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[–]Tikiri 13 insightful - 1 fun13 insightful - 0 fun14 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Ben Appel is a fantastic writer! Last year, I read an amazing article he wrote in Quilette:

https://quillette.com/2021/07/08/as-a-gay-child-in-a-christian-cult-i-was-taught-to-hate-myself-then-i-joined-the-church-of-social-justice-and-nothing-changed/

It goes deeper into how cult-like the alphabet mafia is. Really insightful and sobering. Highly recommend!

[–]MarkJeffersonTight defenses and we draw the line[S] 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yeah, that one is quite good.

It really sounds like he was balancing on the razor's edge between 2 opposing pressures that were surprisingly alike, which were gradually crushing his spirit from both ends. Not surprising that he almost went mad from it all until the eventual turnaround.

Edit: His newsweek article just got tweeted by J.K.

[–]lunarstrain 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

This was painful to read, I struggled mentally in very similar ways. I'm so glad he put this out there.

[–]PriestTheyCalledHimBisexual 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Thanks for the link.