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Not All Men
/ Men are safe, including Bryan the misogynist / Not all men are bad, including Bryan the misogynist ->
this is what building every theory of negative interactions around attacking "stereotypes" gets you. when people push back on it through the language of "men" it's because they don't have the language to properly describe the highly complicated thing that is actually going on, so their animal instincts (trauma) go back to the last visual image associated with every negative experience to try to avoid environmental danger as an individual. this is natural, not a learned cultural process of "stereotypes". the human brain must be able to accurately predict the source of danger to stop looking for danger everywhere and narrow it down to the limited set of situations where danger actually occurs. this requires nothing less than predicting society, and predicting the likely level of risk implied by every single individual's behavior, knowing their future patterns of behavior to great accuracy. nothing else allows people to be themselves without becoming a false-positive threat to someone. you can't reduce it down to an individual recommendation of "good communication" or "don't be threatening" because that will involve telling a Black person somewhere not to speak in dialect just so somebody doesn't somehow pull "danger" out of that; it will involve squashing entire language-games and countable cultures that don't overlap with another population's set of common and known-nonthreatening signifiers. people really do have to know about the relationships between entire populations and how to predict individuals' behavior based on what population they really actually belong to in practice, or you will get antagonistic interactions whenever people meet each other and a lot of people afraid to even talk to anyone at all because they have no idea where the danger is and all they know is there is a lot more danger than they thought.
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stereotype threat
/ (9k) -> the motif, in academic literature, of socially-linked populations seeing that another surrounding or neighboring population is profiling them for particular types of threatening behavior or tacky self-expression, any number of purposes, and to try to get rid of the other population's stereotype attempt to self-censor or whack any badly-behaving member of the socially-linked population into line.
my impression: this certainly is a phenomenon, but people absolutely frame it incorrectly. it's a pretty standard narrative now to try to say that stereotypes are made up and ignoring people's stereotypes will not result in any bad consequences. but the reality is that populations genuinely expect other populations to have somebody enforcing government and conducting diplomacy, even on groups of people that are so small that it would be nonsensical to expect they would actually have national governments [...].
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