has this social connotation of proper, correct, you are a flawless human, good job - unlike those perfectly imperfect weird ones over there. Which one do you want to be? It seems as messed up as any other, other-ing. It is suggested at here.
>> I’m using the word ‘weird’ intentionally here. More positive alternatives are: authentic, unconventional, contrarian, eccentric, original, etc.
What if we started calling "Normal" people "Conformers" and "Weird" ones "Original". At least in US culture, I'm betting a lot of people that self-select into Team Normal would quickly jump to Team Original, because being an original has "better" social connotations (in the US) then being a conformer (aka follower).
This thought came about as it reminded me of a friend in high school who graduated with honors and probably could have been top of her class if she didn't try so hard to fit in by creating an image of herself as THE stereotype cheerleader (this is not a disparagement of cheerleaders/dance my niece is one). Anyway, heard from a friend years later she was working at NASA, so guess it worked out for her in the end. But it was tough to watch someone so brilliant try to dumb herself down to be normal/fit in.