Mental illnesses are, as the term makes clear, are illnesses. They can be treated, albeit rarely cured, and if the sufferer has a neurosis as opposed to a psychosis, they are aware of their condition and most likely see it as a debilitating burdon that they would ideally wish to eradicate. I know I have OCD and Anxiety…

Then to answer your earlier question, probably not.

Not sure why you think it’s okay to discriminate against the mentally ill.

Calling all rich, privileged white people! Ignore this man. He feeds off the attention you give him. And there’s something unseemly and super-privileged white people using a black man’s issues in order to signal their superior virtue.

It depends. Are you black or white?

Narcissistic Personality Disorder isn’t a mental illness. It’s a personality disorder, like sociopathy. We all need to stop conflating the two things. It’s insulting to people like me who do suffer from mental illnesses.

Guess what Yummsh? You and I are in 100% agreement on this one.

We can’t ignore Trump, as nice as that would be, because of the power he wields, but we can ignore Kanye. He’s simply a celebrity (as Trump was pre 2016, until the media stupidly decided to treat him seriously and give him a platform).

Attention is precisely what narcissists, as Lana Del Rey correctly labels Kanye, desire. So why the fuck is she, Chris Evans and various others continuing to feed this attenton-seeking bullshit?

This is an anonymous forum. I’d feel less inclined to divulge my personal life history on Twitter or Facebook, not because I’m remotely ashamed or have anything to hide, but because people tend to misconstrue things without context, and so if I were to divulge that information I’d want to do it fully and in my own term…

I’m glad Dr Ford is doing what she is doing. If she’s truthful, as I believe she is, she needs to be heard if her testimony can in any way prevent Kavanaugh from being confirmed. And moreover, as someone who’d truly like to see an end to sexual violence and general misogyny, I hope her testimony will serve as a lesson …

You’re not a right-wing troll, by any stretch of the imagination, unless the reason and progressive insight you have displayed so far is all a big ruse, so I feel no pause for concern in potentially ‘pulling you out of the greys’.

Thanks for your reasonable post.

What am I wrong about? That Terry Crews and Samantha Bee’s husband, Jason Jones, have both appeared in films that use male rape as a punchline? And for what it’s worth, I found those jokes repellent, but this seems like another example of ‘do as I say, not as I do’ virtue signalling to me.

The right-wingers posting here could indeed be complete assholes, but they’re not Alex Jones or Brett Kavanaugh. They don’t have that type of platform or power.

Unfortunately, or maybe fortunately, no one here is talking about Brexit, which is, in anycase, a complete unresolvable clusterfuck and can only be sorted by a second referendum.

That’s fair enough. I’ve already pledged not to do that. Anytime I have done was a mistake.

Affects, not effects. And sadly US politics does affect the rest of the world. I wish it didn’t, but it does.

You’ve accused me of taking a ‘condescending tone’ (I wasn’t aware that I had been), and yet it is you who is being extremely personal and deeply offensive to me, someone who has been the victim of a false accusation and thus knows how it feels.

I honestly don’t disagree with most of what you’ve said, but I also think from a purely practical POV we can’t simply give up on all 62.9 million of the people who voted for Trump in 2016. I certainly don’t think we should pander to them (I’m on the political left and I’m personally of the opinion that the Democratic P…