ialdabaoth wrote:
"Creepy" is just another word for "needy".
Needy people are harder to exploit without giving them what they need first.
That makes them bad.
I don't think this is always true.
Creepy things, like old porcelain dolls, spiders, and being in a creaky old house alone at night, are things that make us uncomfortable.
I do think we're socialized to hide what we need from other people and so find people expressing their needs very vocally or very early on uncomfortable because they're breaking an internalized social norm. The same discomfort with norm breaking applies when the needs themselves break other internalized boundaries.
So while needy people can and certainly are sometimes seen as creepy, not all people seen as creepy are needy.
As far as needy people being less easy to exploit, I think that is very false.
Drug addicts, for example, have very pronounced needs and the needs themselves make them exploitable. When you know what somone's needs are it gives you a tool to exploit them with by granting/withholding what it is they need.
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