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i mean like...

we are saturated in this social context where our particular phenotype is given disproportionate importance

so that it seems to us, if we're not careful, like we are that important and it's not disproportionate

and again and again people try to gently take part in conversations like these, only to step on everyone's heads because they don't realize how fundamentally skewed their starting perspective is

and i guess i just don't think it's that easy to overcome that, in general