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garfield is a queer icon and im tired of pretending he's not, he's for the queers who are just a little bit eepy, for the queers who just want to eat and laze about, he's also canonically an enby who goes by he/him pronouns
idk i just decided to make this space for anyone who wants to post garfield memes and general garfield related stuff because there's like only one other garfield comm on lemmy that i could find and its just one guy posting the garfield comic that was released today 45 years ago (unironically pretty cool though ngl)
Rules: all the normal stuff no bigotry, no doxxing, etcetera. I reserve the right to moderate as i see fit but i dont think i'll be too overbearing with it (any bigotry will be pretty harshly modded though)
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It seems like you’re equating the feeling of guilt with shame. They’re often synonymous, but there is a difference. Shame is feeling that you are wrong, guilt is feeling you did wrong. One feeling is self destructive the other is reflective.
Personally, I know I’m the worst version of myself when I’m bogged down in negative self esteem and feelings of shame. Self love is a necessary to become open to the world and open to being changed by it.
I get that you’re taking a swing at the stunted narcissist types, but even they’d be better off if they did the introspection and shadow work to intigrate with and understand their feelings of shame to process them through guilt and get out of the shame trap.
“Pride isn’t the opposite of shame, but it’s source.” -Uncle Iroh