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<p>Xzenu: /* colorism */</p> <hr /> <div>Racism is the archetypal [[foci of categorism]], so much so that the word racism is sometimes used as synonymous with categorism itself. This gives us both a wide and a narrow definition of racism.<br /> <br /> * Racism - wide definition: [[Expressions of categorism|Prejudice, bigotry and discrimination]] [[levels of context and hegemony|at any level]], [[Foci|based on a categorization of people]], whichever this categorization may be – [[ageism]] can be called “age racism”, [[sexism]] can be called “sex racism”, and so on. <br /> <br /> * Racism - narrow definition: [[Expressions of categorism|Prejudice, bigotry and discrimination]] [[levels of context and hegemony|at any level]], [[Foci|based on a categorization of people]], when this categorization is one of “race” or ethnicity or skin color or similar. <br /> <br /> The narrow definition is by far the most common. When the wider definition is used, it's usually simply for the lack of a better word: The word [[categorism]] is much less well known than the word racism, and the word [[bigotry]] has some very limiting connotations. <br /> <br /> When people argue over what the word “racism” should mean, it's usually because one side or both is trying to limit the definition to only include a certain [[Levels of context and hegemony<br /> |level of context]]. One side trying to limit the definition of racism so that it would apply only to the micro level, reducing racism to be only about bigoted individuals and bullying in small groups – which [[invisibilization| invisibilizes]] society's [[Levels_of_context_and_hegemony#Cases_versus_systemic|systemic]] racism. Meanwhile, another side trying to limit the definition of racism so that the term would apply only to racist structures which are traditionally hegemonic in a specific macro scale context – usually [[False universalization#The Universal United States of America| the United States of America]]. <br /> <br /> Racism is strongly intertwined with the [[Kyriarchy#foci of kyriarchy | foci of kyriarchy]] known as [[Kyriarchy#colonialism | colonialism]], [[Kyriarchy#racist_slavery | racist slavery]], [[Kyriarchy#Apartheid_.2F_Segregation | apartheid/segregation]] and [[Kyriarchy#Apartwelt | apartwelt]].<br /> <br /> As a [[foci of categorism|focus of categorism]], racism is a broad categorization focus. It contains several sub-foci, both of the categorization kind and of the targeting kind. Categorization foci within racism includes categorism foci such as colorism, cultural racism and race-biologism, se below. [[Apartweltism]] can also be categorized as a sub-focus of racism. Targeting foci within racism includes categorism foci such as [[afrophobia]] , [[antiromanism]], [[orientalism]], [[occidentalism]] and [[gingerism]]. [[Antisemitism]] and [[antimuslimism]] are sub-foci of racism when Jews and Muslims are viewed as a matter of “race”, but are instead sub-foci of religism when Jews and Muslims are viewed as a matter of religious community or faith.<br /> <br /> ==colorism==<br /> Racism based on skin-color. May target specific colors or entire color spectrums. When targeting more than one spectrum, it's typically about having separate sets of prejudices for those who have darker skin (than the person or social community which holds the prejudice) and for those who have lighter. Note that colorism is not always or nessecarily rooted in any idea of &quot;race&quot;: Prejudices based on skin tone often exist within the same ethnic group, due to history of how people of lower socio-economic standing used to work out in the fields (thus getting more tan skin) while people of higher socio-economic standing used to work indoors (thus getting less tan skin).<br /> <br /> ==cultural racism==<br /> Racism based on ethnic/cultural background. By presenting a culture as if it was a [[monolithization|monolith]] which you should be either for or against, cultural racism against people of a certain culture can be done ''both'' by presenting the targeted culture as “inferior” ''and'' by presenting it as “not inferior” while highlighting something which is oppressive or otherwise harmful within a culture. The first option burdens the people in the targeted culture with [[collective guilt]] and [[stigmatization]] or even open [[infantilization]]. The second option seeks instead to [[normalization|normalize]] all violence and oppression and categorism done to members of the targeted culture - as long as the people who do the violence and oppression and categorism belong to the same culture. <br /> <br /> ==race-biologism==<br /> Racism based on pseudoscience notions of “biological races”. [[Racism grew from religism]], blooming into a complete pseudoscience which was very popular in the first half of the twentieth century. This set of ideas includes ideas of the Jewish minority being a distinct biological race, which is why [[antisemitism]] can be seen as a form of racism as well as a form of [[religism]].<br /> <br /> ==Examples of expressions==<br /> * ''[[Category original sin]]'': Arguing that Africans (and perhaps also other dark-skinned people) are somehow the descendants of Noah's son Ham... and thus God has commanded that all Africans should be held in slavery forever as punishment for Ham once having seen his father Noah drunk and naked.<br /> * ''[[Alleged Incompetence#Mysterious Alleged Incompetence | Mysterious Alleged Incompetence]]'': A new engineer is hired at a company where almost all engineers are white. When the new engineer turns out to be black, some of the coworkers have to actively hide their annoyance. Soon they start criticizing his job performance, even when there is nothing to criticize. Rather than making up specific things, they leave it vague. He has done bad things, everybody knows that. What kind of bad things? Well, many kinds! What kinds of bad things, then? Well, bad ones!<br /> * ''[[Hate-crimes]]'': A white supremacist group spreading hateful propaganda against people of color, escalating to incite violence.<br /> * ''[[Privateermongering]]'': Constructing discrimination, bullying and outright attacks people of color (or specifically against the [[Misandry|men]]) as if it was a valid “preemptive self-defense” based on some [[monolithization|idea about said category]] being [[demonization|violent or otherwise evil]].<br /> * ''[[Stigmatization]]'': Associating dark skin with all kinds of negative traits.<br /> <br /> ==Racism in example texts==<br /> * [[A frivolous arrest]]: The woman is most likely targeted for (although not only for) her race. The copcaller as well as the cops are somewhat likely to have negative stereotypes about people of color in general and particularly against the non-white person in any mixed race relationship.<br /> * [[Flexible bullies]]: While the bullying against Suzie and Jenny is racism on the individual and group level, the bullying against Suzie is also connected to racism on the structural and systemic levels.<br /> <br /> ==Must race exist for racism to exist?==<br /> No: &quot;Prejudice, bigory and discrimination based on a categorization of people&quot; can exist whether or not the categorization is valid. Humans who are subjected to racism are real human beings whether or not it is in any way reasonable to divide them into different &quot;races&quot;. <br /> <br /> Categorizations are somethings which humans do: The categorizations are [[Composite_reality#Mental_construction|mental]], [[Composite_reality#Social_construction|social]] and [[Composite_reality#Neurological_construction|neurological constructions]], they do not exist in external reality. While many categorizations exist in the sense that they help us understand the world or has grown as benevolvent or at least neutral constructs, the [[Racism grew from religism|concept of race came into existence only to justify slavery and persecution]]. Used as biology, it is [[pseudoscience]] to divide people into &quot;races&quot;.</div>

Xzenu http://categorism.com/wiki/Levels_of_context_and_hegemony 2026-04-26T02:52:40Z

<p>Xzenu: </p> <hr /> <div>An individual can affect another individual, and may even affect social norms et cetera in society at large. Meanwhile, every individual is affected by other<br /> individuals and by social norms et cetera in society at large. Thus, social phenomena such as prejudice, bigotry and discrimination is not something which happens either between single individuals or within society at large. Instead, it is both. Intertwined with each other. <br /> <br /> When categorism is done, it is done [[composite reality#Social reality | in a social context]]. This context can be interaction between two or a few individuals (micro level), a biger context such as an organization (meso level) or a very big context such as a country or global subculture (macro level). In the given context, a certain form of categorism may be more or less maginalized or more or less hegemonic. In a context where categorism against a certain category of people is widespread or even hegemonic, it can be reasonable to count the people in this category as being [[oppression|oppressed]]. <br /> <br /> Note that the categorization into levels, just like any other [[categorization|act of categorization]], is of more or less limited accuracy: The boundaries between the levels are often more or less arbitrary. While a distinction between levels is preferable in some situations, there are also situations where it is more fruitful to view it as uninterrupted sliding scales. More importantly, the levels (or positions on a scale) do not exist independently from each other. <br /> <br /> ==Levels of context==<br /> Levels of context is a sliding scale: ranging from on one hand what’s going on within a single individual mind, to on the other hand what’s going on within the entire [[culosphere]]. The term “culosphere” refers to the sum of all cultures and all social life, just like the term “biosphere”refers to the sum of all biotopes and all biological life. This scale can be divided into three parts, called micro level, meso level and macro level.<br /> <br /> <br /> {| class=&quot;wikitable&quot;<br /> !colspan=&quot;6&quot;|Levels of context<br /> |-<br /> |More specific levels<br /> |Broader levels<br /> <br /> |-<br /> |Individual<br /> |rowspan=&quot;2&quot;|Micro level<br /> <br /> |-<br /> |Group<br /> <br /> |-<br /> |Crowd<br /> |rowspan=&quot;4&quot;|Meso level<br /> <br /> |-<br /> |Organization<br /> <br /> |-<br /> |Local subculture<br /> <br /> |-<br /> |City<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> |-<br /> |Nation<br /> |rowspan=&quot;3&quot;|Macro level<br /> |}<br /> <br /> <br /> ==Micro level==<br /> Such as individuals and small groups. This level is about invividual persons. A person is not a category, but may identify with a category and/or be categorized by others.<br /> <br /> When an individual person has a system of thought or behaviour, it's typically called &quot;systematic&quot; rather than &quot;systemic&quot;. Such a personal system may or may not correlate to what is hegemonic on the macro level.<br /> <br /> ==Meso level==<br /> Such as organizations and subcultures.<br /> <br /> ==Macro level==<br /> Such as nations and the entire [[culosphere]]. On this level, categoris are about statistics rather than about individuals. When a system of behavior or thought is widespread or hegemonic in a society, it's often called &quot;systemic&quot;.<br /> <br /> Note the difference between...<br /> * how a category on the macro level statistically 'do'' behave, <br /> * how this behavior statistically differs from the statistical behavior of other categories, <br /> * prescriptive social norms (widespread or hegemonic in the society) for how a category of people ''ought to'' behave, and...<br /> * descriptive social norms (widespread or hegemonic in the society) for how a category of people ''is assumed to'' behave.<br /> <br /> Take for example the idea that people of a certain gender or skin-color would be violent. Lets say that within this society exists some norms that people of this gender or skin-color ''ought'' to be violent, as well as assumptions that people of this gender or skin-color ''are'' violent. Statistics shows that people inn this category are four times as likely to be convicted of violent crimes than people in the other category are: among a hundred thousand citizens of this category, four are convicted violent criminals - meanwhile, in the other category only one in a hundred thousands is a convicted violent criminal. This statistics does support the notion that there is a statistical difference between the categories, but it is irrelevant to the prescriptive norm and it does not support the descriptive norm. It doesn't show that people in this category are generally violent, on the contrary it indicates that 99.994 of 100.000 are innocent. When people are trying to use the statistics to support the prescriptive or descriptive norm, they are misusing the statistics.<br /> <br /> ==Types of structures==<br /> Different kinds of social structure include for example discourses, socioeconomic structures (such as distribution of wealth), formal structures (such as the laws of a nation or the formal dogma of a faith) and social norms. When it comes to social norms, we should distinguish between prescriptive norms for how people ought to be, descriptive norms for how people are assumed to be, and mixed norms such as norms for what kinds of behavior (and from whom) we should view as “unfortunate but unavoidable”.<br /> <br /> Different kinds of structures include:<br /> <br /> * Prescriptive norms: Norms for how things ought to be.<br /> * Descriptive norms: Norms for how things are assumed to inherently be.<br /> * Discourse: How we talk and think about things.<br /> * Formal structures: Laws, rules, formal dogmas, et cetera.<br /> * Socioeconomic structures: Distribution of wealth, et cetera.<br /> <br /> ==Levels of hegemony==<br /> Levels of hegemony is a sliding scale: ranging from on one hand a certain norm or other structure having almost complete hegemony or dominance within the context, to on the other hand the norm or other structure being very alternative or repressed.<br /> <br /> Note that this can differ between different contexts: A social norm which is hegemonic in one context can be alternative in another, or vice versa. Also note that when a structure is squarely on an individual level of context, then it can be called a mental structure rather than a social structure.<br /> <br /> ==Cases versus systemic==<br /> When something happens, it can be a rather isolated incident or it can be a rather typical part of a larger system. Or somewhere in between. The more hegemonic a certain norm or other structure is, the more people are likely to act on it. If one person innocently ask you a question based on a misconception about you, this is unlikely to be anything worse than a little bit of annoying. When you every day face several different new persons who each confront you with this same misconception about you, it becomes much worse for you. The individual person who ask the question is still just as innocent, but the effects on you are not.<br /> <br /> ==An example: Kyle's context &amp; views on sexuality==<br /> Lets say that a man named Kyle has a very strict belief that bisexuality is the only moral sexual orientation and also the only trye one. He believes that everyone is actually bisexual, that everyone who claims to be heterosexual or homosexual is lying or deluding themselves. However, Kyle spends most of his time in a subculture where bisexuals and heterosexuals are looked down upon - the mainstream social norm within this subculture is to be homosexual. This subculture is situated in a nation which as a strong history of homophobia but no history of heterophobia. Today heterosexuals, bisexuals and homosexuals have equal rights, although there is still traces of homophobia in mainstream society and there are some subcultures which actively seek to persecute homosexuals and bisexuals. <br /> <br /> So, lets break this down into three levels of context. <br /> * Micro level,Individual: In the mental reality of Kyle's own mind, a certain kind of binormativity is strongly hegemonic.<br /> * Meso level, subculture: Kyle lives in a subculture where the social norms are such that homonormativity is quite hegemonic. <br /> * Macro level, nation: Kyle and the local subculture he lives in exist within a nation where the social norms are such that heterormativity is no longer hegemonic but still quite widespread. While the lingering prejudices is mainstream society is still a problem, the main problem is the attacks from people who live in subcultures where heteronormativity is strongly hegemonic. The main problem with homophobia in mainstream society is not a matter of mainstream society being homophobic (although that's also still a problem), but is instead a matter of mainstream society not doing enough to protect LGBTQ+ people from homophobic individuals and groups. <br /> <br /> Being bisexual himself, Kyle is beset on two sides: On one hand homophobia and biphobia from mainstream society and from individuals who are anchored in bigoted subcultures, and on the other hand heterophobia and biphobia within Kyle's own subculture. People keep telling him that heterophobia doesn't even exist, as if that would make things better in the context he's actually living in. The fact that Kyle himself has both homophobic and heterophobic tendencies (based on a bisexual norm rather than on a heterosexual or homosexual norm) doesn't hurt anyone as long as he's single or dating another bisexual, but can start to become a problem if he ever get any personal power over a person who is heterosexual or homosexual or manages to influence some social environment.</div>

Xzenu http://categorism.com/wiki/Foci_of_categorism 2024-04-21T11:16:12Z

<p>Xzenu: /* Plain foci of categorism */</p> <hr /> <div>A focus of categorism is the categorization or category which the [[Expressions of categorism|prejudice, bigotry and discrimination]] is based on or is targeting. A categorization may be either clear or fuzzy. Thus there is in total three different kinds of foci. These are...<br /> <br /> * '''Categorization focus:''' The categorism is based on a categorization which is at least somewhat clearly defined. (''Example: Racism is categorism based on categorization by skin color, ethnic background or similar.'')<br /> * '''Targeting focus:''' The categorism is targeting a specific category. (''Example: Afrophobia is categorism/racism targeting black people / people of African ancestry.'') <br /> * '''Fuzzy focus:''' The categorization is based on a categorization and/or target category which isn't clearly defined. (''Example: Xenophobia is categorism/racism against “those other people” who are allegedly “not like us”.'')<br /> <br /> A categorization focus can contain several different more specific categorization foci. (''Example: The categorization focus racism contains more specific foci such as colorism (racism/categorism based on skin color) and cultural racism (racism/categorism based on ethnic background''). <br /> <br /> A category focus can be contained in more than one categorization, since the same category can be perceived in different ways. (''Example: Antisemitism is on one hand a form of racism when Jews are being viewed as a race or as an ethnic group, but is on the other hand a form of religism when Jews are being viewed as having a religion.'')<br /> <br /> A categorization focus may be based either on a single categorization, or on the combination of two or more categorizations. To distinguish them, the former can be called a “'''plain focus of categorism'''” while the latter can be called an “'''intersectional focus of categorism'''”. Below follows three lists. First a list of plain foci, both the more general ones and their more specific sub-foci. Second a list of intersectional foci. Third a list of fuzzy foci. <br /> <br /> ==Plain foci of categorism==<br /> The list is in alphabetical order by primary categorization focus: Sub-foci includeing more specific categorization foci as well as targeting foci are listed under the foci they are a part of. Note that in some cases the same focus appear several times on the list, based on being viewed in different ways and thus being a sub-focus of more than one categorization focus. <br /> <br /> * '''[[Ableism]]''': Based on functionality, often targeting people who have a specific disability.<br /> * '''[[Ageism]]''': Based on age, often in the form of needlessly and arbitrarily judging people to be “to young” or “too old”.<br /> ** '''[[Ephebiphobia]]''': Against teenagers. <br /> ** '''[[Gerontophobia]]''': Against elderly people. <br /> * '''[[Alterophobia]]''': Based on a distinction between mainstream and alternative lifestyles, targeting the later. Counts as a plain focus when targeting a specific subculture, but counts as a fuzzy focus when targeting a general sense of “not mainstream”.<br /> * '''[[Apartweltism]]''': Based on citizenship or geographical background.<br /> * '''[[Classism]]''': Based on direct or indirect perception of social class. <br /> * '''[[Heightism]]''': Targeting people who are longer or shorter than those doing the categorism consider normal.<br /> * '''[[LGBTQ+-phobia]]'''/'''[[DMRSG-phobia]]''': Targeting sexual minorities and gender minorities.<br /> ** '''[[Acephobia]]''': Targeting people who are asexual and/or aromantic, or who otherwise gets percieved as such. <br /> ** '''[[Homophobia]]''': Targeting people who are homosexual/bisexual or who are otherwise being perceived as homosexual.<br /> ** '''[[Kinkophobia]]''': Targeting people who are sadomasochists, BDSM practitionersm fetischists or otherwise kinky, or who are otherwise being perceived as such.<br /> ** '''[[Pedoparanoia]]''': Targeting innocent people through frivolously accusing them of being pedophiles, child-molesters or some kind of unspecified-yet-serious danger to children. Compare with [[witchparanoia]]. Often an intersectional focus where a specific category of people is falsely accused of pedophilia.<br /> ** '''[[Transphobia]]''': Targeting trans people, or anyone who is not a cis-person. <br /> * '''[[Linguicism]]''': Targeting people who speak a certain language or people who have limited or no skill in a certain language. <br /> * '''[[Racism]]''': Based on race, skin-color, ethnicity or similar.<br /> ** '''[[Antiromanism]]''': Targeting people who are self-identified Romani, or are seen as Romani/Gypsies by others. Also known as Antiziganism, although this version of the word is more problematic.<br /> ** '''[[Orientalism]]''': Targeting “Orientals” - People living in countries categorized as “eastern”, such as Egypt and Japan, defining these very different populations as if they were one unified category.<br /> ** '''[[Occidentalism]]''': Targeting “Occidentals” - People who live in cities, people who are secular and highly educated, as well as people who are born in western countries, defining these three categories as being one unified category. <br /> ** '''[[Gingerism]]''': Targeting people with red hair.<br /> ** '''[[Afrophobia]]''': Targeting Afro-Americans, Afro-Europeans and other people of African ancestry living in other parts of the world. <br /> * '''[[Sexism]]''': Based on gender. Targeting women to a larger extent than targeting men, as many cultures has traditionally regarded women as being “the second sex”.<br /> ** '''[[Misogyny]]''': Targeting women.<br /> ** '''[[Misandry]]''': Targeting men. Often combined with something else into an intersectional focus such as [[transmisogyny]] where [[demonization]] against “men” is used against transwomen. <br /> ** '''[[Transphobia]]''': Targeting trans people, or anyone who is not a cis-person. <br /> * '''[[Sizeism]]''': Targeting people based on their physical size, especially targeting people who are obese or anorectic. <br /> * '''[[Paraphobia]]''': Targeting sexual minorities, such as fetishists and sadomasochists. <br /> ** '''[[Acephobia]]''': Targeting people who are asexual and/or aromantic, or who otherwise gets percieved as such. <br /> ** '''[[Homophobia]]''': Targeting people who are homosexual/bisexual or who are otherwise being perceived as homosexual.<br /> ** '''[[Kinkophobia]]''': Targeting people who are sadomasochists, BDSM practitionersm fetischists or otherwise kinky, or who are otherwise being perceived as such.<br /> ** '''[[Pedoparanoia]]''': Targeting innocent people through frivolously accusing them of being pedophiles, child-molesters or some kind of unspecified-yet-serious danger to children. Compare with [[witchparanoia]]. Often an intersectional focus where a specific category of people is falsely accused of pedophilia.<br /> * '''[[Religism]]''': Based on religion, faith or other belief.<br /> ** '''[[Antisemitism]]''': Targeting people who are self-identified Jews or are seen as Jewish by others. <br /> ** '''[[Antimuslimism]]''': Targeting people who are self-identified Muslims, or are seen as Muslims by others. Also known as Islamophobia, although this version of the word is more problematic. <br /> ** '''[[Christianophobia]]''': Targeting people who are self-identified Christians, or are seen as Christians by others.<br /> ** '''[[Atheophobia]]''': Targeting people who are self-identified Atheists, or are seen as Atheists by others.<br /> ** '''[[Witchparanoia]]''': Targeting people by accusing them of being evil witches with dangerous and destructive supernatural powers. Although this may target anyone, including self-identified witches, the most common targets seem to be African children.<br /> <br /> ==Intersectional foci of categorism==<br /> An intersectional focus combines two target categories. This can be done in three very different ways, depending on whether targeted persons belong to both categories, one of them, or it doesn't matter because the categories are getting conflated. When it's against people who belong to both categories, it's simply a matter of targeting people who belong to both categories together.(''Example, using [[racist sexism]] against persons who are both Asian and women.'') When it's against people who belong to one of the categories, it is often a matter of [[guilt by association]], implying that since you belong to one of the categories you probably belong to the other one as well. (''Example: The [[Pedoparanoia#Homophobic_Pedoparanoia|Homophobic Pedoparanoia]] of implying that homosexuals would be pedophiles''.) When the categories are conflated, the distincition between the categories gets removed. (''Example: homophobic pedoparanoia using a term such as &quot;deviants&quot; to construct mutual relationshops between consenting adults as if it were equal to child molestation''.)<br /> <br /> * '''[[Racist Sexism]]''': Targeting a combination of race &amp; gender, for example Asian Men or Caucasian women. Racist sexism against black women is sometimes called misogynoir, a word derived from “misogyny” and “noir”.<br /> * '''[[Whorephobia]]''' or '''[[Slut-Shaming]]''': A combination of sexism and paraphobia, targeting women with accusations of being sex-workers or other supposed sexual transgressions.<br /> * '''[[Transmisogyny]]''': Targeting trans-women with mixed misogyny and misandry.<br /> * '''[[Paraphobic Misandry/Misogyny]]''': Categorism against based on sexuality and gender, Constructing sexuality in men/women as perverted and dirty. <br /> * '''[[Pedoparanoia#Homophobic_Pedoparanoia|Homophobic Pedoparanoia]]''': Constructing consensual sexual relations between adults of the same sex as if it would somehow be the same thing as molesting a child, or claiming/implying that being attracted to people of the same sex would mean to also be attracted to children. <br /> * '''[[Pedoparanoia#Kinkophobic_Pedoparanoia|Kinkophobic Pedoparanoia]]''': Constructing consensual sexual relations between adults who are into kink as if it would somehow be the same thing as molesting a child, or claiming/implying that being attracted to people in for example a sadomasochistic dynamic would mean to also be attracted to children. <br /> * '''[[Heterosexism]]''' &amp; '''[[cis-sexism]]''': Sexist and homophobic/transphobic notions of what a “real man” or “real woman is”.<br /> <br /> ==Fuzzy foci of categorism==<br /> <br /> * '''[[Alterophobia]]''': Based on a distinction between mainstream and alternative lifestyles, targeting the later. Counts as a plain focus when targeting a specific subculture, but counts as a fuzzy focus when targeting a general sense of “not mainstream”.<br /> * '''[[Conspiracism]]''': The belief that an evil conspiracy is controlling everything from the shadows becomes a fuzzy focus of categorism when anyone can get accused of being a part of the conspiracy. If a specific category of real people (such as Jews or Muslims) is being targeted, then the conspiracism is instead an expression of categorism. <br /> * '''[[Moralism]]''': A loosely defined target of allegedly “immoral” people. <br /> * '''[[Normopathy]]''': A general division into normal and abnormal people. <br /> * '''[[Puritanism]]''': A loosely defined target of allegedly “impure” people. <br /> * '''[[Queerphobia]]''': Targeting anyone who deviates from one arbitrary standard or another in regards to gender and sexuality. <br /> * '''[[Xenophobia]]''': A general division into a familiar “us” and an unknowable “them”.</div>

Xzenu http://categorism.com/wiki/Transmisandry 2023-08-20T12:04:16Z

<p>Xzenu: Created page with &quot;Categorism focused on targeting trans men. (In Swedish: transmisogyni) Compare: Misogyny, Misandry, Transmisogyny, Transphobia, Sexism. This is an ...&quot;</p> <hr /> <div>[[Categorism]] focused on targeting trans men. (In Swedish: transmisogyni)<br /> <br /> Compare: [[Misogyny]], [[Misandry]], [[Transmisogyny]], [[Transphobia]], [[Sexism]].<br /> <br /> This is an [[intersectional focus]] [[foci of categorism|of categorism]].</div>

Xzenu http://categorism.com/wiki/Transmisogyny 2023-08-20T12:04:01Z

<p>Xzenu: </p> <hr /> <div>[[Categorism]] focused on targeting trans women. (In Swedish: transmisogyni)<br /> <br /> Compare: [[Misogyny]], [[Misandry]], [[Transmisandry]], [[Transphobia]], [[Sexism]].<br /> <br /> This is an [[intersectional focus]] [[foci of categorism|of categorism]].</div>

Xzenu http://categorism.com/wiki/Transmisogyny 2023-08-20T12:03:35Z

<p>Xzenu: </p> <hr /> <div>[[Categorism]] focused on targeting trans women. (In Swedish: transmisogyni)<br /> <br /> Compare: [[Misogyny]], [[Misandry]], [[Transphobia]], [[Sexism]].<br /> <br /> This is an [[intersectional focus]] [[foci of categorism|of categorism]].</div>

Xzenu http://categorism.com/wiki/Misogyny 2023-08-20T12:01:38Z

<p>Xzenu: </p> <hr /> <div>Misogyny (in Swedish “misogyni”) is categorism against women. <br /> <br /> In other words: Misogyny is prejudice, bigotry and discrimination against human beings who in one way or another are being categorized as women. This includes...<br /> <br /> 1. People who are assigned female at birth: Cis women, nonbinary AFAB, and trans men. The latter can also easily slide into [[Transmisandry]]. <br /> 2. Women who were assigned male at birth, also known as trans women. This can also easily slide into [[Transmisogyny]].<br /> 3. Cis men who other people (honestly, dishonestly or symbolically/sarcastically) mistakes for being women. (In other words: Bullying a cis man for “not being a real man” is misogynistic and/or transphobic as well as being an [[in-group dehumanization]] kind of misandrist.)<br /> <br /> Note that in the categorism model, the word “[[sexism]]” is gender neutral while misogyny and [[misandry]] are the gendered versions of sexism. While this definition of the words is common, it is also common to use a more limited definition which only includes bigotry. Another definition (which is much less reasonable and much less common, but tend to have very vocal adherents) is to limit the definition to only include the most macro level of society as a whole: Thus arguing either that “women are the oppressed category, thus misandry cannot exist” or that “men are the oppressed category, thus misogyny cannot exist”. There are also definitions based on [[Entitled Supremacism]], where lack of deference from women gets misconstructed as being “misandry” or where lack of deference from men gets misconstructed as being “misogyny”. When people claim that “misandry doesn't exist”, they are in many cases talking about one of the bad definitions rather than claiming that prejudice/bigotry/discrimination against men wouldn't exist. <br /> <br /> <br /> ==Examples of Expression==<br /> * ''[[Alleged Incompetence#Allegedly Self-Evident Incompetence | Allegedly Self-Evident Incompetence]]'': A new engineer is hired at a company where almost all engineers are male. When the new engineer turns out to be female, several co-workers takes for granted that she's obviously incompetent – and thus act as if there's no reason to give her any fair chance to prove herself. They never admit, perhaps not even to themselves, that her gender is the factor which make them regard her as self-evidently incompetent.<br /> <br /> * ''[[Category agency]]'': Assuming that all women want the same things, simply for being women. Also, giving individual contemporary women blame for historical developments (or mythological narratives) that happened (or was supposed to happen) before they were even born, based on them having the same gender as a significant character in that particular story. For example, blaming contemporary women for the story of Eve giving a certain apple to Adam. <br /> <br /> * ''[[Category original sin]]'': Arguing that all women are more sinful and less valuable than any man, based on a notion that Eve would have been more to blame than Adam for the two of them eating the forbidden fruit. <br /> <br /> * ''[[Conspirationalism]]'': When a man reads a comic book, it's because he likes that comic book. And when he goes to a comic book convention, it's because he likes to hang out with people there, check out some new comics, and support the comic book industry. But when a woman reads a comic book or goes to a comic book convention, it must be a part of some sinister plot to &quot;infiltrate&quot; geek subculture. <br /> <br /> * ''[[Dehumanization]]'': Talking about human traits such as logic and reason as if they were exclusively male traits, as if women were pet animals rather than fellow human beings. <br /> <br /> * ''[[Demonization]]'': Talking about one gender or another (in this case women) as being immoral, driven by selfishness and dark emotions.<br /> <br /> * ''[[Kyriarchy]]'': (Note: This entry is from the old version of the categorism model, will be reformated later) The intersection between the facet kyriarchy and the focus misogyny is commonly known as &quot;patriarchy&quot;, and here called by that name. (Note that while some people instead use the word in different ways, such as being a catch all term for all forms of structural misogyny, the word is here used simply as the intersexction between kyriarchy and misogyny.) <br /> ** [[Individual level]] and [[group level]]: While patriarchy itself is too abstract for these levels, patriarchal structures, discourses, dogmas and so on can empower facets such as male [[supremacism]] and [[infantilization]] of women at the individual and group levels. <br /> ** [[Systemic level]]: In a society where people systematically encounter almost exclusively men in positions of validated/unquestioned authority, their minds are likely to associate maleness with power and femaleness with lack of power.<br /> ** [[Structural level]]: A society can have many kinds of structures holding women back. Such as social norms that blame women for having children or for not having children, disqualifying them from careers on the basis of having children or for perhaps maybe having children at some point in the future. Or for being &quot;abnormal&quot; by not having children or for not staying home with them.<br /> ** [[Discursive level]]: Constructing the language so that it constructs women/femininity as being inferior and constructs the same behavior as being cool when a man does it but shameful when a woman does it. For example, constructing the same behavior as a boy being &quot;assertive&quot; and a girl being &quot;bossy&quot;. <br /> ** [[Dogmatic level]]: Religious theology or political ideology positioning women as being inherently inferior and/or inherently assigned to a subordinate position. <br /> ** [[Legal level]]: Most countries used to have laws that enshrined male dominance, such as allowing only men to vote or to run for office. Some countries still have some such rules. <br /> ** [[International treaties level]]: If two or more nations have ever entered a treaty where they promised each other to hold women back and help each other to ensure male dominance, [[contribute|please send information about it]]!<br /> <br /> * ''[[Malpractice]]'': Bias against women combined with the fact that so much of medical research is done on male test subjects only often lead to women getting misdiagnosed or not diagnosed at all, while also receiving less care even of they get the right diagnosis. <br /> <br /> * ''[[Privateermongering]]'': Constructing men and boys as incapable of containing their lust around “[[whorephobia|certain kinds of women]]” or even around women in general”.<br /> <br /> * ''[[Stigmatization]]'' of women (and [[Normalization]] of [[Violence]] against them, as well as ''[[Denial of Agency]]'' against men): The idea that a man would somehow be unable to control himself when he's sexually attracted to a woman, thus making male-on-female rape the woman's responsibility. Note that while this attitude is extremely misogynistic as well as very misandrist as well, it is so in very different ways.<br /> <br /> ==Misogyny in example texts==<br /> <br /> * [[A frivolous arrest]]: The woman is most likely targeted for (although not only for) her gender. The copcaller as well as the cops are somewhat likely to have negative stereotypes about women in general.</div>

Xzenu http://categorism.com/wiki/Misogyny 2023-08-20T12:01:14Z

<p>Xzenu: </p> <hr /> <div>Misogyny (in Swedish “misogyni”) is categorism against women. <br /> <br /> In other words: Misogyny is prejudice, bigotry and discrimination against human beings who in one way or another are being categorized as women. This includes...<br /> <br /> 1. People who are assigned female at birth: Cis women, nonbinary AFAB, and trans men. The latter can also easily slide into [[Transmisandry]]. <br /> 2. Women who were assigned male at birth, also known as trans women. This can also easily slide into [[Transmisogony]].<br /> 3. Cis men who other people (honestly, dishonestly or symbolically/sarcastically) mistakes for being women. (In other words: Bullying a cis man for “not being a real man” is misogynistic and/or transphobic as well as being an [[in-group dehumanization]] kind of misandrist.)<br /> <br /> Note that in the categorism model, the word “[[sexism]]” is gender neutral while misogyny and [[misandry]] are the gendered versions of sexism. While this definition of the words is common, it is also common to use a more limited definition which only includes bigotry. Another definition (which is much less reasonable and much less common, but tend to have very vocal adherents) is to limit the definition to only include the most macro level of society as a whole: Thus arguing either that “women are the oppressed category, thus misandry cannot exist” or that “men are the oppressed category, thus misogyny cannot exist”. There are also definitions based on [[Entitled Supremacism]], where lack of deference from women gets misconstructed as being “misandry” or where lack of deference from men gets misconstructed as being “misogyny”. When people claim that “misandry doesn't exist”, they are in many cases talking about one of the bad definitions rather than claiming that prejudice/bigotry/discrimination against men wouldn't exist. <br /> <br /> <br /> ==Examples of Expression==<br /> * ''[[Alleged Incompetence#Allegedly Self-Evident Incompetence | Allegedly Self-Evident Incompetence]]'': A new engineer is hired at a company where almost all engineers are male. When the new engineer turns out to be female, several co-workers takes for granted that she's obviously incompetent – and thus act as if there's no reason to give her any fair chance to prove herself. They never admit, perhaps not even to themselves, that her gender is the factor which make them regard her as self-evidently incompetent.<br /> <br /> * ''[[Category agency]]'': Assuming that all women want the same things, simply for being women. Also, giving individual contemporary women blame for historical developments (or mythological narratives) that happened (or was supposed to happen) before they were even born, based on them having the same gender as a significant character in that particular story. For example, blaming contemporary women for the story of Eve giving a certain apple to Adam. <br /> <br /> * ''[[Category original sin]]'': Arguing that all women are more sinful and less valuable than any man, based on a notion that Eve would have been more to blame than Adam for the two of them eating the forbidden fruit. <br /> <br /> * ''[[Conspirationalism]]'': When a man reads a comic book, it's because he likes that comic book. And when he goes to a comic book convention, it's because he likes to hang out with people there, check out some new comics, and support the comic book industry. But when a woman reads a comic book or goes to a comic book convention, it must be a part of some sinister plot to &quot;infiltrate&quot; geek subculture. <br /> <br /> * ''[[Dehumanization]]'': Talking about human traits such as logic and reason as if they were exclusively male traits, as if women were pet animals rather than fellow human beings. <br /> <br /> * ''[[Demonization]]'': Talking about one gender or another (in this case women) as being immoral, driven by selfishness and dark emotions.<br /> <br /> * ''[[Kyriarchy]]'': (Note: This entry is from the old version of the categorism model, will be reformated later) The intersection between the facet kyriarchy and the focus misogyny is commonly known as &quot;patriarchy&quot;, and here called by that name. (Note that while some people instead use the word in different ways, such as being a catch all term for all forms of structural misogyny, the word is here used simply as the intersexction between kyriarchy and misogyny.) <br /> ** [[Individual level]] and [[group level]]: While patriarchy itself is too abstract for these levels, patriarchal structures, discourses, dogmas and so on can empower facets such as male [[supremacism]] and [[infantilization]] of women at the individual and group levels. <br /> ** [[Systemic level]]: In a society where people systematically encounter almost exclusively men in positions of validated/unquestioned authority, their minds are likely to associate maleness with power and femaleness with lack of power.<br /> ** [[Structural level]]: A society can have many kinds of structures holding women back. Such as social norms that blame women for having children or for not having children, disqualifying them from careers on the basis of having children or for perhaps maybe having children at some point in the future. Or for being &quot;abnormal&quot; by not having children or for not staying home with them.<br /> ** [[Discursive level]]: Constructing the language so that it constructs women/femininity as being inferior and constructs the same behavior as being cool when a man does it but shameful when a woman does it. For example, constructing the same behavior as a boy being &quot;assertive&quot; and a girl being &quot;bossy&quot;. <br /> ** [[Dogmatic level]]: Religious theology or political ideology positioning women as being inherently inferior and/or inherently assigned to a subordinate position. <br /> ** [[Legal level]]: Most countries used to have laws that enshrined male dominance, such as allowing only men to vote or to run for office. Some countries still have some such rules. <br /> ** [[International treaties level]]: If two or more nations have ever entered a treaty where they promised each other to hold women back and help each other to ensure male dominance, [[contribute|please send information about it]]!<br /> <br /> * ''[[Malpractice]]'': Bias against women combined with the fact that so much of medical research is done on male test subjects only often lead to women getting misdiagnosed or not diagnosed at all, while also receiving less care even of they get the right diagnosis. <br /> <br /> * ''[[Privateermongering]]'': Constructing men and boys as incapable of containing their lust around “[[whorephobia|certain kinds of women]]” or even around women in general”.<br /> <br /> * ''[[Stigmatization]]'' of women (and [[Normalization]] of [[Violence]] against them, as well as ''[[Denial of Agency]]'' against men): The idea that a man would somehow be unable to control himself when he's sexually attracted to a woman, thus making male-on-female rape the woman's responsibility. Note that while this attitude is extremely misogynistic as well as very misandrist as well, it is so in very different ways.<br /> <br /> ==Misogyny in example texts==<br /> <br /> * [[A frivolous arrest]]: The woman is most likely targeted for (although not only for) her gender. The copcaller as well as the cops are somewhat likely to have negative stereotypes about women in general.</div>

Xzenu http://categorism.com/wiki/Misandry 2023-08-20T12:00:05Z

<p>Xzenu: </p> <hr /> <div>Misandry (in Swedish &quot;misandri&quot;) is [[categorism]] against men. <br /> <br /> <br /> In other words: Misandry is prejudice, bigotry and discrimination against human beings who in one way or another are being categorized as men. This includes...<br /> <br /> 1. People who are assigned male at birth: Cis women, nonbinary AMAB, and trans women. The latter can also easily slide into [[Transmisogyny]].&lt;br&gt; <br /> 2. Men who were assigned female at birth, also known as trans men. This can also easily slide into [[Transmisandry]].&lt;br&gt;<br /> 3. Cis women who other people (honestly, dishonestly or symbolically/sarcastically) mistakes for being men. (In other words: Bullying a cis woman for “not being a real woman” is misandrist and/or transphobic as well as being an [[in-group dehumanization]] kind of misogynistic.)<br /> <br /> Note that in the categorism model, the word “[[sexism]]” is gender neutral while [[misogyny]] and misandry are the gendered versions of sexism. While this definition of the words is common, it is also common to use a more limited definition which only includes bigotry. Another definition (which is much less reasonable and much less common, but tend to have very vocal adherents) is to limit the definition to only include the most macro level of society as a whole: Thus arguing either that “women are the oppressed category, thus misandry cannot exist” or that “men are the oppressed category, thus misogyny cannot exist”. There are also definitions based on [[Entitled Supremacism]], where lack of deference from women gets misconstructed as being “misandry” or where lack of deference from men gets misconstructed as being “misogyny”. When people claim that “misandry doesn't exist”, they are in many cases talking about one of the bad definitions rather than claiming that prejudice/bigotry/discrimination against men wouldn't exist. <br /> <br /> <br /> ==Examples of facets expressed through this focus==<br /> <br /> * ''[[Category Agency]]'': Assuming that all men want the same things, simply for being men. Also, giving individual contemporary men blame for historical developments (or mythological narratives) that happened (or was supposed to happen) before they were even born, based on them having the same gender as the people who were in charge back then. For example, blaming contemporary men for the fact that medieval laws ensured that almost all rulers were male (AKA classical patriarchy).<br /> <br /> * ''[[Dehumanization]]'': Talking about men as if they were robots or monstrous beasts. Statements such as &quot;''To call a man an animal is to flatter him; he's a machine, a walking dildo.''&quot;<br /> <br /> * ''[[Demonization]]'': Talking about one gender or another (in this case men) as being immoral, driven by selfishness and dark emotions.<br /> <br /> * ''[[Infantilization]]'': Constructing men as being less intelligent and rational than women. Often conveniently limited to when he happens to be horny, and combined with [[Denial of Agency]] (and to some extent [[Dehumanization]]) into the idea that a sexually aroused man can't be responsible for his own actions. Note that while this attitude is clearly misandrist, it is also misogynistic although in [[stigmatization|different]] [[Violence|ways]].<br /> <br /> * ''[[Malpractice]]'': Stereotypes about how &quot;a real man can take care of himself&quot; sometimes lead to persons being directly or indirectly denied treatment for being male. Note that the same stereotype may in other cases lead to male persons getting better care - based on the assumption that if he seeks help in spite of being a man, then it must really be serious. Stereotypes are fickle like that.<br /> <br /> * ''[[Privateermongering]]'': Constructing discrimination, bullying and outright attacks against men [[Racism|of certain skin-colors]] or against men in general as if it was a valid “preemptive self-defense” based on some [[monolithization|idea about said category]] being [[demonization|violent or otherwise evil]].</div>

Xzenu http://categorism.com/wiki/Misandry 2023-08-20T11:59:46Z

<p>Xzenu: </p> <hr /> <div>Misandry (in Swedish &quot;misandri&quot;) is [[categorism]] against men. <br /> <br /> <br /> In other words: Misandry is prejudice, bigotry and discrimination against human beings who in one way or another are being categorized as men. This includes...<br /> <br /> 1. People who are assigned male at birth: Cis women, nonbinary AMAB, and trans women. The latter can also easily slide into [[Transmisogyny]]. <br /> 2. Men who were assigned female at birth, also known as trans men. This can also easily slide into [[Transmisandry]].<br /> 3. Cis women who other people (honestly, dishonestly or symbolically/sarcastically) mistakes for being men. (In other words: Bullying a cis woman for “not being a real woman” is misandrist and/or transphobic as well as being an [[in-group dehumanization]] kind of misogynistic.)<br /> <br /> Note that in the categorism model, the word “[[sexism]]” is gender neutral while [[misogyny]] and misandry are the gendered versions of sexism. While this definition of the words is common, it is also common to use a more limited definition which only includes bigotry. Another definition (which is much less reasonable and much less common, but tend to have very vocal adherents) is to limit the definition to only include the most macro level of society as a whole: Thus arguing either that “women are the oppressed category, thus misandry cannot exist” or that “men are the oppressed category, thus misogyny cannot exist”. There are also definitions based on [[Entitled Supremacism]], where lack of deference from women gets misconstructed as being “misandry” or where lack of deference from men gets misconstructed as being “misogyny”. When people claim that “misandry doesn't exist”, they are in many cases talking about one of the bad definitions rather than claiming that prejudice/bigotry/discrimination against men wouldn't exist. <br /> <br /> <br /> ==Examples of facets expressed through this focus==<br /> <br /> * ''[[Category Agency]]'': Assuming that all men want the same things, simply for being men. Also, giving individual contemporary men blame for historical developments (or mythological narratives) that happened (or was supposed to happen) before they were even born, based on them having the same gender as the people who were in charge back then. For example, blaming contemporary men for the fact that medieval laws ensured that almost all rulers were male (AKA classical patriarchy).<br /> <br /> * ''[[Dehumanization]]'': Talking about men as if they were robots or monstrous beasts. Statements such as &quot;''To call a man an animal is to flatter him; he's a machine, a walking dildo.''&quot;<br /> <br /> * ''[[Demonization]]'': Talking about one gender or another (in this case men) as being immoral, driven by selfishness and dark emotions.<br /> <br /> * ''[[Infantilization]]'': Constructing men as being less intelligent and rational than women. Often conveniently limited to when he happens to be horny, and combined with [[Denial of Agency]] (and to some extent [[Dehumanization]]) into the idea that a sexually aroused man can't be responsible for his own actions. Note that while this attitude is clearly misandrist, it is also misogynistic although in [[stigmatization|different]] [[Violence|ways]].<br /> <br /> * ''[[Malpractice]]'': Stereotypes about how &quot;a real man can take care of himself&quot; sometimes lead to persons being directly or indirectly denied treatment for being male. Note that the same stereotype may in other cases lead to male persons getting better care - based on the assumption that if he seeks help in spite of being a man, then it must really be serious. Stereotypes are fickle like that.<br /> <br /> * ''[[Privateermongering]]'': Constructing discrimination, bullying and outright attacks against men [[Racism|of certain skin-colors]] or against men in general as if it was a valid “preemptive self-defense” based on some [[monolithization|idea about said category]] being [[demonization|violent or otherwise evil]].</div>

Xzenu http://categorism.com/wiki/Misandry 2023-08-20T11:59:37Z

<p>Xzenu: </p> <hr /> <div>Misandry (in Swedish &quot;misandri&quot;) is [[categorism]] against men.&lt;br&gt; <br /> <br /> <br /> In other words: Misandry is prejudice, bigotry and discrimination against human beings who in one way or another are being categorized as men. This includes...<br /> <br /> 1. People who are assigned male at birth: Cis women, nonbinary AMAB, and trans women. The latter can also easily slide into [[Transmisogyny]]. <br /> 2. Men who were assigned female at birth, also known as trans men. This can also easily slide into [[Transmisandry]].<br /> 3. Cis women who other people (honestly, dishonestly or symbolically/sarcastically) mistakes for being men. (In other words: Bullying a cis woman for “not being a real woman” is misandrist and/or transphobic as well as being an [[in-group dehumanization]] kind of misogynistic.)<br /> <br /> Note that in the categorism model, the word “[[sexism]]” is gender neutral while [[misogyny]] and misandry are the gendered versions of sexism. While this definition of the words is common, it is also common to use a more limited definition which only includes bigotry. Another definition (which is much less reasonable and much less common, but tend to have very vocal adherents) is to limit the definition to only include the most macro level of society as a whole: Thus arguing either that “women are the oppressed category, thus misandry cannot exist” or that “men are the oppressed category, thus misogyny cannot exist”. There are also definitions based on [[Entitled Supremacism]], where lack of deference from women gets misconstructed as being “misandry” or where lack of deference from men gets misconstructed as being “misogyny”. When people claim that “misandry doesn't exist”, they are in many cases talking about one of the bad definitions rather than claiming that prejudice/bigotry/discrimination against men wouldn't exist. <br /> <br /> <br /> ==Examples of facets expressed through this focus==<br /> <br /> * ''[[Category Agency]]'': Assuming that all men want the same things, simply for being men. Also, giving individual contemporary men blame for historical developments (or mythological narratives) that happened (or was supposed to happen) before they were even born, based on them having the same gender as the people who were in charge back then. For example, blaming contemporary men for the fact that medieval laws ensured that almost all rulers were male (AKA classical patriarchy).<br /> <br /> * ''[[Dehumanization]]'': Talking about men as if they were robots or monstrous beasts. Statements such as &quot;''To call a man an animal is to flatter him; he's a machine, a walking dildo.''&quot;<br /> <br /> * ''[[Demonization]]'': Talking about one gender or another (in this case men) as being immoral, driven by selfishness and dark emotions.<br /> <br /> * ''[[Infantilization]]'': Constructing men as being less intelligent and rational than women. Often conveniently limited to when he happens to be horny, and combined with [[Denial of Agency]] (and to some extent [[Dehumanization]]) into the idea that a sexually aroused man can't be responsible for his own actions. Note that while this attitude is clearly misandrist, it is also misogynistic although in [[stigmatization|different]] [[Violence|ways]].<br /> <br /> * ''[[Malpractice]]'': Stereotypes about how &quot;a real man can take care of himself&quot; sometimes lead to persons being directly or indirectly denied treatment for being male. Note that the same stereotype may in other cases lead to male persons getting better care - based on the assumption that if he seeks help in spite of being a man, then it must really be serious. Stereotypes are fickle like that.<br /> <br /> * ''[[Privateermongering]]'': Constructing discrimination, bullying and outright attacks against men [[Racism|of certain skin-colors]] or against men in general as if it was a valid “preemptive self-defense” based on some [[monolithization|idea about said category]] being [[demonization|violent or otherwise evil]].</div>

Xzenu http://categorism.com/wiki/Misandry 2023-08-20T11:59:23Z

<p>Xzenu: </p> <hr /> <div>Misandry (in Swedish: Misandri) is [[categorism]] against men.&lt;br&gt; <br /> <br /> <br /> In other words: Misandry is prejudice, bigotry and discrimination against human beings who in one way or another are being categorized as men. This includes...<br /> <br /> 1. People who are assigned male at birth: Cis women, nonbinary AMAB, and trans women. The latter can also easily slide into [[Transmisogyny]]. <br /> 2. Men who were assigned female at birth, also known as trans men. This can also easily slide into [[Transmisandry]].<br /> 3. Cis women who other people (honestly, dishonestly or symbolically/sarcastically) mistakes for being men. (In other words: Bullying a cis woman for “not being a real woman” is misandrist and/or transphobic as well as being an [[in-group dehumanization]] kind of misogynistic.)<br /> <br /> Note that in the categorism model, the word “[[sexism]]” is gender neutral while [[misogyny]] and misandry are the gendered versions of sexism. While this definition of the words is common, it is also common to use a more limited definition which only includes bigotry. Another definition (which is much less reasonable and much less common, but tend to have very vocal adherents) is to limit the definition to only include the most macro level of society as a whole: Thus arguing either that “women are the oppressed category, thus misandry cannot exist” or that “men are the oppressed category, thus misogyny cannot exist”. There are also definitions based on [[Entitled Supremacism]], where lack of deference from women gets misconstructed as being “misandry” or where lack of deference from men gets misconstructed as being “misogyny”. When people claim that “misandry doesn't exist”, they are in many cases talking about one of the bad definitions rather than claiming that prejudice/bigotry/discrimination against men wouldn't exist. <br /> <br /> <br /> ==Examples of facets expressed through this focus==<br /> <br /> * ''[[Category Agency]]'': Assuming that all men want the same things, simply for being men. Also, giving individual contemporary men blame for historical developments (or mythological narratives) that happened (or was supposed to happen) before they were even born, based on them having the same gender as the people who were in charge back then. For example, blaming contemporary men for the fact that medieval laws ensured that almost all rulers were male (AKA classical patriarchy).<br /> <br /> * ''[[Dehumanization]]'': Talking about men as if they were robots or monstrous beasts. Statements such as &quot;''To call a man an animal is to flatter him; he's a machine, a walking dildo.''&quot;<br /> <br /> * ''[[Demonization]]'': Talking about one gender or another (in this case men) as being immoral, driven by selfishness and dark emotions.<br /> <br /> * ''[[Infantilization]]'': Constructing men as being less intelligent and rational than women. Often conveniently limited to when he happens to be horny, and combined with [[Denial of Agency]] (and to some extent [[Dehumanization]]) into the idea that a sexually aroused man can't be responsible for his own actions. Note that while this attitude is clearly misandrist, it is also misogynistic although in [[stigmatization|different]] [[Violence|ways]].<br /> <br /> * ''[[Malpractice]]'': Stereotypes about how &quot;a real man can take care of himself&quot; sometimes lead to persons being directly or indirectly denied treatment for being male. Note that the same stereotype may in other cases lead to male persons getting better care - based on the assumption that if he seeks help in spite of being a man, then it must really be serious. Stereotypes are fickle like that.<br /> <br /> * ''[[Privateermongering]]'': Constructing discrimination, bullying and outright attacks against men [[Racism|of certain skin-colors]] or against men in general as if it was a valid “preemptive self-defense” based on some [[monolithization|idea about said category]] being [[demonization|violent or otherwise evil]].</div>

Xzenu http://categorism.com/wiki/Misandry 2023-08-20T11:58:58Z

<p>Xzenu: </p> <hr /> <div>Misandry is [[categorism]] against men.&lt;br&gt; <br /> (In Swedish: Misandri)<br /> <br /> In other words: Misandry is prejudice, bigotry and discrimination against human beings who in one way or another are being categorized as men. This includes...<br /> <br /> 1. People who are assigned male at birth: Cis women, nonbinary AMAB, and trans women. The latter can also easily slide into [[Transmisogyny]]. <br /> 2. Men who were assigned female at birth, also known as trans men. This can also easily slide into [[Transmisandry]].<br /> 3. Cis women who other people (honestly, dishonestly or symbolically/sarcastically) mistakes for being men. (In other words: Bullying a cis woman for “not being a real woman” is misandrist and/or transphobic as well as being an [[in-group dehumanization]] kind of misogynistic.)<br /> <br /> Note that in the categorism model, the word “[[sexism]]” is gender neutral while [[misogyny]] and misandry are the gendered versions of sexism. While this definition of the words is common, it is also common to use a more limited definition which only includes bigotry. Another definition (which is much less reasonable and much less common, but tend to have very vocal adherents) is to limit the definition to only include the most macro level of society as a whole: Thus arguing either that “women are the oppressed category, thus misandry cannot exist” or that “men are the oppressed category, thus misogyny cannot exist”. There are also definitions based on [[Entitled Supremacism]], where lack of deference from women gets misconstructed as being “misandry” or where lack of deference from men gets misconstructed as being “misogyny”. When people claim that “misandry doesn't exist”, they are in many cases talking about one of the bad definitions rather than claiming that prejudice/bigotry/discrimination against men wouldn't exist. <br /> <br /> <br /> ==Examples of facets expressed through this focus==<br /> <br /> * ''[[Category Agency]]'': Assuming that all men want the same things, simply for being men. Also, giving individual contemporary men blame for historical developments (or mythological narratives) that happened (or was supposed to happen) before they were even born, based on them having the same gender as the people who were in charge back then. For example, blaming contemporary men for the fact that medieval laws ensured that almost all rulers were male (AKA classical patriarchy).<br /> <br /> * ''[[Dehumanization]]'': Talking about men as if they were robots or monstrous beasts. Statements such as &quot;''To call a man an animal is to flatter him; he's a machine, a walking dildo.''&quot;<br /> <br /> * ''[[Demonization]]'': Talking about one gender or another (in this case men) as being immoral, driven by selfishness and dark emotions.<br /> <br /> * ''[[Infantilization]]'': Constructing men as being less intelligent and rational than women. Often conveniently limited to when he happens to be horny, and combined with [[Denial of Agency]] (and to some extent [[Dehumanization]]) into the idea that a sexually aroused man can't be responsible for his own actions. Note that while this attitude is clearly misandrist, it is also misogynistic although in [[stigmatization|different]] [[Violence|ways]].<br /> <br /> * ''[[Malpractice]]'': Stereotypes about how &quot;a real man can take care of himself&quot; sometimes lead to persons being directly or indirectly denied treatment for being male. Note that the same stereotype may in other cases lead to male persons getting better care - based on the assumption that if he seeks help in spite of being a man, then it must really be serious. Stereotypes are fickle like that.<br /> <br /> * ''[[Privateermongering]]'': Constructing discrimination, bullying and outright attacks against men [[Racism|of certain skin-colors]] or against men in general as if it was a valid “preemptive self-defense” based on some [[monolithization|idea about said category]] being [[demonization|violent or otherwise evil]].</div>

Xzenu http://categorism.com/wiki/Misandry 2023-08-20T11:58:41Z

<p>Xzenu: </p> <hr /> <div>Misandry is [[categorism]] against men. <br /> (In Swedish: Misandri)<br /> <br /> In other words: Misandry is prejudice, bigotry and discrimination against human beings who in one way or another are being categorized as men. This includes...<br /> <br /> 1. People who are assigned male at birth: Cis women, nonbinary AMAB, and trans women. The latter can also easily slide into [[Transmisogyny]]. <br /> 2. Men who were assigned female at birth, also known as trans men. This can also easily slide into [[Transmisandry]].<br /> 3. Cis women who other people (honestly, dishonestly or symbolically/sarcastically) mistakes for being men. (In other words: Bullying a cis woman for “not being a real woman” is misandrist and/or transphobic as well as being an [[in-group dehumanization]] kind of misogynistic.)<br /> <br /> Note that in the categorism model, the word “[[sexism]]” is gender neutral while [[misogyny]] and misandry are the gendered versions of sexism. While this definition of the words is common, it is also common to use a more limited definition which only includes bigotry. Another definition (which is much less reasonable and much less common, but tend to have very vocal adherents) is to limit the definition to only include the most macro level of society as a whole: Thus arguing either that “women are the oppressed category, thus misandry cannot exist” or that “men are the oppressed category, thus misogyny cannot exist”. There are also definitions based on [[Entitled Supremacism]], where lack of deference from women gets misconstructed as being “misandry” or where lack of deference from men gets misconstructed as being “misogyny”. When people claim that “misandry doesn't exist”, they are in many cases talking about one of the bad definitions rather than claiming that prejudice/bigotry/discrimination against men wouldn't exist. <br /> <br /> <br /> ==Examples of facets expressed through this focus==<br /> <br /> * ''[[Category Agency]]'': Assuming that all men want the same things, simply for being men. Also, giving individual contemporary men blame for historical developments (or mythological narratives) that happened (or was supposed to happen) before they were even born, based on them having the same gender as the people who were in charge back then. For example, blaming contemporary men for the fact that medieval laws ensured that almost all rulers were male (AKA classical patriarchy).<br /> <br /> * ''[[Dehumanization]]'': Talking about men as if they were robots or monstrous beasts. Statements such as &quot;''To call a man an animal is to flatter him; he's a machine, a walking dildo.''&quot;<br /> <br /> * ''[[Demonization]]'': Talking about one gender or another (in this case men) as being immoral, driven by selfishness and dark emotions.<br /> <br /> * ''[[Infantilization]]'': Constructing men as being less intelligent and rational than women. Often conveniently limited to when he happens to be horny, and combined with [[Denial of Agency]] (and to some extent [[Dehumanization]]) into the idea that a sexually aroused man can't be responsible for his own actions. Note that while this attitude is clearly misandrist, it is also misogynistic although in [[stigmatization|different]] [[Violence|ways]].<br /> <br /> * ''[[Malpractice]]'': Stereotypes about how &quot;a real man can take care of himself&quot; sometimes lead to persons being directly or indirectly denied treatment for being male. Note that the same stereotype may in other cases lead to male persons getting better care - based on the assumption that if he seeks help in spite of being a man, then it must really be serious. Stereotypes are fickle like that.<br /> <br /> * ''[[Privateermongering]]'': Constructing discrimination, bullying and outright attacks against men [[Racism|of certain skin-colors]] or against men in general as if it was a valid “preemptive self-defense” based on some [[monolithization|idea about said category]] being [[demonization|violent or otherwise evil]].</div>

Xzenu http://categorism.com/wiki/Misandry 2023-08-20T11:58:22Z

<p>Xzenu: </p> <hr /> <div>Misandry is [[categorism]] against men. <br /> <br /> In other words: Misandry is prejudice, bigotry and discrimination against human beings who in one way or another are being categorized as men. This includes...<br /> <br /> 1. People who are assigned male at birth: Cis women, nonbinary AMAB, and trans women. The latter can also easily slide into [[Transmisogyny]]. <br /> 2. Men who were assigned female at birth, also known as trans men. This can also easily slide into [[Transmisandry]].<br /> 3. Cis women who other people (honestly, dishonestly or symbolically/sarcastically) mistakes for being men. (In other words: Bullying a cis woman for “not being a real woman” is misandrist and/or transphobic as well as being an [[in-group dehumanization]] kind of misogynistic.)<br /> <br /> Note that in the categorism model, the word “[[sexism]]” is gender neutral while [[misogyny]] and misandry are the gendered versions of sexism. While this definition of the words is common, it is also common to use a more limited definition which only includes bigotry. Another definition (which is much less reasonable and much less common, but tend to have very vocal adherents) is to limit the definition to only include the most macro level of society as a whole: Thus arguing either that “women are the oppressed category, thus misandry cannot exist” or that “men are the oppressed category, thus misogyny cannot exist”. There are also definitions based on [[Entitled Supremacism]], where lack of deference from women gets misconstructed as being “misandry” or where lack of deference from men gets misconstructed as being “misogyny”. When people claim that “misandry doesn't exist”, they are in many cases talking about one of the bad definitions rather than claiming that prejudice/bigotry/discrimination against men wouldn't exist. <br /> <br /> <br /> ==Examples of facets expressed through this focus==<br /> <br /> * ''[[Category Agency]]'': Assuming that all men want the same things, simply for being men. Also, giving individual contemporary men blame for historical developments (or mythological narratives) that happened (or was supposed to happen) before they were even born, based on them having the same gender as the people who were in charge back then. For example, blaming contemporary men for the fact that medieval laws ensured that almost all rulers were male (AKA classical patriarchy).<br /> <br /> * ''[[Dehumanization]]'': Talking about men as if they were robots or monstrous beasts. Statements such as &quot;''To call a man an animal is to flatter him; he's a machine, a walking dildo.''&quot;<br /> <br /> * ''[[Demonization]]'': Talking about one gender or another (in this case men) as being immoral, driven by selfishness and dark emotions.<br /> <br /> * ''[[Infantilization]]'': Constructing men as being less intelligent and rational than women. Often conveniently limited to when he happens to be horny, and combined with [[Denial of Agency]] (and to some extent [[Dehumanization]]) into the idea that a sexually aroused man can't be responsible for his own actions. Note that while this attitude is clearly misandrist, it is also misogynistic although in [[stigmatization|different]] [[Violence|ways]].<br /> <br /> * ''[[Malpractice]]'': Stereotypes about how &quot;a real man can take care of himself&quot; sometimes lead to persons being directly or indirectly denied treatment for being male. Note that the same stereotype may in other cases lead to male persons getting better care - based on the assumption that if he seeks help in spite of being a man, then it must really be serious. Stereotypes are fickle like that.<br /> <br /> * ''[[Privateermongering]]'': Constructing discrimination, bullying and outright attacks against men [[Racism|of certain skin-colors]] or against men in general as if it was a valid “preemptive self-defense” based on some [[monolithization|idea about said category]] being [[demonization|violent or otherwise evil]].</div>

Xzenu http://categorism.com/wiki/Misandry 2023-08-20T11:57:50Z

<p>Xzenu: </p> <hr /> <div>Misandry is [[categorism]] against men. <br /> <br /> In other words: Misandry is prejudice, bigotry and discrimination against human beings who in one way or another are being categorized as men. This includes...<br /> <br /> 1. People who are assigned male at birth: Cis women, nonbinary AMAB, and trans women. The latter can also easily slide into [[Transmisogyny]]. <br /> 2. Men who were assigned female at birth, also known as trans men. This can also easily slide into [[Transmisandry]].<br /> 3. Cis women who other people (honestly, dishonestly or symbolically/sarcastically) mistakes for being men. (In other words: Bullying a cis woman for “not being a real woman” is misandrist and/or transphobic as well as being an [[in-group dehumanization]] kind of misogynistic.)<br /> <br /> Note that in the categorism model, the word “[[sexism]]” is gender neutral while misogyny and misandry are the gendered versions of sexism. While this definition of the words is common, it is also common to use a more limited definition which only includes bigotry. Another definition (which is much less reasonable and much less common, but tend to have very vocal adherents) is to limit the definition to only include the most macro level of society as a whole: Thus arguing either that “women are the oppressed category, thus misandry cannot exist” or that “men are the oppressed category, thus misogyny cannot exist”. There are also definitions based on [[Entitled Supremacism]], where lack of deference from women gets misconstructed as being “misandry” or where lack of deference from men gets misconstructed as being “misogyny”. When people claim that “misandry doesn't exist”, they are in many cases talking about one of the bad definitions rather than claiming that prejudice/bigotry/discrimination against men wouldn't exist. <br /> <br /> <br /> ==Examples of facets expressed through this focus==<br /> <br /> * ''[[Category Agency]]'': Assuming that all men want the same things, simply for being men. Also, giving individual contemporary men blame for historical developments (or mythological narratives) that happened (or was supposed to happen) before they were even born, based on them having the same gender as the people who were in charge back then. For example, blaming contemporary men for the fact that medieval laws ensured that almost all rulers were male (AKA classical patriarchy).<br /> <br /> * ''[[Dehumanization]]'': Talking about men as if they were robots or monstrous beasts. Statements such as &quot;''To call a man an animal is to flatter him; he's a machine, a walking dildo.''&quot;<br /> <br /> * ''[[Demonization]]'': Talking about one gender or another (in this case men) as being immoral, driven by selfishness and dark emotions.<br /> <br /> * ''[[Infantilization]]'': Constructing men as being less intelligent and rational than women. Often conveniently limited to when he happens to be horny, and combined with [[Denial of Agency]] (and to some extent [[Dehumanization]]) into the idea that a sexually aroused man can't be responsible for his own actions. Note that while this attitude is clearly misandrist, it is also misogynistic although in [[stigmatization|different]] [[Violence|ways]].<br /> <br /> * ''[[Malpractice]]'': Stereotypes about how &quot;a real man can take care of himself&quot; sometimes lead to persons being directly or indirectly denied treatment for being male. Note that the same stereotype may in other cases lead to male persons getting better care - based on the assumption that if he seeks help in spite of being a man, then it must really be serious. Stereotypes are fickle like that.<br /> <br /> * ''[[Privateermongering]]'': Constructing discrimination, bullying and outright attacks against men [[Racism|of certain skin-colors]] or against men in general as if it was a valid “preemptive self-defense” based on some [[monolithization|idea about said category]] being [[demonization|violent or otherwise evil]].</div>

Xzenu http://categorism.com/wiki/Islamophobia 2023-08-20T11:29:31Z

<p>Xzenu: </p> <hr /> <div>The word islamophobia (In Swedish: islamofobi) is sometimes synonymous with [[antimuslimism]], which is categorism against people who are self-identified as Muslims or assumed by others to be Muslims. <br /> <br /> However, the word islamophobia is also sometimes given very different meanings - one which actually oppresses human beings who are muslims. This other meaning is full of [[Entitled Supremacism]], where abusers consider themselves to have a &quot;divine right&quot; to abuse their fellow muslims as well as other people, and consider any pushback against their abuse to be &quot;oppression&quot;. They employ a discourse where rights are assigned to a conceptualization of a religion in itself, rather that to the human beings who are categorized as being religious: A matter of protecting a perceived “true Islam” from apostates, heretics, blasphemers and unbelievers, rather than protecting human beings who happens to be categorized as Muslims.</div>

Xzenu http://categorism.com/wiki/Supremacism 2023-08-20T11:23:07Z

<p>Xzenu: </p> <hr /> <div>Assuming a position of superiority. Either in the form of a soft supremacism fueled by condescending compassion, or in the form of a hard supremacism fueled by straightforward hate and openly constructing the other as inferior. Both versions can easily trigger Entitled Supremacism. <br /> (In Swedish: supremacism)<br /> <br /> ==Soft Supremacism==<br /> To indirectly construct a dichotomy of two categories of people as one being superior people and the other being inferior people, by constructing it as a matter of compassion or respect. Such as claiming that women shouldn't have to worry about getting involved in politics because men should take care of all such unpleasantries for them. The core of such “condescending compassion”1 is that it is indeed condescending.<br /> (In Swedish: mjuk supremacism)<br /> <br /> ==Hard Supremacism==<br /> To openly construct a dichotomy of two categories of people as one being superior people and the other being inferior people. For example, claiming that being of a certain race or gender makes people in that category inherently more moral, more valuable or more capable of ruling society. Compare: Soft Supremacism. (In Swedish: hård supremacism)<br /> <br /> Supremacism is a [[facet of categorism]]. Or two, depending on whether you count hard and [[soft supremacism]] separately.<br /> <br /> ==Entitled Supremacism==<br /> People who have a supremacist view on a pair of categories typically view the supremacy of their preferred category as being natural. This can easily mislead them to interpreting equality as being a form of oppression. For example, a male supremacist may consider submission from random women to be his birthright - and may thus consider himself “oppressed” whenever a woman won't obey him or won't accept sexual harassment from him. <br /> <br /> ==Interactions==<br /> Supremacism typically goes hand in and with [[Sacralization]] of the category, which further increases the risk of [[demonization]] of the opposite category as well as of any member (of the supposedly superior category) who won't fall in line.<br /> <br /> It is likely to intersect with facets such as:<br /> * ''[[Normalization]]'': Constructing supremacism as being not supremacism but instead simply the natural order of things.<br /> * ''[[Energy Drain]]'': Feeling superior and thus entitled to other people's time and energy. <br /> <br /> As well as with [[abstractions of categorism|abstractions]] such as:<br /> * ''[[Categorization by narrativism]]'': A story about the superior protagonists versus all the straw losers who exist only to be bested by them.<br /> <br /> Examples of applying this facet to a particular [[foci of categorism]] can include: <br /> * ''[[Antisemitism]]'': Creating a hard supremacism narrative where Jews are constructed as greedy and unclean little creatures for the good people to kill.<br /> * ''[[Whorephobia]]'': Creating a soft supremacism narrative where sex workers are constructed as pitiful and unclean little creatures for the good people to save (and who in return are required to feel grateful for being looked down upon and dismissed as broken).</div>

Xzenu http://categorism.com/wiki/Entitled_Supremacism 2023-08-20T11:22:54Z

<p>Xzenu: Redirected page to Supremacism</p> <hr /> <div>#REDIRECT[[Supremacism]]</div>

Xzenu http://categorism.com/wiki/Supremacism 2023-08-20T11:22:22Z

<p>Xzenu: </p> <hr /> <div>Assuming a position of superiority. Either in the form of a soft supremacism fueled by condescending compassion, or in the form of a hard supremacism fueled by straightforward hate and openly constructing the other as inferior. Both versions can easily trigger [[Entitled Supremacism]]. <br /> (In Swedish: supremacism)<br /> <br /> ==Soft Supremacism==<br /> To indirectly construct a dichotomy of two categories of people as one being superior people and the other being inferior people, by constructing it as a matter of compassion or respect. Such as claiming that women shouldn't have to worry about getting involved in politics because men should take care of all such unpleasantries for them. The core of such “condescending compassion”1 is that it is indeed condescending.<br /> (In Swedish: mjuk supremacism)<br /> <br /> ==Hard Supremacism==<br /> To openly construct a dichotomy of two categories of people as one being superior people and the other being inferior people. For example, claiming that being of a certain race or gender makes people in that category inherently more moral, more valuable or more capable of ruling society. Compare: Soft Supremacism. (In Swedish: hård supremacism)<br /> <br /> Supremacism is a [[facet of categorism]]. Or two, depending on whether you count hard and [[soft supremacism]] separately.<br /> <br /> ==Entitled Supremacism==<br /> People who have a supremacist view on a pair of categories typically view the supremacy of their preferred category as being natural. This can easily mislead them to interpreting equality as being a form of oppression. For example, a male supremacist may consider submission from random women to be his birthright - and may thus consider himself “oppressed” whenever a woman won't obey him or won't accept sexual harassment from him. <br /> <br /> ==Interactions==<br /> Supremacism typically goes hand in and with [[Sacralization]] of the category, which further increases the risk of [[demonization]] of the opposite category as well as of any member (of the supposedly superior category) who won't fall in line.<br /> <br /> It is likely to intersect with facets such as:<br /> * ''[[Normalization]]'': Constructing supremacism as being not supremacism but instead simply the natural order of things.<br /> * ''[[Energy Drain]]'': Feeling superior and thus entitled to other people's time and energy. <br /> <br /> As well as with [[abstractions of categorism|abstractions]] such as:<br /> * ''[[Categorization by narrativism]]'': A story about the superior protagonists versus all the straw losers who exist only to be bested by them.<br /> <br /> Examples of applying this facet to a particular [[foci of categorism]] can include: <br /> * ''[[Antisemitism]]'': Creating a hard supremacism narrative where Jews are constructed as greedy and unclean little creatures for the good people to kill.<br /> * ''[[Whorephobia]]'': Creating a soft supremacism narrative where sex workers are constructed as pitiful and unclean little creatures for the good people to save (and who in return are required to feel grateful for being looked down upon and dismissed as broken).</div>

Xzenu http://categorism.com/wiki/Hard_supremacism 2023-08-20T11:13:49Z

<p>Xzenu: Redirected page to Supremacism</p> <hr /> <div>#REDIRECT[[Supremacism]]</div>

Xzenu http://categorism.com/wiki/Soft_supremacism 2023-08-20T11:13:17Z

<p>Xzenu: Redirected page to Supremacism</p> <hr /> <div>#REDIRECT[[Supremacism]]</div>

Xzenu http://categorism.com/wiki/Directed_trolling 2023-02-19T19:42:35Z

<p>Xzenu: Redirected page to Directed Trolling</p> <hr /> <div>#REDIRECT[[Directed Trolling]]</div>

Xzenu http://categorism.com/wiki/Directed_Trolling 2023-02-19T19:42:09Z

<p>Xzenu: Created page with &quot;In the context of discussions, the term &quot;trolling&quot; or &quot;troll&quot; traditionally refers to people who have no actual interest in the discussion or in the topic of the discussion: i...&quot;</p> <hr /> <div>In the context of discussions, the term &quot;trolling&quot; or &quot;troll&quot; traditionally refers to people who have no actual interest in the discussion or in the topic of the discussion: instead, they simply aim to annoy people or to hurt their feelings or even to cause maximum harm, simply because it amuses them to cause such reactions. There are several ways in which such trolling can be connected to [[categorism]]. <br /> <br /> * 1. Persons who are genuinely bigoted against a category of people can pretend to simply be trolling for the fun of it. <br /> <br /> * 2. Persons who want to incite hatred against a certain category of people can encourage people who are already trolls to join such discussions, or encourage other people to start engaging in trolling behavior. A person who thusly encourages trolling may be genuinely bigoted against the category, or may see it as a convenient way to divert bigotry from targeting another category which they want to protect - such as inciting hatred against one gender or against one sexual minority as a misguided strategy for trying to gain respect and peace for another gender or for another sexual minority. <br /> <br /> * 3. People who simply want to troll are likely to target people in whatever categories they can socially get away with targeting. The same person will harass women if their social environment accepts/condones/encourages [[misogyny]], will harass men if their social environment accepts/condones/encourages [[misandry]], will harass homosexuals if their social environment accepts/condones/encourages [[homophobia]], will harass sadomasochists and/or fetishists if their social environment accepts/condones/encourages [[kinkophobia]], and so on. <br /> <br /> * 4. People who simply want to troll are likely to target people in whatever categories are likely to contain a lot of vulnerable and traumatized people who are easy to hurt. <br /> <br /> * 5. People who simply want to troll are likely to do whatever is perceived as harmful to vulnerable people, as this gives people an incentive to stand up against the troll's bullshit. The malicious troll will verbally hold their targets hostage, being as obnoxious and exhausting and boring as possible while squeezing attention out of whoever tries to defend the targets. <br /> <br /> When at least one of these five are in effect, the trolling becomes &quot;Directed trolling&quot; as an [[expression of categorism]]<br /> <br /> (To combine the above #3, #4 &amp; #5 with each other typically goes with a dose of [[gaslighting]], stopping just short of outright bragging “muahaha, you can't prove that I'm being malicious on purpose – nyah nyah nyah”.)<br /> <br /> See also [[Depolitization of Categorism]], [[Energy Drain]] and [[Schrödinger's Joke]].</div>

Xzenu http://categorism.com/wiki/Energy_Drain 2023-02-19T19:41:16Z

<p>Xzenu: </p> <hr /> <div>Demanding time and energy out of people from a certain category by constantly pushing them to defend or explain themselves. When this happens on a structural or systemic level, getting small pushes of the same kind often and from many different directions can add up really quickly. (In Swedish: en form av energitjuvande)<br /> <br /> See also [[Directed Trolling]].<br /> <br /> ==Interactions==<br /> <br /> This [[facet of categorism]] is an expression of: [[discrimination]] (often used as a way of enabling other categorism as well). Can be done at any level.&lt;br&gt;<br /> <br /> It is likely to intersect with facets such as:<br /> * ''[[Exploitation]]'': Draining people's energy by using them. <br /> * ''[[Violence]]'': Fear of violence can be very draining in itself. Also, explicit or implicit threats of violence can be a way to demand other people's time and energy since such threats are hard to ignore.<br /> * ''[[Supremacism]]'': Feeling superior and thus entitled to other people's time and energy. <br /> * ''[[Incomprehensibilization]]'': Constructing a category as &quot;the mysterious other&quot;, while forcing people in that category to either accept this role or spend time and energy on resisting it.<br /> <br /> As well as with [[abstractions of categorism|abstractions]] such as:<br /> * ''[[Incomprehensibilization of the categorization]]'': Constructing &quot;the mysterious other&quot;, while forcing anyone to either accept this role or spend time and energy on resisting it. <br /> <br /> Examples of applying this facet to a particular [[foci of categorism]] can include: <br /> * ''[[racism]], at the [[individual level]]'': A person having the attitude that if he is prejudiced against people of other skin-colors or ethnicities, then it is their job to educate him.<br /> * ''[[sexism]], at the [[structural level]]'': Social norms that women need to take care of others, while men does not.<br /> * ''[[sexism]], at the [[dogmatic level]]'': Political and religious doctrines demanding that women hold themselves back.<br /> * ''[[sexism]] or [[racist sexism]], at the [[systemic level]]'': A woman keeps encountering people who believes that she has some inherent duty take care of them without them taking care of her in return.<br /> <br /> ==Energy Drain in example texts==<br /> <br /> * [[A frivolous arrest]]: It drains your resources of time and emotion to be arrested and have to defend yourself against accusations of having a stigmatized profession.</div>

Xzenu http://categorism.com/wiki/Energy_Drain 2023-02-19T19:40:30Z

<p>Xzenu: </p> <hr /> <div>Demanding time and energy out of people from a certain category by constantly pushing them to defend or explain themselves. When this happens on a structural or systemic level, getting small pushes of the same kind often and from many different directions can add up really quickly. (In Swedish: en form av energitjuvande)<br /> <br /> See also [[Energy Drain]] and [[Directed Trolling]]<br /> <br /> ==Interactions==<br /> <br /> This [[facet of categorism]] is an expression of: [[discrimination]] (often used as a way of enabling other categorism as well). Can be done at any level.&lt;br&gt;<br /> <br /> It is likely to intersect with facets such as:<br /> * ''[[Exploitation]]'': Draining people's energy by using them. <br /> * ''[[Violence]]'': Fear of violence can be very draining in itself. Also, explicit or implicit threats of violence can be a way to demand other people's time and energy since such threats are hard to ignore.<br /> * ''[[Supremacism]]'': Feeling superior and thus entitled to other people's time and energy. <br /> * ''[[Incomprehensibilization]]'': Constructing a category as &quot;the mysterious other&quot;, while forcing people in that category to either accept this role or spend time and energy on resisting it.<br /> <br /> As well as with [[abstractions of categorism|abstractions]] such as:<br /> * ''[[Incomprehensibilization of the categorization]]'': Constructing &quot;the mysterious other&quot;, while forcing anyone to either accept this role or spend time and energy on resisting it. <br /> <br /> Examples of applying this facet to a particular [[foci of categorism]] can include: <br /> * ''[[racism]], at the [[individual level]]'': A person having the attitude that if he is prejudiced against people of other skin-colors or ethnicities, then it is their job to educate him.<br /> * ''[[sexism]], at the [[structural level]]'': Social norms that women need to take care of others, while men does not.<br /> * ''[[sexism]], at the [[dogmatic level]]'': Political and religious doctrines demanding that women hold themselves back.<br /> * ''[[sexism]] or [[racist sexism]], at the [[systemic level]]'': A woman keeps encountering people who believes that she has some inherent duty take care of them without them taking care of her in return.<br /> <br /> ==Energy Drain in example texts==<br /> <br /> * [[A frivolous arrest]]: It drains your resources of time and emotion to be arrested and have to defend yourself against accusations of having a stigmatized profession.</div>

Xzenu http://categorism.com/wiki/Directed_trolling 2023-02-19T19:39:33Z

<p>Xzenu: </p> <hr /> <div>In the context of discussions, the term &quot;trolling&quot; or &quot;troll&quot; traditionally refers to people who have no actual interest in the discussion or in the topic of the discussion: instead, they simply aim to annoy people or to hurt their feelings or even to cause maximum harm, simply because it amuses them to cause such reactions. There are several ways in which such trolling can be connected to [[categorism]]. <br /> <br /> * 1. Persons who are genuinely bigoted against a category of people can pretend to simply be trolling for the fun of it. <br /> <br /> * 2. Persons who want to incite hatred against a certain category of people can encourage people who are already trolls to join such discussions, or encourage other people to start engaging in trolling behavior. A person who thusly encourages trolling may be genuinely bigoted against the category, or may see it as a convenient way to divert bigotry from targeting another category which they want to protect - such as inciting hatred against one gender or against one sexual minority as a misguided strategy for trying to gain respect and peace for another gender or for another sexual minority. <br /> <br /> * 3. People who simply want to troll are likely to target people in whatever categories they can socially get away with targeting. The same person will harass women if their social environment accepts/condones/encourages [[misogyny]], will harass men if their social environment accepts/condones/encourages [[misandry]], will harass homosexuals if their social environment accepts/condones/encourages [[homophobia]], will harass sadomasochists and/or fetishists if their social environment accepts/condones/encourages [[kinkophobia]], and so on. <br /> <br /> * 4. People who simply want to troll are likely to target people in whatever categories are likely to contain a lot of vulnerable and traumatized people who are easy to hurt. <br /> <br /> * 5. People who simply want to troll are likely to do whatever is perceived as harmful to vulnerable people, as this gives people an incentive to stand up against the troll's bullshit. The malicious troll will verbally hold their targets hostage, being as obnoxious and exhausting and boring as possible while squeezing attention out of whoever tries to defend the targets. <br /> <br /> When at least one of these five are in effect, the trolling becomes &quot;Directed trolling&quot; as an [[expression of categorism]]<br /> <br /> (To combine the above #3, #4 &amp; #5 with each other typically goes with a dose of [[gaslighting]], stopping just short of outright bragging “muahaha, you can't prove that I'm being malicious on purpose – nyah nyah nyah”.)<br /> <br /> See also [[Depolitization of Categorism]], [[Energy Drain]] and [[Schrödinger's Joke]].</div>

Xzenu http://categorism.com/wiki/Fortified_Ignorance 2023-02-19T00:32:47Z

<p>Xzenu: Created page with &quot;No matter how wrong a person is, they can always double down and defend their misconceptions to the end. Any attempts to correct them can be dismissed as &quot;attacking&quot; them or &quot;...&quot;</p> <hr /> <div>No matter how wrong a person is, they can always double down and defend their misconceptions to the end. Any attempts to correct them can be dismissed as &quot;attacking&quot; them or &quot;talking down to&quot; them. Having more knowledge can be constructed as being inherently insulting - &quot;How dare you tell me something I don't already know, surely you couldn't have any purpose other than making me look stupid!&quot; This goes both for the simple surface facts and for underlying theoretical perspectives. <br /> <br /> While Fortified ignorance can happen on any topic, it becomes an [[expression of categorism]] when mainstream people apply it to a minority - directly or indirectly demanding that conversations about or expressions of said minority must be limited to what the ignorant person already knows.</div>

Xzenu http://categorism.com/wiki/Expressions_of_categorism 2023-02-19T00:23:46Z

<p>Xzenu: </p> <hr /> <div>An expression of categorism is a way in which categorism is done. With [[prejudice]], [[bigotry]] and [[discrimination]] constructed as the [[archetypical expressions]] (being categorism through beliefs, feelings and acts, respectively), there are also more specific expressions. <br /> <br /> <br /> * [[Alleged Incompetence]]: Unfairly dismissing the competence of the targeted person - actually based on the person being part of one or more targeted categories, which may be hard to prove. <br /> * [[Biased Balance]]: AKA The Golden Mean Fallacy.<br /> * [[Categorist Slurs]]<br /> * [[Category Agency]] <br /> * [[Category original sin]] <br /> * [[Category Switcheroo]]<br /> * [[Monolithization#Cherrypicked_Monolithization.2FIndividualization|Cherrypicked Monolithization/Individualization]]<br /> * [[Collective Guilt]]<br /> * [[Conspirationalism]]<br /> * [[Dehumanization]] <br /> * [[Demonization]]<br /> * [[Denial of Agency]]<br /> * [[Depolitization of Categorism]]: Positioning prejudice, bigotry and discrimination against a certain category of people as being “nonpolitical”/”unpolitical”/“normal”/”natural”.<br /> * [[Directed trolling]]<br /> * [[Energy Drain]]<br /> * [[Enforcing Cateity]]<br /> * [[Exploitation]]<br /> * [[Fortified Ignorance]]<br /> * [[Hate-crimes]]<br /> * [[Illegal Discrimination]]<br /> * [[Incomprehensibilization]]<br /> * [[Infantilization]]: Treating adults as if they were small children. (To some extent also covers treating grown-ups as teens or teens as kids.)<br /> * [[Internalized Categorism]]: When people are subjected to prejudice and bigotry from others, they tend to internalize it - making it part of their self-images. <br /> * [[Inverted intersectionality]]<br /> * [[Invisibilization]]<br /> * [[Marginalization]] (AKA Social Exclusion)<br /> * [[Malpractice]]: To directly or indirectly deny care to people of the targeted category. (Pending: Rename to Diagnostic Overshadowing)<br /> * [[Monolithization]] <br /> * [[Narrativism]]<br /> * [[Narrempiry]]<br /> * [[Normalization]]: Making categorism against the targeted group to be normal. <br /> * [[Othering]] (including “racifying”)<br /> * [[Pathologization]]<br /> * [[Privateermongering]]: Giving people (explicit or implicit) permission to attack persons from the targeted category. <br /> * [[Politization of Category]]: Positionin a category of people as being inherently &quot;political&quot;. <br /> * [[Reduction]] (includes “singular identity” and “depersonalization” as well as “objectification” – sexual or otherwise)<br /> * [[Representation Bias]] <br /> * [[Sacralization]]: Treating a category as (metaphorically or literally) &quot;sacred&quot;, thus opening up for many expressions of categorism.<br /> * [[Scapegoating]] <br /> * [[Schrödinger's Joke]]: A method to justify bigotry and attacking anyone who disahree with bigotry, bu dismissing any dissent as a matter of having no sense of humor. <br /> * [[Segregation]]<br /> * [[Stigmatization]] <br /> * [[Supremacism]] <br /> * [[Tabooization]]: Making groups or practices unmentionable.<br /> * [[Unchecked Aversion]]<br /> * [[Violence]]<br /> * [[Visions of kyriarchy]]: Falsely portraying people as if they were the dictators of an oppressive regime.<br /> * [[Voice Appropriation]]<br /> * [[Whataboutism]]: Arguing that it's never the right time (usually through always arguing that it's not the right time right now) to care about a certain focus of categorism, since other foci alsoe exists.<br /> * [[Zerosumming]]<br /> <br /> ==Other==<br /> <br /> * ([[misc facets]]): (Other potentially noteworthy facets which might get their own pages in the future.)</div>

Xzenu http://categorism.com/wiki/Schr%C3%B6dinger%27s_Joke 2023-02-19T00:05:00Z

<p>Xzenu: </p> <hr /> <div>When a person is making a statement which [[Demonization|demonizes]], [[Dehumanization|dehumanizes]] or [[Infantilization|infantilizes]] a category of people, does that mean that this person is joking? If the statement has no punchline, or has a punchline which aimed at the victims of the bigotry rather than at hypocrisy or at the bigotry itself, then the statement is likely to be a “Schrödinger's joke”: Just like the satirical “Schrödinger's cat” is neither alive or dead until you check, a “Schrödinger's joke” is neither a joke nor not a joke until you check. And then the answer depends on how people have been reacting to the statement:<br /> <br /> * A.) If the entire audience seems to agree or at least accept the statement, then the person who made the statement proceeds to position the statement as having been genuine all along. Perhaps also a joke, but inn that case then a joke of the “it's funny because it's true” kind. <br /> <br /> * B.) If anyone in the audience protests, then the person who made the statement proceeds to berate the protester for failing to understand that it was only a joke which of course shouldn't be taken seriously. The person who started it may then either drop it or escalate the situation, for example escalating by starting to make “jokes” about the person who protested, such as “jokingly” accuse them of belonging to the category which the original “joke” was about.<br /> <br /> The systematic use of Shrödinger's joke servers to normalize bigotry as well as teaching people that it will have negative consequences for them if they disagree – at best being positioned as oversensitive and humorless, at worst being openly harassed. It also serves to give the user an excuse to deny the whole situation has having been nothing more than a misunderstanding. Which may still be useful no matter how implausible this excuse may be. <br /> <br /> This tactic is a classic of [[Directed trolling]].<br /> <br /> ==An example: The board meeting==<br /> While a Schrödinger's joke can be designed to also be funny, it fills its functions even if there is no real attempt or pretense of being funny. For example, imagine the following situation with a Shrödinger's joke against for [[examples|example]] '''homosexuals''', [[Schrödinger's Joke Fetichists|fetishists]] or [[Schrödinger's Joke Jews|Jews]]:<br /> <br /> A new board has been elected for an organization which has been suffering from quite a bit of instability. Everyone knows that if any conflicts erupts then this would threaten to destabilize the organization further. Several of the board members are nervous, worried that the organization will fail or that their time as board members will be an unhappy one. A board member who we can call “Sarah” is well aware of this situation, and she also resents the fact that the rules of the organization forbids open [[homophobia]]. Seeing how nervous and prone to avoid conflicts the people around her are, Sarah puts on a predatory smile and a menacingly “cheerful” voice as she she suddenly says: “I have heard that there is something called... gaaay people! HA HA HA!” Note that she's not laughing, she's simply saying “ha ha ha” loudly in her menacing tone of voice. In the awkward silence which follows after her could-be-alleged-to-be-a-joke comment, she stare her fellow board members down one by one. Nobody wants to be the one to start a fight, and she smiles in triumph as the chairperson simply changes the topic by moving on to the next point on the meeting's itinerary.</div>

Xzenu http://categorism.com/wiki/Directed_trolling 2023-02-19T00:03:51Z

<p>Xzenu: </p> <hr /> <div>In the context of discussions, the term &quot;trolling&quot; or &quot;troll&quot; traditionally refers to people who have no actual interest in the discussion or in the topic of the discussion: instead, they simply aim to annoy people or to hurt their feelings or even to cause maximum harm, simply because it amuses them to cause such reactions. There are several ways in which such trolling can be connected to [[categorism]]. <br /> <br /> * 1. Persons who are genuinely bigoted against a category of people can pretend to simply be trolling for the fun of it. <br /> <br /> * 2. Persons who want to incite hatred against a certain category of people can encourage people who are already trolls to join such discussions, or encourage other people to start engaging in trolling behavior. A person who thusly encourages trolling may be genuinely bigoted against the category, or may see it as a convenient way to divert bigotry from targeting another category which they want to protect - such as inciting hatred against one gender or against one sexual minority as a misguided strategy for trying to gain respect and peace for another gender or for another sexual minority. <br /> <br /> * 3. People who simply want to troll are likely to target people in whatever categories they can socially get away with targeting. The same person will harass women if their social environment accepts/condones/encourages [[misogyny]], will harass men if their social environment accepts/condones/encourages [[misandry]], will harass homosexuals if their social environment accepts/condones/encourages [[homophobia]], will harass sadomasochists and/or fetishists if their social environment accepts/condones/encourages [[kinkophobia]], and so on. <br /> <br /> * 4. People who simply want to troll are likely to target people in whatever categories are likely to contain a lot of vulnerable and traumatized people who are easy to hurt. <br /> <br /> * 5. People who simply want to troll are likely to do whatever is perceived as harmful to vulnerable people, as this gives people an incentive to stand up against the troll's bullshit. The malicious troll will verbally hold their targets hostage, being as obnoxious and exhausting and boring as possible while squeezing attention out of whoever tries to defend the targets. <br /> <br /> When at least one of these five are in effect, the trolling becomes &quot;Directed trolling&quot; as an [[expression of categorism]]<br /> <br /> (To combine the above #3, #4 &amp; #5 with each other typically goes with a dose of [[gaslighting]], stopping just short of outright bragging “muahaha, you can't prove that I'm being malicious on purpose – nyah nyah nyah”.)<br /> <br /> See also [[Depolitization of Categorism]] and [[Schrödinger's Joke]].</div>

Xzenu http://categorism.com/wiki/Directed_trolling 2023-02-19T00:03:28Z

<p>Xzenu: </p> <hr /> <div>In the context of discussions, the term &quot;trolling&quot; or &quot;troll&quot; traditionally refers to people who have no actual interest in the discussion or in the topic of the discussion: instead, they simply aim to annoy people or to hurt their feelings or even to cause maximum harm, simply because it amuses them to cause such reactions. There are several ways in which such trolling can be connected to [[categorism]]. <br /> <br /> * 1. Persons who are genuinely bigoted against a category of people can pretend to simply be trolling for the fun of it. <br /> <br /> * 2. Persons who want to incite hatred against a certain category of people can encourage people who are already trolls to join such discussions, or encourage other people to start engaging in trolling behavior. A person who thusly encourages trolling may be genuinely bigoted against the category, or may see it as a convenient way to divert bigotry from targeting another category which they want to protect - such as inciting hatred against one gender or against one sexual minority as a misguided strategy for trying to gain respect and peace for another gender or for another sexual minority. <br /> <br /> * 3. People who simply want to troll are likely to target people in whatever categories they can socially get away with targeting. The same person will harass women if their social environment accepts/condones/encourages [[misogyny]], will harass men if their social environment accepts/condones/encourages [[misandry]], will harass homosexuals if their social environment accepts/condones/encourages [[homophobia]], will harass sadomasochists and/or fetishists if their social environment accepts/condones/encourages [[kinkophobia]], and so on. <br /> <br /> * 4. People who simply want to troll are likely to target people in whatever categories are likely to contain a lot of vulnerable and traumatized people who are easy to hurt. <br /> <br /> * 5. People who simply want to troll are likely to do whatever is perceived as harmful to vulnerable people, as this gives people an incentive to stand up against the troll's bullshit. The malicious troll will verbally hold their targets hostage, being as obnoxious and exhausting and boring as possible while squeezing attention out of whoever tries to defend the targets. <br /> <br /> When at least one of these five are in effect, the trolling becomes &quot;Directed trolling&quot; as an [[expression of categorism]]<br /> <br /> (To combine the above #3, #4 &amp; #5 with each other typically goes with a dose of [[gaslighting]], stopping just short of outright bragging “muahaha, you can't prove that I'm being malicious on purpose – nyah nyah nyah”.)<br /> <br /> See also [[Politization of Category and Depolitization of Categorism]] and [[Schrödinger's Joke]].</div>

Xzenu http://categorism.com/wiki/Directed_trolling 2023-02-19T00:00:50Z

<p>Xzenu: Created page with &quot;In the context of discussions, the term &quot;trolling&quot; or &quot;troll&quot; traditionally refers to people who have no actual interest in the discussion or in the topic of the discussion: i...&quot;</p> <hr /> <div>In the context of discussions, the term &quot;trolling&quot; or &quot;troll&quot; traditionally refers to people who have no actual interest in the discussion or in the topic of the discussion: instead, they simply aim to annoy people or to hurt their feelings or even to cause maximum harm, simply because it amuses them to cause such reactions. There are several ways in which such trolling can be connected to [[categorism]]. <br /> <br /> * 1. Persons who are genuinely bigoted against a category of people can pretend to simply be trolling for the fun of it. <br /> <br /> * 2. Persons who want to incite hatred against a certain category of people can encourage people who are already trolls to join such discussions, or encourage other people to start engaging in trolling behavior. A person who thusly encourages trolling may be genuinely bigoted against the category, or may see it as a convenient way to divert bigotry from targeting another category which they want to protect - such as inciting hatred against one gender or against one sexual minority as a misguided strategy for trying to gain respect and peace for another gender or for another sexual minority. <br /> <br /> * 3. People who simply want to troll are likely to target people in whatever categories they can socially get away with targeting. The same person will harass women if their social environment accepts/condones/encourages [[misogyny]], will harass men if their social environment accepts/condones/encourages [[misandry]], will harass homosexuals if their social environment accepts/condones/encourages [[homophobia]], will harass sadomasochists and/or fetishists if their social environment accepts/condones/encourages [[kinkophobia]], and so on. <br /> <br /> * 4. People who simply want to troll are likely to target people in whatever categories are likely to contain a lot of vulnerable and traumatized people who are easy to hurt. <br /> <br /> * 5. People who simply want to troll are likely to do whatever is perceived as harmful to vulnerable people, as this gives people an incentive to stand up against the troll's bullshit. The malicious troll will verbally hold their targets hostage, being as obnoxious and exhausting and boring as possible while squeezing attention out of whoever tries to defend the targets. <br /> <br /> (To combine the above #3, #4 &amp; #5 with each other typically goes with a dose of [[gaslighting]], stopping just short of outright bragging “muahaha, you can't prove that I'm being malicious on purpose – nyah nyah nyah”.)</div>

Xzenu http://categorism.com/wiki/Expressions_of_categorism 2023-02-18T23:34:14Z

<p>Xzenu: </p> <hr /> <div>An expression of categorism is a way in which categorism is done. With [[prejudice]], [[bigotry]] and [[discrimination]] constructed as the [[archetypical expressions]] (being categorism through beliefs, feelings and acts, respectively), there are also more specific expressions. <br /> <br /> <br /> * [[Alleged Incompetence]]: Unfairly dismissing the competence of the targeted person - actually based on the person being part of one or more targeted categories, which may be hard to prove. <br /> * [[Biased Balance]]: AKA The Golden Mean Fallacy.<br /> * [[Categorist Slurs]]<br /> * [[Category Agency]] <br /> * [[Category original sin]] <br /> * [[Category Switcheroo]]<br /> * [[Monolithization#Cherrypicked_Monolithization.2FIndividualization|Cherrypicked Monolithization/Individualization]]<br /> * [[Collective Guilt]]<br /> * [[Conspirationalism]]<br /> * [[Dehumanization]] <br /> * [[Demonization]]<br /> * [[Denial of Agency]]<br /> * [[Depolitization of Categorism]]: Positioning prejudice, bigotry and discrimination against a certain category of people as being “nonpolitical”/”unpolitical”/“normal”/”natural”.<br /> * [[Directed trolling]]<br /> * [[Energy Drain]]<br /> * [[Enforcing Cateity]]<br /> * [[Exploitation]]<br /> * [[Hate-crimes]]<br /> * [[Illegal Discrimination]]<br /> * [[Incomprehensibilization]]<br /> * [[Infantilization]]: Treating adults as if they were small children. (To some extent also covers treating grown-ups as teens or teens as kids.)<br /> * [[Internalized Categorism]]: When people are subjected to prejudice and bigotry from others, they tend to internalize it - making it part of their self-images. <br /> * [[Inverted intersectionality]]<br /> * [[Invisibilization]]<br /> * [[Marginalization]] (AKA Social Exclusion)<br /> * [[Malpractice]]: To directly or indirectly deny care to people of the targeted category. (Pending: Rename to Diagnostic Overshadowing)<br /> * [[Monolithization]] <br /> * [[Narrativism]]<br /> * [[Narrempiry]]<br /> * [[Normalization]]: Making categorism against the targeted group to be normal. <br /> * [[Othering]] (including “racifying”)<br /> * [[Pathologization]]<br /> * [[Privateermongering]]: Giving people (explicit or implicit) permission to attack persons from the targeted category. <br /> * [[Politization of Category]]: Positionin a category of people as being inherently &quot;political&quot;. <br /> * [[Reduction]] (includes “singular identity” and “depersonalization” as well as “objectification” – sexual or otherwise)<br /> * [[Representation Bias]] <br /> * [[Sacralization]]: Treating a category as (metaphorically or literally) &quot;sacred&quot;, thus opening up for many expressions of categorism.<br /> * [[Scapegoating]] <br /> * [[Schrödinger's Joke]]: A method to justify bigotry and attacking anyone who disahree with bigotry, bu dismissing any dissent as a matter of having no sense of humor. <br /> * [[Segregation]]<br /> * [[Stigmatization]] <br /> * [[Supremacism]] <br /> * [[Tabooization]]: Making groups or practices unmentionable.<br /> * [[Unchecked Aversion]]<br /> * [[Violence]]<br /> * [[Visions of kyriarchy]]: Falsely portraying people as if they were the dictators of an oppressive regime.<br /> * [[Voice Appropriation]]<br /> * [[Whataboutism]]: Arguing that it's never the right time (usually through always arguing that it's not the right time right now) to care about a certain focus of categorism, since other foci alsoe exists.<br /> * [[Zerosumming]]<br /> <br /> ==Other==<br /> <br /> * ([[misc facets]]): (Other potentially noteworthy facets which might get their own pages in the future.)</div>

Xzenu http://categorism.com/wiki/Expressions_of_categorism 2023-02-18T23:19:33Z

<p>Xzenu: </p> <hr /> <div>An expression of categorism is a way in which categorism is done. With [[prejudice]], [[bigotry]] and [[discrimination]] constructed as the [[archetypical expressions]] (being categorism through beliefs, feelings and acts, respectively), there are also more specific expressions. <br /> <br /> <br /> * [[Alleged Incompetence]]: Unfairly dismissing the competence of the targeted person - actually based on the person being part of one or more targeted categories, which may be hard to prove. <br /> * [[Biased Balance]]: AKA The Golden Mean Fallacy.<br /> * [[Categorist Slurs]]<br /> * [[Category Agency]] <br /> * [[Category original sin]] <br /> * [[Category Switcheroo]]<br /> * [[Monolithization#Cherrypicked_Monolithization.2FIndividualization|Cherrypicked Monolithization/Individualization]]<br /> * [[Collective Guilt]]<br /> * [[Conspirationalism]]<br /> * [[Dehumanization]] <br /> * [[Demonization]]<br /> * [[Denial of Agency]]<br /> * [[Depolitization of Categorism]]: Positioning prejudice, bigotry and discrimination against a certain category of people as being “nonpolitical”/”unpolitical”/“normal”/”natural”.<br /> * [[Energy Drain]]<br /> * [[Enforcing Cateity]]<br /> * [[Exploitation]]<br /> * [[Hate-crimes]]<br /> * [[Illegal Discrimination]]<br /> * [[Incomprehensibilization]]<br /> * [[Infantilization]]: Treating adults as if they were small children. (To some extent also covers treating grown-ups as teens or teens as kids.)<br /> * [[Internalized Categorism]]: When people are subjected to prejudice and bigotry from others, they tend to internalize it - making it part of their self-images. <br /> * [[Inverted intersectionality]]<br /> * [[Invisibilization]]<br /> * [[Marginalization]] (AKA Social Exclusion)<br /> * [[Malpractice]]: To directly or indirectly deny care to people of the targeted category. (Pending: Rename to Diagnostic Overshadowing)<br /> * [[Monolithization]] <br /> * [[Narrativism]]<br /> * [[Narrempiry]]<br /> * [[Normalization]]: Making categorism against the targeted group to be normal. <br /> * [[Othering]] (including “racifying”)<br /> * [[Pathologization]]<br /> * [[Privateermongering]]: Giving people (explicit or implicit) permission to attack persons from the targeted category. <br /> * [[Politization of Category]]: Positionin a category of people as being inherently &quot;political&quot;. <br /> * [[Reduction]] (includes “singular identity” and “depersonalization” as well as “objectification” – sexual or otherwise)<br /> * [[Representation Bias]] <br /> * [[Sacralization]]: Treating a category as (metaphorically or literally) &quot;sacred&quot;, thus opening up for many expressions of categorism.<br /> * [[Scapegoating]] <br /> * [[Schrödinger's Joke]]: A method to justify bigotry and attacking anyone who disahree with bigotry, bu dismissing any dissent as a matter of having no sense of humor. <br /> * [[Segregation]]<br /> * [[Stigmatization]] <br /> * [[Supremacism]] <br /> * [[Tabooization]]: Making groups or practices unmentionable.<br /> * [[Unchecked Aversion]]<br /> * [[Violence]]<br /> * [[Visions of kyriarchy]]: Falsely portraying people as if they were the dictators of an oppressive regime.<br /> * [[Voice Appropriation]]<br /> * [[Whataboutism]]: Arguing that it's never the right time (usually through always arguing that it's not the right time right now) to care about a certain focus of categorism, since other foci alsoe exists.<br /> * [[Zerosumming]]<br /> <br /> ==Other==<br /> <br /> * ([[misc facets]]): (Other potentially noteworthy facets which might get their own pages in the future.)</div>

Xzenu http://categorism.com/wiki/Monolithization 2023-02-18T23:18:11Z

<p>Xzenu: /* Cherrypicked Monolithization/Individualizationm */</p> <hr /> <div>To see people as if they were not individual persons, but rather specimens of a monolithic category. For example, understanding statistical differences between groups as if they were categorical differences. As if a certain trait being somewhat more common in one group (compared to some other group) would mean that “the people in that group has that trait”. (In Swedish: monolitisering)<br /> <br /> When applied to a category of human beings, this is an [[expression of categorism]].<br /> <br /> The opposite of Monolithization is Individualization. These opposites can easily show up in pairs, such as making a distinction between an in-group which is treated as individuals and an outgroup which is treated as some kind of monolithic hive-mind. It can also be a more detailed case of...<br /> <br /> ==Cherrypicked Monolithization/Individualization==<br /> A classic way of dividing people into individuals versus monolithic masses is to not only make a distinction between the in-group and the out-group, but to also distinguish beween when they do something good and when they do something bad. <br /> <br /> * When a member of the in-group does something good, then he is both an individual and a representative of the group. Everyone in the group shares the glory.<br /> * When a member of the in-group does something bad, then he is simply an individual who does not in any way represent the group. <br /> * When a member of the out-group does something good, then he is only an individual - he does not represent the out-group in any way, but may instead be granted temporary status as a honorary member of the in-group. <br /> * When a member of the in-group does something bad, then he is the out-group and represents it completely.<br /> <br /> ==Interactions==<br /> <br /> Monolithization is an expression of [[prejudice]], which easily leads to (and is reinforced by) [[bigotry]] and [[discrimination]].&lt;br&gt;<br /> <br /> It is likely to intersect with facets such as:<br /> * ''[[Equivocation]]'': Letting the word &quot;group&quot; mean both category and group in the regular sense at the same time, as if those were the same thing.<br /> * ''[[Collective Guilt]]'': Treating a category as if it was a monolith makes it easier to justify collective guilt. <br /> * ''[[Category Agency]]'': For a category of people to actually do anything, the category sort of has to be one single monolithic block rather than a collection of individuals with their own goals, needs and desires. <br /> * ''[[Enforcing Cateity]]'': Everyone in the category has to be the same. <br /> * ''[[Othering]]'': People rarely see [[Zero-Category|themselves]] as a monolith, and thus not any category they happen to belong to. It is instead &quot;those other people&quot; who are all the same. <br /> * ''[[Stigmatization]]'': Taking an actually blame-worthy behavior, and then pretend that an entire (and actually much wider) category of people are like that. For example - find a man who has unprotected sex with as many men as he can in spite of being HIV positive and refusing to take medicine, and then pretend that &quot;this is how gay people are&quot;. <br /> * ''[[Unchecked Aversion]]'': When someone has something worthy of contempt, fear or hatred, it may be tempting to feel that way towards everyone who share the same skin color, gender or other such trait.<br /> <br /> As well as with [[abstractions of categorism|abstractions]] such as:<br /> * ''[[Dichotomism]]'': Either you are a part of the monolith, or you are not. Thus, you can't really be an individual human being while at the same time belonging to a category.<br /> * ''[[Zero-Category]]'': People rarely see themselves as a monolith, and thus not any category they happen to belong to. It is instead &quot;[[othering|those other people]]&quot; who are all the same. <br /> <br /> <br /> Examples of applying this facet to a particular [[foci of categorism]] can include: <br /> * ''[[Sexism]]'', on an [[individual level|individual]] or [[discursive level|discursive]] level: Claiming that [[Misogyny|&quot;Women are all the same&quot;]] / [[Misandry|&quot;Men are all the same&quot;]].<br /> <br /> ==Recommended Reading==<br /> * This XKCD strip, which sums it up quite elegantly: http://xkcd.com/385/<br /> <br /> ==The word &quot;group&quot;==<br /> The word &quot;group&quot; has two very different meanings: One refers to actual groups of individuals who actually interact with each other and work together, while the other simply is synonomous with the word &quot;category&quot;. This makes it much easier to do monolitization, as we can [[equivocation | mistake the two meanings for being the same thing]] - and thus infer that everyone of the same category (for example all women, all men, all black people, all white people, all Christians, all Atheists or all Jews) are secrently hanging out with each other and work on some kind of unified agenda. <br /> <br /> a big discursive problem which contributes to the phenomenon of</div>

Xzenu http://categorism.com/wiki/Monolithization 2023-02-18T23:17:47Z

<p>Xzenu: </p> <hr /> <div>To see people as if they were not individual persons, but rather specimens of a monolithic category. For example, understanding statistical differences between groups as if they were categorical differences. As if a certain trait being somewhat more common in one group (compared to some other group) would mean that “the people in that group has that trait”. (In Swedish: monolitisering)<br /> <br /> When applied to a category of human beings, this is an [[expression of categorism]].<br /> <br /> The opposite of Monolithization is Individualization. These opposites can easily show up in pairs, such as making a distinction between an in-group which is treated as individuals and an outgroup which is treated as some kind of monolithic hive-mind. It can also be a more detailed case of...<br /> <br /> ==Cherrypicked Monolithization/Individualizationm==<br /> A classic way of dividing people into individuals versus monolithic masses is to not only make a distinction between the in-group and the out-group, but to also distinguish beween when they do something good and when they do something bad. <br /> <br /> * When a member of the in-group does something good, then he is both an individual and a representative of the group. Everyone in the group shares the glory.<br /> * When a member of the in-group does something bad, then he is simply an individual who does not in any way represent the group. <br /> * When a member of the out-group does something good, then he is only an individual - he does not represent the out-group in any way, but may instead be granted temporary status as a honorary member of the in-group. <br /> * When a member of the in-group does something bad, then he is the out-group and represents it completely.<br /> <br /> ==Interactions==<br /> <br /> Monolithization is an expression of [[prejudice]], which easily leads to (and is reinforced by) [[bigotry]] and [[discrimination]].&lt;br&gt;<br /> <br /> It is likely to intersect with facets such as:<br /> * ''[[Equivocation]]'': Letting the word &quot;group&quot; mean both category and group in the regular sense at the same time, as if those were the same thing.<br /> * ''[[Collective Guilt]]'': Treating a category as if it was a monolith makes it easier to justify collective guilt. <br /> * ''[[Category Agency]]'': For a category of people to actually do anything, the category sort of has to be one single monolithic block rather than a collection of individuals with their own goals, needs and desires. <br /> * ''[[Enforcing Cateity]]'': Everyone in the category has to be the same. <br /> * ''[[Othering]]'': People rarely see [[Zero-Category|themselves]] as a monolith, and thus not any category they happen to belong to. It is instead &quot;those other people&quot; who are all the same. <br /> * ''[[Stigmatization]]'': Taking an actually blame-worthy behavior, and then pretend that an entire (and actually much wider) category of people are like that. For example - find a man who has unprotected sex with as many men as he can in spite of being HIV positive and refusing to take medicine, and then pretend that &quot;this is how gay people are&quot;. <br /> * ''[[Unchecked Aversion]]'': When someone has something worthy of contempt, fear or hatred, it may be tempting to feel that way towards everyone who share the same skin color, gender or other such trait.<br /> <br /> As well as with [[abstractions of categorism|abstractions]] such as:<br /> * ''[[Dichotomism]]'': Either you are a part of the monolith, or you are not. Thus, you can't really be an individual human being while at the same time belonging to a category.<br /> * ''[[Zero-Category]]'': People rarely see themselves as a monolith, and thus not any category they happen to belong to. It is instead &quot;[[othering|those other people]]&quot; who are all the same. <br /> <br /> <br /> Examples of applying this facet to a particular [[foci of categorism]] can include: <br /> * ''[[Sexism]]'', on an [[individual level|individual]] or [[discursive level|discursive]] level: Claiming that [[Misogyny|&quot;Women are all the same&quot;]] / [[Misandry|&quot;Men are all the same&quot;]].<br /> <br /> ==Recommended Reading==<br /> * This XKCD strip, which sums it up quite elegantly: http://xkcd.com/385/<br /> <br /> ==The word &quot;group&quot;==<br /> The word &quot;group&quot; has two very different meanings: One refers to actual groups of individuals who actually interact with each other and work together, while the other simply is synonomous with the word &quot;category&quot;. This makes it much easier to do monolitization, as we can [[equivocation | mistake the two meanings for being the same thing]] - and thus infer that everyone of the same category (for example all women, all men, all black people, all white people, all Christians, all Atheists or all Jews) are secrently hanging out with each other and work on some kind of unified agenda. <br /> <br /> a big discursive problem which contributes to the phenomenon of</div>

Xzenu http://categorism.com/wiki/Expressions_of_categorism 2022-12-18T23:20:06Z

<p>Xzenu: </p> <hr /> <div>An expression of categorism is a way in which categorism is done. With [[prejudice]], [[bigotry]] and [[discrimination]] constructed as the [[archetypical expressions]] (being categorism through beliefs, feelings and acts, respectively), there are also more specific expressions. <br /> <br /> <br /> * [[Alleged Incompetence]]: Unfairly dismissing the competence of the targeted person - actually based on the person being part of one or more targeted categories, which may be hard to prove. <br /> * [[Biased Balance]]: AKA The Golden Mean Fallacy.<br /> * [[Categorist Slurs]]<br /> * [[Category Agency]] <br /> * [[Category original sin]] <br /> * [[Category Switcheroo]]<br /> * [[Collective Guilt]]<br /> * [[Conspirationalism]]<br /> * [[Dehumanization]] <br /> * [[Demonization]]<br /> * [[Denial of Agency]]<br /> * [[Depolitization of Categorism]]: Positioning prejudice, bigotry and discrimination against a certain category of people as being “nonpolitical”/”unpolitical”/“normal”/”natural”.<br /> * [[Energy Drain]]<br /> * [[Enforcing Cateity]]<br /> * [[Exploitation]]<br /> * [[Hate-crimes]]<br /> * [[Illegal Discrimination]]<br /> * [[Incomprehensibilization]]<br /> * [[Infantilization]]: Treating adults as if they were small children. (To some extent also covers treating grown-ups as teens or teens as kids.)<br /> * [[Internalized Categorism]]: When people are subjected to prejudice and bigotry from others, they tend to internalize it - making it part of their self-images. <br /> * [[Inverted intersectionality]]<br /> * [[Invisibilization]]<br /> * [[Marginalization]] (AKA Social Exclusion)<br /> * [[Malpractice]]: To directly or indirectly deny care to people of the targeted category. (Pending: Rename to Diagnostic Overshadowing)<br /> * [[Monolithization]] <br /> * [[Narrativism]]<br /> * [[Narrempiry]]<br /> * [[Normalization]]: Making categorism against the targeted group to be normal. <br /> * [[Othering]] (including “racifying”)<br /> * [[Pathologization]]<br /> * [[Privateermongering]]: Giving people (explicit or implicit) permission to attack persons from the targeted category. <br /> * [[Politization of Category]]: Positionin a category of people as being inherently &quot;political&quot;. <br /> * [[Reduction]] (includes “singular identity” and “depersonalization” as well as “objectification” – sexual or otherwise)<br /> * [[Representation Bias]] <br /> * [[Sacralization]]: Treating a category as (metaphorically or literally) &quot;sacred&quot;, thus opening up for many expressions of categorism.<br /> * [[Scapegoating]] <br /> * [[Schrödinger's Joke]]: A method to justify bigotry and attacking anyone who disahree with bigotry, bu dismissing any dissent as a matter of having no sense of humor. <br /> * [[Segregation]]<br /> * [[Stigmatization]] <br /> * [[Supremacism]] <br /> * [[Tabooization]]: Making groups or practices unmentionable.<br /> * [[Unchecked Aversion]]<br /> * [[Violence]]<br /> * [[Visions of kyriarchy]]: Falsely portraying people as if they were the dictators of an oppressive regime.<br /> * [[Voice Appropriation]]<br /> * [[Whataboutism]]: Arguing that it's never the right time (usually through always arguing that it's not the right time right now) to care about a certain focus of categorism, since other foci alsoe exists.<br /> * [[Zerosumming]]<br /> <br /> ==Other==<br /> <br /> * ([[misc facets]]): (Other potentially noteworthy facets which might get their own pages in the future.)</div>

Xzenu http://categorism.com/wiki/Infantilization 2022-10-20T11:02:52Z

<p>Xzenu: </p> <hr /> <div>Treating a person or category of people as if they were children or childish, when they in fact are not. While this does NOT apply to treating children as the children they are, it does apply to treating a child (by any definition of the word) as far younger and less mature than they actually are.<br /> <br /> Infantilization can be done in many ways, ranging from the very overt (such as outright claiming that women or [[racified]] people can't think for themselves) to the very subtle (such as treating women or racified people as if they can't think for themselves). <br /> <br /> When applied to a category of human beings, this is an [[expression of categorism]].<br /> <br /> To infantilize a category of people goes hand in hand with [[sacralization]] of said category and with [[supremacism]] in favor of the opposite category.<br /> <br /> <br /> ==Interactions==<br /> <br /> This [[facet of categorism]] is an expression of [[prejudice]], [[bigotry]] and [[discrimination]].&lt;br&gt;<br /> <br /> It is likely to intersect with facets such as:<br /> * ''[[Voice Appropriation]]'': Constructing people as incapable (being too naive, brainwashed, or whatever) of speaking for themselves. <br /> <br /> <br /> As well as with [[abstractions of categorism|abstractions]] such as:<br /> * ''[[Zero-category]]'': Assuming that only &quot;normal people&quot; - those who belong to the zero-category - can be counted on as responsible adults. <br /> * ''[[Kyriarchy]]'': Bad traits gets constructed as associated with the underprivileged or oppressed category of people. Also, traits associated with the category gets constructed as bad. It goes both ways, and in both cases makes it harder for these people to succeed in society. <br /> <br /> Examples of applying this facet to a particular [[foci of categorism]] can include: <br /> * ''[[Misogyny]]'': Constructing women as being less intelligent and rational than men, as if they were somewhere between men and children. <br /> * ''[[Misandry]]'': Constructing men as being less intelligent and rational than women. Often conveniently limited to when he happens to be horny, and combined with [[Denial of Agency]] (and to some extent [[Dehumanization]]) into the idea that a sexually aroused man can't be responsible for his own actions. <br /> * ''[[Whorephobia]]'': Arguing from the premise that unrepentant sex workers cannot possibly understand what they are doing or know their own good.</div>

Xzenu http://categorism.com/wiki/Tabooization 2022-10-20T11:00:50Z

<p>Xzenu: </p> <hr /> <div>Making something &quot;forbidden&quot;. As a [[facet of categorism]], it is an intersection of [[Incomprehensibilization]] with [[Invisibilization]] and/or [[Demonization]]. Can be an effect of [[Sacralization]].<br /> <br /> <br /> ==Interactions==<br /> <br /> This [[facet of categorism]] is an expression of: [[prejudice]], [[bigotry]] and [[discrimination]].&lt;br&gt;<br /> <br /> It is likely to intersect with facets such as the ones mentioned above. <br /> <br /> As well as with [[abstractions of categorism|abstractions]] such as:<br /> * ''[[Loosely defined abyss-category]]'': Keeping it vague and ominous. <br /> <br /> Examples of applying this facet to a particular [[foci of categorism]] can include: <br /> * ''[[Misogyny]]'': Making women &quot;forbidden&quot;, keeping them secluded from society.<br /> * ''[[Homophobia]]'': Constructing homosexuality as something unmentionable, &quot;the love that dares not speak its name&quot;.<br /> <br /> == in example texts==<br /> <br /> * [[A frivolous arrest]]: Especially against sex work, but also against public displays of affection.</div>

Xzenu http://categorism.com/wiki/Supremacism 2022-10-20T11:00:15Z

<p>Xzenu: </p> <hr /> <div>Assuming a position of superiority. Either in the form of a [[soft supremacism]] fueled by condescending compassion, or in the form of a [[hard supremacism]] fueled by straightforward hate and openly constructing the other as inferior. <br /> (In Swedish: supremacism)<br /> <br /> Typically goes hand in and with [[Sacralization]] of the category, which further increases the risk of [[demonization]] of the opposite category as well as of any member (of the supposedly superior category) who won't fall in line.<br /> <br /> ==Interactions==<br /> <br /> This [[facet of categorism]] is an expression of: [[prejudice]], [[bigotry]] and [[discrimination]].&lt;br&gt;<br /> <br /> It is likely to intersect with facets such as:<br /> * ''[[Normalization]]'': Constructing supremacism as being not supremacism but instead simply the natural order of things.<br /> * ''[[Energy Drain]]'': Feeling superior and thus entitled to other people's time and energy. <br /> <br /> As well as with [[abstractions of categorism|abstractions]] such as:<br /> * ''[[Categorization by narrativism]]'': A story about the superior protagonists versus all the straw losers who exist only to be bested by them.<br /> <br /> Examples of applying this facet to a particular [[foci of categorism]] can include: <br /> * ''[[Antisemitism]]'': Creating a hard supremacism narrative where Jews are constructed as greedy and unclean little creatures for the good people to kill.<br /> * ''[[Whorephobia]]'': Creating a soft supremacism narrative where sex workers are constructed as pitiful and unclean little creatures for the good people to save (and who in return are required to feel grateful for being looked down upon and dismissed as broken).</div>

Xzenu http://categorism.com/wiki/Politization_of_Category_and_Depolitization_of_Categorism 2022-10-20T10:57:32Z

<p>Xzenu: /* Depolitization of Categorism */</p> <hr /> <div>Politization of Category and Depolitization of Categorism<br /> <br /> On one hand, doing politics is needed in order to handle problems and to change things for the better. On the other hand, doing politics is something which is often exhausting, infuriating, boring, and does not spark joy. People tend to avoid situations and persons which they find to be exhausting, infuriating, boring, and/or failing to spark joy. This duality of politics comes with a huge set of opportunity costs for each person who are subjected to one or several [[foci of categorism]]: <br /> <br /> * On one hand: If you don't do politics, you miss out on standing up for yourself and for others. Letting yourself and others get mistreated, rather than making a fuss. Leaving yourself without tools and networks for handling if some person or social system attacks you too badly anyway. <br /> <br /> * On the other hand: If you do politics, you risk souring your emotional and social life. This souring can be at any place on the spectrum from merely tainting your life a little bit to on the other hand ruining it completely. Ending up either entirely alone or surrounded only by people who are bitter or manipulative or both. <br /> <br /> Keeping a balance of how much and often to do politics can be very hard in itself, even when the playing field isn't being manipulated to make things harder. Which it usually, to some extent, is. This skewing of the playing field goes in both directions: On one hand [[Politization of Category]], which means framing a certain category of people as if their lives and participation in society would in itself be “political”, and on the other hand [[Depolitization of Categorism]], which means framing prejudice/bigotry/discrimination against said category as if it was some kind of apolitical natural fact. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;<br /> <br /> <br /> ==Politization of Category==<br /> When it's considered “political” for a person to have a certain gender, skin-color, sexuality or other social category, this can have several negative effects on the person's mental and social health and prosperity. <br /> <br /> When you are considered being “political” it becomes easier for people to make an open debate of your identity, your openness, your participation in any social context, or even your very existence. These attacks (both when they are happening and when they are simply past experiences you have to deal with the memories of) are pushing you towards acting political, at which point people (often the very same people) dismiss you as being exhausting, infuriating, boring, and does not spark joy. Even without such pushes towards politics, you may easily internalize the idea of yourself being inherently political – which also pushes you towards acting political to an extent which has negative effects on your personal life. <br /> <br /> There are many reasons for why a person may push for a category of people being treated as political. For example...<br /> <br /> * Being bigoted against people in the category, while also feeling more comfortable framing oneself and fellow bigots as being “unpolitical” rather than as being “bigoted”. <br /> * When people don't let you openly [[demonization|demonize]] and [[dehumanization|dehumanize]] people you are bigoted against, you can always retreat to a “treat the controversy” position of “oh, I'm just being neutral in this important debate – you are not trying to silence free speech, are you?”<br /> * Genuinely wanting to stay neutral, yet out of convenience and/or limited understanding ending up in a [[Biased Balance]]. Either actively making such an analysis, or simply going along with the flow without thinking about it: When people are divided into two categories by one axis or another... if you are constantly presented with one category being presented as normal while the existence of the other constantly sparks debate, it becomes very easy to perceive the people in the other category as “being political” when they are simply publicly existing and living their lives. <br /> * Trying to speak up for [[Monolithization|the category itself]], perhaps losing sight of the actual human beings who are being categorized, or never caring about them in the first place. Perhaps putting it on a pedestal, [[sacralization|sacralizing]] it. Maybe even crowning yourself as being their champion, savior or leader, considering them to owe you deference and loyalty. <br /> * Trying to speak up for the people who are being subjected to [[categorism]] by initiating or participating in political debate on the subject, entering an implicit or explicit [[discursive alliance]] with the bigots about the category being inherently political. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;<br /> <br /> <br /> ==Depolitization of Categorism==<br /> When it's considered “nonpolitical”/”unpolitical” or simply “normal”/”natural” for a person to have a bigoted attitudes and discriminatory behaviors against people who have a certain gender, skin-color, sexuality or other social category, this dynamic does many things to enable and protect the [[categorism]].<br /> <br /> * To position the categorism as being “nonpolitical”/”unpolitical”/“normal”/”natural” is to [[normalization|normalize]] it. It makes it easier to let the normalization be evidence of itself: “It is normal in a moral sense because it is normal in a social sense, so lets pretend that it is normal in a social sense because it is morally normal and neutral rather than because we opt to enable it.” <br /> * It also makes it much easier to [[Victim Blaming|blame the victims]] (as well as blaming anyone standing up for them) whenever people acts in prejudiced, bigoted and discriminatory ways. “by contradicting the normal people, you were the one who caused the conflict and the bad mood”. <br /> * It pushes vulnerable people and their allies to position themselves as political, with all the negative side effects that entails, thus closing the circle.<br /> <br /> &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;</div>

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Xzenu http://categorism.com/wiki/Politization_of_Category_and_Depolitization_of_Categorism 2022-10-20T10:53:23Z

<p>Xzenu: Created page with &quot;Politization of Category and Depolitization of Categorism On one hand, doing politics is needed in order to handle problems and to change things for the better. On the other...&quot;</p> <hr /> <div>Politization of Category and Depolitization of Categorism<br /> <br /> On one hand, doing politics is needed in order to handle problems and to change things for the better. On the other hand, doing politics is something which is often exhausting, infuriating, boring, and does not spark joy. People tend to avoid situations and persons which they find to be exhausting, infuriating, boring, and/or failing to spark joy. This duality of politics comes with a huge set of opportunity costs for each person who are subjected to one or several [[foci of categorism]]: <br /> <br /> * On one hand: If you don't do politics, you miss out on standing up for yourself and for others. Letting yourself and others get mistreated, rather than making a fuss. Leaving yourself without tools and networks for handling if some person or social system attacks you too badly anyway. <br /> <br /> * On the other hand: If you do politics, you risk souring your emotional and social life. This souring can be at any place on the spectrum from merely tainting your life a little bit to on the other hand ruining it completely. Ending up either entirely alone or surrounded only by people who are bitter or manipulative or both. <br /> <br /> Keeping a balance of how much and often to do politics can be very hard in itself, even when the playing field isn't being manipulated to make things harder. Which it usually, to some extent, is. This skewing of the playing field goes in both directions: On one hand [[Politization of Category]], which means framing a certain category of people as if their lives and participation in society would in itself be “political”, and on the other hand [[Depolitization of Categorism]], which means framing prejudice/bigotry/discrimination against said category as if it was some kind of apolitical natural fact. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;<br /> <br /> <br /> ==Politization of Category==<br /> When it's considered “political” for a person to have a certain gender, skin-color, sexuality or other social category, this can have several negative effects on the person's mental and social health and prosperity. <br /> <br /> When you are considered being “political” it becomes easier for people to make an open debate of your identity, your openness, your participation in any social context, or even your very existence. These attacks (both when they are happening and when they are simply past experiences you have to deal with the memories of) are pushing you towards acting political, at which point people (often the very same people) dismiss you as being exhausting, infuriating, boring, and does not spark joy. Even without such pushes towards politics, you may easily internalize the idea of yourself being inherently political – which also pushes you towards acting political to an extent which has negative effects on your personal life. <br /> <br /> There are many reasons for why a person may push for a category of people being treated as political. For example...<br /> <br /> * Being bigoted against people in the category, while also feeling more comfortable framing oneself and fellow bigots as being “unpolitical” rather than as being “bigoted”. <br /> * When people don't let you openly [[demonization|demonize]] and [[dehumanization|dehumanize]] people you are bigoted against, you can always retreat to a “treat the controversy” position of “oh, I'm just being neutral in this important debate – you are not trying to silence free speech, are you?”<br /> * Genuinely wanting to stay neutral, yet out of convenience and/or limited understanding ending up in a [[Biased Balance]]. Either actively making such an analysis, or simply going along with the flow without thinking about it: When people are divided into two categories by one axis or another... if you are constantly presented with one category being presented as normal while the existence of the other constantly sparks debate, it becomes very easy to perceive the people in the other category as “being political” when they are simply publicly existing and living their lives. <br /> * Trying to speak up for [[Monolithization|the category itself]], perhaps losing sight of the actual human beings who are being categorized, or never caring about them in the first place. Perhaps putting it on a pedestal, [[sacralization|sacralizing]] it. Maybe even crowning yourself as being their champion, savior or leader, considering them to owe you deference and loyalty. <br /> * Trying to speak up for the people who are being subjected to [[categorism]] by initiating or participating in political debate on the subject, entering an implicit or explicit [[discursive alliance]] with the bigots about the category being inherently political. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;<br /> <br /> <br /> ==Depolitization of Categorism==<br /> When it's considered “nonpolitical”/”unpolitical” or simply “normal”/”natural” for a person to have a bigoted attitudes and discriminatory behaviors against people who have a certain gender, skin-color, sexuality or other social category, this dynamic does many things to enable and protect the [[categorism]].<br /> <br /> * To position the categorism as being “nonpolitical”/”unpolitical”/“normal”/”natural” is to [[normalization|normalize]] it. It makes it easier to let the normalization be evidence of itself: “It is normal in a moral sense because it is normal in a social sense, so lets pretend that it is normal in a social sense because it is morally normal and neutral rather than because we opt to enable it.” <br /> * It also makes it much easier to [[Victim Blaming|blame the victims]] (as well as blaming anyone standing up for them) whenever people acts in prejudiced, bigoted and discriminatory ways. “by contradicting the normal people, you were the one who caused the conflict and the bad mood”. <br /> * It pushes vulnerable people and their allies to position themselves as political, with all the negative side effects that entails, thus closing the circle.</div>

Xzenu http://categorism.com/wiki/Demonization 2022-10-20T10:52:57Z

<p>Xzenu: </p> <hr /> <div>Constructing a discourse and/or narrative where a certain category of people is seen as Evil. <br /> (In Swedish: demonisering)<br /> <br /> ==Interactions==<br /> <br /> This [[facet of categorism]] is an expression of: [[prejudice]], [[bigotry]] and [[discrimination]], acting on the [[dogmatic level]] or [[discursive level]].&lt;br&gt;<br /> <br /> It is likely to intersect with facets such as:<br /> * ''[[Dehumanization]]'': To portray someone as an inhuman monster is both dehumanization and demonization. These two facets are separate facets because you can also portray someone as &quot;less than human, without being monstrous&quot; or as &quot;monstrous, but still fully human&quot;.<br /> * ''[[Othering]]'': If he is so evil, he's certainly not one of us! <br /> * ''[[Categorist slurs]]'': This category is bad that enough to be a bad word... <br /> * ''[[Justification through Kyriarchy]]'': Bad traits gets constructed as associated with the underprivileged or oppressed category of people. Also, traits associated with the category gets constructed as bad. It goes both ways, and in both cases makes it harder for these people to succeed in society. <br /> * ''[[Politization of Category and Depolitization of Categorism]]'': Positioning the demonization as normal while positioning disagreeing with it as &quot;being political&quot;, thus creating a [[Biased Balance]] where people can position their favoring of the demonizers as &quot;being neutral&quot;. <br /> <br /> As well as with [[abstractions of categorism|abstractions]] such as:<br /> * ''[[Categorization by emotional bias]]'': When we see someone as a decent, it becomes hard to categorize this person as something we consider to be evil and vile.<br /> * ''[[Zero-category]]'': Through demonizing a minority, it becomes easy to pretend that the majority category is not a category but instead simply regular good decent people.<br /> <br /> Examples of applying this facet to a particular [[foci of categorism]] can include: <br /> * ''[[Sexism]]'': Talking about one gender or another as being immoral, driven by selfishness and dark emotions.<br /> <br /> ==Demonization in example texts==<br /> <br /> * [[Adam's homophobia]]: Part of Adam bullying Cedric by accusing him of being gay.<br /> * [[Mr Garrison's Homophobia]]: &quot;''Gay people, well, gay people are EVIL, evil right down to their cold black hearts...''&quot;</div>

Xzenu http://categorism.com/wiki/Sacralization 2022-10-20T10:37:40Z

<p>Xzenu: </p> <hr /> <div>Putting a category of people on a pedestal can easily turn into categorism, both against the category thus being sacralized and against the opposite category.<br /> <br /> * Sacralizing one side of a [[dichotomism|dichotomy]] easily turns into [[demonization|demonizing]] the other side. <br /> * Meanwhile, it makes it easy to set unreasonable standards for the people in the sacralized category – standards which are being unreasonably high, being arbitrary and/or being suffocating. Either way, this can lead to [[invisibilization|invisibilizing]], harassing, [[demonization|demonizing]] or otherwise mistreating those who fails or refuses to fit the standards.<br /> * It may even lead to stop seeing people in the sacralized category as being fully human individuals, instead seeing them as [[monolithization|avatars of the category]].<br /> * It can also be used as a tool for [[exploitation|exploiting ]] people in the category. “Since you are so inherently good, you are of course expected to do this and this and this for me”.<br /> * It can also go hand in hand with [[Infantilization|infantilizing]] them, trying to protect their presumed virtue and innocence from anything which doesn't fit the stereotype and which is therefore treated as being [[tabooization|taboo]].<br /> <br /> Sacralizing a category also goes hand in hand with being [[supremacism|supremacist]] in favor of said category.</div>

Xzenu http://categorism.com/wiki/Sacralization 2022-10-20T10:37:18Z

<p>Xzenu: Created page with &quot;Putting a category of people on a pedestal can easily turn into categorism, both against the category thus being sacralized and against the opposite category. * Sacralizing o...&quot;</p> <hr /> <div>Putting a category of people on a pedestal can easily turn into categorism, both against the category thus being sacralized and against the opposite category.<br /> <br /> * Sacralizing one side of a [[dichotomy]] easily turns into [[demonization|demonizing]] the other side. <br /> * Meanwhile, it makes it easy to set unreasonable standards for the people in the sacralized category – standards which are being unreasonably high, being arbitrary and/or being suffocating. Either way, this can lead to [[invisibilization|invisibilizing]], harassing, [[demonization|demonizing]] or otherwise mistreating those who fails or refuses to fit the standards.<br /> * It may even lead to stop seeing people in the sacralized category as being fully human individuals, instead seeing them as [[monolithization|avatars of the category]].<br /> * It can also be used as a tool for [[exploitation|exploiting ]] people in the category. “Since you are so inherently good, you are of course expected to do this and this and this for me”.<br /> * It can also go hand in hand with [[Infantilization|infantilizing]] them, trying to protect their presumed virtue and innocence from anything which doesn't fit the stereotype and which is therefore treated as being [[tabooization|taboo]].<br /> <br /> Sacralizing a category also goes hand in hand with being [[supremacism|supremacist]] in favor of said category.</div>

Xzenu http://categorism.com/wiki/Expressions_of_categorism 2022-10-20T10:36:39Z

<p>Xzenu: </p> <hr /> <div>An expression of categorism is a way in which categorism is done. With [[prejudice]], [[bigotry]] and [[discrimination]] constructed as the [[archetypical expressions]] (being categorism through beliefs, feelings and acts, respectively), there are also more specific expressions. <br /> <br /> <br /> * [[Alleged Incompetence]]: Unfairly dismissing the competence of the targeted person - actually based on the person being part of one or more targeted categories, which may be hard to prove. <br /> * [[Biased Balance]]: AKA The Golden Mean Fallacy.<br /> * [[Categorist Slurs]]<br /> * [[Category Agency]] <br /> * [[Category original sin]] <br /> * [[Category Switcheroo]]<br /> * [[Collective Guilt]]<br /> * [[Conspirationalism]]<br /> * [[Dehumanization]] <br /> * [[Demonization]]<br /> * [[Denial of Agency]]<br /> * [[Depolitization of Categorism]]: Positioning prejudice, bigotry and discrimination against a certain category of people as being “nonpolitical”/”unpolitical”/“normal”/”natural”.<br /> * [[Energy Drain]]<br /> * [[Enforcing Cateity]]<br /> * [[Exploitation]]<br /> * [[Hate-crimes]]<br /> * [[Illegal Discrimination]]<br /> * [[Incomprehensibilization]]<br /> * [[Infantilization]]: Treating adults as if they were small children. (To some extent also covers treating grown-ups as teens or teens as kids.)<br /> * [[Internalized Categorism]]: When people are subjected to prejudice and bigotry from others, they tend to internalize it - making it part of their self-images. <br /> * [[Inverted intersectionality]]<br /> * [[Invisibilization]]<br /> * [[Marginalization]] (AKA Social Exclusion)<br /> * [[Malpractice]]: To directly or indirectly deny care to people of the targeted category. (Pending: Rename to Diagnostic Overshadowing)<br /> * [[Monolithization]] <br /> * [[Narrativism]]<br /> * [[Narrempiry]]<br /> * [[Normalization]]: Making categorism against the targeted group to be normal. <br /> * [[Othering]] (including “racifying”)<br /> * [[Privateermongering]]: Giving people (explicit or implicit) permission to attack persons from the targeted category. <br /> * [[Politization of Category]]: Positionin a category of people as being inherently &quot;political&quot;. <br /> * [[Reduction]] (includes “singular identity” and “depersonalization” as well as “objectification” – sexual or otherwise)<br /> * [[Representation Bias]] <br /> * [[Sacralization]]: Treating a category as (metaphorically or literally) &quot;sacred&quot;, thus opening up for many expressions of categorism.<br /> * [[Scapegoating]] <br /> * [[Schrödinger's Joke]]: A method to justify bigotry and attacking anyone who disahree with bigotry, bu dismissing any dissent as a matter of having no sense of humor. <br /> * [[Stigmatization]] <br /> * [[Supremacism]] <br /> * [[Tabooization]]: Making groups or practices unmentionable.<br /> * [[Unchecked Aversion]]<br /> * [[Violence]]<br /> * [[Visions of kyriarchy]]: Falsely portraying people as if they were the dictators of an oppressive regime.<br /> * [[Voice Appropriation]]<br /> * [[Whataboutism]]: Arguing that it's never the right time (usually through always arguing that it's not the right time right now) to care about a certain focus of categorism, since other foci alsoe exists.<br /> * [[Zerosumming]]<br /> <br /> ==Other==<br /> <br /> * ([[misc facets]]): (Other potentially noteworthy facets which might get their own pages in the future.)</div>

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