 Listening to true crime cases from the 80s that "D&D Satanism scare" was some wild shit. Was everywhere, propagated by sheriffs, detectives, unquestioning media, & the in-person equivalent of your out there Facebook relative. Normies been fucked up about a lot of things for a long time. 37 comments
Which brings me to the NIAID political hack normie so-called doctor equating mask hesitancy to acknowledging trauma: https://ohai.social/@thatkatharine/113245539176499721 Mask / covid denial is the **OPPOSITE** of acknowledgment. Denial is what you seek to create around you, not a safe space for trauma therapy. Fuck. Outta. Here with that bullshit. All my colleagues have aged DECADES in the last 3 years because of all of these failures allowing COVID to age the shit out of their bodies. Despite the stress witnessing this has taken on me, I haven't, because I've had covid once and got lucky. It's never too late to stand up and do the right thing for you and those around you. #WearAMask   @hannu_ikonen that take, that we were traumatised by covid mitigations, and not by the death and destruction caused by the disease and its ongoing effects, is everything that is wrong with public health practice, laid bare @hannu_ikonen “masks won’t work because people won’t wear them correctly, we can’t tell people to wear masks” was a time @64 @hannu_ikonen that's not about whiteness. It is about privilege a bit though; we are all denied the privilege of being safe participating in society without needing to worry about masks, and we have all had to watch our society flail around with shaming and use of force around quarantines and masks followed by denial, exposing the probability that the next time our collective safety is threatened, our society will again leave us to bear the consequences, while maybe punishing us too. @64 @hannu_ikonen To be fair I think you can make a very reasonable and persuasive case for both, it doesn't have to be one or the other. Lockdowns were no doubt necessary, but they evidently did lead to a hole bunch of unintended consequences, people living with abusive partners / families, kids with learning disabilities or who just struggled to adapt or who's schools were ill equipped to help them do so, to name but a few.  @hannu_ikonen They think that if they deny it hard enough they'll be safe. It's magical thinking on an institutional scale. @hannu_ikonen I'm an NP, have lost friends who died caring for infected COVID and vaccine deniers, new NP's who will never go back to nursing. Curious if you link the NPD/Trump trance with other extreme belief/behavior distortions  @hannu_ikonen Some friends I haven't seen since school sent me photos this summer. I'm not kidding or exaggerating: they look old enough to be my parents. This isn't me being ageist or in age denial: they truly looked a generation older than me. It was really unnerving. @hannu_ikonen Yup, at 64 I can still run hard around the track a few times because of my own sacrifices but I don't know how long it will be until somebody forces it on me. 😞 Used dbt in the classroom. Middle schoolers were receptive to it. Unfortunately left teaching bc soulless admin @hannu_ikonen I've never read up on DBT validation before. Thank you for sharing the link. I'm partway through and I have to say that most people I know in any context are terrible at Level three. @ShaulaEvans arguably 3 is the most advanced. Requires teasing out underpinning values or important beliefs and connecting them @hannu_ikonen I'd been thinking about 3 a lot lately (without knowing it was "3") because I've witnessed, first and second hand, a lot of people feeling entitled to define someone else or control their narrative at a level that qualifies as covert violence. So not so much 3, as anti-3.  Can we please stop putting white men in positions? Thanks. Double entendre not entendred. @hannu_ikonen It also places their "trauma" of non normality above trauma of those who suffered real harm from Covid. They're giving themselves the justification necessary to discount people with long Covid or those disabled or those who lost loved ones to it  @hannu_ikonen seems they discovered sex at some point, you can see how shit that went.  @hannu_ikonen Protestant school. We could get in trouble for having dice, modules, or little lead figures, so we left that at home. Copies of Soldier of Fortune magazine made the rounds at school along with the Anarchist Cookbook, but no Dungeon Master's Guides.  I was a chubby little metal fan, and I mean, I'm talking Twisted Sister not Slayer, and I remember being accused of being into Satanism all the damn time. It was fucked up cult behavior, especially in Saskatchewan.  @hannu_ikonen was one of the first times I realized my mom was actually pretty cool. I was a super into it first gen D&D kid also into heavy metal. She didn't take that stuff seriously at all, treated it like the joke it was.  @hannu_ikonen  Not to mention they always found a local psychiatrist (no offence) for a sound bite for TV to backup how "violently damaging" to a child physic D&D could be, on top of punk culture, video games, television, film, rock music, music videos and comic books and so on :blobcatglance: |
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@hannu_ikonen I'm sure you know about the West Texas 3 but if you don't, watch the doc - it's fucking INSANE.