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[@Hawthorn6852]

When I had my first experiences with OCD I thought I was some kind of monster because all my life I was told OCD is when you like cleaning and being organized, and here I was having graphic intrusive thoughts about killing people and repeating the number "3" in my head 9 times so my dog wouldn't die.

[@xxxxx-iu4fw]

huh. I might need to uh. get checked out. bc I relate to this in a very literal way uh

[@Al-go3tc]

Same. I have OCD and was only diagnosed this year. I thought I was insane bc I had awful repetitive thoughts and literally would get up and look under my bed twenty times a night so my family wouldn't be killed. It fricking sucks.

[@captaincaspian42]

But did you spin in circle on the carpet while you watched pokemon and tried to spin in even numbers or else your house would explode?

[@GoddessOfThree]

THIS IS WHY I DIDN'T GET DIAGNOSED UNTIL LAST YEAR LOL. I am 25 years old in grad school 😂 I didn't seek help until finally after a year of a disturbing phrase repeating in my head like a broken record, triggering panic and the need to "correct" it every time, to the point of interrupting my tasks and real conversations on a daily basis. It's still happening, but not to the degree of interrupting my daily life. Thanks to therapy I can kinda sorta manage it lol. But yeah, OCD isn't nearly as trivial as the mainstream stereotype paints it to be 😬 I'm now all for educating people about it so people like us don't have to live for over 2 decades scared of being called a psychopath for the things we don't even choose to go through our heads lol

[@Honeybunny_bun]

Me too man :(

[@jessidodge2488]

Also adding on to the "gay isn't biologically normal I don't wanna expose my kids to that" bestie that's like half the most popular children's media??? Teenage MUTANT ninja turtles??? Pokemon??? Ben 10???? Anything that has to do with aliens?????? Like all of Disney???????? Babe animals aren't walking on 2 legs and speaking English 😭😭

[@Raz3y]

tmnt is so queer omg (sources: trust me I'm a queer tmnt fan)

[@VantaDraws]

Even then, “biologically normal” doesn’t even exist. Everything to do with biology comes from mutations that were at some point not normal. Blue eyes is a recent one, do we have to stop showing blue eyed people in media?

[@hypatiakovalevskayasklodow9195]

Yeah but gay (and other nonhetero obv) people are real. There’s no phobia against your kid realizing they’re an alien, and they’re already a talking animal. It all comes down to some people finding sex icky. And finding it scary when seeing two people of same gender kissing and that arousing them. I guess what I want to say is fuck christianity

[@PokhrajRoy.]

Children’s Media is so Queer to the point where Strawberry Shortcake and Orange Blossom are Sapphic Canon. ‘Barbie and the Diamond Castle’ is about Cottagecore Lesbians. Queerness is not just same-sex intercourse.

[@dave_strider_]

​@@PokhrajRoy. thank you for this valuable information /srs

[@JayBeMeee]

I thought the surgeon was being sarcastic like "haha isn't this wonderful let me go enjoy lunch with no guilty conscious!" but actually thought it was terrible that they had to pay that much. Especially since the surgeons don't charge you the hospital does.

[@jellykittens2126]

Yeah I thought it was someone making fun of the fact people just think that’s okay in some places and don’t feel guilty charging people that money just to live

[@JayBeMeee]

@@jellykittens2126 I think the joke just flew over that persons head and because of their reply it looks like the surgeon was serious.

[@dahli8043]

I thought that's what it was too

[@froggy5748]

Yeah that’s what I thought. Plus, it’s absolutely not the surgeon’s fault that the surgery costs that much. Most surgeons work for companies who decide the price of everything

[@lauraelliott6909]

Surgeons do charge you, but it's a small fraction of the total price.

[@frankbruder3097]

The modern chauvinist's ideology: "If you are emotional and vulnerable, yOu'Re NoT a MaN! ThOsE aRe FeMaLe TrAiTs!" "BuT iF yOu WeRe BoRn MaLe, YoU'lL nEvEr Be A wOmAn!" "aNd ThErE aRe OnLy TwO gEnDeRs!" "NO, YOU make it make sense."

[@sluttyMapleSyrup]

_"No, _*_YOU_*_ make it make sense!"_ Is *_so_* accurate it's infuriating 🤣

[@max_punch]

That's the stuff that annoys me the most Man: *wears skirt* "Lmfao look!!!! A woman!!!! No man would evar do that!!!" Trans woman: *wears skirt, has surgery, takes hormones, just generally looks like a woman* "Aw hell nah you'll never be a woman"

[@GoddessOfThree]

RIGHT. A feminine man is only "a woman" as long as they think it's an insult, until she's a trans woman and then suddenly she's not allowed to be lol.

[@cosmic2750]

​@overlordfemto7523you have zero idea what you're talking about. Hormones are what control your body. In every medical way. Serotonin is a hormone. Oxytocin is a hormone. Imbalance in those both cause your body to fundamentally change (whether externally or internally). The brain is fundamentally altered by mental illnesses, which are caused by hormonal imbalance. Women are "women" because medically, they have higher estrogen than testosterone. If you were to cause that imbalance and make your estrogen levels go higher than testosterone, you would medically be the definition of a woman. The question of sexuality is a different subject, but you are *scientifically* incorrect here. Medicines control hormones. Hormones control your immune system. Hormones literally govern your entire body. As such causing hormonal change by external means DOES change your body in fundamental ways. And...how does surgery not change? It is literally changing the entire body. Do you even know what "surgery" means? Go to a library and read a goddamn dictionary.

[@happystoryfamily4830]

"Youre lying to your uetrus!!!" - Is it gonna feel bad?? Is my urterus gonna cry? Did i hurt its feelings?? ☠️

[@orsolyafekete7485]

well, to be fair it tends to have a destructive mental breakdown every month about not getting pregnant. not having sex won't help with that though :P

[@passionate_possum_pal]

Yes. Yes it cries tears of blood

[@happystoryfamily4830]

@@passionate_possum_pal i mean.....its been doing that since i was 9, i think its time to grow up a bit. /jk.

[@alexs.5871]

@@happystoryfamily4830 since you were 9? That's so early, you have my condolences

[@happystoryfamily4830]

@@alexs.5871 not really, i thought so too but many people start around then, isnt it 9 through 11 the adverage? Edit:Some people start at 7. Yea it sucks being a woman but yea know, thats life.

[@b3ar134]

the buff woman thing is so funny bc literally in ancient like Greece/Rome(correct me if i’m wrong) THE WOMEN WORKED OUT TO HAVE THE STRONGEST BABIES LMAOOOO

[@parps6dita290]

Spartan women did , I 'm pretty sure Cretese women were worshipped but sadly i dont think that's the case for other Greek cities. Also very sadly Rome and other cities in Italy were (and still kind of are ) relying on the pater familia or patriarchy in latin basically where men usually have more of a say in what happens in the family

[@wolvie1618]

Omg that's amazing. I'm now imagining some jacked af woman being like "imma give birth to the next Hercules" 😂

[@almamater9566]

Do we also talk about the Vikings ? They are from the medieval ages, not ancient times, sure, but still ! A study by researchers at Stockholm and Uppsala Universities and published in the American Journal of Anthropology provided the first archaeological evidence that women held high-status positions in Viking culture by analyzing an elaborate Viking Age grave in Sweden that holds the remains of a decorated female warrior from the 10th century. Several weapons were buried alongside the body, including a sword, armor-piercing arrows, a battle knife, an axe, a spear and two shields, indicating that the skeleton was likely that of a warrior. Accompanying the wide array of weapons were two horses and a full set of game pieces and a gaming board. The gaming pieces suggest that the person buried was a high-ranking combatant who was knowledgeable of strategies and tactics.

[@sluttyMapleSyrup]

@@almamater9566 Apparently in old Norse culture it was also pretty normal for "divorces" to shame the men more than women, with the general assumption being "He failed to satisfy her so she left to find someone who could".

[@almamater9566]

@@sluttyMapleSyrup Absolutely ! Viking women could own property and divorce their husbands. And be entrepeneurs and own businesses.

[@wizwitch5318]

When that muscle one came up, I immediately thought of the time I (afab) out lifted most of the jocks (all amab) in my gym class because I babysat and carried small children around on a regular basis, so I could easily lift the heavier weights they did, and I just pointed out that at home, I carried that much weight in a form that would move and squirm

[@jasminesoto9854]

Bro your reaction in dead

[@wizwitch5318]

@@jasminesoto9854 even funnier was the time they were doing reps and acting like it was so hard and I joined in and actively tried to be a little shit. "So what's the big deal here? Yeah, this isn't that bad" (They were amused)

[@naoisegale7472]

Totally agree on the first mental illness one. I’m really fed up of the mainstream conversation around mental illness focusing pretty much exclusively on depression and anxiety, and specifically on more socially acceptable symptoms. I had a severe psychotic episode this summer, and it was so ugly and terrifying, and it put me in some really dangerous situations. I really feel like we need to start recognising that lucidity is absolutely a privilege, that those who are hospitalised/ sectioned/ imprisoned/ made homeless due to mental illness also deserve to be treated with compassion, respect and dignity, and that medical trauma is often the inevitable result of institutional violence towards mentally ill people. Anyway, I wrote a whole essay, but would be very interested to see The Queer Kiwi explore this topic more.

[@jasminesoto9854]

It hurts me so much when ppl romanticize mental illness bc like bro that shit can fuck you up man. Mental illness isn't just oh no I'm sad It's wanting to die so badly you constantly put yourself and sometimes others into dangerous situations. Not eating brushing your teeth jumping in front of cars for the sake of it. It's even more fucked up bc I've gone through it.

[@toothfairy10133]

very much agree with this, and in a similar vein im sick of the vilification of (particularly cluster b) personality disorders. i've got bpd myself and i am neither an "uwu yandere boyfriend" nor an "inherently abusive evil person". im just a guy with abandonment issues and difficulty controlling my anger. yeah it sometimes affects other people. no it's not an excuse and yes i apologise after splitting or raging and try to make up for it when im calm. sometimes people with bpd are abusive. not all of us are and those who are still deserve to get therapy so that they can be reintegrated with society and stop hurting those around them. people will romanticize this idea of being mentally ill, where it's just a sanitized version of depression/anxiety that can be cured with love, and that's harmful both to people who actually suffer from the "acceptable" mental illnesses (bc y'all are so eager to support ppl with depression until they don't wash for a week and their house becomes unhygenic) and those who suffer from "unacceptable" mental illnesses which contradict the stuff we've decided is morally important (people with low empathy spring to mind. literally it does not mean they cant be compassionate they're not bad people what are you talking about). it isnt the job of the abused to have sympathy for their abusers, idc why my mum and my bullies treated me the way they did, i don't want to forgive them and i shouldnt have to. but it is the job of society as a whole to provide help for both the abuser and the victim so that they can live a better life. im not gonna be my mum's therapist bc i hate her but god knows she needs one just as much as i do.

[@rosiebowers1671]

I like this tweet about mental illness symptoms so much. People (somewhat) empathize with you if you have symptoms they can relate to (roughly, sadness or anxiety); but tell them about stuff they have never experienced themselves (in my case, dissociation) and they freak the heck out and suddely judge and/or avoid you. It's unnerving.

[@jasminesoto9854]

This hits so hard bro. Told my friends I heard voices and they never talked to me again 😐

[@calabazaroja2386]

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[@NonBinary_NonHuman]

That whole point you made about sex feeling good so that you'll want to have kids because "why else would you have kids?". I love it. That's quite good.

[@NonBinary_NonHuman]

Side Note: I'm an Asexual that wants to adopt. 🤣

[@genera1013]

@@NonBinary_NonHuman Same!

[@madierenee473]

Another ace here that wants kids 😂

[@forivall]

Also, sex has an evolutionary social benefit in our highly social species, as shown with Bonobos, who have the closest social structures to humans.

[@L0rdOfThePies]

Im an ace that doesn't want kids 😬.. im probably the difference tho ngl

[@sprigatoni]

15:32 people will say shit like this then say "hormones don't change your biology" to trans ppl. I was talking to my uncle who's a doctor. We were talking about medication and he was explaining how the hormones in medication change genetic expression. I was like "That also happens when trans people take hormones too right? So wouldn't u say that hormones do change trans people's biologically and ppl who say it doesn't are wrong?" And he was like "Yeah. They don't know what the fuck they're talking about." Love him for that 💖 he's also the most accepting person in my family :) 1st person I ever came out to.

[@ashitakedia5814]

Same my father who also happens to be a doctor explained me that gender dysmorphia is quite real and how gender is different from sex. He also explained me that genitals don’t determine how one feels regarding their gender and even in animals it’s actually seen that they transition even naturally.

[@sophiehelena6737]

8:23 making food can also use a lot of strenght like klopfing the schnitzel meat. there is a reason old houswifes are depicted with huge arms

[@bellablue5285]

Kneading bread (or other dough) is a pretty good forearm workout as well

[@wintergray1221]

@@bellablue5285 Dude, my arm gets tired just from holding my mixer for 2-3 minutes. I don't know how the ancient ladies weren't all swole.

[@29jgirl92]

Great comment but I gotta say "klopfing the schnitzel meat" sounds like a hilarious euphemism!

[@16poetisa]

I once went to a museum exhibit about living on a farmstead and they had a machine to simulate how much strength it takes to wring out laundry and let me tell you, I never felt more like a weakling 😅

[@countessspiritclaws5465]

sometimes as a sex repulsed asexual, i worry that i’m far too ignorant about sexual topics. however, these people have made me feel better about my limited knowledge, because at least i don’t believe this stuff! i don’t really need to know much as an ace person, but i assume the takes in this video come from allosexuals..so what the heck is their excuse??

[@nito575]

As an apothisexual too I was also deeply confused because I know 0 shit, but those allosexuals have negative knolodge...

[@jake-lynndobos659]

as an allosexual I agree.

[@loner844]

I can only imagine it’s lack of education or toxic discourse that makes them like this

[@kp12_art]

Same!!

[@captain_khaos]

@@loner844 as an allosexual yeah its indeed that people are only this ignorant because early on its drilled into their head that “this thing unquestionably bad” or “this thing work because magic” or “this thing unquestionably good” which works because. well at that point they’re children its sad really, because 99% of the time its not even their fault doesnt excuse how much of an asshole anyone is because of that, though

[@rat3015]

surgeons and doctors are NOT the ones charging hospital patients FYI. they have NO control over the prices. They are not freelancers.

[@karavandebeek]

Whoever decided that being a mom is weak and all that must've never actually seen a mother. Because goddamn they're buff

[@saralove9805]

Blunt force trauma CAN cause mental illness but it is definitely not the only way that happens. Trauma of any kind whether physical or mental can cause it. Some people are just born with it. There's many things that can add to it.... but it's not solely caused by blunt force trauma 🤣

[@beep3242]

Maybe she's born with mental illness... maybe it's Maybelline I'm sorry, I had to

[@saralove9805]

@@beep3242 lol I wish mental illness was as easy to wipe off as Maybelline 🤣🤣 that would have saved me so much on therapy lmao

[@outsidethewall8488]

Also this is nitpicky but the chemical imbalance thing is starting to fall out of favour in the scientific literature (at least for depression) so also could be seen as misinformation but it's such a common phrase at this point and it does help the average person understand mental illness better

[@mirandagropen9761]

As a sufferer of many and diverse mental illnesses, yeah a lot of them are just chemicals in your head. I am intimately familiar with the chemical nature of most emotions. I’ve taken enough meds to know, and enough to isolate what is situational vs. chemical vs. personal.

[@saralove9805]

@@mirandagropen9761 isn't it great when people say "it's all in your head" like yeah, it is all in my head. In my brain, the main organ that controls the body functions. If someone had a fucked up liver no one would tell them their symptoms are "just in their liver" lol

[@river-collective]

Mental illness that definitely be scary. I have intrusive thoughts that I can't tell people I care about because I fear they might think I want to do that. Sometimes I even take a few seconds to think "what if that is what I want to do", which it clearly isn't. I don't want to hurt people. It's already bad enough that my headmates can hear those thoughts. Which I am glad they don't think I want to do that, but I also feel bad for having them help me calm down. They can tell I don't want to do that, sometimes even faster than I can.

[@passionate_possum_pal]

That's why they're called intrusive. They are Intruders. That's how I think about it anyway, it helps me cope with them

[@snowicorn]

In some situations I have these weird inrusive thoughts like "What would happen if I suddenly insulted my teacher mid conversation" or if I'm washing a knife it goes "What would happen if I accidentally stabbed myself/someone rn" And that's scary because I'd never want to do that it's horrifying ;-;

[@tyrongkojy]

I don't think the doctor was flexing (or at least hope not), I think he was more showing off how fucked that was. Again, hope.

[@gracejordan110]

To the person around 10:00, one of my friends was insanely fit and in the Navy. She was discharged for her heart problems and has had multiple hospital stays over it. It’s insane to think everyone with heart problems is unhealthy.

[@jasminesoto9854]

I hate hate hate when ppl try to blame health problems on obesity. I understand sometimes yes it does. But that's not always the case. Everyone is so different it's ridiculous for you to generalize someone's health like that.

[@akuma4321]

i just wanted to say that i struggle with self-esteem issues because i get really bad acne and breakouts, and seeing that you have a bit of acne on your face is actually pretty encouraging for me. seeing someone i look up to with acne and not being ashamed of it is just,, really nice?? idk that was just on my mind

[@passionate_possum_pal]

I'm glad I'm not the only person thinking that! It's just really nice to see the normalization of that

[@spaltonon]

idk why but this seems a little backhanded

[@maddiedoesntkno]

@@spaltonon what about that is backhanded? They’re saying that it’s nice to see-basically a thank you for helping relieve an insecurity through 1:1 personal identification.

[@lurachr]

@@spaltonon i think it seems backhanded because those are things that we've learned to naturally think of as "bad" or "ugly" maybe. so it seems like someone saying "its cool that you show this because i have it too" seems backhanded cuz of that?

[@claratalbot7613]

To the homophobic one: So according to u my future wife & I are not allowed to hold hands in public or kiss each other on our own property because of the "children"? Yet ur perfectly fine with a heterosexual couple doing those same things. Looks like someone is just trying to poorly mask their homophobia because they can't stand seeing a non-heterosexual couple loving each other

[@homedepoturinalz8974]

Heterosexual parents will dress their sons in weird ass shirts that say stuff like "Ladies man" or whatever but start throwing up and screaming when gay people make eye contact for too long.

[@claratalbot7613]

@@homedepoturinalz8974 Yep. Yet somehow we make everything about a person's sexuality & sex just because we want to hold hands or show any affection towards our partners

[@epkurnissheoway]

@@homedepoturinalz8974 bro you dont even have to be gay, anyone of the same gender making eye contact for too long will make them flip shit no matter why

[@almamater9566]

@@claratalbot7613 Cis straight married man here. I couldn't agree more. When my wife and i walk around holding hands or kiss in public we definitely express our sexuality. My brother in law is gay. He and his boyfriend do kiss and hold hands in front of our kids who couldn't care less. All they see is love. Period. Well tbh the youngest one finds kisses gross in general no matter who is involved but that's another topic lol. All kids do at some point.

[@deeni-5059]

@@almamater9566 exactly! i dont have kids, but i have been around a lot of younger kids and most find kissing in general gross, they dont car whos involved, as long as they arent😭

[@cruelaz]

god the only needing to have sex three times in a lifetime tweet reminded me of a conversation with a friend I had who said to me: of course I like sex I would do it the required amount y'know like the wedding night. Bless his soul he figured out a little later he's on the asexual spectrum. Remember regardless how many times, not at all or anything in-between or round about you are wanting or having sex: you are not broken don't let society or others dictate you what to do with your life/time/body! ❤️

[@passionate_possum_pal]

I've had friends moms not realize they were Ace until into their fifties when they saw a documentary about it on Netflix. If we just had more education on these topics, so many people could avoid the possible decades of strife or confusion that comes with not knowing that it's okay or normal, that they're not broken.

[@sluttyMapleSyrup]

I was kinda the opposite, where I had so little interest in sex or relationships I could've mistaken myself for being ace... And then my best friend introduced me to bisexuality and it was all "downhill" from there 🤣

[@claratalbot7613]

Agreed. We choose how much sex & when (if ever) because society shouldn't tell us what we should & shouldn't do with our own bodies. I for one am bi & ace. While I have zero desire for sex I still want to get married one day. Preferably to a woman as while I'm attracted to both I'm more attracted to woman than men

[@iclynnx]

Yes. It also reminded me personally of, well, a lot of animals, like lions. Do you know what they do when the lionesses are in heat? The courtship lasts for a while and they can mate several times a day. It's often short periods, pause, then again, for countless times. And lions can reproduce more than once in their lifetime. It's actually even natural to mate for bonding / feeling good reasons in animals, not just reproduction. Even if does often occur at the same time because animals don't have protection. But need further proof? We have bulls that will attempt it with other bulls, lionesses with other lionesses (on camera), many more cases. It may not be as common but it does exist. So the whole "it's not natural" arguement is bs. They only say that about things they don't like. What about the hyper intelligent birds or octopus? They seem as intelligent as us sometimes. They use tools! Why is that not called "unnatural"?

[@claratalbot7613]

@@iclynnx Not to mention that some animals such as a clownfish will change it's gender to ensure the survival of it's species if all the females in the group are killed yet that's not considered "unnatural"

[@enby8167]

Dude, the one about eating out reminds me of an argument between me and my ex partner. I had informed him that I will probably never suck d*ck because I think it’s unsanitary, especially because a large amount of men don’t wash down there. He then decided to try to argue and convince me into agreeing to “at least trying it once”. But then one day I joked about him eating me out and he flipped out saying that it was disgusting and the texture would probably make him gag, which is valid, but it just set me off that he didn’t respect my boundaries but then expects me to respect his

[@wyatt.crashout]

bro what i would love to eat my girl out. he’s dumb as fuck. he doesn’t deserve you.

[@ThisChannelViolatedGuidelines]

I hope you made him aware of this hypocrisy

[@enby8167]

@@ThisChannelViolatedGuidelines of course I did

[@PokhrajRoy.]

5:57 Oh, yes. I’ve heard of this. There’s enough abuse one is aware of directly and indirectly and we don’t need a toxic form of ‘therapy’ add to that. ‘Tough Love’ is a very misunderstood term.

[@lauraelliott6909]

I had life-saving surgery (in the US) that was a relatively simple, laproscopic procedure and it still cost $100k including ER visit, 3 day hospital stay, ambulance, tests, surgery and pathology. That's the total bill, but my insurance reduced it (that's when they tell the hospital "no, you can't charge $X we'll pay you $Y and you can't bill the patient for the rest), then paid about half and I had to pay around $3k. So, what the hospital charges is what they want to get, not what they actually get. I'm not saying it isn't astronomical, it is! It's just the game that's played between the health care system and the insurance system for everyone to try to get what they want. I also have to mention I have very good insurance, better than most in the US.

[@bambino05]

These people who think you should only have sex to make babies are usually the same people who say men won't stay in sexless relationships. The average person has 1.93 kids (us), and apparently, the average amount sexual encounters before conception is 78 over a period of 6 months. So, doing a lil bit of maths, the average person would only have sex 156 times in their lifetime. Average life expectancy is 77 years (us), minus the average age of loss of virginity (16.9), the average person is having sex 2.6 times a year. Sounds like lots of fun.

[@ferninthehouse]

the amount of people who think body positivity is "encouraging people to be unhealthy" is astounding. im convinced theyre all willfully ignorant. its not that hard to understand wanting to accept your body as it is. then again these are the same people who think mental health is just "people prioritizing being happy over health" which is oversimplified but its like, mental health IS health. literally half the battle is being mentally well. they go hand in hand.

[@opalwreck]

was the surgeon flexing or was it not his choice and he was like 'i cant believe i had to do this'

[@bellablue5285]

Doubt it was a flex, but not familiar with the doctor. Healthcare costs in the US are wild, and usually set by the industry, not individual doctors/nurses/other medial staff

[@16poetisa]

@@bellablue5285 The price for identical procedures can vary wildly between hospitals, but insurance can also say "nah that's too expensive" and leave you to pay the rest out of pocket 🙃

[@killerbunny7206]

A sixpack is a full hobby and exercise is good for you. And you need to eat healthy. But that serotonin is just a temporary substitute until someone hugs you and tells you you're loved.

[@Wawawalulu]

Or classic repression/denial substitute.

[@killerbunny7206]

@@Wawawalulu Yeah, but you take what you can get :(

[@passionate_possum_pal]

For sure, but physical activity to take care of your body and release endorphins is completely different from aesthetic bodybuilding! And I agree, it is no substitute for love.

[@killerbunny7206]

@@passionate_possum_pal I think sixpack as a hobby is fine. It's good for your brain and your back and your heart, and it looks nice on most people. Sixpack as a personality does almost the exact opposite.

[@passionate_possum_pal]

@@killerbunny7206 I said aesthetic bodybuilding is different, not inherently bad

[@voidfoxx5921]

the guy saying look at animals... he clearly hadnt heard the phrase Fucking like rabbits :)

[@mariafrias2500]

I think he was implying that animals have a lot of sex (therefore we should not be like animals we are above them). Agree on your takes tho. Love you and this channel

[@DarkFleurofIra]

Wait... if that's the case then is that twitter user actually implying that nearly all animals are mentally ill???

[@alexlevantis8551]

No, I believe they're saying that animals usually have sex to procreate, therefore, humans should do the same (which is gross and sexual pleasure is completely valid and okay)

[@passionate_possum_pal]

@@alexlevantis8551 also, animals doing it to procreate just isn't true. Dolphins will bang just about anything they can get their little flippers on, and monkeys jack it all the time.

[@liamodonovan6610]

You are always amazing savannah strange how people think like this in the 21st century you are such an intelligent person love you so much savannah always enjoy your videos

[@justaheartbreaker1884]

Okay but side note, I love all your plushies. Especially when I see some of the skzoo dolls in the background of your videos. Also love your videos!

[@samwisegamgee6532]

Yes yes and yes again ! Great content of course but cute plushies are just adorable 😍😍

[@jenovella70]

I was just coming here to comment on the skzoo and bt21 dolls too

[@sammjaisais7135]

For all the close-minded and conservative takes my mother holds, I always get happy when I remember her reaction to Luisa, from the movie Encanto. I was preparing myself to hear her say something sexist, but she was like "Oh, totally makes sense. women tend to be pretty strong in reality". I was happy for a moment because, yes, my mother is transphobic and homophobic, and no, she can't fathom how women can express themselves as anything else than petite, fragile and to be protected, but my mum grew up in the ranch. My mother grew up with 4 brothers and 5 sisters. She knows women can be strong. She knows women ARE strong. She just prefers not to show it. She's just so closed in her beliefs and wants (as in, she likes feeling protected, but I mean, who wouldn't?) that she doesn't feel like she can show it. It's both sad and makes sense.

[@DarkFleurofIra]

3:26 Who wants to tell them that bonobos are h0rny on main? 12:03 Once again, show them bonobos and watch them go into dialup mode

[@Hawthorn6852]

Also what's gonna happen when they find out dolphins have frequent gay sex 😂

[@DarkFleurofIra]

@@Hawthorn6852 Exactly! People who say that ‘being lgbtq isn’t natural’ clearly haven’t studied nature hard enough

[@charadreemur7990]

I'm back with another thing I've heard and sometimes say; mental health can be a reason, but it's not an excuse. Meaning you might do something because of your mental health, but you still have to take accountability for your actions.

[@passionate_possum_pal]

And people aren't necessarily entitled to forgive you if you do. It's the good thing to do, but you're not required to stick around to listen to anyone else's reasons for treating you badly, just like they aren't required to stick around for your reasons.

[@kimcarter129]

Insurance companies are terrible here in the US. A doctor can say that a person needs a procedure done and they will deny it and claim that their doctor says the person doesn’t need it. Then your doctor has to fill out paperwork and you have to fight the insurance company in order to have it done, if you’re lucky, it gets done. My dad’s doctor ordered a procedure to go in and check on a blockage in his neck ( they won’t know until they get in there if it can be fixed with medication, if he will have to have stints put in or if they will have to open heart surgery). If they have to do surgery, they will do it right away. His insurance company denied it and said their doctor said he didn’t need it ( their doctor didn’t even see him). My dad’s doctor filled out paperwork and fought it and he’s finally having it done, a month later ( his doctor did put him on medication in the meantime, bloodthinners, to try and help keep the blockage from erupting.) Insurance companies suck here.

[@R83145]

Just this week, I had an interesting idea. Isn't it actually terribly impractical that heterosexuals practicing sexuality may result in pregnancies? It makes me think that homosexuality (or let's say people experiencing sexuality with their own sex) must have been a lot more common that it is commonly believed throughout history when no reliable contraceptives were available.

[@anna.owo.]

They had ways to prevent pregnancy, also in general they had more kids and in older civilisations they killed infants they didn't want. Understanding of sexuality may was different back then but it isn't how media portrait it, if a guy was a bottom he would be shamed in ancient Greece for example, be a top was fine. All sexualities always existed, i do not agree with the concept that everyone was bi in the past because it erases homosexuality

[@AnimeLuver0604]

@@anna.owo. it's more that most allosexual people were practicing bisexuality if they were gay and still wanted kids. Humans lean more bisexual as a whole but the division is more convenient for the straights.

[@mcbby7]

You've gained a new subscriber/supporter, love your content and also love that for whatever reason you've ended your partnership with Aura. Not sure if it's coincidental or not, but on behalf of me and other recovering addicts that I know, we thank you and will support creators who stop working with Aura and dangerous companies like it. If anyone sees this comment and wants to know more, just ask!

[@princessconsuela398]

what's aura?

[@mcbby7]

@@princessconsuela398 Aura is a "health technology" company started by a woman named Lima Jevremovic. The explanation for the technology surrounding their products was unclear the last time I tried to check for a concrete definition, but the best way I can describe it is the "virtual reality" category. Lima claims that bringing people (homeless addicts in recovery have been her main test subjects) back to the most traumatic experiences of their lives through VR, they can then supposedly deal with and move on from this trauma. Lima herself is sketchy and has put one of her sisters, Bam Margera, and countless other homeless addicts under conservatorships (like Britney was in) so she can control their lives. If you want to know more, check out the channel BJ Investigates videos on Lima. edited to add: oh and Amanda Rabb, one of the recovering addicts under her care, died while using Aura treatments. The circumstances surrounding Amanda's death are extremely sketchy. RIP Amanda, your life meant something and you won't be forgotten.

[@princessconsuela398]

@@mcbby7 oh my god that's awful! thanks for explaining

[@angellaramie9344]

9:40 i agree with what you’re saying but your reaction to the surgeon was the definition of r/whoosh

[@BlondeEyes7]

I read that as the surgeon being distraught, not bragging. Is that what you mean, or is there additional context or a meme?

[@angellaramie9344]

@@BlondeEyes7 that’s what I mean. As a person in school for medicine, I can tell you that doctors are distressed by what our patients pay. It’s not up to us. We also use humor to cope with our crumbling medical system

[@passionate_possum_pal]

God no, please let men know their loved. The men's mental health crisis is perpetuated by ideas exactly like that. That they should feel strong and powerful and feared instead of loved and valuable and safe. Good god, I've nearly lost friends because of this, and I know people who have lost friends.

[@passionate_possum_pal]

TW: mentions of an eating disorder I'm glad she touched on that, and also the six-pack thing. Men's and amab people's eating disorders are overlooked far too often. I had a friend who struggled with anorexia for years, and everyone wrote it off as her just being a gamer and that being totally normal. (Mentioning her because she is amab)

[@ThatDollLoopie]

So just wanted to add on the whole going down on a person with a vulva (for context I am a trans lesbian) I am autistic and have a lot of sexual trauma, I'm often very hesitant to go down on someone because I might get triggered (if the smell or taste reminds me of my abuser) or have sensory issues (like taste or texture because I'm autistic) and I don't want to go down on my partner only to immediately come up and say that I can't do it because then they might feel bad about themselves and I don't want that. I still make up for it in other ways though 😂

[@jasminesoto9854]

Have fun being bald /j

[@SaplingsCo]

QUEEN I NEED TO TELL YOU IM SEEING SKZ’S ENCORE STAGE IN LA JDKDNSN ITS MY FIRST TIME SEEING THE KIDS 🥺🥺

[@thatonetransguy8216]

I'm not her but PLEASE tell me how it is

[@Saibellus]

the way i see it, mental illness is an explanation, not an excuse. i often fall off the planet when my anxiety/depression get really bad. like, months of zero contact with friends. and i feel bad! it isn't my 'fault', but it IS my responsibility to mitigate hurting my loved ones. luckily, they are very patient people, but if i just let myself ignore people and avoid them whenever times got tough, and just said 'oh you cant be mad or hurt, it was my anxiiiieeettyyyy' i would be a bad person. i would never blame someone with a mental illness for their struggles and symptoms, but i would be upset if they used those as a reason to invalidate MY feelings without doing anything to try and prevent bad behavior.

[@pancake.squirrel]

I have a list of mental illnesses. I have also had 2 (count ‘em) minor concussions. I can say with confidence that my mental health was terrible when I was concussed both times and was still terrible after. Neither has any influence on my lack of survival instinct. :)

[@JhericFury]

Never forget that your thoughts are in your brain, and your brain makes thoughts by releasing chemicals, so "there's a chemical effect caused that makes you more relaxed/calm/whatever" it might be direct, but it also might be "it's fun so you feel better". The opposite is "depression is a chemical imbalance", which is true, and some people do purely have a chemical problem that needs to be directly fixed, but changing patterns of thinking also changes chemicals. It's why CBT helps and why treating it is harder than treating a broken leg.

[@SuperUmizoomi]

3:34 'look at what animals do' no one tell him about dolphins

[@cocalatte.7600]

Or penguins.

[@Crow0567]

Or sea otters :(

[@squirlis1189]

Chimpanzees enter the chat

[@wintergray1221]

If talking to yourself is a sign of mental illness, I guess I'm crazy. I hold full conversations with the characters I create when I'm writing, trying to get a sense of who they are. They're all Athena to my Zeus, born from my brain.

[@wickedmagician529]

9:30 maybe the video itself suggests differently, but hearing just this caption, it sounds like the surgeon is saying "I just saved an innocent woman's life and have now been forced by capitalism to ruin that life financially, and am now expected to just go on my lunch break and eat as though everything is fine and the world isn't a cruel place." Again, maybe the surgeon in the video really is bragging, but I'm going to choose to believe most medical professionals primarily do what they do out of compassion and a desire to help others and that this fellow is part of that "most"

[@PokhrajRoy.]

The earrings are fabulous because you’re a Rainbow Star and the cardigan is fab 👏🏽

[@Ace_Greymoore]

Also about people romanticizing mental illnesses, even the mental illnesses people tend to romanticize generally aren't just like "getting a little sad sometimes." I once had a depressive episode that had me laying in bed nearly all day and barely eating because the effort of even pouring a bowl of cereal was too much for me. Mental illness isn't pretty.

[@rcarmonahernandez1458]

9:30 you just unlocked a memory of my grandma. I never saw her do any of that, but according to my mom, she was like, super strong. She used to be able to move entire furniture to clean or reach something from behind. So yeah, even in a traditional sense, women need to be strong.

[@bluntizard4481]

Severe blunt force trauma to the brain can ABSOLUTELY change the mental health of the person hit. It's not the norm, but damage to the brain itself reasonably SHOULD have some negative effect.

[@thecoreofmagic]

4:20 This is a really good point here. My parents tried for years before they finally had me, and I was their firstborn. Imagine if they had the belief that you couldn't try more than three times without it being a mental illness. They would be devastated and neither I, nor my sisters would exist. I can't believe there are people who genuinely think like this. I feel like they watch too many of those bad movies where the love interests sleep together for the first time and then the woman gets up in the morning and immediately has morning sickness. Because that's how it works /s

[@robuxyyyyyyyyyy4708]

3:29 Even other animals do it for pleasure

[@dolceorbita8818]

Hi, Savannah, I just wanted to say that your videos have become my safe place, you comfort me & you speak the message that I would like to spread. You're a very good human and I wanted to say that I'm proud of you and happy that I found your channel

[@eros7433]

People who actually believe this stuff scare me Always look forward to your videos! Have a great day!!

[@argonanarchy3882]

I thought that heart surgery one would be calling out the health system. Which in America the price depends on insurance companies.

[@FederalBurroOfInvestigation]

Ok, but I don't associate me talking to the air with mental illness - it's just how I vent and work through things. I try to keep that to when I'm alone. Also, exercise CAN help with mental health regardless of gender.

[@SorcererSalt]

The surgeon post was a joke, like the landlord meme

[@Moth.187]

your hair looks really cool faded with mainly the green and yellow /gen

[@jupitertheplanet.]

3:32 "look at what animals do"... bro animals are so down bad what is this man talking about

[@wolfsanimated]

$141k honestly is the average price of just existing in the US TBH (including food, water, housing you know all the stuff we as humans need to survive, I'm surprised they aren't charging us for the air we breathe if they love our money so much)

[@RedJadeArt]

2:33 I used to carry a knife around and once threatened someone with it. Buuut in turn I was like, dealing with a parent with a narcissistic personality, and constantly felt unsafe in the house. So for me, it seemed like a really rational thing to do at the time.

[@freudianslip2010]

I think the surgeon might’ve been commenting on how fucked up it is that healthcare costs are so high that providers have no choice but to save someone’s life for an obscene amount of money and then just go to lunch (since they aren’t the ones setting the cost). It might not have even been a surgeon. Could have been someone who works on billing. Not trying to criticize. I love your videos. Just wanted to provide an alternative perspective.

[@lothcatskilledthesith6903]

I never had casual sex. Only ranked competitive sex.

[@alliet.7582]

“Not biologically normal” Like cars and computers and modern medicine and wearing clothes etc.

[@Witchywoodwoman]

I have two male rabbits, who are both castrated. One is already a senior and very calm. But the younger one often wants to "make babies" with his older friend and sometimes he even starts to make a nest for the future baby rabbits that might be coming soon. That is so cute and funny. 🤣🤣🤣

[@leafpile1373]

fjhgfhgfhg this is going to be quite fun isnt it, (side note: your outfit and hair look great Kiwi! so does your lighting)

[@dcornect53]

So that heart surgery one is mostly likely from the USA, where healthcare costs an arm and a leg because they hate taxes and think that the best way to encourage peak health is to make them pay for any medical care. The thing about that is, that in countries with free healthcare, the frequency of having to actually do high-cost medical procedures is actually lower because the standards for what is considered healthy is higher and not based solely on appearance and weight regardless of muscle tissue. For example a skinny anorexic 90lbs 20 year old woman is considered healthy by USA standards, despite needing medical interventions due to being severely malnourished, but in the aforementioned free healthcare countries, a 200lbs 20 year old woman who has quite a lot of muscles due to being athletic is considered healthy, because all their organs function well and they aren't malnourished. The USA just really has such a toxic system, and it doesn't stop at healthcare.

[@karabadasski2521]

Just think how much better this world would be if parents just taught their children from a young age that some men marry men and some women marry women. To me its the same as some men marry women.

[@budgie463]

you unlocked some memories with 3before me and harold the giraffe lol 🤭

[@thewolffromhell66666]

Carrying a child inside of you that shit is heavy

[@vamplinvamp]

Lol I had a therapist that recommended sex or self pleasure to help with my mental health. Honestly based af lmao

[@dezzydream]

i just wanna say that i really really appreciate the time you take to put captions on all your videos. i'm hard of hearing and i have an audio processing disorder and it just makes it so much easier to enjoy your content.

[@guillermostreiger2307]

About the mental illness part at the beginning, theres a great and extremely hilarious audiodrama called less is morgue in which one of the protagonists is a neurodivergent nb ghoul who has a very bad relationship with their mother, and in the second season theres an episode (might be the finale, dont quite remember) wheres the mom takes them to court to get them evicted from her basement. The episofe is pretty comedic but it also analyses the romantization of mental illness, the pressure put on neurodivergent indivuals by concepts like the "savant syndrome", and how they are shunned whenever the symptoms result in them acting in any negative way except sad. I really recommend it.

[@petrichor6562]

YOU GUYS IN NEW ZEALAND ALSO HAVE HAROLD THE GIRRAFFE! (I'm from Australia, we also have the white van and Harold the Giraffe)

[@kailer9839]

"Only 3 times" ever heard of a rabbit?

[@arryaabmayr2432]

That's such a cute jumper

[@29jgirl92]

6:00 does this person think that therapy is just being told that you are loved? I went for years and never once was I told that!

[@michaelmiller9107]

That sweater is incredible

[@temmie4230]

definitely underrated

[@paolamanassero939]

I'm def in love with the sweater omg

[@meganvincent5381]

"Sperm is our true master" what are you a decepticon?

[@rosiebowers1671]

"Look at what animals do": let me introduce you to the whole species of bonobo apes. One of the numerous species that use sexual activity as a major component in their social interactions, independently from procreation. And they're apes just like us.

[@unHolyEvelyn]

I too trust Elon Musk to make twitter a sanctuary of facts, because we all know that billionaires have never done propaganda.

[@FluffyMothz]

You should do a series called "Brains dont work like that" and its just people being wrong about mental illnesses

[@TheQueerKiwi]

oooooooh i quite like that idea. i’ll start compiling posts and things from different places.

[@lilithium3940]

Is there a reason your sweater isnt listed? Im absolutely obsessed and know my girlfriend would love one for xmas

[@kais3297]

it took me like half the video to notice jinret on the background and now i cant focus on anything else

[@leonyxx9576]

the surgeon one has to be joke, like he's probably laughing through the tears but also he has no idea what his surgeries cost theres a billing department for that

[@drunkaf1054]

My lord I want that sweater

[@gjdykxgrhrgdghfgjgnhkc6340]

4:53 Fun fact: there's a flower that imitates a female bee by the way it's build. And that's because male bees were "having fun" with those flowers, so it became an evolutionary advantage- these flowers got a higher chance of pollination So I guess you can tell this didn't lead to new bee babies lol

[@Ireallywouldrathernot]

"Your husband is at work or at war" The two things that men do. (I just thought it was funny, pls no one hit me)

[@ate_a_radio]

“Look at what animals do” Bro don’t dogs hump everything and anything they see??😂😂

[@BlondeEyes7]

Some mental illness CAN come from blunt force trauma, fyi.

[@kp12_art]

“Mental illness is not caused by being bopped on the head” I AM SORRY BUT THAT SENT ME

[@Greutter1999]

Well actually telling some one to work out could be helpful since it produces good endorphins. It's wild how much better and ready for the day I feel after my exercise class.

[@fshbulb1]

Harold the Giraffe! The best part of primary school

[@danbeaulieu2130]

@7:24 The idea that women are not able to lift anything heavy, is refuted by peasant women throughout history. When the local laird takes the men to raid the English (because York i'nt gonna sack and burn itself you know) the women had to do all the heavy work back home. And Scotland was still there when the men returned... usually

[@passionate_possum_pal]

Honestly I really want to be a buff house spouse. That's the goal here man