The fact that #EastEnders has the entire community coming together and wholesomely cheering during the coronation, meanwhile, at the actual coronation street party I got roped into attending, people were loudly taking bets on how long Charles is going to last until he carks it.
'I'll be honest, I don't rate him.'
'No worries, there'll be another one of these soon.'
'Yeah, I give him five years tops.'
#EastEnders should let me rewrite this episode using real quotes from an actual working class community's coronation street party.
People keep crowing about the sense of 'community', but this isn't recognisable to me in anyway. This isn't what my local community celebration was like. Where's the dissent? The arguing? The bad taste jokes? The sarcasm? The people who hate it all and only showed up for cake?
Has anyone going on about 'the sense of community' ever actually experienced being in a community? Genuinely? Because everyone wholesomely cheering and behaving and getting along respectfully without a single bad taste joke and merrily waving their union jacks is not it, lol.
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Today I saw a really constructive online conversation between autistic people and parents of autistic kids, discussing eloping and wandering and how best to keep autistic kids safe, get totally derailed by someone barging in going 'EXCUSE ME, YOU MEAN CHILDREN WITH AUTISM' 🙃
Throughout the conversation, people had been using both person first and identity first language, with no one commenting on what anyone else was using because it wasn't relevant to the (important) conversation, until this person decided to barge and interrupt with their demands.
Of course, the conversation then veered totally off track, with autistic people in the conversation defending their preference for identity first language, trying to explain why they use it, and this person absolutely doubling down every step of the way, demanding they change it.
An autistic 16-year-old spent SEVEN MONTHS on a busy hospital ward due to a lack of suitable children's mental health services. This is horrifying snapshot of the human rights crisis facing autistic people (particularly children) in need of support.
Not only was it too loud and too bright for her, but there was a three-person restraint team that would move in when she became distressed or refused to eat.
'It feels like they're torturing you,' she said, describing it as a 'living hell'.
The story is extremely distressing, so please take care of yourselves if you read.
Kudos to Molly for her bravery in sharing her story. It's devastating that this happened to her, and devastating knowing that so many autistic young people are going through this.
Do you know what this moment told me? It told me he knows that Callum loves him, and will support him if he falls apart or needs help, but, even in spite of that, he feels like he can't afford to fall apart/ask for help, because the risks of doing so are too great 😭 #Ballum
I think that makes it even more heartbreaking, that this isn't about him not trusting Callum to support him, it's about him feeling that he can't fall apart, he has to mask - that even though he knows Callum will be there for him, the risks from elsewhere are too high #Ballum
I mean, he allowed himself to admit he wasn't okay this week, and started to let himself fall apart, literally in Callum's arms, only for him to be immediately wrenched back to the reality of how dangerous not masking is (that he'll lose his little girl if he falls apart) #Ballum
Sometimes I stop and think about the fact that the incel community was originally set up by a woman as a place for lonely to people who were struggling to find love to genuinely support each other (and apparently a couple who met on the site ended up getting married).
"It definitely wasn't a bunch of guys blaming women for their problems."
"The word [incel] used to mean anybody of any gender who was lonely, had never had sex or who hadn't had a relationship in a long time. But we can't call it that anymore."
Genuinely, please read about her and her original site. The points she raises about how society mocks virgins and how lonely people struggling to form loving relationships deserve help and support are so important. Fuck the modern incel movement for twisting it the way they have.
Okay, so, from my careful analysis of the scenes we did get + the spoilers we know about (and the pictures), here is my theory around what the cut scenes might have been #Ballum
My guess is that after Kathy worriedly saw Ben walking away from Jola, we got a scene where Callum came into the cafe, and Callum and Kathy discussed the fact they're both worried about Ben #Ballum
In that conversation, Callum probably decided that he was going to try and organise a curry night for the four of them, to try and get everyone back together and talking, and make Ben feel included again #Ballum