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i guess it was on me for bringing it up to someone whose opinions i wasn’t familiar with, but when would anyone be familiar with their therapist’s political opinions ??? isn’t that an ethical boundary or something

No fuck this. It was not on you and you should absolutely be familiar with your therapist’s political opinions. You don’t need to go into the weeds on everything but having a ballpark estimation that they’re at least not a burgerland style fascist is a must. You’re a leftist. It’s for your own protection to have a therapist who knows when the omit certain things from your notes in that regard. Regardless, a good therapist is able to identify when their personal feelings stop them from being able to provide care and that includes feelings about political topics that affect you.

I’ve had good luck with ZocDoc filtering for bipolar II and queer issues. Maybe you would too

I’m surprised the numbers are this low honestly

We need to start a master doc for these. This isn’t the first time this has happened

The reasons generally start out personal and become generalized as a political “position”, which really consumes your life after a while.

Rowling has said that she had a queer “phase” and that if she were going through that nowadays, she would likely have ended up considering herself trans (incorrectly, by her assertion). That reads to me as some internalized bigotry that she never worked through. Musk has a daughter who’s a trans woman and disowned him for being a piece of shit. He started posting about “pronouns” soon after. And Zuckerberg seems to have seen the way the winds are blowing with the current administration and jumped on the anti-trans bandwagon because he’s a lizard man with no soul (metaphorically, not in the David Icke antisemitic way). These are all guesses, but not based on nothing.

It ends up being socially unacceptable to say, “trans people remind me of my estranged daughter so I don’t like them,” and rightly so. So you have to retreat and bury the context, taking it up as a matter of principle. And your mind can backfill the justification over and over again, further cementing the ideas as people start to ask you to talk about trans people over and over again. After all, you’re a public figure who doesn’t like trans people. That’s a hot topic. People on Twitter want to talk about it. Reporters want to talk about it. So it snowballs from there. Transphobia can absolutely take over the life of a public figure.

Philosophy Tube has an excellent video on something called phantasms and how people get stuck in irrational worldviews. Would recommend.

Alright, poster, I’m revoking your right to lump yourself in with “normal” people as you clearly do not meet the requirements

Straight up Orwellian but about capitalism instead of communism

My partner has been asking me this multiple times per day for weeks and my answer is always, “who’s going to stop him?”

Get wrecked fash boi

My god are the bots using micro services with an http call for every single word? Their cloud bills must be insane.