I grew up with and took a lot of damage from people who told me that I wasn't allowed to feel what I felt, that it showed that inside I was weak and sinful. Fuck them, and if you've spent today chiding people for feeling upset about truly unprecedented shit, fuck you too.
there seems to be a consensus forming that people who feel despair over our current political environment and terror over the future of our planet are like... bad leftists? There's kind of an implication that they're weak or pansies or something? Anyway I fucking hate it
I'm not American and it's still been an upsetting and unproductive day. I agree, it's okay to throw yourself a pity party for a day. This is a lot to process.
