#free yourself

Eve Ensler, The Apology

- cult-like mentality

- demanding access to spaces that are not for them and then criticizing or destroying those spaces because they were not built for them

- claiming to care about creating a safe space but in reality actually wanting to sanitize the space

- creating dangerously short pathways from "protect the children" to "silence the voices of the oppressed" and anti LGBTQ representation

- dismissing demonstrable facts that contradict them as irrelevant or someone else's opinion

- DARVO and perpetual martyr/crusader complexes ("I'm being attacked for speaking the 'truth'")

- seeing the world in binaries, which leads to ->

- -> "if you're not with us, you're against us" mentality to manipulate members into staying loyal

- which leads to a compulsion to loudly declare the cult's values to maintain membership/avoid suspicion

- developing secret spaces to fearmonger and talk exclusively about the "mission" and what's "wrong with the world"

- behaviors (like doxxing, harassment) are inconsistent with the proclaimed values of promoting safety

If you recognize these behaviors in yourself or your friends, seek help. I'm not joking, memeing, or teasing. This type of thinking is dangerous and caustic to you, those around you, and especially marginalized people. You're not stuck in your cult, you don't deserve to be bullied/harassed/intimidated into staying, you're allowed to have your own opinions even if others disagree, you don't have to loudly proclaim someone's views to stay safe or be seen as a good person.

No one escapes this 👆