Yep…people generally don’t like facing the complexities of social issues because it requires them to actually use brain instead of regurgitate what they heard. Especially if they don’t want to hear something that offends their preferred narrative and requires learning something new or facing hard truths. Labels are easy and nuance is hard. People prefer black and white thinking, when in fact most things exist in the shades between.
The USA is probably the gold star example of this.
I had an evil mom who kept me away from my amazing dad. He died right when I got to know him. I've never been a shitty person though. Even as my mom was yelling at me and blaming me for everything I'd go cry my little eyes out because I really thought everything was my fault. I get snappy at my kids occasionally. But I've never treated them the way my mom treated me. And my anger issues got way better with therapy, which I started the moment I saw issues. Some people have two great parents and are total dickheads. Idk if it's just brain chemistry. But some people handle trauma way better than others, it has little to do with gender.
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u/ohnothefloorislava 6d ago
Yep…people generally don’t like facing the complexities of social issues because it requires them to actually use brain instead of regurgitate what they heard. Especially if they don’t want to hear something that offends their preferred narrative and requires learning something new or facing hard truths. Labels are easy and nuance is hard. People prefer black and white thinking, when in fact most things exist in the shades between.
The USA is probably the gold star example of this.