#systemic neglect

Overall Safety Rating: ⚫️ High Risk for Re-Traumatization

Primary Portrayal Style: 🧠 Psychological Focus

A psychologically immersive character study portraying systemic neglect, isolation, and mental illness through an unstable and escalating perspective. Distress is cumulative, with minimal emotional buffering and violence framed as emotionally contextual rather than resolved.

Joker may be suitable for viewers comfortable with bleak, unresolved narratives, but may be one to skip for those sensitive to violence, reality instability, or themes of suicidality and social abandonment.

May Be Distrssing For: Viewers who have experienced emotional or systemic neglect, or who have felt othered or mistreated due to mental health struggles, may find the film particularly distressing.

Likely Manageable For: Viewers who are comfortable with bleak, unresolved, fatalistic narrative arcs may not find Joker destabilizing.

Full trauma-informed breakdown, content categories, and intensity notes in the reblog below. Some spoilers ahead.

I do not say this to say: oh those poor baby Trump voters, they don’t know what they do 😢

I say that to mean: we have to put up with these MAGA cult fucking losers because of systemic neglect. Every time it is deemed appropriate for a state to neglect its people and infrastructure and people because “they voted for it” means we have to deal with them later.

The fact that kids in red states get such poor education should be something to be sorry about and not the “lol they’re so dumb” ridicule

Yes, maga voters are brainwashed. They are stupid. It’s really fucking sad they’re this delusional about a literal conman. They have been massively failed by a system designed to create a voting block for billionaires until they can steal the rest of the power they seek.

That being said I don’t know how to fix this going forward. Talking to them is so unpleasant. All of the political garbage they consume makes it intolerable to try to help them. If we point out what is wrong with anything we’re lying or we believe the “liberal” mainstream media. (Is the liberal msm in the room with us now?) they psychologically cannot handle criticism or fact based truths.

I hate it here, I’m stuck here, and they’re essentially cheering on the end of democracy because their favorite creepy 80 yr old rapist pretends to look strong between naps and golf games.

Reading of Policing the Planet Continued -- Discussing Riots Although, for the most part, protests across the US in relation to defunding the police and the Black Lives Matter movement have continued peacefully, riots have played a major role in the history of systemic oppression in the US and it is important to discuss why. 

You cannot blame people for rioting “by a generation brought up on despair and systemic neglect” (page 76). 

We must attempt to understand the sentiment behind these actions. 

In 2015 in Baltimore, after crowds erupted over the murder of Freddie Gray, one person described the reasons for the destruction of property. “We’ve been down in Annapolis, we’ve been at the city council, trying to get reforms. We’ve pursued every one of the avenues we’re told to pursue in order to see changes come about. And we’ve gotten nothing significant. It’s unfortunate that only after buildings were burned and cars were smashed, only then did people start listening” (page 76). 

Countless murders of young people of color, at the hands of their own government, with no recourse from those involved, leaves many with little choice.