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If you're wondering what all the fuss is about I've just uploaded the track here. Fuck it. But...

FYI before you get all outrage she's the predator…

Eye contact like I mean war / READ: -I- contact like I mean war

Heels sharp, voice well-trained / She's armed & has a practised magic bewitching voice

Private’s where the claws are / She has literally has CLAWS

You’ll never know unless you try / She's baiting him, and not just for sex

I don’t dress up—I dissolve / She literally becomes -something else- when she wants to

Calm on the surface—beast in my mind / She is a monster beneath her human shell

I say yes too fast… and fuck too deep / It's a trap!

I'm your history… you can't clear me / She's going to cause him perm damage

Soft voice, darker needs / She has DARK needs

And I’ll whisper thanks while I feed / She's going to FEED from him, steal his glamour, she's FAE

Some people not very good at English lit and subtext huh?

Moral outrage dominates public discourse. Why do we do it?

If you don't know what moral outrage is, you didn't pay attention during the acceptance speeches at the Oscars. Back in January at the Golden Globes, the host Ricky Gervais made fun of the celebrities' tendency to lecture the audience about moral matters and following his monologue, the acceptance speeches were a little subdued. But this year at the Oscars, the knives came out.

This piece is not against moral outrage, nor do I disagree with the moral values that fuelled the actors' and actresses' moral outrage on stage. In fact, in most cases, I wholeheartedly agree with them. But given that our public discourse is now completely dominated by moral outrage (on both sides of the political spectrum), this is a psychological phenomenon we need to know more about.

How can we explain the new culture of moral outrage all around us?

One may be tempted to say that it's because the other side of the political spectrum is doing outrageous things, and this is clearly true in many cases. But a deeper explanation is that according to recent studies, moral outrage is good for publicity. Social media content is far more likely to be shared and retweeted if it expresses moral outrage. So even if you are not morally outraged, it could be in your interest to pretend that you are. It may help media outlets or politicians to pretend they are morally outraged.

The crucial findings about moral outrage, however, show that it has an emotion-regulating effect. It was demonstrated that moral outrage alleviates guilt and buffers threats to one’s moral identity. Moral outrage is a very good thing if you are insecure about your own moral standings. It reassures you that you are not in the wrong — you couldn't possibly be as you are doing the right thing with your moral outrage. This is a reason to be a bit suspicious of anyone whose moral outrage is too visible. Either they are just faking it for publicity reasons or if they are not, this shows that there are some moral cracks here that they try to cover up with moral outrage.

This is not to say that moral outrage is never justified. It very often is, and the last few weeks have not been easy to go through without being outraged. But the real problem with moral outrage is that it is easy to get used to. There is now even a slang for this: 'outrage fatigue.' If we are morally outraged 24/7, we won't even notice when truly morally despicable things happen. And if we do, we have no way of alerting others. If our moral outrage-o-meter is always at maximum volume, what can we do if something truly outrageous happens?

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Unpopular opinion: there is no bloody fatphobia in The Whale and people need to chill the fuck out.

For starters, good luck finding a decent-sized pool of 600 lb actors of that gender, appearance, acting abilities, who fits the part on an intrinsic 'vibes' level, etc to choose from. How many 600 lb actors do you think are out there, and available? And more importantly, people gotta realize how hard it is to do anything when you have that much weight! And filmmaking is stressful. Add the rigors of filmmaking and being on set constantly, and you have a recipe for disaster. Literally a liability. The production might not even get approved because there's such a big chance of something going wrong.

The film didn't even make fun of fat people or stigmatize it. Charlie was fat because he was sad, not the other way around. But being fat also made him miserable in some ways. That's just what happens with a lot of morbidly obese people. It's not fun to be that fat. The movie takes the subject matter seriously and it doesn't glamorize it.

So like, people gotta stop. They're just losing their shit as soon as they hear the words 'fat suit' and ascribing a negative judgment to that, then trying to find things that are wrong, like, gasp, someone having a bad time because they're morbidly obese, even though the logic behind their anger doesn't check out and it wouldn't even be SAFE for the actor if they did find one. But sure, hire someone with genuine morbid obesity of that extent.

Maybe when they die of heart failure two weeks into shooting, people will eat their words.

And yes, morbid obesity is dangerous. You literally can't be 600 lbs and be functionally healthy! The pressure all that extra weight puts on your organs alone is dangerous, your skeleton doesn't change to accommodate anything, your body is constantly under stress. If anyone denies this, it's super, super obvious they're in denial of just how big of a problem morbid obesity is. That part isn't an opinion, it's physics, it's science, it's reality. There are autopsy videos of morbidly obese people who donated their bodies for science. They show all the effects and explain them for educations sake. Go watch a few. Or go read some studies.