• Grail@multiverse.soulism.net
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    13 hours ago

    Narcissus of Greek myth never abused anyone, unless you count fighting back against Ameinias, who sexually harassed him. While he was 16.

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      12 hours ago

      This implies that non-wizards were the abusers in Harry Potter and I don’t remember that being true.

      Narcissus is a fictional character who was written exclusively to convey the idea that is described in the definition of the word based on his name*

      Muggle is a fictional slur used by the ruling class in Harry Potter to denigrate people they don’t respect. It exists to be offensive.

      I think it’s worth a bit of self reflection as to why you’ve embraced a word that was always a slur to use as a slur but get offended by the word “narcissist” to the point of ranting about it (in a past thread, not here).

      I don’t think either is offensive so I hope you fall on the side of “neither word is that big of a deal”

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        11 hours ago

        Narcissus is a fictional character who was written exclusively to convey the idea that is described in the definition of the word based on his name*

        No, the word was invented in the 19th century by Lord Byron and his contemporaries. Nobody ever made a word based on Narcissus until Lord Byron. Ovid was writing about Narcissus thousands of years before then.

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          10 hours ago

          Narcissus was written about once in the entirety of Greek mythology in a story about. A story about how self-obsession is a curse.

          Lord Byron described a personality trait where one exhibits self-obsession to the point of harm and needed a word for it. He referenced the most famous example of self-obsession.

          That is how many things get their names.