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What Jonah Hill’s messages teach us about boundaries and manipulation  


by Roe McDermott
12th Jul 2023

Thanks to the current proliferation of therapy speak, anyone can use an enlightened façade and therapeutic vocabulary to make themselves sound reasonable and fair, even as they try to control others and deflect from their own actions and responsibility.  

“Surfing with men.   Boundaryless inappropriate relationships with men.   To model.  To post photos of yourself wearing a bathing suit.   To post sexual pictures.   Friendships with women who are in unstable places from your wild recent past beyond getting a lunch or coffee or something respectful.”  This list is not just my goals for the summer; nor is this list just the reason one of my Whatspp groups is now called “Unstable Women From My Wild...

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