Good article with a headline intentionally misrepresenting the point maliciously.
two things: you can absolutely qualify for a ptsd diagnosis in the midst of ongoing, highly likely retraumatization, see: sexual trauma and the people most vulnerable to it. also it seems disingenuous of a mental health-based bureaucrat to bring up the concept of aunthenticity considering their choice of profession. like not to be cynical but we literally have this thread re: civilians & ptsd every week comrades
I feel like this response is working from the assumption that Dr Jabr is arguing that Palestinians (or anyone else) who are in the midst of an ongoing traumatic situation isn’t “authentically” traumatised by the stress of what they’re going through. That is not at all what she’s arguing. Instead, she’s arguing that post-traumatic stress disorder treats that retraumatisation as a constant and measures the individual’s response to it as pathological. She’s explicitly repoliticising our response to what is otherwise interpreted as an individual aberration.
I literally cannot understand how people watch Marie Kondo and go “this woman would come into my home and throw away my collection/she’ll throw away everything I DON’T love”. She’s not a fucking Hoarders house emptying crew, she asks “does this spark joy” or “do you need/will you use this” instead of rolling in the dump truck. (and i get that hoarders ar a different situation but I feel like a lot of people are unjustly comparing her to the crews who have no choice but to throw out filth which is very obviously not her job nor are hoarders her client base)
Had a friend complain that her crutches dont spark joy but she keeps them bc she never knows if she’ll need them again and they’re expensive and sturdy and like, ok??? Marie isn’t a fucking idiot she’s not gonna be like “THROW AWAY THE CRUTCHES ANYWAY AND BUY A NEW 200 DOLLAR SET LATER”….and the reach of accusing her of classism and saying her style is impractical for ppl who are broke bc “she makes you throw out everything and if it doesnt spark joy you’ll have to re buy it”….WHAT?? Like that was a specific example but you look on fb and Twitter and people are losing their shit like OH I GOTTA THROW OUT MY LEG BRACE SINCE IT DOESNT SPARK JOY? MY PRINTER? MY AIR CONDITIONER?? abd it’s so wild to me
she’s not gonna tell you to throw away your pretentious book collection she just wants you to maybe consider donating a few? But if not then ok at least we’ve decluttered your shelves so now you can put them back up nicely. She would no sooner FORCE you to get rid of anything than she would berate you for being a collector. Did people even WATCH the ep with the baseball card collector?? she simply told him to review the collection and see if it can be trimmed down a bit, then HE HIMSELF admitted he only needed about 20% of those cards. She didn’t just instantly put boxes of baseball cards in the trash, you loonies.
People are assuming a lot of ill intent out of Marie’s actions and also assuming that she’s so obsessed with cleaning that she’s, like, too dumb to understand the concept of keeping things?
Like I didn’t wanna Go There but there’s def an unreasonable amount of hate being shot at a pint sized japanese woman ( = acceptable target) whose only crime is wanting to bring some positivity and clarity into some disorganized households 🙄
I got really worked up about this so I’m gonna end with a funny tweet
I moved into summerstock housing tonight and a friendly orange cat immediately greeted my kitties to the neighborhood (he actually climbed into my damn car).
But then when I stepped into my apartment building I found this:
For the ppl saying “how y’all didn’t know about that “ don’t act like y’all know every damm thing because I know for a fact most people didn’t know about this 😂😂
