#general decency

[crazycatsiren]

Listen, folks, I feel like I need to say this:

I respect atheists. I really do. In fact, I married one.

But if you don't want religious people pushing their religious beliefs on you, then don't go into religious people's spaces with your "gods aren't real" lectures either. Both ways are equally disrespectful and invasive, ok?

[giggly-mikey]

I'm sorry but if you use the wrong gender pronouns on purpose because "it's what makes you comfortable", stop thinking of yourself and your micro-penis for two seconds and think about how they feel.

[howsyourbreathing-blog]

So I've been trying to figure out how to summarize this.

If someone is in a group of people and they are triggered by a topic of conversation;

they have a right to ask you to not discuss it in front of them

you have the right to not be an asshole and stop

you do not get to tell them that because they are the only person affected that THEY should leave the room/conversation.

you do not get to make them feel like their opinion/feelings don't matter because you are WRONG

especially if this is all happening in a "safe space."

[uozlulu]

Sometimes I wish that I could block commercials on TV like I can block things on Tumblr.

The idea I'm going to be exposed repeatedly to commercials for Bully (2011) soon makes me a bit jumpy. I don't think people can quite understand all of the psychological things I've had to work through on my own over the years and how much I still have to sort through.

I know everyone tags it with #please_watch, but no I can't. I just can't go there yet. You people don't understand what you're asking me to do. On one hand, I'm glad you don't understand, that you can't go to the place my mind is at, but on the other hand, you inadvertently kind of ram home some psychological "truths" drilled into me when I was bullied. Clearly, I'm an object and not a person because no one can give two shits to label things properly or give proper warnings because they don't care that bullying is triggering material to some people like me. That's just where my brain goes. I'm trying to untrain it, but you know I've only had three years to undo twenty years of psychologically and verbally abusive training.