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Gender Studies 2: Boogaloo

I’ve noticed a trend in millennial aged groups that anytime a male discusses anything related to societal expectations, pressures, relationships etc. it’s met with a vocal minority of females loudly saying “you need to go to therapy!”

Now I can understand that a lot of things can, and usually should, be dealt with therapy but, not every little thing needs therapy.

A personal example: In a discussion about clothing, I remarked that I personally don’t like tank tops. Mostly because I’m naturally skinny and I don’t have big or muscular defined arms so I’m self conscious about it. I was met with a constant stream of “well you need to go to therapy to deal with your body issues” by a small group of females. I didn’t engage but all I could think of was “or maybe I just don’t wear tank tops?”

Mine was pretty innocuous but I feel for the males who say something like “I express my emotions differently” and then get bombarded.
 
But don't you know paying someone $200/hr to join a Zoom call and listen to you vent, instead of having real friends to vent to, is how we, the iPacifier Generation, do things? :-)

That's been my experience with therapy to date, anyway.
 
FadeToBlack&Gold said:
But don't you know paying someone $200/hr to join a Zoom call and listen to you vent, instead of having real friends to vent to, is how we, the iPacifier Generation, do things? :-)

That's been my experience with therapy to date, anyway.
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Yeah, therapy is not the cure all that some think it to be. And yeah, being able to afford it at all is definitely an issue.

The ones I feel really bad for are the guys who talk about their issues and how they're trying to work through them but they're having trouble finding a partner and a relationship, and they're met with "well, you need to go to therapy and get yourself fixed. It's not on a woman to try to fix you." I can understand the perspective from a female of "I'm not going to fix you" but it also comes across as very "you don't get to have companionship until you are 'cured'."
 
Jimjamesak said:
I’ve noticed a trend in millennial aged groups that anytime a male discusses anything related to societal expectations, pressures, relationships etc. it’s met with a vocal minority of females loudly saying “you need to go to therapy!”

Now I can understand that a lot of things can, and usually should, be dealt with therapy but, not every little thing needs therapy.

A personal example: In a discussion about clothing, I remarked that I personally don’t like tank tops. Mostly because I’m naturally skinny and I don’t have big or muscular defined arms so I’m self conscious about it. I was met with a constant stream of “well you need to go to therapy to deal with your body issues” by a small group of females. I didn’t engage but all I could think of was “or maybe I just don’t wear tank tops?”

Mine was pretty innocuous but I feel for the males who say something like “I express my emotions differently” and then get bombarded.
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Maybe when any group of average people repeat the CW of their time, a wise person should ignore / laugh at them.

This is the thing I do not think people who write screeds about anti-straight or anti-white or anti-male or anti-straight-white-male reflexive mores and opinions don't understand. Maybe the kiddies are being pushed out by the conveyor belt with those attitudes now. Take that as just another way of understanding that attitude formation at the macro level is inane and preys on the weak-minded.

The solution is to mock prevailing norms, not try to dominate them. Groupthink is the enemy.

Still, the traditional homophobic, racist, sexist general opinions held sway among vast majorities for a hundred years, and still do in conservative communities. When a slave finally grabs the overseer's whip and gives him a taste, forgive me if I'm not particularly sympathetic.
 
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Lia Thomas barred from participating in the Olympics. Although the reasoning is a bit flimsy.

Lia should be out of Women sports because Lia is a Male.
 
It's the 55th anniversary of the Stonewall Uprising. Pride started as a riot against police brutality, led by Marsha P Johnson and Sylvia Rivera, two trans women.
 
Jimjamesak said:
Yeah, therapy is not the cure all that some think it to be. And yeah, being able to afford it at all is definitely an issue.

The ones I feel really bad for are the guys who talk about their issues and how they're trying to work through them but they're having trouble finding a partner and a relationship, and they're met with "well, you need to go to therapy and get yourself fixed. It's not on a woman to try to fix you." I can understand the perspective from a female of "I'm not going to fix you" but it also comes across as very "you don't get to have companionship until you are 'cured'."
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Yes and no. Being married to a therapist, cost is an issue, but it's often covered by Medicaid. Something like a third to half of my wife's clients are on Medicaid.

edit: iirc, only social workers were allowed to accept Medicaid patients until recently. There was no reason to require that when the other flavors of therapists are equally (or in some cases better) qualified.
 
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A certain billionaire children's book author hasn't posted on Xitter in an entire week. This is a woman that previously couldn't go 5 minutes without a full-on TERF screed, or starting another transvestigation panic/smear campaign against someone.

I'm sure Imane's lawsuit in French court has nothing to do with Joanne's sudden silence.
 
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A certain billionaire children's book author hasn't posted on Xitter in an entire week. This is a woman that previously couldn't go 5 minutes without a full-on TERF screed, or starting another transvestigation panic/smear campaign against someone.

I'm sure Imane's lawsuit in French court has nothing to do with Joanne's sudden silence.
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Her walls are full of black mold as well.

Edgar Allen Poe would have loved the thought of an author driven to insanity by mold.
 
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