Do you feel like awful things are glamorized?

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Do you feel like awful things are glamorized?

🌙🔮 • Sun, Nov 05

Do you feel like awful things are glamorized or glorified in our society such as suicide, mental illness, cancer, rape, death, murder, etc. please explain why you think things are glamorized or what has been your experience with the glamorization of awful things in our society. Please explain why you don't think things are glamorized

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Hell yeah. Did you see 13 reasons why? Basically any teen drama ever? Any type of fictional media? Every tv show that comes to mind contains a fucked up scene somewhere. There was that thing when having anxiety and other mental illnesses like that was seen as cute and quirky a while back.

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Y’all are going to have to excuse the angles and scan lines. I can’t be bothered looking this up on my phone. But here are some examples of the glorification of serial killers in a certain online community

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I’ll elaborate on what I wrote under C.’s comment about 50 Shades. I’m not a part of the bdsm community, but I’ve heard those that are say it completely misrepresented it. Christian Grey isn’t a dom, he’s abusive. Also, the fact that his childhood abuse was used to explain why he’s the way he is. In my experience, victims of adverse childhood experience are way more likely to hurt themselves than abuse anyone else (in the form of eating disorders, self injury, addiction and so forth).

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Certainly, especially serial killers if you take a look at Tumblr’s crime community. Mental illness is also glorified. I don’t necessarily think I would say rape is. I also think anything LGBT related is badly exploited and falsely stereotyped, many times by people in the community themselves.

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Dare I say it on this app.. 🙊

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Yup. Rape, objectification of women, pedophilia from porn.

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Serial killers and mental illnesses are two things I see glamourised a lot.

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I would say they are over popularized.

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Yes. Pretty much about 80% of songs out there nowadays glamorize terrible things. Sex, drugs/substances, women, you name it. I'm terrified that my daughter will one day be old enough to understand what these people are singing/rapping about. And I feel guilty every time I like one of those songs' beats.

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I definitely think mental illness is constantly glamourised. I remember in year 11 my friend said she was “so OCD” because she liked having her notes a certain way. Honey, that’s called being organised, not OCD.
My OCD actually prevents me from normal things, like going to bed. It drains me. I can’t even sit on my bed without making sure the door is locked 5 times, and that’s the thing that disturbs a normal routine the most.

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