Self-Improvement Project | Clarissa's Blog

Self-Improvement Project | Clarissa's Blog

Well you can make adult people feel stuff, certainly, for example in boot camp where the human mind is broken down and then built up again. Shaming is an effective way to break people down. Thing is, it has become common to take the broken down and vulnerable state as the normal state for humans. That sense of vulnerability that requires, "I should not be called this or that," comes from having already been pulpified. If you're not pulp you don't bother, but if you are then everything hurts and offends.

It is now common for people who are anti-feminists to object that the word feminism and the word patriarchy are shaming words, targeting the male sex. If you want to know why they downvote your videos for using this word in the subject line, this is why.

I would say the probable reason is they have become at least partially pulpified, Thing is, when you embrace an ideology of essentialism, that's going to happen to you anyway, it just takes a small change in the aquarium temperature and things not longer seem so stable or reliable. They're out of kilter, so you go looking for the movers and shakers who might have made it so.

I think the problems, when we have them, are always close to home though, and rarely have as much to do with ideology as we suppose. Ideology just determines whether a remedy is provided or denied. Words can trigger all sorts of reactions when a solution is not available or cannot be recognized.

There are wounds and salt can be rubbed into them. But the wounds and the salt are different.

The point is to un-pulpify oneself.

You can't do it by listening to a lot of self-justifying ideology, though.

You would seal an already infected wound.