Listened to the slogcast on the way home from work.
Brogan Tate, I’ve just never known anyone like her. The episode almost sounded like Binky attempting to counsel Brogan
Brogan has gotten even more lazy and complacent over the last few years. In response, she has desperately tried to find peace with this by “being kind to herself” or “telling herself it’s okay not to have a productive day” bla bla bla bla, rather than the other way round. And therein lies the problem with Brogan, she’s using all these “self care” strategies
backwards. She constantly looks for her strategies that enable her current, problematic behaviour.
And then you’ve got that idiot Binky enabling her by supporting that, and her enabler mother who I’ve just seen on Instagram has filled her fridge for her and cooked her a family sized lasagne like, wtf? She hasn’t just returned home to recover from a stay at hospital after having life changing surgery, she’s been on holiday. Why isn’t Brogan filling her mum’s (who actually works) fridge or making her a lasagne? When was the last time she did that?
Every now and then the armour breaks and she has these fleeting moments where she recognises she
isnt happy, so tries to do something about it (the laziest way possible), before giving up (because she is intrinsically lazy and has no perseverance) and then going back to using her “self care” “be kind” coping mechanisms and putting back on the “I’m really happy with myself” mask.
She is so deeply unhappy and unfulfilled and to hear her rattling on on the podcast about how her well being is “sewwwww much better” is just absolute
tit.
I actually think Binky is relatively emotionally intelligent and knows this, but enables Brogan because she is a mean girl and wants to tear her down, or use her for her platform, or both. There’s just no other explanation as to why someone who is emotionally intelligent and boundaried would be friends with Brogan, let alone run a podcast with her. And brogan is so thick she has no clue