Mortification of the Senses

Stuff your nose with dirty socks to cleanse evil from your soul. Proven effective 46% of the time.

[depsidase]

[depsidase]

[theaceofwords]

It's called the Global Justice Report, it is here. This is an actionable plan which can be sent to legislators and demanded of political parties. We could save the world within our lifetimes.

It has always been possible. It is still possible.

[samsketchbook]

This is a reminder that my book is finally out now :) you can buy it in my shop

[lifeafterpsychiatry]

Meanwhile in Denmark: My mom knitted a hat for my cat

[lifeafterpsychiatry]

The face of a woman who isn't disappointed that her only grandchild is a cat

[lifeafterpsychiatry]

Just one day later she sends me this... My cat in different homemade hat. The woman is unstoppable!!!

[lifeafterpsychiatry]

Taking over the world... One silly hat at a time...

[lifeafterpsychiatry]

The source of her power:

[lifeafterpsychiatry]

The most delicious little strawbebby...

[lifeafterpsychiatry]

Presenting the politest of little gentlemen

[rosecrystal]

This amount of individualism is exactly whats gonna kill us all btw

[ashintheairlikesnow]

"Going a couple hours without eating a single kind of food? No thanks, I would rather kill a child" is such a wildly horrifying take to see MULTIPLE people proudly stating.

[shegayonmygirl]

reblog to give yourself a large fucking tail

[kosmogrl]

[allegedly-human]

don't let Mitch McConnel's state of undeath distract you from the fact that LINSDAY GRAHAM IS FUCKING DEAD

LET'S FUCKING GOOOOOO

[transfemme-shelterdog]

RIP Alex Jones who popped like a balloon in his car.

[transfemme-shelterdog]

To all the haters who say he's actually still alive, I got my news from a reputable source:

[fuzze5]

literally announced on infowars. infowars made by alex jones. this is reputable due to the creator being the subject of it. farewell alex jones

[transfemme-shelterdog]

RIP Alex Jones

[vexwerewolf]

I have no sympathy for Alex Jones, who popped like a balloon in his car and it made a really embarrassing fart noise

[big-ender]

[quasi-normalcy]

I’m not trying to turn your kids trans; that’s stupid. I’m trying to turn them into socialists.

[quasi-normalcy]

#for real tho! their gender is their business but class struggle is everyone’s business

[innerchildabortionclinic]

careers under capitalism

helping elderly people: one dollar

Senior Torture Manager: $1,500,000,000/yr plus benefits

[maswartz]

[fractally]

This has been my main argument against "AI" from the very beginning.

OpenAI scraped the entire web. All of which had been a labor of love from humans. Wikipedia is the backbone of a lot of LLMs, and that was volunteer human labor. They stole it and now they're selling it back to us.

And worse, they're trying to destroy the free sources that they stole from. It's destruction of human knowledge on an unprecedented scale. The burning of the library of Alexandria has nothing on this.

[sotrias-labyrinth-deactivated20]

I feel like ODD being an official disorder in the DSM should be the thing that makes everyone go “hm” about how psychology is practiced

[txttletale]

[looking a child directly in the eye] i diagnose you with Shitty Bitch Syndrome. this makes it legal to do medieval german tortures to you by the way

[cringepics]

cmon man

[picklepuffin]

Hi I have an undergrad psych degree! I also have ADHD! In my motherfucking TEXTBOOK, the authors said, “Research describes ADHD as a neurodevelopmental disorder in the same vein as Autism. We are putting the (miniscule) section on ADHD in the same chapter as ODD, though, because we believe really these disorders both boil down to ✨️ people not doing what we tell them to because they are lazy✨️”

So my actual TEXTBOOK admitted that it was biased and teaching these disorders based on opinion and not up to date research. And, as described above, the section on ODD was basically just, “these are bad kids. We will not look into why or how or what comorbidities exist and we will also not be exploring the possibility of ODD really being a manifestation of trauma/undiagnosed adhd/autism/pathological demand avoidance/persistent drive for autonomy. We will however be mostly focusing on how annoying these kids are to their parents and teachers ✨️”

It’s fucking crazy. “Yeah we know lots of people with autism struggle to follow demands. They may either ignore/not register demands or have meltdowns when demands are placed. They may engage in physical aggression, verbal aggression, and property desctruction when directed to complete tasks or be exposed to uncomfortable sensory input. They may need to know the why behind demands and consequently argue with authority figures. They may be easily upset by sensory input or social interactions and have emotional outbursts when pushed beyond their limits. Some children with autism seek attention and may engage in maladaptive behaviors to elicit the attention of peers and caregivers if positive attention is not given freely/if they are ignored when behaving appropriately. All of these are symptoms of their underlying neurological differences and should be met with compassion and understanding. They are not bad children. Their brains process information differently and therefore they have executive functioning, sensory processing, and emotional regulation challenges that cause these behaviors.

Those kids over there? Yeah they have all the same symptoms but they are just Morally Wrong and Bad Children. They have Oppositional Defiance Disorder. How can I tell? Well that one hand flaps and that one doesn’t.”

[brightlotusmoon]

[glorioustidalwavedefendor]

How would you even measure that?

Things adults wrongly identify as arguing:

Asking for clarification

Asking any kind of question

defending yourself

answering a question teh adult has just asked you

breathing

Existing

Oh, also:

Race and the Mental Representation of Individuals Diagnosed with Oppositional Defiant Disorder: Implications for Diagnosis

Results: Classification images (CIs) showed that the children selected as having ODD appeared more prototypically Black in facial appearance than children not chosen as having ODD. No differences emerged in the gendered appearance of the two group-level CIs. Judged rates of ODD were higher for the children who appeared to be Black. However, diagnostic judgments of clinical trainees and practitioners were unaffected by appearance factors, suggesting that formal clinical training might attenuate the influence of stereotypes on judgment. Discussion: These results indicate that an overlap in Black stereotypes and diagnostic criteria for ODD might contribute to elevated diagnosis of ODD in African American children.

[whereserpentswalk]

Overwhelmingly Black diagnosis.

Pathologizes problems with authority to dismiss them as irrational.

Drapetomania - Wikipedia

[crippled-peeper]

people who travel to Seattle for the World Cup and act irrationally cruel to our homeless people deserve to have their shit stolen

[velvetvexations]

so I wrote a banger of a paper last semester, like the prof gave me an A+ & told me I oughta use it when applying to grad school level BANGER of a fabulous paper, about Paris is Burning. And in the research for that paper (extensive, all scholarly and peer reviewed sources), I came across an interesting tidbit:

Livingston purposefully kept drag kings, butches, and trans men’s involvement in the scene to a minimum level, so as to not confuse the primary audience (the cishet white middle class American audience).

Now, I do understand why. This movie was made in the late 80s, released in 1990, it makes sense to keep a documentary film focused. But all the same, every time I think about the current trans discourse, I think about the decision to avoid interviewing a huge portion of the community so as to keep the emotional/rhetorical focus sharp. And again, I do have an appreciation for the movie — the paper focused on transfeminine case subjects and how they were empowered by an accepting community. But I cannot deny that it kinda stings to see that “trans men need to stay quiet so that the rest of the community can thrive” is not a new take.

Maybe I oughta write a paper on that...

Also, I have done a LOT of research on historical transmasc subjects, and the whole “hysterically demanding to be taken seriously while being a danger to themselves and others” is nothing new. TRFs sound like old timey doctors trying to keep transmasculine people quiet & obedient.

Transmasc invisibility is and always has been enforced. It doesn't arise naturally, people commit to shit like this.

[velvetvexations]

[aetherograph]

That sounds so familiar to what the transgender people were told when civil rights marches for gay people started--that we ALL needed to stay quiet so the movement could seem "focussed" and "easy to understand" for the straights. Same shit different day.

I didn't know I was trans until 2007, because I didn't know that a trans person could be THAT direction of trans. And even then, I wasn't really given any information about anything but binary transness. There's still very little information about it for people my age (another issue the queer community has). And yet in the almost twenty years I've been here, the needle hasn't moved at all for trans-m people. My Dr, who works at the queer clinic, was telling me how frustrated she was that she'd read this big huge book that was supposedly the history of trans treatment and transmen were not meantioned even at all, even though it mentioned doctors that worked with us, like Hirschfeld! And I was like yeah! We're invisible! We get called lesbians and tomboys and "wow she was so brave having to cross-dress and pretend she was a man to live her life #girlboss" even when its like "this person shot anybody that called him a girl, went by male appellations and a male name, and said he was a man".

We're here.

Y'all just don't fucking LISTEN.

I wonder why THAT is?

(I know why.)

[genderkoolaid]

So does anyone have an actual source for this? Genuinely, I would love to be able to verify this, but anon doesn't really give any identifying information about what source this actually came from & I haven't been able to find anything myself.

My first thought is the Criterion Collection commentary, discussion, or outtakes, but those are behind a paywall & I haven't found any way to access them.

[show-me-the-bones]

Tumblr is a place to express yourself, discover yourself, and bond over the stuff you love. It's where your interests connect you with your

@genderkoolaid sorry this is the only way it would let me upload it but I was able to snag a free trial of Criterion and went to listen to the commentary to confirm it. I took an audio recording of the commentary dialogue starting at 12:40 ish where the director talks about cutting out “butches and masculine lesbians” for being too confusing and off topic.

[genderkoolaid]

Thank you so much!!

Transcript of that audio:

Livingston: "[…] really about who was prettiest. Um, I preferred categories that had athletic dance, or original costumes, or somebody going for an overall look. And that was more in keeping with the film’s overall themes. And then there were aspects of the balls there wasn’t room for. There were a couple categories for actual women participants, including a category for butch girls, who would either pass as men or were just handsome. But ultimately I left out - we left out the category for lesbians and women because it was just too hard to explain. I mean, you’re trying to say to your audience, “all these women are actually men,” and then you’re saying, “but these people are women.” I just thought, even for a gay audience, it might be confusing. And there were some other categories that, you know, just didn’t make it in the film ‘cause we had so much footage. […]"

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