My pet theory: people use celebrity culture in general to satisfy an unhealthy desire to judge people superficially in a way that tends to get them in trouble if they satisfy it on people with whom they actually meet and interact. Just a theory.
For real. Dunning–Kruger in the house. Not only are they doing something that it takes years of medical training to do properly even when you have the subject present for hours of direct deep analysis, they’re doing so based on a filtered and curated media image instead of the actual human being behind that image.
But that’s not why it irritates me. It irritates me because medical diagnoses are being leveled as insults, reinforcing the stigmatization of mental health problems and treatments. And they’ll leap to their own defense that that’s not their intent, but neither is the intent of most people who use cripple or retard or faggot to denigrate disability, sexual orientation, ect. As if intent magically makes it okay! To quote Captain Spock, What you want is irrelevant, what you have chosen is at hand.
