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GUYS IM BACK FROM THE FUCKING DEAD
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Even if you don't think/know that you have [disorder] (or even if you know you don't!) you're allowed to use coping strategies meant for or associated with that disorder. You can use ADHD tips for your poor memory. You can stim even if you're not autistic (stimming has a lot of overlap between disorders honestly). You can use chronic fatigue tips if you have depression. You're not stealing resources. If it helps you, it helps you, whether you were the target audience or not
#dismantling the 'but am I hurting ENOUGH?' brain voice improves the life immeasurably
Netflix basically just ruined the career of a black Muslim woman. They fucked up with the promotion of that movie
Cuties is not some sick pedophilic movie.
The director, Maïmouna Doucouré, is a Senegalese woman and the movie is based off her own life. The movie talks about the hypersexualisation of young girls.
Y'all rushed to send her death and rape threats and she had to deactivate all her socials.
This is the original poster but for some reason Netflix decided to put out that other one and use that gross description.
You can talk about how frustrating it is that Muslim girls only get “I hate my religion and some white person is saving me from oppression” as representation. But this is not that. She’s talking about her life. The problems you have aren’t with her it’s with production companies.
this is a review from january, long before this poster controversy, and it notes that there’s some heavy and uncomfortable subject matter, but praised doucouré for the way she handled it. there is no mention of pedophilia or inappropriate content. a film where little girls are figuring out who they are and what it means to grow up in this culture that keeps sexualizing women younger and younger is difficult and it’s going to make people uncomfortable, but this film is not the problem. if you are raising your eyebrows at some of the things mentioned in this review, that is the point.
netflix botched this, they have admitted to botching it, they have publicly apologized, and they will release the film with a different poster. people are ruining a woman’s life and career because she dared to share her own story and dared to speak out about something that affects all girls and women. Maïmouna Doucouré’s coming-of-age movie criticizes the very outrage that’s now being lobbied against it.
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I love watching people tear my favorite stuff apart. It's just like this.
I wish more people got this because some ‘low-empathy’ people are the most compassionate and sympathetic in the universe, and I hate it when that’s taken to mean ‘unfeeling and probably hostile’ when nothing could be further from the truth
Or, as my dad put it,
Sympathy: I know how you feel Empathy: I feel how you feel Compassion: is there anything I can do to help?
Sympathy: that sucks bro empathy: I feel that compassion: want me to send you some puppy and kitten pictures to make you feel better?
Posts like this make me feel so much better. It always seems like society treat responses to others pain as though empathy is the most important kind. I am around 85% compassionate and this post helped me not feel like I am a monster because of that for once.
@mutuals stop and think before you reblog a post that has the word “lgbtia+” in it. advice from your friendly intersex mutual, archy: STOP dragging intersex ppl into the lgbt community. idc if you think aces/aros are lgbt just stop dragging other ppl into this. stop putting a fucking i in the acronym. intersex isn’t a gender OR a sexuality- it’s a medical condition. we have time and time again asked for you guys to recognize this, time and time again asked for you guys to stay out of our issues, but you continue to misgender us and use us as props for your arguments. your “lgbtia+ positivity” isn’t nice, it’s hurtful, it literally makes me so dysphoric because i’m basically being told that my genitals and chromosomes somehow make me inherently nonbinary. i’m not lgbt because i’m intersex, i’m lgbt because i’m trans and gay. y'all aren’t being “inclusive” or “recognizing our issues,” most of the time y'all don’t even know what intersex means and it’s obvious when you group it in with genders and sexualities. by dragging us into the lgbt community you are misgendering so many people and intersexist as fuck.
thanks for saying this, i realize this now? i just accepted it as “lgbtqia” because everyone says it was. but this made me think, really.
I had a dream I was able to time travel and I went like 10,20,100,1000,2000 years into the future but the instant I went to 4,000 I got stuck in a time dilation jail set up by the American government in the year 3,877 in which anyone that tried to time travel back or forth across May 23, 3877 while on Earth would end up stuck in this time dilation chamber trap to stop time travelers but like it was so crazy and mismanaged because it was legit capturing like every single time traveler ever and the place had only been open for 12 minutes and was already getting overpopulated with nonstop multiple recursive instances of this one other guy trying to break previous versions of himself out of this god damn time traveler jail
that is fucking hysterical and absolutely sounds like something the American Government would set up.
jehovahs witnesses are literally a cult made with white supremacy and telling people to “be nice to them” is literally how they will target, isolate, and convert you
i disagree, but also if it’s a cult then you should be nice to the members that come to your door?
they might have been told that the world outside the cult is horrible and evil and that no matter how bad it is in the cult, it’s worse out of it.
being horrible to them might make it harder for them to leave and find help (also i hugely hesitate to call it a cult, im just saying it because OP did)
im not saying you should invite them in or join or ignore their history but also you probably shouldn’t be horrible to them and slam the door in their face (i say this specifically about younger members tbh)
they are a white supremacist cult. you cannot disagree with that because its not an opinion. they were founded on white supremacist ideals and for the reasons YOU listed, they are isolated and brainwashed into having dependency on their religion. thats what a cult is. there is no “might” here, that IS the watered down version of what jehovahs witnesses teach to their members
listening to some tiktok made by a white person about being nice to a group of people who are trained to take advantage of those types of situations is exactly how you can get yourself targeted. especially a site full of young and impressionable minors. ESPECIALLY a site full of people struggling financially, or mentally / physically disabled people, or lgbt people, etc etc. basically all the types of that are prone to be targeted
no one said anything about being mean to them. my post doesnt tell you to spit in their faces. so why make the assumption ..? actually if i known the post was going to get reblogged, i would prefer it had more information , but here we are.
there are professionals who have dedicated their lives to helping those with cult mindsets and know how to avoid coercement / estrangement, especially from the members they are trying to help. which they will do. because they are brainwashed cult members, as ridiculous as it sounds , they are people who have been manipulated into complete reliance on their cause. so … do you really think giving them a water bottle and letting them drill you with their mantra is going to make them suddenly want to go through the trauma of being disfellowshipped and apostatized ?
if jehovahs witnesses come knocking on your door you should tell them, and if you feel so inclined then tell them politely, that you are not interested and that they are not allowed to come on to your property again. and you, lazarats, can do anything you want to do, but please dont tell other people on my post to interact with white supremacist cults, especially if you know you dont have the full information😭😭
I’m an ex-Jehovah’s Witness and I was asked to comment on this post by an anon.
Jehovah’s Witnesses are absolutely a white supremacist cult. There’s no denying that. Whatever you’ve heard, the reality is probably worse
That tiktok was posted onto tumblr by an ex-Jehovah’s Witness who escaped the cult. There are lots of ex-jw/ex-cult bloggers on here who frequently post guides on how to handle interactions with cult members, based on lived experience.
You are right about who is prone to be targeted, which is something I want to talk about because lots of people assume that only “stupid, naive” people join cults and so it could never happen to them. The reality is that they seek out and prey on anyone going through hardship, anyone isolated, anyone who feels alienated by the entire world. That’s why they leave pamphlets in hospitals, why they talk to people in graveyards, why they pull names from obituaries to write letters. Jehovah’s Witnesses are the most racially diverse religious group in the US and they have significantly more women than men as members and that’s not because those people are more gullible, it’s because being treated poorly and feeling disillusioned with the whole world makes you high-risk
There is a reason that every single ex-JW guide on how to deal with Witnesses tells you to be kind. It’s because practically no one is. Most long-term Witnesses have had a naked person flash them at the door at least once. In rural areas at least, gun threats are extremely common. Everyone has had rude people and doors slammed in their faces, there are people who’ve been assaulted and chased. Any group of Jehovah’s Witnesses or ex-Jehovah’s Witnesses will have tons of people in it who are terrified of big dogs. Most JWs have had the police called on them
You have to consider this in context. Like you said, cults isolate their members. JWs aren’t allowed to be friends with non-JWs. College is heavily discouraged and most kids are homeschooled. Even work outside of free labor for the cult is something to be wary of. Jehovah’s Witnesses tell their members that there is no love at all in “the world” (outside of the cult), that only JWs have love among themselves, and that they are the happiest people on Earth. Preaching is obnoxious, people hate it, and sending members out to face that hate reinforces what the cult has taught them. It actually fulfills a few of their doomsday prophecies. Jesus foretold that his people would be despised and hated, so seeing that means it really is the one true religion. The idea of “scaring” Witnesses away is super common. Most people seem to think it’s funny, and thats what was initially being addressed
Meeting someone who is polite when you preach to them is rare. Not nice, not friendly, but just civil about it. JWs are trained from birth that the whole world is exactly like what they experience while preaching— which ideally would be literally their only contact with the outside world. The cult may be terrible and miserable and controlling, yeah, but its members are convinced that the outside world is even worse and that at least the people here love you. They genuinely believe that all “worldly” people are irredeemably bad and evil, and most of them have never had ANY evidence to suggest otherwise
One thing that tiktok didn’t mention though is to never talk to them twice if you can help it, and to ask to be put on the DNC list. I’m not saying it was perfect, but being nice is one of the biggest essentials when dealing with cult members for a reason
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Amazing now can my mom finally harness that and love the real me
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I will reblog this everytime i see it
Ok so while we’re at this, I just checked out Unsplash, and it’s an AMAZING site for free images?
Rescued dove learns to eat by watching others. No more force feeding!
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the doves in the video are like “Whats up gamers welcome to another eating tutorial”
Legit it’s what happened but it’s hilarious when put like that
2020: the teens are calling themselves gay
absolutely nothing in a video game has set a tone as well as asgore smashing the mercy button at the start of his fight and thats just a fucking fact
Please elaborate. I want to hear more about what you think of this.
not to be serious about epic divorce man but like. the asgore fight is more or less the payoff of the advertised theme of undertale - “you don’t have to kill anyone”, and he does the most to challenge this theme, not just to the player but on a personal level, since the running motif of undertale’s monsters is that they don’t want to kill you either, but they have to or less they will never be free.
the scene beforehand, where small shock plays, is given additional context on replays and knowing how chara, flowey, asriel, and frisk all relate to each other - asgore is looking at someone who looks identical and acts identically to his child who, from his perspective, died of an illness that he could not prevent, and he has to kill them again
it is as equally “you cannot spare me” as it is “i cannot spare you”, which when juxtaposed against how asgore never uses attacks that are aimed at the player directly, creates the mood that is “neither of us want to be here but we have to be for there to be a future at all so someone needs to fucking die already” and its really fucking good