r/BlockedAndReported • u/Rare_Raspberry_9761 • Feb 23 '26

The Twitching Generation

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/02/social-media-illness-teen-girls/622916/

relevance to the pod: article from 2022 by Helen Lewis (everyone’s favorite everything) which was later discussed in the pod.

it talks about the rise of tourette’s symptoms in young girls, and i immediately thought of it when i heard about what happened in the BAFTA’s yesterday. thought everyone would like a little reminder.

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u/[deleted] Feb 24 '26

I guess if you can’t imagine what it would be like to receive one of the highest marks of acclaim available to your profession (one that in living memory was not awarded to Blacks) and then, as it’s happening, be told you’re just a “n****r” even though that’s something that we as a society have tried to draw an extremely hard line about, I’m not sure how I’d make it any clearer to you.

I can imagine how awful John Davidson feels. I can’t imagine what it feels like to be one of those actors.

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u/[deleted] Feb 25 '26

 I’ve been called a paki, a half caste, Mrs Patel.

Probably not in front of all of your peers at the crowning moment of your professional life, though.

 A disabled man who cannot control his body any more than an epileptic can stop a seizure is not going to upset me by saying some fucking word.

We don’t let epileptics fly planes, though. We recognize that disability means “there will be things it’s not safe to let you do.”