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Is Cancel Culture Two-Faced Relative To What We Find “Fun?”
I have written about cancel culture before, but honestly not that often — just because I think it’s some huge overblown topic that the furthest 3% of the populace on each side talks about and everyone else is kinda like “meh.” It gets a lot of air time, and stokes a lot of grievance, but I don’t know how real it is — and it seems to get selectively applied in a lot of cases.
Previously when I thought about this, I thought about “tiers.” Most men know what’s horrible to do to a woman. If you r*pe someone, that’s a high-tier cancellation, i.e. to the point of prison. But if you approach a woman to talk to her and make her uncomfortable in the process, that’s not really worthy of cancellation. And if it is, that’s low-tier. We can’t case a wide net and change the meaning of words like “trauma” in the process. It becomes confusing for people. (I’ve told this story before, but I heard the mom of a 10 year-old girl say that an ugly boy asking her daughter out was “traumatic.” Um, that’s not trauma.)
