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> Being susceptible and unwilling to accept it makes you manipulatable. If one person cracking watermelon jokes gets under your skin, think what a psychopath wi

• GhotiFish 13y ago
  if you react to a negative social appeal emotionally, you will react to a positive social appeal in the same manner. Basically, if I can get you to react with misogyny, I have a level of control over you.
  • jlgreco 13y ago
    I think you strike the nail on the head here, and in the process touch on something that I have noticed: "Trolling" is about power. People do it because being able to push somebodies emotions one direction or another lets them play with that person like a marionette. Making people upset is a power trip for trolls. It would not suprise me if many (not most by any means, but many) trolls are in fact psychopaths who are 'practicing' in a way. Running low-risk experiments on how to control people.
  • AlexMax 13y ago
    > Basically, if I can get you to react with misogyny, I have a level of control over you. The solution is not to innoculate yourself against emotional response. Trust, but verify. Be emotional and empathetic, but do your homework and don't be a sucker. Such an approach would allow yourself to empathize with the targets of bigotry without exposing yourself to the hypothetical psychopathic affirmative action boogeyman. And I am far more afraid of decades of social justice being undone by the normalization of bigoted attitudes in society than I am of a few scheming manipulative social justice warriors.