/u/injusticehasbeendone on The Guardian just published an aphobic piece about Emma Watson that's so offensive it's unbelievable! They claim that Emma Watson coming out as not having a desire to date should hurt her career and make her seem "weird." The media needs to hear from us loud and proud. What do you think?

Not going to give this a click because the only real discussion here is why "self partnered" is a weird term for people with one personality doing what she is doing, and whether or not we can have a better term that implies you don't have to have a partner and aren't looking and that's fine. But let me see if I can sum up what a lot of opinion articles on issues like this have been in the past.

Tldr: insecure person sees confident person being confident and assumes it is a front for the same insecurities the insecure person has because that makes the insecure person feel better about their insecurity but at the same time is jealous of the confidence shown and therefore must unmask the "lies" and expose the confident person as being even more insecure than the author. Since confident person is "obviously personally trying to put others down for not being as confident so that the confident person can feel better about their insecurity". This is an article that really should have been kept in the person's journal or petty mean girl gossip circle.

Am I close?

November 10, 2019 at 11:56PM