Black and white thinking is my absolute top gripe about social media as well, and the reason most discussions just aren’t worth participating in.
Mm, yeah. This is especially true when communicating between different ideologies, but even within them it can be hard to have a nuanced conversation—like the kind where you might not understand or agree with some point that many in your group don’t appear to question.
Like when the TERF thing first started becoming a big deal, I was lucky to have actually feminist friends, trans and otherwise, to walk me through it and suggest some reading. (Not to go all into it, but at the time I was having trouble discriminating which feminist women I should listen to.)
Anyway, that’s one of those non black and white convos, which are so hard to have with anyone but actual friends, face-to-face.
Mm, yeah. This is especially true when communicating between different ideologies, but even within them it can be hard to have a nuanced conversation—like the kind where you might not understand or agree with some point that many in your group don’t appear to question.
Like when the TERF thing first started becoming a big deal, I was lucky to have actually feminist friends, trans and otherwise, to walk me through it and suggest some reading. (Not to go all into it, but at the time I was having trouble discriminating which feminist women I should listen to.)
Anyway, that’s one of those non black and white convos, which are so hard to have with anyone but actual friends, face-to-face.