Ugh.

I used to read Salon daily, hourly even. But over the last year or two (or three) it’s become, with a few exceptions, crap. A flaming bag of crap.

And Carry Tennis is the brightest glowing shit ember in that flaming bag of crap.

Salon’s resident tool advice columnist decided this week to tell a survivor of incest at the hands of her older brother that she should go to her parents 50th wedding anniversary and “by seeing your brother once more, finally extinguish the remaining embers of power he holds over you.”

Maybe, if he wasn’t a rapist. Maybe is if she didn’t have kids of her own that she was worried about. Maybe if her mother (the grand manipulator behind this scheme) had ever truly acknowledged the hurt this caused her and she felt like someone was on her side.

But in Carry Tennis’ formerly booze addled brain- he spouts a fairy tale about slaying dragons. Get off the WOW Carry, and maybe go take some psych classes.

Therapists (you know, professionals) would say that if she doesn’t feel safe or comfortable with the idea of being stuck with a manipulative mother and a rapist brother for several hours of family pictures and chit chat, then she should skip it.
Only bad therapists ever tell someone to suck it up and prove their toughness by hanging out with abusers. Bad therapists, and FDLS Church leaders that is.