Two things have been playing on my mind that I want to get off my breasts (‘chest’ serves as a gender-neutral, anatomical, or clinical term - I am a woman and I feel like using the term breasts even if it’s not the ‘correct’ term).
The first, people on social media channels, including Substack, telling others. TELLING. It’s not sharing, it’s not inviting, it’s not asking, it’s not advising - it’s telling. Shouting. Yes it can be informative and perhaps even full of wisdom but you’re still yelling and making statements about how I should and shouldn’t live, what you think is best for me, what I should or should not do, telling me what the current state of affairs is…why, I am even being told why I am/think/behave a certain way because you seem to know better.
All sorts of voices and people shouting at me again on my feed - perhaps I need to rethink who I follow. I like the depth and breadth of the content I find on this platform but honestly, it’s starting to grate on me to see ex-alcoholic or whatever addiction or sad state of affairs one’s experienced turned CEO telling me ‘how to’ anything. Do we see Gaza war survivors on these platforms telling us ‘how to’ this and that? No. If I ever start doing that, please, tell me off; pull me up on it.
What I propose is sharing reflectively. Write to yourself; for yourself. Not AT others.
Fuck; I’ve just done it haven’t I. Told you what to do by disguising it as a proposal. Woopsie!
I’ve also genuinely forgotten what the second thing was.
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