You’re the one who brought your dad into the convo, so don’t be pissed when people call out what you have literally described. Doctors can have conscious and subconscious bias that literally kills. Your dad probably has some. Calm down.

Hey, I’m just an internet nobody, but I truly hope you do look into therapy--whatever form ends up being useful to you, be that acceptance therapy, CBT, or something else. Try, try, try until it feels right. You deserve it.

I mean...I have talked to them. I’m from a deeply red district, I grew up surrounded by and engaging with people who I deeply disagree with, and my own father does not believe in climate change. I listen very politely--I don’t interrupt, I let people fully explain. I’ve never found it successful or useful. I’ve found…

I’m genuinely curious: what appropriate and acceptable understanding can I, someone who believes that climate change is caused by human activity and a major threat to humans, find with someone who believes that climate change is a hoax, and that it’s insulting to god to try and fix the climate, anyways

Hmmm...I mean, that bullshit was why Leni Riefenstahl was able to come back as a “groundbreaking artist” in the 70s.

Yea--because they believe that if they can get all the Jews to move to Israel and then be wiped out, Jesus will come back and start the Apocalypse.

It’s weird because you’re blaming young people for a lot of shit that’s middle aged people’s fault? Like, the people I see letting their dogs shit in the street are middle aged and older women. The people I see letting their kids run around and be brats are much older than me. I’m 23 and pretty damn sick of getting…

Rich people got rich because their grandparents gave their parents money. You are not rich.

Why do we have to expand our notion of physical human beauty at all though?

I feel like a lot of people didn’t read the interview very well because she clearly stated giving money to charities (eg buying fair trade) was still a function of the capitalist system she’s arguing against? So what you’re upset about was very much not her argument.

I mean but no matter how it made you feel you were still harming people in the service industry? You can acknowledge that making yourself feel better was more important to you without pretending that isn’t true.

But Jessa Crispin said essentially the same thing in the interview?

I think it’s important to remember we can critique and criticise people without “taking them down.” Our culture’s so dependent on adulation-and-then-desecration cycles, and it’s like, celebrities are people? They are complex? Very few people follow an internally consistent logic?

I mean, that’s kind of the point of the book, no? That she’s done w all modern feminists?

At the same time, New York is the city with by far the most regulated and subsidized rental market in the country. How’s that working out?

Mmm yes good point, I forgot there’s literally no middle ground between our current system and Venezuela.

That is quite literally exactly what happened

You keep making the excellent point that, hey, why the fuck should you care about how much airport sandwiches are when you can’t afford a plane ticket? It’s true, you shouldn’t give a fuck. The fact that you spent like, a day and a half commenting about something you really don’t care about makes me worried that…

Hey, do you have the name of the person who forced you to comment on this thread? I’d love to report them to law enforcement for holding you hostage!

Iceland did it in 1975 and it seemed to work.