Gloves Off

[anonniemouse]

Please use this post for discussion of those contentious, murky, triggering issues too complex to discuss/moderate on the main post.

Note that this post is NOT a free-for-all and will still be modded for slurs, namecalling, doxxing and trolling. But fair warning that it will not be moderated for discussion of issues some find triggering (trans issues, mental illness, etc.) and that if you choose to participate here, you do so at your own risk.

Comments

Re: Creating Reality

[(Anonymous)]

To be fair, you don't have to be a guy to write about guys (and vice versa).

I never meant to say otherwise! My apologies if I seemed to imply that. My point wasn't that you have to have lived something to be able to write about it. My point was just that Andy Blake is a massive hypocrite, and that AIRT needn't be offended by some standard of writing Andy spouted, when he himself completely defied said standard.

What Andy lacks is a skill of observation. You don't need to live through anything you write about, but you have to interact with different people and notice all the small details in everyday life, and be able to look at things from different perspectives.

I don't think I can agree with that. I would say that Andy has the capacity to be *extremely* observant. When he wants to (in other words: when it serves his current plan), he knows very well how to read people. That's one reason he's so good at manipulating people: because he's learned through observation that with people of Type A, when you push Button B, you usually get Response C. He knows exactly how to get people to feel and think what he wants them to feel and think, and I think it takes a very good sense of observation to get there.

Re: Creating Reality

[(Anonymous)]

NA Yeah, I think he lacks empathy, but not observation, and that's how he can fake it. People who lack both stick out like sore thumbs. He can observe, and knows that action A leads to response C, but he doesn't necessarily understand the feelings that happen at point B. When he's writing about emotions it seems to be words that he's observed other people using to write those emotions; the ~depth~ of feeling is missing.