thunderpunching:

yinyin1-deactivated20151027:

Yeah, I do but that’s the way life is. We’re not living in some sort of safety bubble where nothing can harm us or trigger us, or bring back bad memories. Maybe I’ve had too much shit thrown my way and it made me cynical to a point where nothing can trigger me but I view the mv as a mere work of visual art.

What is ableism? It’s a form of discrimination or social prejudice against people with disabilities. I don’t see that in the MV. Mental illnesses are very real but you act like we’re supposed to pretend they do not exist. It’s important to bring these topics up in the media, especially in Korea. It’s important that people see that you can be someone who leads a, at first glance, successful and happy life and yet there’s a fight boiling inside of you.

I’ve been dealing with depression for nearly 3 years. At one point I reached a line where taking my life seemed like a very real option. I could count on one hand how many people know of this. You put on a mask and you go on with your life. My head became my own personal hell where I tried to mend myself without it spilling outside. And even now there are days when I would love to walk into moving traffic and call it a day.

Me aside, let’s not pretend Namjoon is the healthiest person. You all are worried if he has a girlfriend or what’s his sexual orientation but you completely miss so many things he’s been saying. He’s been very vocal about feeling lost, lonely, having a hard time finding meaning in the things he does. Everyone just brushes it off as ‘hahaha our leader is so funny being philosophical and all’ (isn’t that ableism??) while it is much more than that.

The mental hospital is his mind where he is the patient, the doctor and the guard. Try and don’t take things so directly. The mv represents his fight with his inner demons. It’s raw and graphic and intense but calling it ableist is completely missing the mark.

And lastly, as someone who is planning on switching for an art major, I must say that I’m very alarmed. It seems that any kind of expression is immediately picked through and labelled as problematic without even trying to understand what is shown..

Maybe I’ve had too much shit thrown my way and it made me cynical to a point where nothing can trigger me but I view the mv as a mere work of visual art.

Good for you. Not everyone is you and the world does not revolve around you.

What is ableism? It’s a form of discrimination or social prejudice against people with disabilities. I don’t see that in the MV.

Putting people in straight-jackets is literally abuse. It is real abuse that happened to real people. It is inhumane. That is and encourages prejudice against mentally ill people.

Mental illnesses are very real but you act like we’re supposed to pretend they do not exist. It’s important to bring these topics up in the media, especially in Korea.

Are you Korean? Do you experience that culture? How do you know what Koreans need to do to spread awareness of mental illness? A goddamn kpop video that uses it as a prop isn’t spreading awareness of shit.

If you really gave a fuck about mentally ill awareness in Korea, you could be supporting something like the drama It’s Okay It’s Love, which actually goes into realistic detail about various disorders and the ways people live with them. This is just being upset bc a poor innocent idol baby is being called out for a shitty music video. Get over it.

Straightjackets and insane asylums were used to abuse psychotic people. The whole trope of the ps*cho ins*ne person who has to be restrained isn’t about depressed people, oh my god, it’s about those who are delusional, psychotic, and otherwise therefore “dangerous” to themselves and to others. 

This has nothing to do with people who deal with depression or anxiety, and if you actually talked to psychotic people then you would know how erased they are by people just like you, speaking over them and pretending that your experiences are the same as theirs. People see someone suicidal and feel sympathy or pity and want to help - people see a psychotic episode and think “oh they’re dangerous, what a freak, they should be locked up or put down.” or “hey this would make a great horror movie!!!” 

Someone “fighting their inner demons” has nothing to do with being sick and abused. It’s disgusting just to IMPLY such a thing.

Really sick of this bullshit intellectual nonsense flying around here today. This isn’t about ~art~ or ~representation~ this is about a major screw up that should not be defended.