ohdearyme1029
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Tbf what she’s describing is a pretty typical female pattern of sexual attraction - wanting to know a partner well before properly enjoying sex, needing intimacy and connection, wanting less frequent sex than men, desire fluctuation at different points of a relationship. Obviously it’s different for all woman and at different ages, but she’s basically describing the broad cultural stereotype of female sexuality here.
It grinds my gears when people refer to that same thing as somehow akin to asexuality so I’m glad she explicitly said it’s not that. And I honestly can even understand her distress at expectations men have around sex…but she’s kidding herself if she thinks she is somehow exceptional for this. I also was tentatively suggest that her libido is the least of her problems when it comes to finding a partner lol.
This little clip was also a perfect example of what this post described recently - where Beckie seems to pick up part way into a conversation that just isn’t happening outside of her head. I think this idea of an internalised audience is bang on… she obviously developed some sort of captive-audience-schema as an online teenager, where she obsessively sees herself from an imagined outside perspective. If that makes sense. But her anudience don’t even exist anymore, and that’s why she seems so batshit crazy all the time.
this makes so so much sense- it explains so much about how she talks
For someone that watches and rewatches herself day in and day out she doesn't get much insight into herself. She contradicts herself constantly, she is so busy figuring herself out that she is missing her life. That's the sad part about Beckie. Not that she doesn't have a man or whatever else she thinks she needs to have a valid life. The sad part is she is missing her actual life by constantly analysing herself and her life. She is stuck comparing herself to her older self, while still being disappointed she isn't someone else entirely.
Beckie is also in constant fight mode. Fight against all the injustice she been through, all the injustice she thinks she will go through but haven't yet and then the made up injustice she thought up in her head. That's why Beckies angry. She need some therapy and medication to stop overthinking, as someone else said, I think its OCD related but also mixed with BPD, because she thinks she is waaaay more important than she actually is.
I’d say NPD muuuuuuuuch more than BPD. BPD does significantly feature an unstable sense of self but narcissism isn’t a feature of bpd. Some bpd people may be narcissistic, but in the same way that anyone with anything can also be narcissistic. It could be a co-morbidity thing.
I see BPD in Beckie, but in the sad and confused parts of her actions, and I imagine she gets obsessed with partners etc. But her narcissism and snarky bitchy bitterness are not bpd. That’s something else- another disorder or maybe just her delightful personality
I totally agree with everything else you’ve said, completely spot on