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Chris Bray's avatar

"...a free-floating bucket of subliterate shit."

My goodness, this writer has just described a bucket that floats and...has shit in it? This is what happens when we don't have editors, folks.

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MKnight's avatar

Thank you for this. I routinely joined the people horrified by the personalities presented on the Libs of TikTok account, until someone I knew cropped up. This individual claimed non-binary status when I knew her, and was the first I had encountered. Ironically, she (can’t say them - I really can’t make myself do it, although I did to her face) was in my home daily as a behavioral therapist for one of my sons with autism. I really liked her. We talked a lot. She let me in on her life story a little, and it was horrific. But I tried to make her feel safe and appreciated in my home, because I just knew that’s what she was missing. She inevitably realized that, as an incredibly broken person, helping others wasn’t what she should be doing and she left that job. But when I saw where she had spiraled to in the year since I saw her, I was utterly heartbroken. We can mock them all we want behind the safety of a screen, but these people are broken and shoved down and unanchored from anything that would actually help them. I’ve been thinking about how we reach these people a lot, too, and mocking their suffering, or entertaining their ridiculousness, is neither productive or helpful.

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