Posted by: EmilyEmilyEmily on: October 21, 2011
Okay most of this has been said before I think, but still, I got irritated by someone identifying as an ally being terrible recently, so! Large analytic post. If you know why self-identified allies are often a problem, this probably isn’t anything new. tl;dr: Being an ally means encouraging people to call you out more, [...]
Posted by: EmilyEmilyEmily on: October 4, 2011
[Cross posted--with some edits--from Fuck Yeah Borderline People.] So one of the traits of borderlineness is a pathological need for attention. Like we’re not talking “you want people to pay attention to you” here, either, we’re talking “if people ignore you, you have a psychotic meltdown and hide in the closet sobbing because everyone hates [...]
