Cats, Dogs, and Jerks: a description of human social interaction

[nancylebov]

Do you think this is accurate?
[Note: this is going to sound at first like PUA advice, but is actually about general differences between the socially-typical and atypical in the sending and receiving of "status play" signals, using the current situation as an example

Comments

[noveldevice]

Total rubbish.

[nancylebov]

Would you care to expand on that?

[noveldevice]

Hahah, sorry--I'm staying with themikado and he's rubbing off on me.

First and foremost, I get really irritated at the attempted divide between geeks and non-geeks as "geeks" and "neurotypicals". I am a geek--not only do I fulfill the functions, I wear the uniform--but I don't think I'm particularly neurologically atypical, nor are a lot of the smartest, geekiest people I know. If you are neurologically atypical that's great, but we don't all have to be neurologically atypical to be geeks. (And in fact themikado questions the "neurologically typical/atypical" divide--but he literally is a brain scientist, so he has more rigourous standards for the use of such terms

[supergee]

I can be friends with people without engaging in dominance play with them, which is a good thing.

[noveldevice]

I think "dominance play" is a red herring--I don't think it actually exists in the way the person writing the original piece thinks it does. Does dominance play exist? Probably. Do all non-geeks engage in it? Do all geeks eschew it? Ahahahah...pardon me while I fall on the floor.