Sunday Social - open chat!

PatsyStone · 2022-04-04T23:34:42+00:00

Hope everyone's doing alright.

PatsyStone · 2022-03-31T23:52:14+00:00

The blue is for boys, the pink is for girls, the purple is the blurred line between pink and blue. Voila! Flag.

It's not that deep.

PatsyStone · 2022-03-11T22:28:46+00:00

The memes... they smell... familiar...

PatsyStone · 2022-03-11T22:23:50+00:00

We're all big kids here 😉

PatsyStone · 2022-03-11T21:15:31+00:00

I remember this being common knowledge before 2012. Still, very cool.

PatsyStone · 2022-01-22T18:48:22+00:00

Fandom is a creepy, weird place full of weirdos. Glad somebody's reining then in.

PatsyStone · 2022-01-07T11:52:05+00:00

No one can go through life without meeting a blue-haired queer. They are, quite literally, everywhere.

PatsyStone · 2022-01-07T10:26:50+00:00

If you want to subvert media control, online is the way to do it.

It's nice that they're doing this, but several of the people associated with this event are elderly and I think as a political strategy street marches aren't viable right now. It's outdated as a tactic.

This can be useful in other ways- mostly networking.

The only sympathetic press they'll get if they get harassed is from right wing media in the U.S.

PatsyStone · 2022-01-07T10:23:40+00:00

There are plenty of transwomen and transmen who are homosexuals, who I'm sure aren't going to approve of this and will try to sabotage it. Not to mention people who identify as homosexuals but know they aren't.

Hopefully they've thought about security a little.

PatsyStone · 2022-01-06T14:10:03+00:00

They've already shot themselves in the foot by declaring this a "homosexual exclusive event." I wouldn't attend or support this event if I lived in New York, I would be stepping on toes and commiting various social sins if I even attempted to. It may be that bisexuals are allowed if they're gay enough, possibly, and can blend in and not attract too much attention.

Repeating the mistakes of the past and expecting a different result. Yes, this will be attacked relentlessly.

PatsyStone · 2021-12-31T01:24:54+00:00

I. Hate. This.

Can you imagine?

PatsyStone · 2021-12-31T00:33:20+00:00

Are you the OP? Excellent writing.

PatsyStone · 2021-12-31T00:31:36+00:00

Trolled again, Drop the T. Satire is not our forte.

PatsyStone · 2021-12-31T00:28:56+00:00

Same sex attracted is a loaded term that I have mixed feelings about, mostly due to nasty feminists, but it has always been in use to my knowledge. It certainly was at least in the 80s. It's a descriptive term.

PatsyStone · 2021-12-31T00:27:31+00:00

I don't understand what this means but I def don't like it.

PatsyStone · 2021-12-22T01:13:44+00:00

I think it's easy to forget that subcultures often don't interpret the world the same way, or with the same criteria. Christians don't care about gay dating or relationships, it's all sin. They're worried about the sexual attraction. So, if they aren't somehow influenced by the gay community, they don't care about the flavor of gay.

PatsyStone · 2021-12-22T01:02:14+00:00

There were quite a few, but they were purged from leadership positions beginning around 2010-ish.

PatsyStone · 2021-12-22T00:59:57+00:00

In my personal experience, the term "bisexual" doesn't really exist outside of the gay community (and I'm assuming urban areas.) People for whom the gay rights movement is culturally alien, say a minority religious sect, don't differentiate between people who experience same-sex attractive exclusively and not exclusively. It's all gay and it's all bad.

PatsyStone · 2021-12-19T23:59:23+00:00

It rubs me the wrong way. Political problems need political solutions. Gender critical political views do not affect your personal life or the people around you with anything near the profundity of sexual orientation. Yes, gender critical views are discriminated against. All dissenting views get treated like this.

Y'all might not be aware, but in the lead up to the 2020 U.S. Presidential election conservative "coming out" videos were a huge trend. I found it shallow and offensive. This is also shallow and offensive.

PatsyStone · 2021-12-19T00:20:29+00:00

I'll say it and be the bad guy, since nobody else is going to. This is counterproductive and a step in the wrong direction.

If you want to limit your event to people to are actively in same sex relationships, that makes sense. Banning a subset of people who are in same sex relationships is crazy, which I'm not sure they've thought of or are intentionally doing. As witch hunting lesbians can tell you, there are many non homosexuals in relationships with women who are passing themselves off as lesbians.

What you'll get at this "exclusive homosexual event" is a mixed bag of homosexuals and people who are passing as homosexual. You are giving them every incentive to lie, too, since this is the real pride for actual gay people in gay relationships.

PatsyStone · 2021-12-17T13:11:44+00:00

Yeah, and for what it's worth I do detect an undercurrent of homophobia in the mother. Another instance of reading too much into tone, but "artsy" bothered me.

Poor girl, she's going to have problems for years.

PatsyStone · 2021-12-16T21:47:44+00:00

It seems that she’s defining the girl’s “authentic self” as an obedient daughter.

She's dictating her daughter's personality to her. She seems to mostly ignore her daughter and to have little empathy for her. Her daughter is going to rebel against her. Guaranteed.

PatsyStone · 2021-12-16T21:44:11+00:00

I had this same reaction, and a similar reaction to another opinion piece that was linked recently from the gender critical parent of a trans child.

This woman seems passive aggressive and seems to stereotype her daughter. I'd feel trapped in my body too.

PatsyStone · 2021-12-15T01:31:44+00:00

BwwWAAAAAaahhhh

PatsyStone · 2021-12-14T22:16:33+00:00

I am of the opinion that men who have sex with men and then purport attraction to trans men, but not women, are not bisexuals but rather bullshitting gay men.

People lie out both sides of their mouth, in real life but especially online. He has never hovered anywhere near a vagina of any kind in his life. He thinks he looks cool and he doesn't have to back the claim up with any action, so why not lie?

PatsyStone · 2021-12-14T12:40:42+00:00

The Washington Times is one of the old flagship conservative newspapers. This is honestly a little encouraging because they have a tendency to follow upper class social trends blindly, and I have a memory they've published pro-trans editorials within the last few years.

But yeah, they're homophobic conservatives. Not just conservatives, but the really douchey hypocritical rich ones that everyone hates.

PatsyStone · 2021-12-14T12:35:41+00:00

An attempt at satire by a guy with no sense of humor. Many such cases. Sad.

PatsyStone · 2021-12-10T21:20:44+00:00

I misread this as "Chile, same-sex marriage" Ooh, henny!

PatsyStone · 2021-12-10T16:25:11+00:00

I was responding to the op's commentary.

PatsyStone · 2021-12-07T15:03:44+00:00

The double standard at play.

If you can declare someone bisexual and not gay because of feelings and little nuances of their behavior, a straight person can be bisexual and not straight the same way.

PatsyStone · 2021-12-07T11:40:13+00:00

There's a map blue areas are the problem areas.

PatsyStone · 2021-12-06T21:14:46+00:00

Where are they learning to do this? There is organizational support behind these people. The gay rights lobby is behind this.

PatsyStone · 2021-12-06T11:21:17+00:00

Are there a lot of northern hemisphere things? You just introduced that concept to me.

PatsyStone · 2021-12-06T11:14:34+00:00

She seems like a cool woman who would be wonderful to talk to... but, this is a bad idea. You don't have "comings out" for political opinions, they aren't an innate trait.

CENSORSHIP. This woman needs to be campaigning against censorship, both classic censorship of the press and the puritanical self-censorship that leftists/liberals engage in (not sure what they're called in the U.K.)

It's like pulling teeth trying to get a middle aged American Democrat to read a "bad" article from a "bad" source, regardless of how vital the information in it is. You'd get a Baptist to read Lolita first. Liberal Americans are now like a solid year behind on a lot of news stories because they won't engage with outside thought.

The first couple of minutes on this video follow her detailing mistaken beliefs she held due to censorship of criticism of transwomen. I knew Caitlyn Jenner wasn't a woman, not because I'm the realest or a great intellectual thinker, but because I had already plugged into GC circles online before that happened. I was Catholic before that, and Catholic bloggers and columnists were already fisking trans ideology on a regular basis around 2012-ish. They were making most of the same arguments around that time that this woman makes in this video, a decade later. Because it's true!

PatsyStone · 2021-12-05T17:57:30+00:00

I don't have the time to comb for examples, and I think it's too meta for this sub to start a thread, but the constant trolling has to be coming from somewhere. A certain type of people, or astroturfing, or something. Idk.

PatsyStone · 2021-12-05T17:55:29+00:00

Aw, God, that is sad. Thanks for the translation, figures it would be something along those lines. She cares if men think she's hot now? So strange.

PatsyStone · 2021-12-04T17:41:08+00:00

Italians! Yoo-hoo, Italians! What does this say?

"Madò che fusto" doesn't come up on Google Translate.

PatsyStone · 2021-12-04T16:53:22+00:00

This happens so frequently and it always ends up posted over here. I'd rather talk about why trolls are doing this than take everything at face value and perpetually be in an outrage.

PatsyStone · 2021-12-04T12:18:55+00:00

A bisexual in the (fake) news.

PatsyStone · 2021-12-02T11:22:24+00:00

Well look at you! That's impressive. The only people who took Latin where I lived were planning on going into medicine.

PatsyStone · 2021-12-02T04:15:29+00:00

You speak Italian too? How many Italians are there here?

PatsyStone · 2021-12-02T04:13:58+00:00

Ah, thanks.

PatsyStone · 2021-12-02T03:48:49+00:00

Why did the cispatriarchy do this?

PatsyStone · 2021-12-02T03:47:52+00:00

What are "Traditional Owners?" Sounds an awful lot like landlords, but from the past.

PatsyStone · 2021-12-01T21:48:37+00:00

They blame the rest of the country, but you're right. It's them.

PatsyStone · 2021-12-01T10:22:22+00:00

Whenever there's a flaw in the system, scumbags will exploit it.

PatsyStone · 2021-11-30T18:49:16+00:00

She looks like she's constantly on the verge of breaking into tears. So broken.

PatsyStone · 2021-11-30T13:29:30+00:00

Because it brings social benefits in liberal places. Same reason there are so many white academics (also mostly women) who larp as other races. There have to be dozens who have been caught at this point.

There's a stereotype that straight people don't matter or aren't human in a way that gay people are that they're reacting to. Gay love is the only love that is respected.

PatsyStone · 2021-11-29T16:22:02+00:00

They follow the money.

PatsyStone · 2021-11-29T12:32:38+00:00

I'm gonna do it, I'm gonna say it! Most of these things are typical "what gay things did you do as a kid" tropes.

Having a friend group that mostly turns out to be gay later in life? Reading "am I a lesbian?" magazine articles with great interest (my version of the online quizzes?) This shit is normal.

Everything the queers do is not deranged and evil. They're people too.

PatsyStone · 2021-11-28T00:26:10+00:00

The queer catechism.

PatsyStone · 2021-11-27T23:28:49+00:00

Why are we putting our symbol on the ground for people to step on?

PatsyStone · 2021-11-27T23:27:21+00:00

This accurately represents the way a lot of people cycle through labels as they age- especially the butch lesbian to trans man pipeline. They're mistaking switching labels for changing sexuality- it's a consistent person throughout who can't figure themself out.

PatsyStone · 2021-11-27T23:24:34+00:00

It's the biggest hurdle I've faced with gays and lesbians, they want to know what I'm for. Nothing. I'm just here 😄

PatsyStone · 2021-11-27T23:22:49+00:00

Shrew from the view.

PatsyStone · 2021-11-27T23:21:42+00:00

Ooh excellent meme.

PatsyStone · 2021-11-26T23:07:16+00:00

Best comment:

I couldn’t tell if she was encouraging people or threatening them.

PatsyStone · 2021-11-26T22:17:01+00:00

It doesn't serve a purpose, it just is. We don't exist to fulfill a function for other people. We're just people who are this way.

You can't use bisexuality to predict someone's behavior, either. Sometimes, when places in the same circumstances, we might make the same decisions or act the same way- that's about it.

PatsyStone · 2021-11-23T21:14:10+00:00

Words on a bag

PatsyStone · 2021-11-23T21:12:39+00:00

Business International, the vaguest name in business.

PatsyStone · 2021-11-21T20:16:33+00:00

Rugby's limited to the former British Colonies, mostly, right? Softball had this same problem when it was in the Olympics. It's a massive sport in the U.S., and basically nowhere else. Australia was the only country that even gave us a hard time.

My guess would be it's a contact sport girls don't play in most places, too. American Football is partially based on Rugby, iirc, and girls don't play it here- boys only.

PatsyStone · 2021-11-21T19:59:22+00:00

TIL we have a women's rugby team. I sure they don't have much of a talent pool at all to draw from. Sound like England has their act together.

PatsyStone · 2021-11-21T19:58:00+00:00

I've gotten weird messages out of the blue occasionally, I just ignore them. Figure it's a troll or something.

PatsyStone · 2021-11-20T13:37:32+00:00

homosensual

Sounds like an really classy aromatherapy candle.

PatsyStone · 2021-11-20T09:50:43+00:00

Honestly bi+ makes sense, there seem to be fifty different codewords and reinterpretations of bi these days, let's just categorize them as bi+.

Demisexual panromantic? Ah, yes, bi...+

Aromatic omnisexual? You'd be under... bi... oh, here it is..plus.

PatsyStone · 2021-11-19T16:07:27+00:00

I know I shit on and on about class disparities in the U.S., but how can I not?! Look at this shit!

The person who made this meme grew up in a blue zip code in a suburb of a major city, probably on one of the coasts. Their parents are both white collar professionals. They have never had an unskilled job, or paid their own bills. It shows.

PatsyStone · 2021-11-19T00:03:47+00:00

Now this is excellent.

PatsyStone · 2021-11-18T21:21:09+00:00

Oh it was bonkers, you are correct. Unfortunately she ended up being fired, which these same gossipping people were up in arms about, but I can't help but wonder if their constant shit-talking contributed. Poor lady.

I really don't understand at all how she could be "hurting the company" by not talking about her sexual orientation at work. It's ok to be honest, but also if you don't want to share, then you really really shouldn't have to.

You would have blown their tiny minds with this.

PatsyStone · 2021-11-18T21:09:49+00:00

Well, his whole closeting story and the nature of abuse he receives just feels familiar. He dated a girl at Harvard, at least, and managed to stay functioning while closeted for a decade afterward. He was in Afghanistan and then ran a political campaign. Then he comes out apparently at the time he's decided he wants to get married, and finds a husband within a year. I'm certainly cynical and harsh, and I don't think he did anything wrong, but coming out in your thirties is more the realm of bisexuals than homosexuals.

It would also explain why he's so closed off and aloof with his gay identity. He isn't gay. A lot of people seem to think he might have Aspergers, which I don't think is likely. His interests are social- languages, public service, politics. Aspies have a hard time learning languages.

I think the simpler answer is he seems awkward and uncomfortable with gay culture because it doesn't come naturally to him and he spent most of his youth separated from it. He at some point realized he wanted to partner with a man and then did so. Not a bad thing! But I wonder if that's what's up with him. He's still closeted, just in a roomier closet.

I've seen interviews where he talks about the military, or Southbend, he lights up and is very animated and engaging. He's obviously being propped up as a sort of official gay role model, so I can't help but play armchair psychologist or whatever. It's too tempting 😉

PatsyStone · 2021-11-16T23:18:25+00:00

From what I can tell it's a class/cultural thing with wealthier people who identify as liberal. There seems to be a presumption that you are a bad person, like you were up to something- or maybe that you're lying. Harassment is acceptable if it's done under the guise of acceptance."You need to accept yourself," spoken in a derisive tone, gossiping about someone excessively.

The most egregious example I've ever heard of was an office I didn't work at. The boss was a closeted lesbian supposedly, I did meet her and she certainly could have been (she was very nice.) I knew several of her employees and they obsessed about her closeting. It was a main topic of discussion between them for months whenever I saw them. Why wouldn't she just come out? Why was she so sad and pathetic? Everyone knows! She's hurting the company (direct quote!)

Their main concern seemed to be that she was unethical in some way. I remember arguing one time that she wasn't violating any sort of professional ethics by not being open about being a lesbian, she would have to date an employee or something in order for her sexuality to actually be a problem. They seemed impressed by the logic of that.

I'm not an anthropologist by any means, but I'm slightly separated from that culture so it sticks out when people casually lash out at others because they "came out late." Not a thing outside of those circles.

PatsyStone · 2021-11-14T13:42:56+00:00

What are we remembering about intersex people?

PatsyStone · 2021-11-14T13:37:20+00:00

Let them do what they want.

PatsyStone · 2021-11-14T13:18:42+00:00

God I love this sub. I will be using this a lot, thanks for posting.

PatsyStone · 2021-11-14T13:14:16+00:00

The Stranger! Y'all, The Stranger used to be so cool. It was up there with The Village Voice, alternative newspapers I daydreamed about writing for when I was a kid.

Now it's sad, and kind of uptight and pearl-clutchy. This entire piece is fisking wealthy young people's etiquette like it's some philosophical cornerstone. This is like Anti-Oscar Wildean. He would have a field day with this woman.

She makes me think of Miss Brill, from the Ngaio Marsh story. Deluded and out of touch, scandalized by reality whenever it peeks through.

PatsyStone · 2021-11-14T13:04:28+00:00

Bold of you to presume they'd read them.

PatsyStone · 2021-11-14T12:58:55+00:00

Jeepers, foiled again! I hope he's grateful to have you defending his honor.

PatsyStone · 2021-11-14T11:07:20+00:00

Well, she's corrupt as all get out and has likely actually lost many of her elections over the years. But she has so much influence, she ultimately determines who tallies the votes, so...

Trump used her as a foil when he was in office. They had some good public battles, especially in 2020.

PatsyStone · 2021-11-14T00:04:11+00:00

I guess it's up to me to be pedantic and point out that lesbians can get pregnant. Not through lesbian sex though. Lol at all the helpful people offering her penis. Obviously she's craving penis, thank you Good Samaritans.

PatsyStone · 2021-11-13T23:18:55+00:00

Yeah, kids make mistakes. Adults make choices.

PatsyStone · 2021-11-13T23:12:06+00:00

In a nutshell.

She's almost cartoonishly corrupt, her father was the mayor of Baltimore in the 1950s and her brother was mayor in the late 60s.

She represents San Francisco in the House, and has since before both of us were born.

PatsyStone · 2021-11-13T22:10:57+00:00

Yeah, I do think some of it just stems from a lack of empathy or personal experience. Your sister may not have cared you were gay, but it's not all her. There are bigger consequences to accepting sexual orientation than your siblings' opinions 😜

Good for your mom reigning her in, sometimes people just need to back off. Now she knows and she can handle the same situation more wisely. Kind of curious, is she older than you? You came out before she did?

PatsyStone · 2021-11-13T21:58:46+00:00

It's very harsh and cold, I don't know why they're like this. There must be a reason, I just don't know what it is.

Chasten does seem miserable. Also, "gaytekeep" I see you 😉

PatsyStone · 2021-11-13T21:50:39+00:00

I certainly don’t like him, for many reasons, but him being gay is of no interest to me whatsoever.

That's sort of the impression I get from people here. He's not charismatic and his policies aren't popular or unpopular (he's the Transportation Secretary right now.) No one is interested in his marriage. He isn't hated or anything, though.

Would he be a good president? I don’t have much faith in that.

As someone pointed out upthread, Pete was selected by Pelosi as a potential future president after Clinton's loss. I think he was specifically chosen as a puppet. Republicans don't need homophobia to turn the electorate off of him, he has plenty of flaws as a candidate.

And the irony is that Putin would still treat Buttigieg a lot better than Chasten does.

Fuckin' brutal 😖

PatsyStone · 2021-11-13T20:24:38+00:00

this a thing? I would love to hear more about it, if it is.

It's always been like this with certain types of people who consider themselves straight allies. I grew up in a rural, conservative area that had a lot of "liberals" who really didn't understand gay issues but blindly supported gay political causes because it was part of a self image and a lifestyle they were taking part in.

They'd sniff you out, push you to identify yourself, if you refused they'd bully and harass you.

I had a teacher like this at my high school who was an asshole to me and a (future) gay guy in our class. She looked down on us, I guess because we weren't coming out to her satisfaction. I was being bullied and called a lesbian by a different boy in front of a group and this teacher stepped in and told him I wasn't ready for that, with this shit-eating grin on her face. The tone was very much "she's a lesbian but she can't deal with it, isn't that pathetic?" Fucking humiliating, plus it was essentially an endorsement from a gay authority to keep bullying me.

This same woman had publicly defended a lesbian prom queen a few years earlier during a big scandal where she wanted to take a girl to the dance and wear a tuxedo. Whoop dee doo, still a nasty cunt. Fuck her.

PatsyStone · 2021-11-13T19:46:14+00:00

It's like they're blackmailing him or something. This is weird behavior.

PatsyStone · 2021-11-13T19:38:38+00:00

His staff is almost all straight women. Just, like, it is. I'm suspecting they're out of their depth trying to use gay men's relationship dynamics as political messaging. They seem to look down on their own candidate, too, who is a grown ass man that obviously doesn't want to star in a soap opera.

PatsyStone · 2021-11-13T18:43:33+00:00

Their relationship will not last. There's a social taboo among wealthy American liberals, you have to announce to your social circle that you're gay before the age of about 20 or something is deeply wrong with you. Even 20 is getting a little old, but it's the cut off in my estimation.

Either you're severely mentally ill or an immoral person who deserves to be punished (in their eyes.) Pete Buttigieg's husband, who purports to love him, is publicly participating in punishing him for breaking the taboo. Buttigieg did not publicly announce he was gay until he was 33, and already the mayor of his city.

Might being closeted into his 30s been painful? Complicated? The best option he had? Apparently no. Pete's husband has declared him a selfish and conniving liar, and talked down to him like a toddler while doing so. Chasten is apparently one of the good gays.

I think Pete will quietly dump him February of 2025. I couldn't live with someone like that.

PatsyStone · 2021-11-13T14:35:41+00:00

You're right, he did sign up for this. How much of his life is really his, anyway? He's the living definition of an empty suit.

PatsyStone · 2021-11-13T14:32:27+00:00

Lol I love this community for that exact reason. I'm constantly surprised by who I agree with- and why! Truth is medicine, for sure.

I heard somewhere recently (probably from one of the LGB-friendly therapists) that many detransitioning women report having terrible relationships with their parents, particularly their mothers-- and their mothers deny any such thing, and insist that their relationship is great; the mothers willfully turn a blind eye. This article strikes me as the perfect example of this pattern.

I'm not surprised to hear that at all. Fits what I've seen in person based off of the few trans-identified people I grew up with.

Thanks, gay dude, btw for posting this. I'm glad I got to see it, it's valuable to read even if I dislike the person who wrote it.

PatsyStone · 2021-11-13T13:07:32+00:00

I get that this is a propaganda documentary in preparation for his 2024 campaign, but seriously:

Chasten, holding the couple’s one-eyed puggle upright in his lap, tells Moss to ask Buttigieg about his identity. “He did everything to climb every ladder without being his authentic self,” he says. Buttigieg didn’t come out of the closet until 2015, when he was 33, already mayor. “You spent so much of your life hiding who you really were — did you feel like you were able to be your true self on the campaign trail?”

“Do you think he’s ready to answer that question?” Moss asks. “Can he answer that?”

“He should. You can try.”

Buttigieg walks in the room. Before he leaves, Chasten turns to his husband.

“Don’t bull---- us, Peter,” he says

My bisexual nightmare! If I was with a lesbian who looked down on me like this, who treated me with such disdain, I would dump her. You can't treat your partner like this.

Again, this is a performance intended for potential voters- which makes it worse!

I'm lost at why all the straight women who make up Buttigieg's staff seem to think coming out after 30 is some sort of moral aberration. They made a massive issue out if this, unprompted, in his last campaign.

I can guarantee voters mostly aren't aware there are social taboos in liberal social circles about gay people "coming out late."

I also disagree with the assertion in the lede that Pete is a "gifted politician." He sucks at this and would be happier, I think, quietly working a professional job where he wasn't constantly having to jump through hoops to please homophobic liberals.

PatsyStone · 2021-11-13T00:56:15+00:00

In my opinion, many of these teenagers were "terminally online" even pre-COVID because it was the only space they could access without parental overinvolvement.

Completely right. Modern middle class American kids aren't allowed to leave their houses without supervision. It fucks them up and delays maturation until they're already well into adulthood. Add to that the intense pressure they're put under by their parents and peers, you have a recipe for trouble.

Transitioning is similar to anorexia in this way, I think. Anorexia is fundamentally about control.

Teen girls (for instance) who live in emotionally stifling environments, especially where they aren't allowed to express anger openly, and who have no agency in their lives will obsess about what food they take in because they have no control over anything else. Being thin brings social rewards with it as well, positive attention and praise.

Anorexia is also frequently connected to discomfort with sexuality, or a desire to rid oneself of sexual urges you can't process. Victims of sexual abuse and same-sex attracted women are much likelier to develop an eating disorder than the population at large.

PatsyStone · 2021-11-12T19:52:21+00:00

Honestly, she's on our side politically but this woman is callous. Mental illness doesn't just crop up out of nowhere, and this woman just doesn't care that her son is suffering. She's dismissive, belittles him, and does her best to minimize his social alienation. She's gaslighting more than anything else.

There are hints in the article that the social milieu she's raising him in is driving him crazy and she can't accept it. Teenagers from wealthy families in the U.S. famously have terrible mental illness rates due to rigid social expectations, lack of control over their lives, lack of age appropriate independence, and the soul crushing college admissions process. Is she intending to change her worldview or become a wiser person?

So much upper middle class white lady cope! One trope after another! "He's gifted," "our family is full of successful aspie types," "the girls are just empowered and intellectual, so of course he's drawn to them."

I get that other people may identify with her, but it's harsh reality. I find women like this repulsive and I'm not sympathetic.

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