Eurobeatjester wrote:If anything, they're RPing Mary Sues of themselves because they have a desperate need to seem more important to themselves and others than they are, so instead of trying to find themselves as people, they identify with or just flat out make up different issues that they don't have for the sake of gaining sympathy from like minded individuals.
Or, you know, they want to play an ogrillon instead of a dwarf because they've played some form of the latter about a thousand times and they get bored with it more easily than most. I don't see the need to ascribe the most personally condemning possible motivation to it just because people find it annoying.
Eurobeatjester wrote:With the internet as widespread as it is, for every group that helps people cope with these issues, there are a dozen others that encourage you to wallow in self delusion and treat it as a perfectly normal thing - and to attack anyone who doesn't agree (or doesn't even understand because they have no frame of reference and are just expected to know everything about the subject in question.)
Treat
what as a perfectly normal thing? That somebody's sexual or romantic tastes in others don't fall precisely in harmony with restrictive, simplistic labels? That
is perfectly normal. I don't see how anybody who feels that way is "wallowing in self-delusion."
Communities on the internet have this problem with automatically taking the most knee-jerk position on an issue and than extrapolating in a spiral from there. Some thirteen-year-old with a LiveJournal wants to think for a while that he's got the soul of a vampire, so from there everybody goes straight to concluding that there are
no identity politics on the internet with any scientific or social basis because that makes things too complicated and they don't personally have any use for them (even while they might belong to an absurdly specific group, like, as in the Emo Phillips joke, "Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region Council of 1912.")
This is totally a derail, so I'll end it here, but yeah.