Excellent post about the whole issue of “objectifying” Armitage from our brilliant prof’s POV. Take the time to read it, it’s worth it.
This was my Tuesday. I picked this day to report on because I had no time to blog originally that day. Thus, it traces only the severe private harm I am doing to Richard Armitage by thinking about him, not the public harm I do to him by writing about him.
I’m pretty sure the public harm I do to Richard Armitage by writing about him every day is obvious to everyone already anyway. But if not, I’m turning the private harm into public harm by documenting this day.
Some of those claims were made ironically. Which ones?
So yeah. You’re not going to be convinced by this if you already think what I do is wrong. You could read it anyway, if you feel a sincere desire to understand what we dignity strippers think we might be doing as we go along blithely harming our hero.
But mainly, this…
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the armitage effect 
I commented over there. It is an excellent post and very worth reading.
…and how beautiful your comment is ,Leigh.
It really hit home, didn’t it?
Yes, I could not express it better.. even in my native language.
Just had to share it. I was nodding and going “Yes, yes” as I read it.
Thanks for the reblog!
Thank YOU for writing it. 😀
What gets me is that this “mental health professional” pontificating and judging, when in fact mental health professionals have just as many issues as anybody else and are just as fallible and biased in their views.
Exactly. Let’s not put people like this on a pedestal they don’t deserve to be on. Rumor has it this individual was hoping to go “viral” with her blog entry. Makes me question the purity of her motives in the first place.
Yes,precisely!