Kontextmaschine

20th December 2022

Post reblogged from Baconmancer with 383,938 notes

wetwareproblem:
nonbinaryspacecase:
wetwareproblem:
bakedbrielarson:
lesbwian:
Is this the latest “we don’t make fun of autistic people, just every single visibly autistic trait?”
It’s not, because it’s not talking about men just naturally speaking in this manner, but men who don’t speak like this regularly switching to this type of language specifically to talk down to women they disagree with. To seem more intellectual then those women.
The context here matters and is different from just someone having this manner of speaking naturally because they’re neurodivergent/autistic. Here it’s someone using this manner of speaking to talk down to others.
Here’s the thing: I don’t talk that way by default either. But if I’m feeling threatened, I switch up to a highly formal register automatically. It’s a trauma response; I’m trying to be unambiguous because I’m scared that any ambiguity will be used to hurt me. Exactly the way this post dismisses.
I’m not alone in this - it’s something I’ve seen in a lot of autistic folks, because a lot of us get punished for misunderstanding or communication issues.
Does that mean it’s not used by sexist sealions in the way described here? No, of course not. But… If you think this isn’t hitting autistic people you’re kidding yourself.
It’s because getting really angry isn’t going to work any better and it’s a good way to rile people up.

When I was in school I realized I could wield this against teachers trying to dress me down by leaning it into talking in school administratorspeak, which was an important step to my later realization of the general point that you establish command over humans just like you do animals, by mirroring them back at themselves with absolute confidence