EP 85: I Want To Eat Your Pancreas?

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On this uplifting and heart-warming episode of Kawaii-Fi, we watch a film we’ve been putting off for a while – I Want To Eat Your Pancreas.

This plus the return of the wonderful Kieralee, Vending Machines in Dungeons and “Sushi made by Westeners” on this episode!

NOTE:

This 2018 film brought up a lot of interesting conversations around trauma, mortality and psychology, causing us to dive into some areas we don’t normally tread.

Because of this, we thought it prudent to provide some details regarding one of the topics that came up – the “Myth of Stockholm Syndrome” and how it’s been used to discredit women.

The term was invented by psychiatrist and police negotiator Nils Bejerot in 1973 in Stockholm, after hostage Kristin Enmark criticised the actions of the police forces involved in the stand-off with bank robbers.

Bejerot essentially used the term to discredit Enmarks’ criticism of how the police handled the incident, and coined the term without ever having talked to her – a critical fallacy of the claimed diagnosis.

It also lead to Bejerot being employed by the FBI and other international groups working in hostage negotiation, leading the term becoming more wide spread, along with it being used as a defence in the trial of Patty Hearst in 1974.

Stockholm Syndrome has since become a term the world treats as a real condition despite it never having being classified as a disorder, along with having no criteria for diagnosing it.

Additionally, calling it a Syndrome is wrong, as a syndrome is defined as “a set of medical signs and symptoms which are correlated with each other and often associated with a particular disease or disorder”.

Its invention was a form of victim blaming to silence a woman’s criticism of men’s behaviour, and it tries to turn the choices the victim made to survive into a way to invalidate their views.

The trauma they experienced is real – whether in a hostage situation, an abusive relationship or a dangerous confrontation – and it takes a lot of courage and inner strength to survive these ordeals.

To claim these survivors are suffering from a disorder due to surviving, belittles the horrible events they have had to overcome and misunderstands the psychology of survival – if someones threatening your life, you are going to do everything you can to survive.

We’ve included some links in the episodes description showing how this idea is beginning to be challenged in recent years, starting in the 2010’s.

It’s worth a read to understand the terms dubious origins and how it’s repeatedly used to invalidate women’s criticisms of those in power.

In depth:

https://cryingoutforjustice.blog/2015/06/03/the-myth-of-stockholm-syndrome-and-how-it-was-invented-to-silence-an-indignant-young-woman/

https://lithub.com/on-the-myth-of-stockholm-syndrome-and-women-guerrilla-fighters/ (Heading: “The Beginning”)

Explainer articles:

https://goat.com.au/pop-culture/everyone-just-got-a-crash-course-in-how-sexism-created-stockholm-syndrome/

https://www.themarysue.com/viral-tweet-exposes-sexist-origins-of-stockholm-syndrome/

The Book in question:

https://www.booktopia.com.au/see-what-you-made-me-do-power-control-and-domestic-violence-jess-hill/book/9781760641405.html

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EPISODE SEGMENTS

00:00:00 – Show Opener

00:03:27 – What We’re Watching

00:23:14 – Cinema Club – I Want To Eat Your Pancreas

00:58:40 – Anime Communique

01:21:03 – Show Outro

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