You know, I have a feeling that this word "creepy" -- which is clearly, on the internet, one of the worst things you can be -- will see a transvaluation the way the word "queer" or the word "bad" did. I noticed myself doing it in my show with Aki Sasamoto in May -- I'd say:
"Oh, "creepy, creepy stalker" they say. Well what's wrong with being a stalker? Sherlock Holmes, Lord Peter Wimsey, Hercule Poirot, they were all stalkers, helping rid the world of crime!"
There was also something of this going on in Letterman's TV "confession" that he'd done "creepy things".
The "transvaluation treadmill" is set in motion by a certain over-vehemence against things which are, in fact, fairly widespread behaviours. It's almost like a market correction; all it takes is for someone brave to reclaim and redefine the word and the destigmatization begins.
Anyway, if people feel bad about what pops up in their dreams ("calling Sister Midnight, what can I do about my dreams?"), they can always go Anon.
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Date: 2009-11-12 11:05 pm (UTC)"Oh, "creepy, creepy stalker" they say. Well what's wrong with being a stalker? Sherlock Holmes, Lord Peter Wimsey, Hercule Poirot, they were all stalkers, helping rid the world of crime!"
There was also something of this going on in Letterman's TV "confession" that he'd done "creepy things".
The "transvaluation treadmill" is set in motion by a certain over-vehemence against things which are, in fact, fairly widespread behaviours. It's almost like a market correction; all it takes is for someone brave to reclaim and redefine the word and the destigmatization begins.
Anyway, if people feel bad about what pops up in their dreams ("calling Sister Midnight, what can I do about my dreams?"), they can always go Anon.