Imagine that Romeo and Juliet had really had a secret child together, and that child was you.

Well, that's actually me.

The ongoing war, between the Montagues and the Capulets, is happening on the bird site.

When certain jerks act like crabs in a bucket toward each other, they just make me hungry for seafood.

#CrabsInABucket #TwitterMigration, #Intersectionality

I really strongly want to promote the crabs-in-a-bucket metaphor.

The metaphor is based on the idea that if you put only one crab into a bucket, it has a non-zero chance of crawling out, but if you put several of them in together, they will drag each other down.

When minority groups attack and exclude other minority groups, especially when they are using them as targets for displaced anger, that is exactly the picture that comes to mind for me.

It's a good metaphor.

#CrabsInABucket

Hey, you know that group of people that you routinely block, calling them "trolls" and "edgelords," maybe based on the argument that you thought they were making up their identities just to draw negative attention to you?

Well, I happen to hang out with them in their own spaces, and some of them are doing exactly the same thing to you.

In both cases, what you are doing is shameful. You are crabs in a bucket, and it disgusts me. Kyriarchy disgusts me.

#CrabsInABucket #Kyriarchy

The Internet is a large place, and humans are diverse.

When you encounter groups that are outre and cringy even for the most liberal thinkers, though, it is very important to at least try to find representatives that you can talk to in good faith, even if some of them actually are fakes or demented.

When you accuse them of just being "trolls" or use them as a scapegoat for your own problems, you are acting exactly like crabs in a bucket. It's kyriarchy.

#CrabsInABucket #tolerance #kyriarchy