The Victimhood Olympics

Maybe we can stop finding new ways to define these things?

Wrote something the other week about how we discuss “trauma” too much, which has increasingly felt true in recent years. Concurrently to that idea, it feels like opinions have become identities, and a lot of opinions are tied up or connected to ideas about “trauma.” Trauma is a really complicated topic to tackle, because you don’t want to demean the exp…