#myths and controversies

[sysmedsaresexist]

Could you please dive into the RAMCOA controversy that's been going around? I've literally never heard someone say "RAMCOA is antisemitic" until like a week ago and now there's multiple blogs (I'm sure you can guess who at this point) who are saying this and calling RAMCOA a conspiracy theory from the satanic panic.

It's being said by the same 3 blogs that all reblog the same bad takes so I wasn't putting any stock in their word. Just the latest misinfo spreading unchecked, would appreciate your thoughts on this.

You know what, I'm not going to lie, I've been dreading getting this question.

Terrified. Harassment in this area of discussion is rampant.

We are currently debating making a post and how to approach it.

I will make our stances clear right now.

I think the conversation as it is now is full of misinformation and confusion. I think no single post can cover that amount of history and the theories and controversy.

I don't think anyone understands what they're arguing about, or the histories they're trying to bring up, and how they overlap. I think many members of the conversation lack access to resources and education that the mods of this blog DO have access to. Most of the links being thrown around lead back to the same single sources.

To shorten a very long, complex, and honestly unfinished conversation: the satanic panic and RAMCOA are two completely different entities. The satanic panic was a religious political movement of the 90s pushed by conservatives as a way to scare people back into church and scare women back into their "place" at home by attacking child care facilities. It called on a lot of tropes. And many of them were, yeah, ridiculously antisemitic. As the movement got more and more sensationalized, it began to call attention to therapists (some of them bad faith) and to RAMCOA survivors as a "Look! It's real!" kind of thing. If anything, this attention hurt far more than it helped. It painted an inaccurate and insulting picture that's still utilized to harm people today.

To be very clear: programmed DID is a well documented occurrence and it can occur in several ways.

We support survivors, no matter what they call it. We support clinicians trained in treating people who have gone through that extreme level of horrific abuse. We support people learning to separate fact from fiction, in whatever way that may apply to any given situation.

SAS supports ramcoa and oea survivors.

Here's something we suggest reading, though it's very long.

Stay safe, everyone ❤️

[alwaysbewoke]

[harrisonbrainrot]

This fucking photoshoot is going to put me in the hospital.

[shih-coulda-had-it]

huge fan of black myth: wukong if only because you the protagonist are going on what you think will be a lonely hero's journey, you the blank slate whose last joke was pretending to be a peach about to be eaten, but for like a majority of the journey to the end you get uncle pigsy. and uncle pigsy (infamous pervert character) looks like this:

and his backstory cutscene? hello???

[vivelareine]

Ali on Switzerland, on the myth of the "hidden pig" in the Lion of Lucerne monument, which commemorates the Swiss Guards killed during the August 10th attack on the Tuileries. Contrary to popular belief, there is no evidence that the creator of the monument hid a pig silhouette as a method of revenge due to nonpayment.

[image credit: JimSf9IyD8/CC BY-SA 3.0, no changes]

[gotstabbedbyapen]

I'm seeing too many Greek mythology-related wars on Tumblr these days and I'm kinda scared.

Please send help QAQ

[spookberry]

controversial opinion but a lot of recent legendaries dont look like legendaries. spectrier and glastrier look like rapidash with different typing, and kubfu and urshifu look like pancham and pangoro but different types of bears. i get that after like 30 years you run out of ideas but its still really sad that they just look like regular pokemon and not legendaries

What is zapdos if not a normal bird but yellow. Theres an ongoing joke of people mistaking it for fearow.

Moltres is just rapidash as a bird.

Legendaries have always been like this. Pokemon hasnt run out of ideas, theyre just trying new things cuz they can. Not everything can be a giant space dragon and not everything can have the nostalgia of a lil pink floating cat.

[darkwood-sleddog]

i do thing it's mighty rich of that recent documentary on joe henderson to call him the "last arctic explorer" in relation to how he works his dogs when there are plenty of indigenous arctic mushers working their dogs in the traditional way without peddling inaccurate and often harmful breed mythology but that's just me.

[salvadorbonaparte]

I just remembered how my friend’s dad told me with a serious face that my tribe is full of cannibals and that there were savages hiding in the woods we lived near. Like wtf. I didn’t know how to respond

Build a time machine, kill Christopher Columbus

[theduchessofnaxos]

I am at a strange point in my life where I am simultaneously a fully functional adult and a college student.

So I took vitamins and an omega 3 supplement this morning, but I washed them down with peach tea monster.

[woolydemon]

having mutuals that are into warriorcat books means I see discourse posts like "berrywhisker was MEAN and said a slur and killed bunnytoes and if u like them ur a misogynist" and I'm like "uh-huh yeah uh-huh. Ok. My cat would do that too"

[eyebagsanonymous]

Am I the only one who thinks this about Medusa?

I will still stand strong in my opinion that Medusa consensually had sex with Poseidon, but as a naive young girl, she was unaware of the serious consequences. blinded by the god's power, she gave him what he wanted, even having sex in a goddess's temple. She was probably still being used, but I think it was more manipulative than downright rape. It would make much more sense for Athena's wrath when she helps Perseus track her down. She was the one who cursed her in the first place. We all know Athena is a spiteful lady, so maybe cursing her to live a life alone with her sisters just wasn't enough?

I'm bad at explaining things over text, but this is the just. I feel like a lot of people play Medusa as the victim. I accept that, and sadly I can't find the words to explain why I prefer my idea, but I do. I know it's dumb but I just wanted to get that out there.

[richdadpoor]

Unni Mukundan-starrer Jai Ganesh Not Linked With Lord Ganesha Myth Controversy: Ranjith Sankar

Kerala Speaker AN Shamseer has been accused of insulting Hindu gods. Ranjith Sankar has shared a picture of the receipt from The Kerala Film Chamber of Commerce on social media showing an invoice about the title registration of Jai Ganesh. Actor Unni Mukundan recently announced his next film Jai Ganesh with director Ranjith Sankar. After the title of the film was unveiled on social media on…

[childeapologist]

Americans are way too weird about their guns just because of their masculine dream of fulfilling their good guy with a gun hero fantasy. And it is time we talked about just how much of a fantasy that really is.

Source

[agnesandhilda]

"did helen of troy do anything wrong" - the greatest thread in the history of forums, locked by a moderator after 12,239 pages of heated debate

[mehmetyildizmelbourne-blog]

The Magic of Nitric Oxide for Health

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