most of those are people who see their ideals as infallible for an arbitrary reason

Agreed

Wonder how heavily the agreeable/disagreeable personality factors into this...

considering wamen are on average more "agreeable" and we look at feminism

I'd say very little

But they are agreeing.

With those in their lives.

to one side

Hmm ... okay.

@Undead Mockingbird Not sure what you are okaying, or if you realized what I was saying wasn't interesting. If you have something interesting, by all means feel free to share with the class.

I am not being critical.

It makes sense, as far as you discussed, it just wasn't quite as satisfying of an answer as I had hoped.

I just thought maybe you were onto something, when you thought i was. And was curious.

It might be no less correct, though.

I'm unsure.

People are different, theres much overlap across everyone

Its usually people join tribes based on experience / friend groups

You tend to more easily become friends with people that agree

No ... YOU are different.

I am just the same.

and those might be connected to someone more radical, and they just drag in cuz on paper the left sounds morally correct

😃

Ya, idk. I don't know what else could create such emotions seemingly spanning over multiple topics, when the topics themselves don't present the emotion.

as well as those "fearing" the left then being more easily pushed into alt-right groups

the Emotions come from prolonged stress

remember, these people embrace the ideology 24/7

Topics themselves never present emotion.

they don't relax

distraction is weakness, and isn't supportive of victims

If you actively seek out horror in every detail

You always project some kind of meaning on it.

you'll be consumed by it

As for the left, they are telling you what emotions they are projecting.

It's like a forum or discussion board. Some people you can tell are wanting to discuss and pick at a topic. Others are emotional and you get the feeling they are just trying to win. Win what, idk. Imaginary cookies or something...

Fear of the predatory male, fear of right wing authoritarianism, smug superiority, and so forth.

queue scribble 😄 who is just here to be angry

Ah, then you might as well ask why people get upset over words.

Emotions make up everything people do though. Very few people can remove emotion from everything they encounter. I think people just need to do a better job being aware of when they're having an emotional bias

Why is winning an argument satisfying and losing one feels bad?

Much of our nervous system reacts to a verbal altercation in ways similar to physical ones.

I just don't think that's it. It might be some factor for each issue, but I don't think it's a commanlity or the primary factor.

Our nervous system can only project onto the situation.

well its just an infinite cycle

"Oh theres predatory males about"
"This man opens the door for me? What could he want with that! he must be a predatory male!"
"Oh why can't men be nice to me instead?"

And men are told its nice to be friendly and hold open a door etc

It doesn't really comprehend what is going on on a very rational level.

@Paradox Well you seem to not have the issue so maybe you just can't sympathize with it as a concept?