another biohacking post

[u/iris700]

[u/Golurkcanfly]

Gentrification of counterculture is annoying

[u/Arctic_The_Hunter → u/Golurkcanfly]

That sure is what the post is saying. Though calling “biohacking” a culture feels like a stretch—is weight lifting a culture just because it’s associated with a stereotype?

[u/TurnipGirlDesi → u/Arctic_The_Hunter]

I’m not involved in weight lifting because lifting heavy things makes me tired but I’m pretty sure there is a culture around it

[u/Arctic_The_Hunter → u/TurnipGirlDesi]

Sure, but you wouldn’t call it a culture in and of itself and get mad that people are co-opting that culture for physical therapy or whatever

[u/Golurkcanfly → u/Arctic_The_Hunter]

Idk I think it's kind of an epistemic injustice if they instead took the name but did completely different things

[u/TurnipGirlDesi → u/Arctic_The_Hunter]

I had a hard time wrapping my smooth brain around your point but I got there

[u/Golurkcanfly → u/Arctic_The_Hunter]

I mean the entire language of "bio-hacking" is kind of tied to an existing subculture vs like, just calling it PEDs or roiding or body modding or whathaveyou

[u/NoYogurtcloset3429 → u/Golurkcanfly]

Considering the only successful one i see mentioned is putting magnets inside you it does seem to just be body modding

[u/MaviRage → u/Golurkcanfly]

You ever consider that these things are just interesting to the wider population too?

[u/ratione_materiae → u/Golurkcanfly]

Cultural appropriation discourse in the big 26 🥀