actor audience paradigm race #todo #coherentism
#todo
#coherentism
When we are stereotyped, we can’t break away from the idea that that’s how we’re supposed to act, so it’s just easier to act that way.
Many professional entertainers (e.g.Bo Burnham) have talked about how they find difficulty separating their characters from their real personas. Bo is forced to play an loud funny guy on stage, even though he claims that he’s actually reasonably shy and quiet in real life. Thing is, if everyone sees you as something, they start treating you that way. Audiences expect their actors to act in certain ways. (tag: stereotypes) If you play a character all the time, it’s easy for you to start seeing yourself in that character.
That said… I’m realizing that even these stereotypes of abuse may not go far enough in really telling people what abuse is. I think my biggest concern is that everything is a spectrum and that for most cases of abuse, the victims don’t know they are being abused because their abuse is lower on the spectrum than the most extreme cases.
