I’m very sorry for your loss.

I completely agree with what you’re saying regarding the limitations of MHEs. I guess I would respect them more if they admitted that their techniques don’t work. :) “I don’t know” is a perfectly reasonable answer if you don’t know. But telling the rest of us that we should follow their advice, knowing full well that…

That’s heartbreaking, I’m very sorry you’re going through that. It’s so frustrating that we are effectively left to ourselves to pull someone out of that spell. As I said, psychologists and therapists are really letting the public down. And thanks to social media like Facebook, people make a profit off the madness, so…

I’m very sorry, you have my deepest sympathies.

Are there relationship dealbreakers for you? There are for me. Relationships are allowed to end sometimes. The person living in reality deserves to be with someone (romantically or not) who appreciates them and is there for them. I guess the question is, can a conspiracy theorist be a good partner/friend/family…

I’m very curious about research into this topic. I don’t think psychologists and therapists have been very successful themselves. How are laypeople supposed to be Jedi masters? They are expected to say the exact right thing at a moment’s notice, have endless patience, and suppress their own needs from the relationship,…

Me neither. I’m not sure what that person’s deal is. Periods are a normal biological process. We’re all adults here (hopefully). It’s time for us to let go of our hangups about the human body.

For example, trans women in our group find cis-periods gross...

What the fuck? Good Lord I hope none of you are parents with a child who will menstruate.

He seems like a lovely person.

I may be completely wrong, but it feels like the needle gauges these days are a lot slimmer and therefore, less painful. It’s a good time to get a vaccine.

As a woman who cleans her house, does laundry, cooks, works out at the gym, works in the yard, drives herself, etc.; I hate that style of nails with the fire of a thousand suns. Why not bind your feet? At least your fucking hands will be free.

We’ll see. By the time it’s readily available COVID will have burned through most of this country. If only there was some way we could have avoided this?

Oh yeah, I’d like to see how many get flu shots or donate blood. Getting a vaccination does force a person to confront that urge to avoid short term harm for a greater benefit. It sucks. It’s not fun. But exposure therapy is real and effective.

“I can’t wait to walk face first into a moving propeller just to see if my 50% effective propellor face shield works.” 🙄

Anyone want to take any bets on how many anti-vaxxers (who rejected a free and safe vaccine because “it’s experimental” and “not FDA approved”) will welcome this completely new, also not FDA approved, drug with open arms?

Is this a real thing? Like, for real real? Or is this a way for people to justify their choice to completely ignore some other aspect of their lives? Usually their relationships or health.

Thanks, I hate it. :)

Sorry, I misunderstood what you wrote. I thought you were saying he said that. I didn’t get that you were saying the last line of the article implied that. ETA: He’s said terrible things to his first wife (“I’m the alpha in this relationship,” on their wedding night). That’s where my confusion came from.

His first ex-wife sounded the alarms about him over a decade ago. He’s a giant piece of shit.

You’re comparing apples and oranges while not being able to spell Lollapalooza correctly.