I totally agree. I’ve often wondered if my own path would have been less torturous if I’d sought help earlier instead of pretending everything was ok, keeping up appearances until things collapsed. And that was definitely done because of the stigma, both external and internal. And my daily antidepressant has been an…

If I might make an attempt at nuance here, the idea that many psychiatrists are too quick to throw pills at something and call it a day is both true and a big problem. I speak from personal experience - I struggled for years futilely against clinical depression with a series of RXs that never much helped until I…

Yes.

not wanting to vote for someone who fingered someone non-consensually is not edgy. do you want to go to spring fling with me or not?

Mitch McConnell looks like his court-appointed psychiatrist made him eat his own face

There’s value in scratching their “we’re about our rights” surface and see racist stuff break through.

Debut and Post are two of my desert island discs, with the latter being one of my favorite records ever. The perfect mix of her weird experimentation and just plain good pop music.

I remember MTV music videos and music content as a youngster in the “before times”, and I said that 15 years ago.

You don’t seem to want your MTV.

“ Well thats just ,like, your opinion man..”

“if we’re going to say that you can’t satirize bigotry through irony then we just can’t satirize bigotry at all anymore.”

That seems to be the end goal with some folks. The only way to depict a bad thing is to declare, with a scowl and crossed arms, “This thing is very bad!”
See some of the reaction to the very idea of…

The slippery slope is not limited to the religious variety of fundamentalists. In fact it’s rarely the directly referenced group who drives this kind of decision, but usually the perpetually aggrieved class of tally keepers who think they’re acting on everybody else’s behalf by working to scrub culture clean of…

Jennifer Schwartz is completely wrong, and so are you. Even in her own Twitter thread she walks back her argument by noting that she hasn’t watched the show in years and also that it’s probably not the show’s fault some of its fans are fucksticks.

When is the last time you have watched an episode and what episode was it? I really don’t see how South Park portrays “earnestness as the only sin” and that “mockery is the ultimate inoculation against all criticism.” In fact, I can think of many times they have sent the complete opposite message.

In what way had society become less earnest than in the irony-filled ‘90s?

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Fucking love that Lovage album. Dan the automator is the man. What a slept on classic

First off, I implore the people in charge to stop formatting this shit as slideshows. This might not be as egregious as the 50+ lists (usually, they are “best [X] on [streaming platform]” type articles), but it is still utterly unnecessary, especially since most commentariat here are either using a simple (I just…

Always loved Floyd’s “Animals”.