Cannot recommend WDHDT highly enough. I’ve found it helpful not just for romantic relationships, but also for growing up w a “unexplainable/uncontrollable” dad.
IT HAS ALSO BEEN REALLY HELPFUL FOR UNDERSTANDING ONLINE MOB HARASSMENT.
So if you’ve ever been bombarded w threats to be raped/killed, (so…if you’re a minority and you’ve been on the Internet for a while), this book might be useful for getting clarity around the whole entitled, abusive mindset that drives certain kinds of people to behave that way. And by “getting clarity”, I mean (for me) being able to go “oh, that’s what’s happening” and not really feel scared anymore. Or angry, or drawn out into it, or anything.
And if you’re still standing around going “but how does something like GamerGate happen?” or “but why do men hit their wives?” or whatever – please read that book and learn something.
^^^^ truth WDHDT is fantastic at cutting down MRA bullshit and calling it what it really is
Please consider reading these. WDHDT is really, really helpful. And I know some of you are struggling with abusive relationships, friendships, families, etc. You’re not alone. There is help.
Yo. This family holiday, please, please take care of yourself. You aren’t there to be anybody else’s cushion.
Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents
Reading any of these books does not mean you don’t love your parents or family. It’s just self care for helping you cope and not repeat the behaviors.
All the books in this thread are great; adding this one because it was the most helpful to me. Free pdf here
toxic parents is the book i checked out from the library last january that REALLY SINCERELY helped kickstart my road to recovery. even if you are not a victim of abuse, they are invaluable reasources, but help pass them around so people who have been abused can have access to material that actually, genuinely, sees them and provides them with concrete help
straight up, i think we need to start unironically using the term megacorporation
amazon, disney, pepsi, pretty much any company that owns enough subsidiaries that you’re probably touching five of their products at any one time without realizing unless you know very well where everything you buy comes from
that’s a megacorporation
and it’s bad, todd
WE LIVE IN AN OLIGOPOLIC KLEPTOPLUTOCRACY AND NOBODY SEEMS TO CARE
Alternate universe where Kal-El’s baby pod comes down behind Wayne Manor after the deaths of Bruce’s parents. Alternate universe where 15-year-old Bruce Wayne pulls an alien baby from the flaming wreckage and hikes across that big ass miserable lonely estate back to the house, listening to Kal cry the whole way, not sure if he would die in Earth’s atmo or not.
Imagine a young vigilante in the making having no idea what to do, but knowing – just knowing – that he can’t turn the kid over to anyone and then imagine Alfred realizing this after a few hours just… “You’re holding him incorrectly, Master Wayne.”
I’m just saying, there’s less moral ambiguity to bringing your bouncy/floaty adopted younger brother on patrol with you when he happens to be bulletproof.
Justice League meetings in this world would be interesting, to say the least.
Bruce is like 40 years old and Kal is like 25 and as set out on his own as Superman. It’s the same: the Justice League is headed by the world’s beloved Superman, Bats is funding it from the shadows. The world’s greatet hereos, lalala. The primary difference is just Batman says odd things to Superman sometimes like “Did you eat this morning or just pretend you don’t need caloric intake again?”
And instead of just chuckling magnanimously Supes gets all like: “I’m not having one of your gross protein shakes, Batso.”
*Batglare*
Supes drinks the fuckin shake but he does NOT enjoy it.
Iron in the Sand 