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I've learned so many new words since I started tutoring again. I work at a community college, so most of my colleagues are below the age of 30.
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I find it difficult to keep up nowadays 
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Oh, one-hundred percent agree it's so bogus. And the way you put it, like she deserves sympathy for someone else's trauma.
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Yep, and no one ever will.
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OK, this might sound a little crude, but I've always thought it was kind of shady how she made her little cousin's death kind of part of her gun platform, even though she admitted to like not really knowing her. She kept talking about how they meant to go see her. She was nine-years-old, and Sophia was already a big star. So, I'm assuming she had never met her or had only done a couple times.
But, it just seemed kind of suspect to me how all of a sudden her gun control platform was based on her losing a family member. And she always talks about that. She talked about on the podcast how she talked to her cousin, and had to hear her talk about her little girl. And I was just mortified. Unless the cousin wants all this publicity, that's another story, but I mean, I get that you want to speak from a gun owner's perspective. That perspective should be out there. Because the second amendment was not meant to ever be taken as breezily as it is now. But, the family member thing.
It just seemed like Sophia didn't know her, from the interviews, or the way she tweeted out: "She was my second cousin." Not cousin. She distinguished. I mean, maybe I'm from a joint-family system, so I don't distinguish unless asked like is he your second or first cousin.
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That was so off for me! She admitted she never met her, iirc, but kind of jumped on the opportunity to directly link herself to it when it came up. If she had actually cared, she would have not only met her, but known her. I met my second cousins (that I see) within months of them being born and I don't have the means and money to travel that she does. Kind of came across to me as her using a dead child that she didn't know to get attention because the opportunity was there.
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Yeah, I used to suffer from severe OCD, and it's more complex than people realize. Thankfully, I'm in remission, but it was crippling, to say the least. It was just, awful. And, Joy tends to do that. Throw serious words out there. I still can't get over when someone hacked into her Facebook to see her sonogram, and she said "This rape of my family." I hate, hate, hate when people use that word outside of the context of what it is or somewhere close, where you are groomed, and violated, and harassed, and manipulated. That is not what that was.
Joy, I've noticed is incredibly tone-deaf. I mean, she's beautiful and kind, and she seems to be really making an effort after George Floyd, which is great. But, there are just some things you don't say. And there are some things if you have said that are so brutally racist, if you jump the other side, you at least acknowledge where you were previously, and not try to speak for everyone.
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Exactly. People grow, but that means acknowledging the mistakes of the past and doing some serious soul searching.
Using words like that in any situation is damaging. I get annoyed when people get mildly upset by something and claim it's made them "depressed". No, it hasn't.
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Yes! The morality of the company. Like Hallmark was one of the main things Hilarie did, but she severed ties with them, because they refused to have more representation in their stories. I mean, Luke MacFarlane, who starred opposite Joy, and opposite so many others. He's a "hunk of Hallmark". He's queer. But, they never have him in a queer pairing. So, I really like that Hilarie does that. She's not just talk. Talk is important. I don't think talk is cheap. I think what you say matters. I just think follow-through is important. Some talk requires follow-through. Hilarie, follows through.
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Hilarie acknowledged her privilege and used it to take a stand against a company. Obviously if her situation was different, she wouldn't have been able to, but she saw that she could afford to sacrifice a paycheck, so she did. That's how it's meant to be done.
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Agreed. After the NXIVM thing, people flooded Allison Mack's page. And I remember this one woman saying: "And to think I named my daughter after you!" This girl I knew in grad school, she was a good friend of mine, until she became so emotionally draining, and honestly she did have that privileged Sophia "trauma", she would get so invested in characters and actors. She has like three walking dead tattoos. They're interpretations. But, yeah, I know close up people who feel attached to actors or characters. She was honestly more attached to Gillian Jacobs and her fantasy of Gwendoline Christie than her actual friendship with me. She was like that liberal woman who is not progressive or progressive in a way that's meaningless. She appropriated my south asian culture multiple times with just having to do yoga and meditation in that westernized way, but eating meat somehow made her sick to her stomach.
Sorry, sidetracked. Point is, it's good to talk to you, because I personally used to know a girl who would get offended like that. And I've encountered and had to block some stans who get too intense.
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People get obsessed with strangers and then barely cope when they do something horrible. It's ridiculous.
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