HeyJaredWeirdism, with Amy Charlotte Kean
A psychosociologist's take on our weird and wonderful world, delving into social norms, evolving culture and the dysfunctional beauty of being human.
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I promise I’m not a dystopian villain, but I think we need an Internet Police (opens the original)
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Pay attention to the “weaponisation of victimhood” playing out in society right now (opens the original)
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“I’m being bullied!” declares Maureen Lipman, in the Telegraph. A paper infamous for bullying people. She wrote the piece after two actors - Gerard McCarthy and Iz Hesketh - pulled out of the upcoming Soho play Right Before I Go, upon hearing that Lipman had been added to the cast. Her support for the Israeli genocide was their very simple reason. So, in summary, Lipman’s definition of bullying is that somebody… walked away. She took to The Telegraph - who love any opportunity to feast on the so
10 men who continue to thrive in British society, despite doing far worse than allegedly plagiarising elements of their PhD thesis (opens the original)
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Who do we forgive? It’s a question I’ve been reflecting on a lot lately, as the social media mob becomes even hungrier for flesh. Like the furious 450-pound Russian boars trained to attack and eat people on command in Thomas Harris’ disturbing novel Hannibal, the UK masses are primed to hound anyone who displays a sign of weakness. This is what happened to Jason Arday, and you’ll never convince me otherwise. The bored British mob got hold of him. And to alleviate some of the frustration from the
Why I refuse to label my rage as "perimenopausal" (opens the original)
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Theophilus Packard believed that children are born evil. A Calvinist minister in the 1860s, he said that all humans inherit sin and are unable to love God because they’re too selfish. The only route to salvation, he argued, was to be one of the predestined. Apparently God has a list of people he likes, and if you’re not on it… well, you’re fucked.A pretty extreme set of views, you might think. But if you disagreed with this out loud, and were a woman, you’d probably get <a href="https://www.hist
What was interesting this week? (opens the original)
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You know I’m weird, right? Very. I’ve been called weird by family members, former friends and strangers for as long as I can remember. Weird, odd, peculiar, strange… all the kooky adjectives. And it wasn’t until a few years ago that instead of crying and hiding each time it happened, I decided to own it. And when you own your weirdness, life improves immeasurably. There’s an unparalleled sense of freedom that comes when you drop the mask, and I have a hypothesis: that the weirder we allow oursel
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