To Story of feminism cult, your story really resonate with me.
I have a sister that’s 2 years older than me. During my JC days, she started preaching about feminism. At that time I didn’t know what it meant, except the things that my sisters say was completely bizarre to me. Our family didn’t care much at first, but we would soon regret.
My sister’s friends were all infected with feminism. They huddled together like an echo chamber and blamed the patriarchy for every of their misfortune. One of my sister friend and her vow to fight beauty standards. For her dignity, I shall not say exactly what she did, except she added ~20 kg to her weight among other questionable actions. If you look at satires on feminism and my sister, you’d find a eyrie familiarity. Things took a turn for their group when they started dating one another. She turned to the LGBTQ community. If we thought it was worst, it wasn’t. Shortly after an incident that I cannot say, she had a psychotic breakdown.
She was diagnose with Bipolar, depression and psychosis of various degree. My family were deeply affected by this revelation. Her therapy required medication and isolation from the internet and her friends. Things were especially hard as Covid started. Loss appetite due to medication and her daily exercise helped her become skinny. She’s now 53 kg from 85kg, something she reminds people often of with a smirk. She begin dressing up and my mom was all too happy to pay for it, even I chipped in a 100. We were all just relieve that she is now normal.
She is now dating a nice guy she met from her uni. Our family is happy that things are now normal for her.
Now if anyone tries to promote feminism to me or my family, we will walk away from them. Therefore to you regardless of how toxic the comments are, we fully support you