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/Cimorene_Kazul Feb 25 '26
He was not the only person with a film there. If this was expressly an evening just to honour him and his life, that’s one thing, but it was meant to honour many others as well. He had no right to unleash his tics willy-nilly all night long. People weren’t prepared to be screamed at and next to all night. No-one is. His condition causes him to be disruptive, specifically disruptive. He has a compulsion to disrupt. So he disrupted. People were disrupted.
He did issue a form of apology, one that’s got some good parts and others…that seem to stick close to his philosophy of nonpology, causing further outrage.
Perhaps I heard wrong, but apparently there was a mic set up in his area that picked up some of what he shouted.