I genuinely think Eve should've been treated a bit better by SOMEONE!!!!!!!

She's called dumb, and all her scenes are played for laughs, when she's fucking doing serious journalism by taking those selfies, and in a manner that doesn't put her in harm's way.

She's in an abusive relationship with Lex, he spies on her using the traffic cameras, he uses his giant prison as a threat against her, he throws things at her. And her name is fucking 'mutant toes' in Jimmy's phone.

Even after he uses her and she puts her literal life on the line to help him, he acts like spending a weekend with her is torture.

She's literally screaming in the closet terrified and it's still played unseriously, by immediately cut to Jimmy Olsen fist pumping.

Only for him to realise at the end she's not such an idiot broad ??

I have OCD. one of my themes is called “scrupulosity”. what this means is that I constantly obsess about the moral value of my thoughts and actions. because I was raised Christian, this is often connected to the Bible, but it doesn’t have to be.

so a line of thinking that really angers me is the idea that there is such thing as a “problematic” intrusive thought. this rhetoric is wrong for three main reasons:

intrusive thoughts, particularly in OCD, are ego-dystonic.

this means that our brains tell us things that go against our values. someone who loves animals will probably get thoughts about hurting animals. someone who cares about inclusivity may get intrusive thoughts about slurs. someone who is very religious may get intrusive thoughts about sinning in some way. etc etc

your intrusive thoughts do not reflect your values. this means you cannot call an intrusive thought problematic, because that would imply some kind of moral weighting to the thoughts.

you cannot control your intrusive thoughts

I repeat: you cannot control your intrusive thoughts. it is wrong to judge a person for something they cannot control. someone cannot be in the wrong for a thought that they didn’t choose to have. end of story.

thoughts are thoughts

people with OCD often struggle with something called “thought-action fusion”. this means that we assign the same value to a thought as we do to an action, or that we can’t remember if we’ve actually followed through with a thought or not.

so it really doesn’t help when people from the outside world reinforce this perspective! thoughts are thoughts! they have no moral value! they’re just things that happen in your head and don’t have the capacity to hurt anyone. thinking and doing are different things, and you cannot treat someone like they’ve done something if they’ve simply thought about it.

in conclusion:

no thought is a moral action

intrusive thoughts are uncontrollable and often taboo

be kind to people who experience intrusive thoughts!