bad jokes and feminism

I used to have ambitions but now I just drink a lot

[hand]

Me forcing myself to save money and cook instead of eating out

[jads-abum-rat]

[vespertineflora]

[audio transcript]

Woman: He’s fine. He misses you.

Man: Give him my love.

Woman: Will do. 

[woman looks at ridiculous oversized bird]

Woman: SQUAWK

Bird: SQUAWK

THE END

[pyrlspite]

reblog with your weird group chat name in the tags

[gordons-moved]

I don’t have friends

[muckkles]

when everyone said u were rly smart and responsible as a kid but u havent rly made any improvements as a human being since

[vangch]

for science: reblog this with your hogwarts house and major/field of studies in the tags

[stupidpunk]

every one has a cry song. you know the song that you’ve listened to for years and instantly get emotional over. mine is the saltwater room by owl city

[stupidpunk]

reblog this and put yours in the tags

[byeoh-art]

[closet-keys]

I hate Freud. His whole weird theory about penis envy and children being sexually attracted to their parents and secret desires and all that shit actually came straight out of an attempt to ally himself with wealthy and influential rapists and was a direct form of victim blaming.

He had started the research looking into “hysteria” which at the time was really usually referring to women’s symptoms of PTSD. It turned out that the reason so many woman had these symptoms is because so many of them had experienced sexual violence– especially CSA and incest at the hands of their fathers. 

At first he was making real progress, and it was through working with these women that he discovered that talk therapy could be used to treat trauma. The symptoms of PTSD were lessened when women were able to safely speak about their experiences out loud and be believed. 

But it wasn’t the women who paid for the therapy. It was their fathers, husbands, the same men who were perpetuating the violence in the first place. And Freud didn’t want to validate his patients (the women) if it meant making his clients (the men) unhappy.

So he came up with a new idea. These symptoms weren’t from trauma. The memories weren’t real. These women were just sexual beings as children and had penis envy and it made them lust for their fathers and fantasize about the rape that they had reported to him. That’s where the shittiest parts of Freud’s theories emerged. Another part of it besides just the monetary aspect, though, was that there was a feminist movement on the fringes starting up at the time and by publishing work about women’s CSA he would be aligning himself with it and therefore losing support, respect, funding, prestige from his male peers and from the psychological community at large. He literally made that gross victim blaming shit up to keep his own reputation with these fucks and to make sure he still got publication and fame.

By coming up with fake theory about little girls fantasizing about incest he not only fucked over generations of women, the feminist movement that was arising, and the entire psychology field for years to come, but he also completely swept away any progress made in understanding trauma and so we didn’t have any clue why men coming back from war had “hysteria” like women during WWI.

And our research on PTSD and trauma is still lacking to this day, especially because of the stigma that maybe traumatized people deserved it or wanted it or imagined it. People don’t want to believe it’s real. Perpetrators of traumatic violence want everyone to forget about it, not acknowledge it, or trivialize it.

And they have Freud’s cultural legacy to help them.

[vetivervelvetviolet]

Can you provide academic citations for this? This is really neat.

[disease-danger-darkness-silence]

http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0959353596062015

http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0959353596062015

If you don’t have access bc paywall, here’s a decent summary on Wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Freudian_Coverup

Some vague proof:’

http://www.nytimes.com/1984/01/24/science/freud-secret-documents-reveal-years-of-strife.html?pagewanted=all&mcubz=0

An essay on the topic:

http://socialistreview.org.uk/404/whats-wrong-sigmund-freud

If you want some more, just google, “Sigmund Freud Seduction Theory Problematic.” There’s lots of academic and non-academic discussion on the topic, but TLDR Sigmund Freud is basically disregarded in almost all aspects of psychology by anyone who actually cares about their patients, so fuck that guy for holding psychology back.

[thewesterwoman]

Words cannot express how much I hate Freud. His theories have been entirely disproven by current psychological research, but using him to interpret literary texts is still a widely accepted technique in the field of literary study today.

English departments across the country will not bat an eye at tenured professors bringing Freud into lectures and citing him in scholarly articles and books. Doing a “Freudian reading” of a literary character or theme is regarded as a valid means of understanding and drawing meaning from works by authors as diverse as William Shakespeare, James Joyce, and C.S. Lewis. And it is based entirely on this guy’s unbelievably sexist, flat-out fraudulent, and thoroughly disproven research. It’s insane.

[antifamutant]

I need people to listen to this, because although his methods might be of use, his entire theoretical work is just fucking lies and bullshit misogyny.

[butterflypeaflowertea]

band: sings about being in love me: can’t relate florence + the machine: sings about being a big tall tree and watching as the world ends and becoming an omnipresent goddess who lives in the woods with her dryad brethren me, with tears in my eyes: me too florence me too

[deactivate-things-deactivated20]

Littlefinger’s death scene. Reblog to make someone’s day.

[kristoffbjorgman]

All current living Disney Princesses (Minus Mary Costa, who has retired, Ming-Na Wen and Idina Menzel) take the stage at D23 to announce their involvement with the upcoming Wreck-It Ralph sequel (x)

(from left to right: Paige O’Hara - Belle, Irene Bedard - Pocahontas, Mandy Moore - Rapunzel, Auli’i Cravalho - Moana, Sarah Silverman - Vanellope Von Schweetz, Kristen Bell - Anna, Kelly MacDonald - Merida, Anika Noni Rose - Tiana, Linda Larkin - Jasmine, Jodi Benson - Ariel)

[sixpenceee]

Smart dogo

[anywigwilldo]

Reblog, click the picture, and prepare for battle.

[vikingserket]

after a while i became convinced that the words were mocking me

[whisperrun-blog]

Nothing happened. 

I WAS PROMISED A BATTLE

*throws down gauntlet*

Edit: Went back. This is the best thing to happen to my dashboard ever.

[whisperrun-blog]

Reblogging again because my followers need to see this. To be clear, rebog, go to your actual blog, then click the picture. 

[penandpage]

[almariza-alakazam]

Imma try this

[bloodofthedragxn]

having sex

boy: did you cum yet

girl: not yet

boy: *does nothing* how about now?

girl: sure

boy: sweet

[animazed]

i know eurovision is amazing and some of the performances are totally incredible, but whenever someone mentions eurovision around me all i can ever think about is that one time Ireland sent out a mechanical turkey that just screamed “give Ireland 12 points” for the entirety of the song

[angstier]

There was a theory going around a few years back that the Hogwarts Houses are influenced by which Element someone is - Fire, Earth, Air, or Water. If you’re up to it, reblog this with your House and Astrological Sign, to compare how often it ends up right. It’s incredibly interesting to me.

GRYFFINDOR: The Fire Signs - Leo, Aries, & Sagittarius

HUFFLEPUF: The Earth Signs - Taurus, Virgo, & Capricorn

RAVENCLAW: The Air Signs - Gemini, Libra, & Aquarius

SLYTHERIN: The Water Signs - Scorpio, Cancer, & Pisces

[thefruitthatgodforgot]

Funny how sex is an irresistible human urge when a man rapes a woman but when a woman gets pregnant and wants an abortion she should have been smarter and thought twice before having sex if she didn’t want a child

[feminismcollectives]

My reblog speed tho -