You are so right about the "Fake Healers." I'm in a women's community with a massive amount of therapists (which I suspect is partly because it's a way to have a career with being able to choose hours for easy work and getting automatic respect) and I'm guessing most would be doing exactly what was done to you. I forget how many of the…
You are so right about the "Fake Healers." I'm in a women's community with a massive amount of therapists (which I suspect is partly because it's a way to have a career with being able to choose hours for easy work and getting automatic respect) and I'm guessing most would be doing exactly what was done to you. I forget how many of them are here, thinking they are mini-gods.
A few years ago at a community brunch a discussion started about women in our community "transitioning." I said why I object to it and did not believe "body dysphoria" was the reason since most I knew were not what is considered "Butch" but very feminine. The one doing the most talking, who I later found out is a therapist, lectured me that I had no idea what it was like to grow up feeling like I didn't fit in.
Seriously? I was in shock because anyone looking at me would know I had never fit in, as a little naturally Butch girl who refused male-identified femininity, shoes that hurt, clothes that scratches my skin, dresses that exposed me and made me more injured when I fell, etc. As an adult I have have been insulted and attacked by strangers and neighbors, but also harmed by doctors because I'm not a traditional woman in patriarchy. (I was refused a strep test once by a smirking woman doctor who asked if I had AIDS when she was much more likely to have it than me since I'm at zero risk because I'm a Lesbian.) I didn't count to this therapist because she already had her lecture prepared and it didn't matter who she said it to. And this is in a community that theoretically is feminist. But the focus is all about supporting the trans cult and good luck to anyone who dares object or disagree. And therapists have become a kind of religious icon.
So what you wrote is very important. Besides your and others speaking out, the therapists need to be confronted and help accountable, on every level we can do it. They have power no one should have. Thank you.
I so agree. We are taught to trust them, but when I first found the Lesbian Feminist community, there was a lot of discussion about how many Lesbians had been harmed by therapists, including locked in mental hospitals for talking about being sexually assaulted by their fathers and other male relatives. Some would write "therapist" as "the rapist." But then a lot of feminists went into therapy though I started noticing that a lot of them seemed to have more mental/emotional problems than other women and were more likely to use their power to bully or be abusive. Not all since some really do care, but enough that it was disturbing. The harm so many are doing now is on a whole other horrific level.
You are so right about the "Fake Healers." I'm in a women's community with a massive amount of therapists (which I suspect is partly because it's a way to have a career with being able to choose hours for easy work and getting automatic respect) and I'm guessing most would be doing exactly what was done to you. I forget how many of them are here, thinking they are mini-gods.
A few years ago at a community brunch a discussion started about women in our community "transitioning." I said why I object to it and did not believe "body dysphoria" was the reason since most I knew were not what is considered "Butch" but very feminine. The one doing the most talking, who I later found out is a therapist, lectured me that I had no idea what it was like to grow up feeling like I didn't fit in.
Seriously? I was in shock because anyone looking at me would know I had never fit in, as a little naturally Butch girl who refused male-identified femininity, shoes that hurt, clothes that scratches my skin, dresses that exposed me and made me more injured when I fell, etc. As an adult I have have been insulted and attacked by strangers and neighbors, but also harmed by doctors because I'm not a traditional woman in patriarchy. (I was refused a strep test once by a smirking woman doctor who asked if I had AIDS when she was much more likely to have it than me since I'm at zero risk because I'm a Lesbian.) I didn't count to this therapist because she already had her lecture prepared and it didn't matter who she said it to. And this is in a community that theoretically is feminist. But the focus is all about supporting the trans cult and good luck to anyone who dares object or disagree. And therapists have become a kind of religious icon.
So what you wrote is very important. Besides your and others speaking out, the therapists need to be confronted and help accountable, on every level we can do it. They have power no one should have. Thank you.
I so agree. We are taught to trust them, but when I first found the Lesbian Feminist community, there was a lot of discussion about how many Lesbians had been harmed by therapists, including locked in mental hospitals for talking about being sexually assaulted by their fathers and other male relatives. Some would write "therapist" as "the rapist." But then a lot of feminists went into therapy though I started noticing that a lot of them seemed to have more mental/emotional problems than other women and were more likely to use their power to bully or be abusive. Not all since some really do care, but enough that it was disturbing. The harm so many are doing now is on a whole other horrific level.