A lot of things that are cringe are specifically that way because they violate a socially-maintained taboo. Overcoming the taboos against these sorts of actions and these sorts of topics is precisely what we should be doing.
The fact that it is cringey is exactly the reason I am going to participate
What if there’s a taboo against being able to pick and choose which taboos to “overcome”?
This seems likely to be the case otherwise the taboos on incest for example would have disappeared long ago in the US. Since there’s easily a hard core group, almost certainly >0.1% of the US population, who would be just as interested in ‘overcoming’ that taboo.
Particularly in the rationalist community it seems like protesting is seen as a very outgroup thing to do. But why should that be? Good on you for expanding your comfort zone—hope to see you there :)
A lot of things that are cringe are specifically that way because they violate a socially-maintained taboo. Overcoming the taboos against these sorts of actions and these sorts of topics is precisely what we should be doing.
The fact that it is cringey is exactly the reason I am going to participate
What if there’s a taboo against being able to pick and choose which taboos to “overcome”?
This seems likely to be the case otherwise the taboos on incest for example would have disappeared long ago in the US. Since there’s easily a hard core group, almost certainly >0.1% of the US population, who would be just as interested in ‘overcoming’ that taboo.
Particularly in the rationalist community it seems like protesting is seen as a very outgroup thing to do. But why should that be? Good on you for expanding your comfort zone—hope to see you there :)
Seems very plausible to me.