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I have noticed that not all communities centred around uglies and exposing lookism take as defeatist a stance as this forum where you will be blatantly told to either LDAR or rope or cope throughout life while being treated as someone who's beneath everyone that is if the person were to venture outside. Never have I ever seen posts on here aimed at igniting some sort of activism at convincing people of lookism being a thing.
In fact when perusing the Must Read Section posts I noticed that quite a few posts on there seemed to have this goal of convincing the normies of lookism being a thing. I suppose it could be framed as a way to escape the self gaslighting which happens when you are perpetually lied to and thereby are led to frame it as such but I do believe that at least some users believed they could some convince people of lookism being a thing, a mode of discrimination rooted in reality and perhaps have some people mitigate the harshness of their treatment that they were inflicting on said people.
But still here on .is everybody knows that this is a losing battle. One cannot fight nature itself and lookism cannot be brought down because it's biological.
Where this idea of activism is all the more prominent to the point of ridiculousness is other lookism communities on the internet where the uglies congregate and it is a common fixture on there to see posts asking "why aren't we doing more to bring light to the fact that lookism exists and it destroys lives?" and so on. They are under the impression that demonstrating how being treated like shit over their looks has caused them to self isolate and made them suicidal would so emphatically sadden normal people that they would change their treatment immediately. But what this misses out on is that making uglies self isolate and rope is the very function and end goal of lookism.
Lookism is so inherent to human nature that it cannot be eradicated and asking for activism for it to be done away with is akin to asking water to become dry because its being wet inconveniences you.
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In fact when perusing the Must Read Section posts I noticed that quite a few posts on there seemed to have this goal of convincing the normies of lookism being a thing. I suppose it could be framed as a way to escape the self gaslighting which happens when you are perpetually lied to and thereby are led to frame it as such but I do believe that at least some users believed they could some convince people of lookism being a thing, a mode of discrimination rooted in reality and perhaps have some people mitigate the harshness of their treatment that they were inflicting on said people.
But still here on .is everybody knows that this is a losing battle. One cannot fight nature itself and lookism cannot be brought down because it's biological.
Where this idea of activism is all the more prominent to the point of ridiculousness is other lookism communities on the internet where the uglies congregate and it is a common fixture on there to see posts asking "why aren't we doing more to bring light to the fact that lookism exists and it destroys lives?" and so on. They are under the impression that demonstrating how being treated like shit over their looks has caused them to self isolate and made them suicidal would so emphatically sadden normal people that they would change their treatment immediately. But what this misses out on is that making uglies self isolate and rope is the very function and end goal of lookism.
Lookism is so inherent to human nature that it cannot be eradicated and asking for activism for it to be done away with is akin to asking water to become dry because its being wet inconveniences you.
@VideoGameCoper
@Incline
@DarkStar