You know I saw Disney’s Hercules last year. Hadn’t seen it as a kid. Lots of bad mythology in that movie, but it all follows the pop culture tropes and common understandings. Zeus is a great father and husband because he’s the king, and cause he looks like Yahweh. Hades is a bitter scheming homosexual because of Lucifer.

But the worst part of the movie was a five second joke about Narcissus. His death is turned into a punchline. And he’s drawn as a full grown man, making kissy lips into a mirror. You want to hear the version from actual mythology?

Narcissus, who according to Ovid was sixteen, was repeatedly proposed marriage by this guy, Ameinias. He wouldn’t take no for an answer. Narcissus just wanted to go out into the woods and be alone and hunt, but Ameinias kept bothering him. So Narcissus told Ameinias to go kill himself. If I were a teenage boy being sexually harassed? I’d do that too. Perfectly normal reaction.

But Ameinias actually does it. And as he’s stabbing himself, he prays. He wants Narcissus to suffer, too. He says “Though he should love, let him not have what he loves”. And Nemesis answers his prayer. Nemesis is the goddess in charge of punishing mortals for hubris. For acting like they’re the equals of the gods. Why would Nemesis punish someone for being mean to a sex pest? Well, as near as I can tell, the Greek cultural interpretation of asexuality/aromanticism is that it’s a form of selfishness. They thought Narcissus was avoiding marriage because he wanted to keep his body to himself, out of arrogance. That’s what they thought all asexuals were.

So Nemesis decides to punish Narcissus, and SHE makes him fall in love with his reflection. She turns him into what you call a “n*rcissist”, as a punishment for being asexual.

Oh, and by the way? Narcissus was born because his mother was raped. Her name was Liriope. The rapist’s name was Cephissus. Yeah, if I were carrying intergenerational rape trauma, I’d get pretty fucking angry about sexual harassment too.

This is your history.

WHY is it insulting to call someone a Greek asexual boy?

Because people spent thousands of years hating that teenage boy for not putting out.

The word has negative connotations today. It’s an insult.

Why can’t you just use another word?

I’m asexual, and I’m not comfortable with you using a word that has been used to attack other asexuals and aromatics for thousands of years. Not to mention the way you’re implicitly supporting pedophilia. If you didn’t know, then it would be forgivable, but you know now, and you still choose to use the aphobic, pedophilic word. So I think something is flawed in your ability to tell right from wrong, and in your ability to exercise kindness.

So, are you one of the people who thinks we call selfish people n*rcissists because it’s a mental disorder and using mental health terms to insult people is groovy? Or are you one of the people who thinks we do it because that 16 year old from the Greek myth who didn’t want to date anyone was an arrogant git and deserved to die for selfishly keeping his body from the world?

Because those are the only two options. Either the word comes from the mental disorder, or from the pedophile myth. And they both suck.

Psychpath and nrcissist are both slurs. They’re not in the DSM, they’re shorthands for stigmatised disorders.

You can make your point without using slurs.

Children have all of their basic financial needs met by others, free of charge, and all they’re expected to do in return is to try their best to become productive members of society. In other words, each is provided for according to need, and each gives back to society according to ability.

And that’s communism.

Let’s ban marketing meat as food. You can sell dead animal tubes, but you can’t call them sausages.

I don’t support a ban on eating meat, but I support a ban on making it. Charge the supplier, not the user. Raising a pet so you can kill it is obviously animal abuse, it should have been made illegal a long time ago.

Greta is 22, which makes her middle aged by Gazan standards

Well that is your name, isn’t it? Calvin Klein? It’s written all over your underwear.

One time I punched a guy in the face, and then he called me an asshole. If he didn’t want to get punched in the face, he shouldn’t have called me an asshole.

- Ben Netanyahu, basically

Well at least it’s not a Canadian business

fewer reasonable people trying to improve things

If done correctly, it also results in fewer fascists making things worse

Does that mean I actually only need one tablet a week or a month? My doctor said I should have one every day.

I’m a serious conservative. I believe in conserving the environment, indigenous sovereignty and culture, traditional knowledge of the land, natural resources, languages and religions, and indigenous communism.

I’m concerned about colonisers coming into our communities to spread gender roles, capitalism, and racism, which threaten to destroy society.

Am I welcome here?

I’m doing my part!

Double the usual number in one sixth the time. That’s one low p value.