My brain started doing this new and really cool thing. It is interesting that some mental journey lead me to this gradual and automatic processing evolution.
Every time a person, place, thing makes a (culturally motivated) assumption, I literally see (in red stencil font) the word ASSUMPTION in my mind. My brain stamps it on the spot. Now I notice the assumptions everywhere.
"Like when you were a kid at Christmas"--ASSUMPTION of the Christian normative
"Do you have a boyfriend?"--ASSUMPTION of heterosexuality
There are the political assumptions. Democrat or Republican? Conservative or Liberal?
References to marriage and children really tickle me. Oy vey do the gendered ones get me.
I am just really into the new and instant processing of assumptions. It is fair to say that these assumptions, viewed in theme and in numbers, create the borderlines of our culture.
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