Sinfest

[Mr Gary]

The Psychopath Test, by Jon Ronson. Pretty good book too.
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[Tank]

Jon Ronson's a bit of a badass. I love the way he's completely up front with all his personal anxieties and neuroses in his writing.

He also had an awesome piece in GQ on economic inequality in America. It's really interesting to hear the personal stories of people at different economic levels.
http://www.gq.com/news-politics/big-issues/201207/amber-waves-of-green-jon-ronson-gq-july-2012

[Sam]

[fritterdonut]

[Darqcyde]

[Dogen]

Maybe, but that's almost too vague to be useful. All of mental health is a spectrum, you just don't get diagnosed until it rises to the level of affecting normal functioning (hence "disorder" - your life is not "in order"). You undoubtedly have some traits related to a mental illness, because everyone does. I have some neurotic and anxious tendencies, and some compulsive tendencies (all symptoms of anxiety disorders). But it would be misleading to say that I have an anxiety disorder, because I don't. I function normally. I would say it's just as misleading to then say that I have the tendencies of an anxiety disorder because that's just an around-the-back way of labeling someone disordered.

You can say some CEOs are dicks, and that I'm sometimes anxious, though.

[Thy Brilliance]

Now I have great respect for samsally, but I think even she has given up on this thread, so perhaps the respectful and productive thing to do is to be more active in your community and meet people who actually have a small amount of influence in gender issues.


Or you could just keep reiterate talking points we've seen thousands of times before about being fascinated by sociopaths if that's your thing.

[Sam]

[Samsally]

I don't "give up" on the feminism thread so much as peace out when it starts getting into subjects I know almost nothing about, I'm not very interested in, or are just a rehashing conversations that have already happened.

Considering the thing is a hundred thirty-some pages long at this point, I won't be too surprised if it swings back around to something I have stuff to say about again.

(Thanks for illuminating the car thing, Sam. I had no idea.)
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[Dogen]

[Snorri]

[Dogen]

Ennnnh, I think you have to register on their forum to do that.
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"Worse comes to worst, my people come first, but my tribe lives on every country on earth. I’ll do anything to protect them from hurt, the human race is what I serve." - Baba Brinkman

[Sam]

I see NLP on their site. hmm.

[Heretical Rants]

I, for one, identify strongly with the arbitrary list of personality traits that such tests inconsistently assign to me.

I feel that such labels describe me accurately as a person and I try to incorporate them into my projected persona as much as possible. I mean, I freakin' love labels, and I especially love labelling myself as things of which I vaguely fit the description, dontcha know.
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[Dogen]

Myers-Briggs is kind of a scam. I mean, it's interesting, but only something like 50% of people have the same result after a year. They even say in the manual that the thinking-feeling dichotomy isn't reliable, and that the whole thing's questionable with kids. Which makes getting attached to being an INTJ or whatever even sillier.

On the other hand, the Five Factor Model, as tested by the NEO-PI-R (NEO personality inventory, revised), has shown test-retest reliability stretching out over 6 years (that is, scores are about the same even when the second test is years after the first). But what you end up with is a number on each of 30 scales, which are relatively meaningless to most people, rather than a handy acronym that you can have printed on a t-shirt and devote yourself to.
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"Worse comes to worst, my people come first, but my tribe lives on every country on earth. I’ll do anything to protect them from hurt, the human race is what I serve." - Baba Brinkman