each doctor has a special power

when baby feminist egalitarians are like “it’s wrong to sexualize men in [demeaning fetishistic way, ie mpreg, exaggerated yaoi dynamics, transvestism, various forms of infantilization] because it GOES AGAINST THE VALUES OF MASCULINITY”, like implying that it’s okay* to put women or female characters in the same situations because femininity isn’t as fragile as masculinity and can stand up to being protested as submissive and weak or whatever, but you can’t do that to a MAN because it EMASCULATES HIM!

so one of the times I got committed to the mental hospital I got taken to the state hospital for holding instead of a processing facility and I had to spend over 36 hours in an overcrowded waiting room where people were literally covering the floor sleeping because there weren’t even enough hard chairs to sleep in and also people were being alternately aggressive and obsessive towards me, but I think I kept it pretty fucking cool all things considered. and then one doctor went up to a security guard and pointed at me curled up like a pillbug and went “why is SHE* here” and I got taken to a relatively nice psychiatric hospital. still not the type where you get to keep your phone or anything like I hear about on social media, but you know, I had a bed. this post is not going to unpack the layers of intersectional privilege that resulted in me escaping that situation, but rather to present the concept of Ragdoll getting sent to Arkham and after a few days of experiencing creep behavior or possibly even getting in a physical altercation one of the doctors is like “why is SHE here” and he gets sent to a regular mental hospital and is weirdly ashamed of this. but also he has no desire to murder his care team in order to break out because they’re all genuinely lovely people and he would hate to make a mess of them like that. and also he’s on a lot of weird pills and isn’t super confident in his core strength. so he tries to just shut out his doctors and immediately breaks because he can’t not overshare, he’s like a trauma-informed psychotherapist’s wet dream. also idk, I PERSONALLY think it would be funny if he didn’t even end up getting committed to Arkham directly as a result of his crimes but because he got sent to the ER for some absolutely wild self harm and they realized he was local costumed serial killer Ragdoll the Younger.