If sociopaths are offended by marginalization in media, or misconceptions appropriated about them, are they actually sociopaths?

knatalie:

profoundindifference:

Pop culture references to sociopaths and psychopaths are common things, and are often misused and cliched. 

But, having the diagnosis we do, are we really, genuinely offended?
And if so, does that have a bearing on the severity of our diagnosis?

A friend and I were having a discussion with a group of people about what makes humans human, and one said emotion. My friend agreed, and so I asked what that made people who have a shallow affect, or those who do not feel emotion in the same way as the general population, and he said sub-human, or less than human. 

I pretended to get offended, just to perpetuate the argument, and asked if he meant inferiority, to which he replied, no, that they are just something that lacks humanity.

After the conversation, my friend came to me and expressed skepticism about my being offended (he knows I have ASPD), and so I told him I wasn’t really offended, to which he replied, “Are any sociopaths really offended by blanket statements about serial killers and such?”

Which led me to pose the question to my followers of the same ilk.

Food for thought. 

10/10! Relevant to the tag!

Also:

http://knatalie.tumblr.com/post/21585791592

Why do I blog so much about racism and cissexism and other shitty prejudices if I don’t care or understand?

And see, that’s a problem. You’re assuming that I’m doing it because I care about everyone and want us all to hold hands and sing. That’s a lie, and it’s stupid. I don’t like stupid people - hence the wanting to be a teacher. I don’t like ignorance or idiocy, and that’s why I get so angry over things like this.

Or, to link in with your point - one can be irritated without being offended. One can recognize that “psychopath” is used as a slur and be put out without falling to the floor weeping and swearing revenge.

I’m not offended.

I’m just bored of it.

iragray:

I can honestly say this is the most helpful and educational video about phalloplasties I have ever seen.

Trigger warnings for genitals, scars, and discussion of surgeries.

Best part: “I gained sensitivity.”

Also, the style of this surgery is pretty different than others I’ve seen. It doesn’t look like he’s had a scrotoplasty, and his original junk is left exposed.

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in which emily cries over the saturation of ableist slurs in loki fics

thanks hannah

you’re the breast

oh-you-better-run:

we are not traitors but the lights go out, elementary, sherlock holmes/joan watson

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Skin is just a map that no one has yet charted. He reads this at ten, and it burns a truth behind his eyes, a leather-bound book in his hands that Daddy has never read, will never miss, will never love. (But he, when he’s discovered an hour later, will.)

He’s twenty, and then he’s thirty, and he’s always Sherlock Holmes. He’s seen dead bodies, and the knife wounds that made them that way. Skin is just skin, until it’s something else, and it’s something else that happens to us all. Skin is just skin, over bone, over blood, because the flesh is weak and soft and willing. Skin is just skin, and scars are only something you have on the outside. (Mostly.) Skin is just skin, and he marks his up, marks his up, says that he doesn’t keep count, does. Skin is just skin, but it’s all he’s got, for a while, for a year or two, for all his life.

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if it’s not on Project Free TV, then it doesn’t exist

in which natty makes a fool of herself over elementary headcanons

changedintofire requested: watchmen opening sequence

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Elementary Fancast

knatalie:

as suggested by endquestionmark

So I’m going to cover the big character names, so there won’t be any of the lesser-known characters. (Yet!) I’m doing Moriarty, Moran, Adler, Morstan and Hudson. I’m not casting Mycroft because he doesn’t appear very often and if Sherlock is a white guy, odds are he will be too. Cast your own guy for him if you like. (Although I do kind of like Mark Harmon as him, he’s got this fantastic hard edge that you just can’t soften. He’d be a good contrast to JLM’s Sherlock.)

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Speed Limits and How I Habitually Break Them on a Bike.

London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.

[…] try to imagine fandom’s reaction if the next big Holmes adaptation to come along had Holmes and Watson as British, yeah - young black British men, living case to case on a council estate in a dodgy area of London. How fandom would react if Sherlock Holmes didn’t employ street kids and homeless people like trained animals to do his bidding, but instead was part of that invisible underclass; if instead of having his eccentricities tolerated~ by Scotland Yard on account of being the Great White Genius, Sherlock Holmes, BME, school dropout, and sometime addict, was regarded by the police as practically a criminal already, one more thug, one more junkie, one more dealer in the making. If he had to choose between buying the week’s groceries or palming a twenty to a bored constable for the chance to spend five minutes on a crime scene, in the hope that whoever’s under enough pressure to deal with crime rates in the neighbourhood will pay him enough for a perp to feed himself and Watson for a month or two. If the greatest threat to his safety were police brutality, or the prospect of being done for a snitch; if his arch enemy weren’t Moriarty, but the systemic poverty and inequality that has him helping out his oppressors just to get by, and that makes the other side of the law look more tempting to someone with his skills every day.

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cjludd:

loving how everyone’s calling out elementary for being sexist and even racist jfc when there’s both to be found in sherlock too!!

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feloniesaremyfashiontrend asked: I would work on your knowledge before you try any more clever remarks. "deer" is the animal. "dear" is a word you use when addressing a person.

you’re right

newvagabond:

Oh, God. Here we go with Norse mythology.

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