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Imagine you enter a culture where everyone's real embarrassed about their feet. They have special baggy shoe covers to hide their feet, showing people your feet is considered intense and weird, you're supposed to politely ignore feet, people use euphemisms for the word 'walking'.
But you find it real weird that people are so weird about feet. So you just... talk about it like normal. You show people your feet, and people are like 'wow' and call you the Feet Guy, and you're like fine, I'll write a blog about Feet I guess cause nobody else is doing it, and people assume you must be real obsessed with Feet, like a feetomaniac, cause why else would you make your whole career writing about Feet, except you're like no, guys, I'm not particularly interested in feet, I'm interested in the fact that everyone else is so freaked out about feet, and this has resulted in a ton of low hanging fruit in the feet space.
This is how I feel about sex. I'm probably average level horniness, I just... don't really feel like I have hangups about it. It's nice, it doesn't make me feel bad, it's a cool bonding activity I'm not ashamed about, and my career is more about the fact there's low hanging fruit everyone else is too scared to pick.
What field are you the Feet Guy in?
- Are you autistic? Not trying to be offensive but I know a lot of times people with autism will just never really *get* certain social norms about what people are embarrassed about.
- People who don't have autism also usually don't really "get" why it is that they feel embarrassed by some of these things, they just are probably more likely to go along with the social norms around them.
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- What is the word for people who don't realize that there are varieties of arbitrary norms they could have gotten socialized into, and instead think that people who don't share their particular random but locally dominant taboo must be really weird?
- Normies?
- Nope, a normie is someone who gets infected by norms. A normie who does not get that he could have other norms is something more; I am looking for a good euphemism for 'dense'
But you find it real weird that people are so weird about feet. So you just... talk about it like normal. You show people your feet, and people are like 'wow' and call you the Feet Guy, and you're like fine, I'll write a blog about Feet I guess cause nobody else is doing it, and people assume you must be real obsessed with Feet, like a feetomaniac, cause why else would you make your whole career writing about Feet, except you're like no, guys, I'm not particularly interested in feet, I'm interested in the fact that everyone else is so freaked out about feet, and this has resulted in a ton of low hanging fruit in the feet space.
This is how I feel about sex. I'm probably average level horniness, I just... don't really feel like I have hangups about it. It's nice, it doesn't make me feel bad, it's a cool bonding activity I'm not ashamed about, and my career is more about the fact there's low hanging fruit everyone else is too scared to pick.
What field are you the Feet Guy in?
- Are you autistic? Not trying to be offensive but I know a lot of times people with autism will just never really *get* certain social norms about what people are embarrassed about.
- People who don't have autism also usually don't really "get" why it is that they feel embarrassed by some of these things, they just are probably more likely to go along with the social norms around them.
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- What is the word for people who don't realize that there are varieties of arbitrary norms they could have gotten socialized into, and instead think that people who don't share their particular random but locally dominant taboo must be really weird?
- Normies?
- Nope, a normie is someone who gets infected by norms. A normie who does not get that he could have other norms is something more; I am looking for a good euphemism for 'dense'