What the fuck is happening with the highest rated comments here?

I clicked on to another post about “sacred space” which was convoluted and prominently featured crystals. I guess in the back of my head she was still the brilliant and impulsive Izzie but she really seems to have dove into the role of Pinterest matron. But she seems happy and it’s a good life and she’s not…

My heart bleeds for you truly.

But I thought this president had a hard-on for monuments!

Don’t forget this one!

Yes! All of this! It messes us up to the extent that you don’t know how to feel or behave when they fuck with past events. And yet they’re able to recall them when it is convenient to do so - when they want to switch the narrative yet again.

It’s weird - I’ve been a pretty thoughtful and bold feminist for some time now, and yet there are still pieces of my past that elude me. When I was sixteen, I was at a live-in Catholic informal liberal arts program where we started out with 20 students and ended up with 13 by the end of the year (so small and…

I feel a little uncomfortable with this - mainly because of that Republican dude who tried to shift blame for Roy Moore onto the women who acknowledged that he had a creepy reputation for dating highschoolers, suggesting that they should be prosecuted for enabling him. Obviously it’s a preposterous claim to end up…

I was young and had no idea what to do, so I just acted like I thought a man would do. That slowly led me down a path to some things that I was very uncomfortable doing but didn’t even realize were happening.

This needs more stars.

Points for making me laugh this grey, polluted Delhi morning.

I did not try to excuse myself because I was a young graduate student with no job or commitments and I had this youthful pride in doing my civic duty and faith in the randomness of the jury process. Everyone looked at me like I was an alien. But while the Crown approved me, the defense did not. I think it was because…

I believe I agree with that reasonable assessment. And it’s this particular narrative that I am trying to drive home - the use of addiction as a way of framing sexual crimes (presenting his solicitation of a minor as his “rock bottom”) that I find particularly disturbing. It’s these narratives of helplessness that…

Thanks! I respect your expertise and it’s interesting to hear that US nurses have a grounding in drug addictions. You must have a great deal of experience behind you!

Yup.

Actually, he did quite well at first - all he got was a few laughs at “Carlos Danger” when it first came out.

My point was to make the argument that HE is trivializing addiction by equating it to an excuse for sexual crimes. I may have been hyperbolic in making that point, but I think the point stands.

I want to question the way that “addiction” has come to be used in a context for “mitigation or excuse for sexual crimes I committed”. Perhaps it is a useful construct for therapy and personality disorders, but when a person describes soliciting a minor solely in terms of their own distress, I find the language of…

Are you an expert in addictions or a psychiatrist or psychologist? Because if you are, I would really like to know the definition and criteria of this terminology from an expert’s perspective (not including Google experts) and why people might find it plausible to use “sexual addiction” as a defense for criminal…

My issue is with how (un)useful it is to essentialize and reify and project the source of behaviour to some inaccessible part of the self for which one is not readily answerable and what one cannot reasonably be expected to control without expensive, luxurious rehabilitation that most people do not get for other…