status dark forest

hilarious how society went through two decades of self-imposed "status and gender dynamics blindness" so that pointing out previously obvious facts is valuable intel. like now u can get 50k likes and start flamewars by tweeting "guys like girls with long hair" but 30 years ago that was just what any teen girl would say to her friend if she talked about getting a pixie cut. we used to have direct visibility into the things that made people hot or cool or sexy, people used to just talk about them all the time. everyone knew implicitly and would explicitly say "if u read comics all day u aren't gonna get a girlfriend", "those glasses make u look like a nerd", "if u keep being such a slut no one will want to marry u" etc etc. but we decided that was cruel and impolite and tabooed all that sort of speech in favor of accepting each individual's expression of themselves. then slowly individuals realize different expressions fundamentally come with different tradeoffs and have different effects on others, and start communicating these advantages. "oh my god guys i stopped talking to women about video games and suddenly im getting second dates". these basic observations, sometimes uncomfortable, have become esoteric knowledge. in the name of allowing society to be nonconformist we simply made it a dark forest, left everyone to fend for their own, and made just being aware of the tradeoffs of ur choices into a form of judgement and cultural warfare.

fuck did i accidentally make an extremely right wing tweet i can't tell

i think women should be able to get pixie cuts without fear tbc