cryptids:

Honestly, I know there’s a lot of discourse around Marie Kondo right now but I just want to say one thing that I haven’t seen anyone else really point out yet, but which I find really telling. Which is that there are like 500 hoarding/tidying up shows on TV, and they ALL focus on trying to get the person to dispose of as large a volume of stuff as possible (there’s one show on Netflix where the host, a white american woman, literally demands each family get rid of 70% of their stuff) 

Marie Kondo’s show is actually the only one I have seen where she doesn’t focus on getting rid of as much as possible, and instead focuses on what they want to keep and how to appreciate the things they enjoy more. And if they want to hang onto useless stuff or don’t want to get rid of anything, that’s fine too? She just shows them how to organise it better.

And yet she’s the one people are throwing a fit over and saying she’s telling people to throw away all of their belongings when she literally never does that. But it’s not even just that she never does that, but that so many other shows do exactly that, and these people aren’t taking an issue with those?? Why not, because the hosts are all white and american too?? Like…. the racism and xenophobia jumped out!

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