I thought this was supposed to be a safe space? Dick move on the PTSD joke. Jezebel should know better. I'd hold out for a "sorry if anyone was offended" apology, except that I know better. It won't even be acknowledged.
I thought this was supposed to be a safe space? Dick move on the PTSD joke. Jezebel should know better. I'd hold out for a "sorry if anyone was offended" apology, except that I know better. It won't even be acknowledged.
Just a quick note—-Let's please refrain from using PTSD lightly. It is the debilitating result of a truly tragic event...not appropriate shorthand for "wow I really don't like that!"
Wow, disappointed Jez. As someone who has incest-induced PTSD, I really don't appreciate the flippant and trivializing use of the disorder in your title....you'd think that a feminist website that often has amazing articles on sexual violence and survivors would not do that, seeing as most women who have PTSD got it…
I feel you here, rainbowdash! "I hate not being able to do things," that's the place I'm at too. I lived trauma after trauma and compartmentalized it all so I could keep acting like "wonder woman" as some of my friends called me, and then after getting attacked again...I crashed, because reality caught up with me. …
I'm sorry and that sucks.
I don't know how long you've been dealing with this. For me it has been many, many, many years.
Slim to nil, as usual.
So it's not okay to joke about rape, but fucking PTSD is okay? Damn double standards Jezebel
Please don't continue to contribute to this ongoing trend of "I now have PTSD" jokes. It's something I've been hearing people say all the time, over having heard a boring joke, seen a bad movie, or losing a board game. By joking that you have a registered disability over something so trivial, you're trivializing…
Millions of people are living with severe PTSD. Saying that this Miley Cyrus video is giving you PTSD is a level of ignorance that should be saved for trash websites like TMZ. To compare your slight discomfort with the pain of a disorder which destroys a person's mental well-being and rips apart families, is grossly…
Joining the tons of other people saying "REALLY? A joke at the expense of people with mental disease? Fucking REALLY?"
Come on, guys. PTSD is not a joke. I'm really shocked how often a lot of the writers on this site have to be told when something is offensive/inappropriate.
Regarding the title:
NO IT DIDN'T. AND YOUR BFF STACEY IS NOT ACTING TOTALLY SKITZO EITHER. AND YOUR DOG IS NOT LIKE, WAY BIPOLAR.
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Please don't joke about PTSD. I suffered from PTSD after a sexual assault, and I don't appreciate the term being used flippantly. In addition to the god-awful symptoms and the utter derailment of my life, I also had to deal with asshats disregarding my opinions and making fun of my because of my mental illness. …
Can we please stop trivializing PTSD? Some of us actually have it and it's actually super shitty.
Suddenly you're too good to give hickeys to Tom Baker?
Not the point, but no adult human being should have a visible hickey anyway. They're strictly for teens and maybe really drunk 20 year-olds.
....or they do it for other men, to show off what big huge dicks they have. Or are. Same diff.
I totally get that. I recall Skepchick Rebecca Watson's "elevator incident", and I couldn't believe how many guys couldn't wrap their heads around the fact that asking someone up to your hotel room in a situation where they literally can't escape your presence is completely inappropriate and slightly menacing,…
(Don't feed the troll.)
Ladies and gentlemen, here is an example of the problem.