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To follow up on this, I think is also part of why when you question or have minor disagreements on their identity they have this visceral and over the top angry reaction. Like break up the relationship, go non-contact with close family members or childhood friends.It's worth mentioning that "I endentify as..." is effectively a neologism that germinated around 2010-2014. I don't think I ever heard that phrase before then. Before you'd just say you 'are' something, if you even mentioned it at all. It's like the addition of 'identify as' has been inorganically shoehorned in to add some sort of perceived gravitas to how you describe yourself. After all, what's the use in being vegan/gay/a cyclist/trans/etc if you can't centre it as the be-all and end-all of your person so you can browbeat people with it?
And you're right when you say that it's a proxy for an interesting and likable personality which these people otherwise lack entirely. This is why troons, vegans and so on are all reprehensible insufferable cunts to a man. It's not a coincidence.
I think this is why they see any kind of disagreement as an attack on their person. Being vegan/trans/turbo-sjw/... is not an opinion or lifestyle, it is their whole identity and if you have any disagreements on this then you basically disagree with their identity. They see it as you trying to undermine or destroy their identity and them as a person.
It is a mental illness. A severe mental illness.
