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Thanks to the author for taking the time and effort to have a very heartfelt and deep dive into their personal life - especially on subjects this nuanced. Thei
by dmbche 3y ago
Thanks to the author for taking the time and effort to have a very heartfelt and deep dive into their personal life - especially on subjects this nuanced.
Their comments on "hurt" rather than bad, and their feeling that they couldn't fight back unless they became "dirty", or just as bad as them, were especially resonant.
Their comments about their dad living through the cultural revolution made me remember the scene in the Three Body Problem where Ye Wenjie confronts the three communist youths that had killed her father many years after the revolution, and they explain that their own suffering and how it brought along her fathers death.
- vals_pals_ 3y agoHey, author here. Thank you so much for taking the time to write a thoughtful comment. I had no idea what the response to this essay would be, so I'm really grateful that you read it in the first place and that the essay moved you.