No, actually. It’s seeing the world used as an insult all around that wears Me down. 20 years ago, everything bad was gay. So if you were gay, you knew everyone hated you. Now everything bad is narcissistic, so if you’re narcissistic, you know everyone hates you.
According to Ovid, Narcissus was a 16 year old who rejected all suitors. According to Conon, Narcissus “rejected Eros”. They both agree, Narcissus was punished for his refusal to love by Nemesis. Nemesis is the goddess who punishes hubris, and she made him fall in love with his reflection and die.
You say Narcissus sucked, in this Greek myth. Why do you hate him? Is it because he was asexual and aromantic? Was it because he was a child who didn’t want sex? Was it because he was “impious” in rejecting the god of love? Was it because of the manner in which he was executed?
What exactly is your stake in this queer child’s love life?
I just read the Wikipedia article not the myth itself so take it for what it is.
Getting all bent out of shape because of someone using a word that, since ancient times, meant some form toxic self love is silly at best.
Skimming through the wiki article I see more than one interpretation of the myth. An Ovids contemporary gives an interpretation of an asshole who rudely reject everyone and for being an asshole Narcissus is punished.
Yes, Ovid might have depicted the guy differently; no, I don’t know the texts myself.
But the colloquial meaning of the word is a self absorbed asshole. No matter gender or sexuality.
At the end of the day we are talking about a myth that was interpreted and reinterpreted through time by many people and even became term by itself no longer attached to the myth at all. The myth is nothing more than a fun fact and should not be treated as adding extra meaning to every usage of the word.
You get called a narcissist a lot, huh?
No, actually. It’s seeing the world used as an insult all around that wears Me down. 20 years ago, everything bad was gay. So if you were gay, you knew everyone hated you. Now everything bad is narcissistic, so if you’re narcissistic, you know everyone hates you.
That was always true. There’s a greek myth about it. Narcissists objectively suck.
According to Ovid, Narcissus was a 16 year old who rejected all suitors. According to Conon, Narcissus “rejected Eros”. They both agree, Narcissus was punished for his refusal to love by Nemesis. Nemesis is the goddess who punishes hubris, and she made him fall in love with his reflection and die.
You say Narcissus sucked, in this Greek myth. Why do you hate him? Is it because he was asexual and aromantic? Was it because he was a child who didn’t want sex? Was it because he was “impious” in rejecting the god of love? Was it because of the manner in which he was executed?
What exactly is your stake in this queer child’s love life?
I just read the Wikipedia article not the myth itself so take it for what it is.
Getting all bent out of shape because of someone using a word that, since ancient times, meant some form toxic self love is silly at best.
Skimming through the wiki article I see more than one interpretation of the myth. An Ovids contemporary gives an interpretation of an asshole who rudely reject everyone and for being an asshole Narcissus is punished.
Yes, Ovid might have depicted the guy differently; no, I don’t know the texts myself.
But the colloquial meaning of the word is a self absorbed asshole. No matter gender or sexuality.
At the end of the day we are talking about a myth that was interpreted and reinterpreted through time by many people and even became term by itself no longer attached to the myth at all. The myth is nothing more than a fun fact and should not be treated as adding extra meaning to every usage of the word.
But someone above here in the thread was just using the myth to defend using a mental disorder as a casual insult. That’s fucked up.