Yk I found your channel from a drama video on gabby hana (idek if that's how you spell her name) and Im very glad I did cuz Ive been watching for months now 😭

Why does she sound like a televangelist.

The fact she has so many different threads to take this “thriller” use Lowens fears and distrust of her mother mixed with her grief and project it onto Variety or sprinkle more seeds of Jeremy being controlling and psychopathic or even the kid having unhealthy rivalry to his sisters and unintentionally rip his family apart

Its still not all men like me :)

Rachel I would love to see you do a critique of Taylor Swift's lyrics as poetry! I don't know if its a great idea with how feral the swifties can be but as a casual fan of her and a big fan of your art critiques I'd love to see it!

I love hearing your dog sniff snorring in the background. It makes my day every time

MY FIRST WALLACE AND GROMIT WAS CURSE OF THE WEAR RABIT. I SAW IT IN THEATERS TOO IT WAS GREAT

I think you make some great points here. But I also do think it's worth noting that much of Drake's audience, especially for something like this is women. There is a reason he had instagram models reviewing the book as apart of the marketing rollout. He knows women like using his lyrics as instagram captions, and he caters to this in his music and in this book. Drake is obviously misogynistic. But he also knows a lot of women have internalized misogyny or the women who listen to him regularly often lack accountability in relationships, are bitter about their exes, and are unhealed, just like he is.

More raw, unfiltered Rachael please!

The Thrym legend of Norse myth may explain "what big x you have / the better to y you with." Thor crossdresses as Freya to get back his hammer, because Thrym, who stole the hammer, wants Freya's hand in exchange. However, Thor devours most of the wedding feast and has bloodshot gray eyes like storm clouds. Nearly outing himself as not Freya. Loki, who is the fake Freya's bridesmaid, has this exchange with Thrym, the bridegroom. THRYM: Never saw I a bride devour or quaff like that. LOKI: Freya has been fasting for a week, longing for you. THRYM: Never saw I a bride with scarier eyes! LOKI: Freya has stayed wide awake for a week, longing for you.

There is a Haitian Afro-Caribbean version with a girl going to live alone in the jungle, so she can return to her village once she has come of age, but an alligator tricks her and devours her. Her dad cuts the gator open and frees her.

That jackal story sounds like "Les set cabretes," or The Seven Baby Goats. Here the big bad wolf eats honey to sweeten his voice and them devours six of the titular baby goats. The youngest hid in the grandfather clock. That youngest one tells Mama Goat about what happens to her siblings... Mum takes up her sewing box and opens the gut of the big bad wolf with her scissors, freeing the six baby goats, then fills his gut with six big rocks and sews him shut. The big bad wolf wakes up, goes to the local well for a drink, and the goats revel as the big bad wolf drowns.

Hm another feminist great

As a woman, other men and women can do whatever the fuck they want, as long as I'm left alone. Done.

I always get a little teary eyed when you get passionate about feminist issues! One of the best creators out there ❤

i gotta say, i've been a long-time follower of yours and got out an abusive relationship around the same time you did, and the discussions you have in your videos about abuse and its effects has really helped me pinpoint and recognize aspects of my own abuse that i'd been trying to process without the proper context or vocabulary, and that means the world to me. there are a number of things i recognized after i left as abusive, but i still have to remind myself constantly not to downplay or dismiss my own abuse, and hearing parallel or analogous experiences from fellow survivors who have the understanding and perspective to name that dynamic as abusive is extremely validating. overall, thank you so much for everything you do, especially your honesty and vulnerability in your content, and for sharing your ability to communicate and recontextualize information. your channel helped me escape a toxic fundamentalist religion, and is now helping comfort and reassure me in my own recovery.

“Well you would be a Terrible parent!” Yea that’s why I don’t wanna be one- Edit: Where’s the sequel where Jeremy kills Lewen next?

Best part of the video was seeing that sweet black Pit Bullish pup. One thing I will NEVER understand is how all these IBLP families with tons of kids consider the words of a 90 year-old never-married Bill Gothard to be sacrosanct and holy, or even practical. By Gothard's own teaching, his life-long bachelorhood means he has never even touched a woman, much less has ANY idea sex, raising children, or anything related to nuclear families. Gothard is an evil false teacher who has lived far too long. He will have MUCH to account for before God. Again, Gothard is EVIL.

Thank you Rachel. I got a lot out of this episode. I'm starting to think my own abusive relationship consisted of two victims reacting to past trauma and aiming it at each other, utilising the defenses we both built as a result of our own circumstances. So, thanks again for presenting and discussing the topic in such a manner that helps me heal. Please give your pup a mooshing on my behalf.

Just looking at the thumbnail I'm like....... that sounds like something you might want to keep private. It's like telling other people that they should shove tentacles up their ass and like it because you do. I get this is because of religious conditioning, and so it's not necessarily something she actually wants because she's brainwashed, but I have a feeling it's for other reasons too... Like, even the most conservative Christians would not think like this. There is a reason you think like this.

I totally agree with about using terms like "narcissistic abuse"- they're valuable terms and they absolutely need to stick around, I do feel for people with NPD and how often they get demonised and mistreated but that doesn't mean that we should stop talking about narcissistic abuse, just that we need to carefully approach how we talk about it in relation to NPD.

I think Michael Pearl needs a little bit of "training" himself, and with something a bit heavier than a tree branch.

for someone who believes that babies are blessings, its really strange to see Solie refer to pregnancy as a consequence

I think Dav is genuinely intelligent and self aware. I think he also showed that he has more left leaning views than anyone else around him after his Barbie review and I think there’s wayyyy more to him than girl defined will LET us see. I’d be interested to just let him talk and say exactly what he wants with zero judgement just once

Was he in the certification process but got hired as a long term sub during field experience? This is pretty common for alt cert, I was once a 21 year old teaching my own class! The rest... didn't do all that

Why does Colleen name the main characters after a my little pony

All of these signs (both in and out of character) point to someone with an incredibly disturbed childhood.

I’ve read and considered a lot about disability in the workplace. While I do wish that it wasn’t an issue of people’s livelihood being tied to whether or not they can keep their job (as in, I wish unemployment welfare was easier to get), I feel that the standard of accommodation in the US is passingly fair, given that we have a general rule of “at-will” employment in the first place. Essentially, you cannot be fired FOR a protected disability. What you CAN be let go for, is if you violate rules or cannot fulfill your duties, with the addition of “reasonable accommodations” made by the workplace to assist you. Reasonable accommodations are defined as those which do not place an undue burden on the employer. So, basically, you can’t go around using an illness as a cover to break rules or not do your job. (If you can’t work for a period of time, there are other things you do to protect your job during that time.) You don’t get to cause harm to others because you choose to act in a certain way due to your illness or disability. It’s obviously different to be an influencer, but I’m thinking of it in the same framework. We can make reasonable accommodations for Karissa’s illness. However, she doesn’t get to do unacceptable things just because she has an illness. Not all people with eating disorders get on the internet and push their perspective as a campaign and moral issue and make money from those posts, it’s not an unavoidable symptom. Also, if there was theoretically a person who did not have an issue with food themselves, yet pushed the same rhetoric (for whatever reason), would they deserve to be deplatformed? (Or whatever consequence-I haven’t seen the content myself, so I don’t know what the appropriate measure would be.) If so, she deserves that consequence. She deserves whatever accommodations are REASONABLE, not ones that place an undue burden on her “employer”/“customers”/audience. I would consider just stories about her behavior not to be an undue burden. That’s just expressing herself. However, if she is pushing others to take up her practices and championing eating disorders essentially, depending on how and how much, she very much might need to be deplatformed for the sake of others’ health. You don’t get to hurt others because you are in a sympathetic position. That is my line.

at least colleen hoover's books are entertaining in their idiocy. this one is just gross.

I just read My Dark Vanessa because of this video, what an amazing recommendation. Even though i dont have the exact same experience it really resonated as someone with ptsd. Thank you!

Love listening to your dog schnorf, what a cutie.

Cry bout it

I would think this would be a hit in certain Western countries lol.

Insecure people needs egos.

Andrew Tate is what happens when the mother isn’t sober during the pregnancy. Also, I wouldn’t let him lick my a$$ crack.

I don't know why I suddenly remembered that I am a teenager, god, I had forgotten, i have got this habit of viewing people from adult's pov, i even saw you as someone younger than me , i am 18 💀

I got the book, and thank you for putting out content like this, and all the content you do!

How does any human claim to have a better understanding of God's will than anyone/everyone else? How do they justify that level of arrogance/blasphemy?

Just came here to say that I love that your sarcastic voice reminds me of Sandi (one of the popular girls from Daria) who has a very distinct voice and I think your sarcastic voice comes closest to anything I’ve heard to it before 😆

A lot of these dynamics are also found in narcissistic abuse within families, such as parents abusing their kids. I'm also always wary when people complain about us using the term narcissistic abuse because it is nearly always people who show these toxic patterns themselves and don't enjoy getting called out on it. Very few actual, as in medically relevant degrees of narcissistic traits being present, narcissists ever get diagnosed because part of their mental profile is that they often feel they do not need therapy or a diagnosis and that it is the other people who have issues. In germany we have a saying that roughly translates into "When a dog gets hit they bark" and I feel these people complain because the callout makes them aware that they might be toxic themselves. Mental health stigma is very, very real and serious. However, survivors like you or me are allowed to use terminology that accurately describes what we have gone through.

11:46 - "Ableist towards people with Narcissism?" Let's be clear - People w/ Narcissistic Personality Disorder aren't disabled. In fact, statistically, they're often well-off & successful people who got where they are by deceiving, manipulating, and using others for personal gratification. They lack empathy for others & aren't entitled to empathy _from_ others.

Unrelated but the snorting noise in the background of a driving me insane!!

Sorry for that this comment is just about 5 years since this is video was posted, I happened to chance upon it from suggested content in my feed, and frankly for someone pathologically cynical and even dismissive of the reaction video genre (perhaps because the ones I sampled assumed a very sharply mocking, lazily sarcastic tone), but this video essay (if I can call it that) is not only exemplary in its form and structure, it excels just as much in the thematic content and absolutely sincere arguments. It resonated with me additionally to the obvious aberration it addresses, by the polite, kind tone assumed so resolutely, and eventually, through the handling of a rather troubling tendency in an unflinchingly graceful manner, to become the perfect example of love and truth agenda the misguided zealots were preaching about. There is such a disarming sincerity in your tone, it lends so much authenticity and purity of intention while you fight back a visibly certain hurt, which makes every moment of watching this so intense and moving, especially how painstakingly present point by point empirical and logical rebuttal to the regressive, unhinged and hatefilled rantings of a clearly self consumed motley bunch of unhinged bigots. As to how it resonates is that, on the increasingly rare occasion I do engage with those who so vehemently uphold and preach borrowed ideas reduced to mere commercially exploitable polemics, I tend to feel concern and perhaps pity for how they've surrendered to profiting off attacking and dehumanizing vulnerable people, just an impulse to not eviscerate their little hiding space by calling them out but to engage with them to bring out their humaneness that they're on the verge of selling off, of course though only till I've run out of patience. It is therefore such an inspiration to come across someone who so passionately addresses a concern, affecting the community you are part of and as much also how it personally affects you. You really set the bar high right up where it ought to be towards shaping s healthier, more productive social discourse, and in the process emerging to embody all the goodness these zealots hide their disgraceful propaganda under. 🍻🙏

I needed this. Thank you Rachel for always speaking out.

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Anaphora should be mandatory.......

Another book that’s really good is If he’s so great, why do I feel so bad

37:10 I am so grateful you expressed this so clearly - the question of your own experiences because the other person doesn’t seem to have the same experience. I haven’t been able to articulate it so well. When my ex cheated, it was in the guise of polyamory, so his (now only) girlfriend presented herself as a relationship/polyamory expert and would give me advise on how I needed to change to make the relationship work. It was such a mind f*ck.