Mental Illness

Men are such entitled little freaks (and yes, of course the replies are full of men saying they don’t believe her, or “there’s two sides to every story”, or straight up making jokes).

I actually think one part of the handmaid's tale is neglected when y'all bring it up. Maybe it's not in the show and some of y'all just ain't read the book idk.

But a big part of the book for me is that her boyfriend is basically like "do you not trust me to take care of you?" "I wouldn't do such and such to you" and doesn't really trust her intuition and kinda waves away her fear with "I'll protect you" type shit. He doesn't separate her view of her oppression from her view of him. He cares more about how she feels about him than he cares about her being her own free person.

And then he fails to protect her.

I don't care if it was part of your culture for a thousand billion years if it hurts women it needs to go

How sure are you that Amber is lying? About how sure you were that Taylor Swift was a lying bitch manipulative mean woman snake, and deserved to die, lose her career, be assaulted, “stop existing,” be “taken down a peg,” have her awards taken away, all due to your undeniable, super concrete, phone call recording proof? 

How sure are you that Amber is not only mentally ill when her “diagnosis” wasn’t a diagnosis by any means, but that this also means she is clearly the one doing something wrong and should be stopped? Maybe about how sure you were that Britney Spears was “sick, out of her mind,” and deserved to have her children taken away, have her bad influence on girls stopped, and was clearly incapable of living her own life, because being mentally ill means you’re either incapable or dangerous? — all because the media “diagnosed” her as such?  

How sure are you that Amber is a huge fame/attention seeking cheating slut, that deserves to get beaten around? About how sure you were that Paris Hilton was a huge fame seeking slut when her 33 (fourteen years older than her) year old boyfriend released the tapes against her will and knowledge, when she was a teenager? Or maybe you’re as sure that Amber is a money digging shallow blonde as you were that Paris was one, even though now we know she was just reacting to deeply traumatizing childhood abuse and CPTSD?

When all of those things happened (and we could keep going), did you do your own research? Did you look into things yourself? Or did you just believe what someone told you, that someone told them, that their cousin read this on the headline cover of a magazine? Did you use your own critical thinking, or did you just believe what someone “exposed” on Twitter? 

And when all of the truth came to light, did you feel ashamed? Were you one of the people clamoring about the “deceitful, hateful, media” and how “we really should” think before dolling out judgement, specially in a public forum? Maybe you were one of the people pointing out how many profited from the taken down of these people?

None of these cases, none of the “regrets” people have over it, no amount of “I’m sorry I went on with the crowd,” NONE of it means ANYTHING, if we don’t learn anything from them. 

That all being said. If you’re STILL so sure, tell me: How SURE are you? Are you SO sure that you would laugh at a recounting of repeated rapes? Are you SO sure, that you would help propagate sayings such as “bitches lie”? Are you SO sure, that you would feel comfortable knowing that abusers who are NOT celebrities can and have now started using your mockery as a defense?  Are you SO sure that you don’t care if your posts and mocking videos discourage victims even more from speaking up at all? Are you SO sure that if your harassment did cause another human being to take their own life, you’d celebrate? Are you SO sure that you know for a fact you’ll be happy and satisfied with yourself having spent all the money you’ve made from the mockery of a domestic violence case, if an year –  or 10 years – from now some sort of evidence you finally believe comes up?

Are you THAT sure? 

You might never believe her. You might even be right. But even if you are, is THIS the legacy you want to leave behind? Is this amount of hatred and harassment that you think will help other victims of abuse? Is this how you think that the rights of male victims of abuse are to be forwarded? With mockery of recounts of abuse and sexual assault? With online harassment? Whether you believe them to be real or “stolen” or “made up”? Because trust me, even if you are right, someone has been through, and is going through, these exact things. Do you REALLY think they’d take joy in watching you? That they’d laugh at your videos? Or are you so sure that you are right, that you just don’t care?

How sure are you?

What anime is this?

why are males never dysphoric about the way they treat/think/act about women

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found an incredible resource that  will be extremely useful for us in many ways

https://retractionwatch.com/

it tracks studies that are retracted, altered, corrected, etc. because nowadays, the majority of studies that come out are completely unreproducible, and within that, many are legitimately incorrect/misleading, but all the hype was on the release of the study, and virtually none on the retraction, so people still believe it’s true. so, if you see studies around, it’s useful to plug them into this. think of it like snopes for scientific papers.