This essay advocates for empathy, accountability, and the importance of learning from mistakes. It emphasizes truly understanding and addressing others' needs, promoting open and transparent communication, and being open to feedback and self-improvement. It also highlights the need for genuine empathy and support when helping others.
No one survives suicide. Using others' pain for sympathy is wrong. Hashtag campaigns are criticized in the song "Virtue Signals." The author, connected to several suicides, rejects the "survivor" label. They condemn seeking sympathy for others' pain and share a disturbing experience with a family member's manipulation.
Parents! Vet your teenage daughter's boyfriends! Or, it will come back to bite you in the ass when she hits midlife and blames you for her life turning out different than she imagined it would! Your teenage daughter will lie to you and tell you her boyfriend is younger than he is right after she … Continue reading When your Machiavellian adult daughter has a midlife crisis and scapegoats you
The double-standards of societal narcissism exemplified in the public treatment of Taylor Swift The ongoing criticism of Taylor Swift is that she writes songs about the people in her life. The joke is, “If you've dated Taylor Swift, expect a song to be written about you.” As if, no other artists in history used previous … Continue reading Why Y’all Wanna Pick on Taylor?
People talk about being naive as if it's a bad thing when, in reality, naive simply means one does not think like a psychopath. People usually lose their naivete when they become aware that most people DO think like psychopaths. What happens next can be one or several of the following, in any order or … Continue reading Hundredth Monkey
Everyone deals differently with grief and loss caused by death. One thing that is universal, though, is that a tragic death; i.e., death of a child or violent death, within a family tears most families apart in one way or another. My family—immediate, family of origin, and extended—has seen within it the cancer death of … Continue reading Triggered, Attention-seeking, and Playing the Victim?
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