Probably Medical School

Hi! My name's Heather / She/Her / Sad Bisexual because so many men are shit / Dual Majoring in Biochemistry and Sociology / 

[origamiraptor]

monster factory: the final pam + blue // aesthetic board

[radstudybuddy]

Subleasing is great

So I'm moving out today with someone in line to take my sublease when my subleasee just informed me that they were contacted by @BallparkWest telling them my unit was no longer available and would need to sign with someone else. So they did. They took my subleasee.

[emmastudies]

Organic chemistry printable

After posting my note-taking printables, someone suggested making a printable for organic chemistry because the notebook was really expensive! With a bit of effort, I finally figured out a way to create little hexagons for it. I will say it isn’t perfect and there might be some minor overlaps but hopefully it doesn’t pose a problem! 

You can download the printable from the link below:

Organic chemistry PDF from Google Drive

I hope you enjoy using these and if so, I’d love to see them in action! Feel free to tag me on Tumblr with #emmastudies or on Instagram with my username @emmastudiess in any photos you upload. If there are any problems or errors, please let me know via my inbox.

Disclaimer: This printable is for personal use only. You may edit it yourself if you like, but please do not redistribute without my permission. Thank you!  

[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.

[misterannelister-deactivated201]

[bojackxhorseman]

[amateurpsychologist]

The Pep Talk I Give Other People ...

The Pep Talk I  Give Myself….

[nocountryforoldjetpacks]

[dragonomatopoeia]

i just really hate when deliberate cruelty is interpreted as “life is unfair”

that is not life being unfair; that is a person being unfair. that is a person being malicious. no one is under obligation to treat people like shit just to prove that life is unfair!!! if it’s unfair, then try to make it fair! Help people! Be kind! Try to make things better! don’t just sneer and say “that’s just how life is”!

do not make life worse for people and excuse your actions by saying they would have been treated badly anyway!

[nyabbycat]

this season is gold

[radstudybuddy]

I wonder how many eyebrow hairs I've wished on thinking they were eyelashes

[radstudybuddy]

Needing protection from a man because a man wants to hurt you is like the Lorax where they ruin fresh air so you have to buy air from them. 

[radstudybuddy]

Because sexism is harmless.

Men’s bruised egos and hurt feelings are almost always depicted as more important than women’s comfort and safety. Because sexism is harmless. It should be tolerated because it’s pathetic, non-threatening, or not the big of a deal. Except that it is a big deal, as practically any woman will tell you. It is damaging. It is damaging to women’s sense of safety, well-being, and careers.

The definition is misogyny is wrong. Very wrong. It is far worse that than just a dislike of or contempt for women, it is genuinely not seeing a woman as a person, but rather an object. Something that does not need safety, comfort, and a chance at a future that doesn’t benefit you. 

[cayliestudies]

overview of week 3 & 4 spreads ✨ 

ig: cayliestudies

[radstudybuddy]

“Good evening, Dude” 

[libraryspectre]

Do y'all remember being a kid and trying to read in the car while it was dark outside and your parents wouldn’t let you turn on the light so you would try to grab snatches of sentences when you passed by street lights

[owlmylove]

a word of advice: open your windows. wash your sheets. exfoliate your legs. read a paperback. make your bed. moisturize every inch of your body. go to sleep with soft skin and sheets that smell like the wind and a mind full of words worth dreaming about