im drafting a letter no this isnt how we start
a few nights ago i saw 'young people f__cking" and hey it was funny for sure, but also entirely written by doods, very guy-centric. it should have been called "young guys f__cking" coz thats generally who the stories revolved around.
and it got me thinking about living under patriarchy. yes i know, blahblahblah the big PEEE word.
just, to me "young people f__cking" would have been way different. even the "complicated" female characters were squares, cut from stone into a shape of what men think "complicated" women are.
anyways this isnt a movie review forum!
so im wondering what a vacation from patriarchy would be like.
the thought was such a tantalizing experiment.
i suggest you give it a whirl.
anyways, so after all those thoughts im sitting here at work (blogging at work) because im writing about how womens experiences throughout psychiatry's and psychology's history have been neutralized, and that 75 percent of those diagnosed with depression are women, but that diagnostic criteria doesnt even ask, 'how do you feel about living under patriarchy?"
coz that would be different
the screening questions for depression are all very materialistic and based on some kind of fucked up 1950s notions of jobs = happiness and crap
none of the questions take much female experience into account, which is again messed coz most of those diagnosed are women
which gets me thinking, HOLY FUCK we have a right to be absolutely bonkers every day, some days i get this incredible urge to go bat shit crazy at some guy for leeeeering at me
ya ya ya some folks like that, some older ladies tell me to enjoy it while it lasts, and some folks think if a woman looks nice even at all she deserves it and sure i could throw down some serious hijab fashion and say fuck it you dogs will never control your peeens
but i am pretty sure that would just make me feel more bonkers, id get asked why i was wearing hijab and id say oh you know i wasnt raised on it at all or anything i just hate when men look at me in general in a certain way so this is the only hope for my sanity
then i get even more upset that i dont get visibly upset at all, i sometimes roll my eyes but i honestly feel like squatting down and crapping on the sidewalk the next time im checked out like that
anyways the long and the short is, the tests are designed by men the insane end up being women because the tests cannot test what we should be tested for only what we shouldnt be what we could never be which is how much do we think and act like a materialistic self interested penis
honestly
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3 comments:
Hahahah, I'm pretty sure if I saw you squat down for a steamer in public I would start cheering. That or I'd feel really awkward around you forever.
Funny how historically psychology has been dedicated to a male-centric concept of normalcy. The male standard is seen as the human standard, so women and "crazy" people are always sick and disordered because they're not men. Which is not to say that men don't get theirs in psychiatry too, I mean ADD is the young boy disease now, and don't we all to often hear that men are semi-autistic 'cause they don't behave like women in interpersonal situations... but I digress. Psychiatry was invented by men and the DSM-IV is nothing more than a politically-motivated pseudo-bible for drug pushers. Interestingly, in a meta-analysis of psychological treatment success, the psychologist's use of diagnoses had almost not effect on the resolution of the problem... what mattered was the psych's ability to create a rapport with the client, to listen, to engage on a deeper emotional level. In the end, we all just want to be listened to, don't we?
Anyhow.
exactly listening hey im not against therapeutic communities of talking and listening, espesh when lead by survivors like an A.A. kind of thing with mentors and urgent phone calls at any time.
you also called the DSM thing its a campaign against certain aspects of the DSM from certain perspectives but thats forthcoming
but tell me about this autism - male thing, because only judging from what you said that is the inverted history of Kanner and Bettelheim's popularization of "refrigerator mothers" as the developmental source of autism. this was the belief that autism was behavioural and not neurological, and that it was caused by the psychological violence educated mothers put upon their children. Bettelheim even went as far to compare it to the experiences at concentration camps. but it was a direct attack on educated mothers (and obvs not educated dads). peeps fell for it coz of the cultural currency such ideas would have at the time anyways.
great rant, though i think you'd look pretty cute in some handmade or even store-bought hijab git-up...
so you might still have to keep that bat shit hi-karate crap on-the-ready!
j
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