this dude has been making sexually degrading remarks to me. FYI if you wanna block/report
i realize he's got a much smaller following than i do but sexual harassment is still sexual harassment, even if it doesn't particularly bother me because it's so lazy as to be obtuse.
reporting won't do anything but you could block yet another liberal man who needs to insultingly mansplain and then make reference to fucking yourself with produce because your screen name means you're a whore
i don't care if you have 2 followers. if you do that shit, i'm calling you out
like, at what point in criticizing someone because you missed the point of their tweet criticizing biden's thoughts and prayers tweet do you immediately turn to "produce in vagina" and think, wow, that's okay to say to a stranger
how many jobs has this dude lost because a woman was "too sensitive" about a comment he made
i'm guessing four
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Let's talk about how autism helps people spot manipulation.
One of the things I feel ABA robbed me of for a long time was the ability to tell when someone really was "bad" or "mean" or if they were "good" and I was just overreacting.
As a result, for years, I walked around giving people the benefit of the doubt on EVERYTHING. Did that girl just spit ice cream in my hair and slap me? What about MY behavior caused that? Because I know from therapy that people aren't supposed to do that.
hot tip for memoir writers: if you're not comfortable having your life scrutinized, don't publish it yet
too many memoir writers view writing the book as therapy or catharsis. you're too fucking close to it and you're gonna destroy yourself when people start dissecting your coping mechanism.
like, i'm sorry if that sounds harsh but it's time for tough love jen to tell you not to destroy your recovery process because someone told you it would make a good book
I'm gonna say what I'm gonna say and you either know what situation I'm talking about or you don't:
your abuse, your mental illness, and your marginalization as a white queer woman are not an excuse nor an apology. They are reasons, but not excuses.
a lot of people are sympathizing because of the dog pile and oh, this is a mentally ill woman raised in an abusive home and this is a deeply personal book.
guess what. this mentally ill woman you're talking about has been bragging about having a good publicist.
i'm sorry, but i'm too cynical to see this as anything other than a stunt. her publicist knows exactly what's happening. her agency knows. every single step along the way has been textbook "what not to do". it's not like any of this is a secret to writers.
the police are an insurrectionist militia backing the white supremacists trying to take over the country
if the response we're seeing in minnesota is possible, that same response was possible on January 6. but it didn't happen. we're not waiting for a civil war. we are already in one.
we are in a "first they came for the..." situation. they know they can kill Black people and disabled people with impunity. soon, we'll see police violence ramp up against other vulnerable populations