Edit: added cw, changed title to be less graphic.
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Maybe I'm just more researched on how horrible things are in the youth "psychiatric" world. (well me and lettuce)
This is... sadly, not crazy news.
This is a copy of the "Troubled Teen" industry. An extremely violent, brutal, international, billion-dollar US industry, built around the sustained psychological tourture of kids for profit.
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This sadly happens in the US all the time.
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Listen, I'm not one that generally wishes harm on anyone. But if anyone were to ever have the urge too non-lethally firebomb a building, god pray that it's a TTI exec building.
]]>It’s like if almost everything about any Trans/Enby subjects were qualified as Transfem. Yes they’re parts of the same big umbrella, but they aren’t the same thing, and doing this is Trans erasure. It is the same thing with Aromantic content.
Don’t get me wrong, if something is about being AroAce, you can absolutely qualify it as Asexual, but please let us Aro people have our own things.
]]>The main thing being, as a gay man married to another gay man, I've never seen my marriage as an act of "normalcy," though I suppose it is. For us, it's more of a personal and cultural symbolic act that binds our love and committment to each other, and I see it as something entered into entirely of our own volition, not because we felts like we "have to" or "should." In fact, we co-habitated for 5 years before ever getting married.
I do agree though that it is problematic to somehow make this the "normal" for everyone. For instance, I'm acquainted with poly people who have disclosed to me how they sometimes feel "othered" for the type of relationship they choose to have.
Yet, our marriage certainly did come bound with certain cultural norms. The religion in which we both were raised (Protestant Christianity) definitely led us to be married in a church, which itself can be seen as an oppressive agency.
There's a lot to unpack. Add to this the fact that my husband and I are both trauma survivors, and it is often hard to parse out our motivations for doing and acting.
I'd hate to think I'm part of the problem.
I'd like to hear anyone's thoughts about any part of this essay, not just this. I've listened to it a second time, and it's still giving me a lot to think about.
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