the beast I worship

Daniel Kaluuya in Get Out (2017)

Lupita Nyong'o in Us (2019)

Teaches you hypervigilance (ex "search for these personality traits in people to avoid being abused")

Wants you to center your recovery around your abuser, their emotions/thoughts, and why they abused you rather than focus on coping mechanisms, learning about how your trauma changed you, and learning how to manage day-to-day life

Claims that your abuse makes you a special person and only other special people in that group will understand you / care about you

Encourages you to seek out abusers and engage in discourse with them

Encourages you to seek out abusers and hurt them first before they can hurt you

Teaches you that certain emotions/thoughts/symptoms (jealousy, low empathy, poor self esteem regulation, anger, etc) are abuser red flags rather than certain actions (disrespecting your boundaries, putting you down, refusing to respond to jealous & anger in a healthy way)

And last but not least: tries to get you to armchair diagnose your abuser with a disability or illness & place all the blame on the communities of those disabilities and illnesses!

just have to reply to this, because i don't know how many people will actually click on the link of the study. when you first open it, this is what you see:

you know its gonna be good. basically, the study by white and hall has been widely critizised (x x x) for two main assumptions that they make.

"The authors unrealistically assume that without livestock, Americans would continue to grow animal feed and incorporate it into human diets." that is of course completely unrealistic, and happens to take away the biggest advantage of a vegan diet: we would not need to grow all those crops we feed to livestock

"White and Hall’s algorithm is particularly nonsensical as exemplified by what they term “plant-based” diet scenarios: an “optimized” energy intake twice that of an average adult (>4,700 kcal/d), with 2,500–3,500 kcal/d coming from corn alone and 4,100–4,400 kcal/d from total grains.

Which shouldn’t be surprising. The fact that people who have already made one big change to their diet would spend some time thinking about everything they consume and would also make other changes to their diet is so fucking obvious.