posted by [identity profile] kolraashgadol.livejournal.com at 12:21am on 2009-06-11
I have to say, I just don't think so. While I don't have much sympathy for these folks, my experience is that the source of the behavior is either fear - and fear of what they usually don't know themselves, but IMO, it comes from fear of what will happen if the hierarchies they are familiar with break down - in other words, they will have been proven to have lived their lives by rules that in fact have no basis in the world, and that those things by which they value themselves and others aren't valuable, and so they have proven themselves to be role-less, and perhaps even value-less.
That's why it's usually the same people who are also rigid about sex roles, too. I can understand why that's so scary. What if the way other people lived their lives made you think your entire system might be worthless and you have just wasted your entire life?

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