Posted on 01/08/2019 3:03:48 PM PST by Para-Ord.45
Well, now they’ve gone and done it: the American Psychological Association has declared that manhood is a mental disorder.
...The main thrust of the subsequent research is that traditional masculinity—marked by stoicism, competitiveness, dominance and aggression—is, on the whole, harmful.
... “What is gender in the 2010s?” asks Ryon McDermott, PhD, a psychologist at the University of South Alabama who also helped draft the men’s guidelines. “It’s no longer just this male-female binary.”
... It’s interesting to parse these differences and think about what they mean. The point here is that this APA press release citing the violence of “men” as a reason to demonize traditional masculinity is playing fast and loose with the statistics.
UPDATE: The more I think about it, the more Soviet this seems. Dissent from gender ideology (not just the transgender stuff, but the establishment’s view of what men and women are)? Well, then you must be insane. Expert opinion says so!
UPDATE.2: David French tells a good story from his own life about masculinity and being a “grown man.” He tells the story — which is amazing — and concludes with this:
We do our sons no favors when we tell them that they don’t have to answer that voice inside them that tells them to be strong, to be brave, and to lead. We do them no favors when we let them abandon the quest to become a grown man when that quest gets hard. Yes, we do them no favors when we’re not sensitive to those boys who don’t conform to traditional masculinity, but when it comes to the crisis besetting our young men, traditional masculinity isn’t the problem; it can be part of the cure.
(Excerpt) Read more at theamericanconservative.com ...
I want to recommend a book first to everyone here: It is called Explaining Postmodernism by Stephen Hicks. You need to understand postmodernism, because that's what you're up against. You're up against it far more than you know or think, and it's a much more well-developed and pervasive, pernicious, nihilistic, intellectually attractive doctrine than has yet come to public realization. It absolutely dominates the humanities and increasingly the social sciences in the universities.
See the postmodernists completely reject the structure of Western civilization.
And I mean completely, so I can give you an example, in one term -- Jacques Derrida. He is head trickster for the postmodernist movement, and he regarded Western culture -- let's call it the patriarchy -- as phallogocentric. Phallo comes from phallus, and so that's the insistence that what you see in Western culture is the consequence of the male-dominated oppressive self-serving society.
So I would say the humanities, and much of the social sciences have turned into a postmodernist neo-Marxist playground for radicals. The scholarship is terrible.
The APA ceased being a legitimate professional organization several decades ago.
It proved itself to be illegitimate when it decided that faggotry wasn't abnormal.
But homosexuality isn’t.
This will not end well.
For anybody.
Its members in need of work only need look in their mirrors.
Manhood is a mental disorder but transgerderism is normal.
Same folks that took a vote, rewrote the DSM III to call homosexuality normal, when it used to be a psychological disorder. Gay’s OK, straight is about hate.
Doncha know?
Is this the same organization that encourages doctors to push mind altering drugs onto our children. Somehow, I think that they are involved.
But aren’t they “born that way”?
Man is trying to destroy the order that God created. The result will be hell on earth.
There! Fixed it.
Wonder if they’ll use this for “Red Flag” laws..
These are the same cabal of weak-minded, limp-wrist PC clowns who declared sodomy “normal.”
So, a man shoving his Johnson up another mans sewer hole, or pie hole, is perfectly natural - but behaving in a way that men have been purposely designed and created to act? Well, that is “toxic!” So, these effeminate emasculated twits would likely label Jesus Christ Himself as having “toxic masculinity.”
Well, here is my response to the APA ...
ESAD!
Because, twits, when push comes to shove, it is not of the “toxic masculine” who shall perish; but rather it is very much you - and your beta cuckold followers - who will become the next extinct species.
Is this literally a “disorder” listed in the DSM now?
Leftism is led by radical homosexuals.
Patriarchal societies are the last ones breeding; people who write and believe this anti-male BS will go the way of the dodo while traditional people inherit the Earth. Not a theory; it is already happening all over the West.
No but psychiatry is a fraud.
The repeal of DADT was another consequence of the 1973 decision by the American Psychiatric Association (APA) to remove homosexuality as a mental disorder from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM). Removal followed a two year campaign Newsweek described as ongoing disruptive, chaotic attacks on psychiatrists and physiologists. Yet throughout these disruptive attacks, no academic papers arose at conferences refuting any research previously done. Eventually onslaughts forced sufficient abstentions, under-votes, and apprehensive responses for a third of APA’s 17,000 plus membership to approve removal.
After this decision, activists targeted leading individual researchers such as Dr. David Reuben to ensure perpetual sanctity for the APA action. No research papers would again arise to confirm initial therapy success rates of 30% to 60 %, substantiating that 7 of 10 homosexuals could eventually walk away from the lifestyle. Persistent activism over 37 years enabled ubiquitous infiltration of academia thereby ensuring pre-ordained theses, approved flexibility in research designs, suitable human data points, and enchanting statistical enhancements. The consequence for the military was to regard homosexual behavior as a strictly administrative issue. For this mental disorder, careers could not be saved with comparable successful programs targeting issues such as drug and alcohol abuse, or PTSD.
Psychology and Psychiatry have always had a tenuous hold on claims they were sciences with the standing of Chemistry and Physics. On the scale of intellectual rigor, their research more often resembles alchemy and/or oral history, and seldom, if ever, approaches the determinism found in a Chemistry laboratory. These disciplines have no problem abstaining from scientific research to make DSM manual changes based on popular societal acclaim, political manifesto, and marketing initiatives for elegant and expensive psychotropic drugs.
. Developments in statistics could have enabled them to a least determine there was a marginal or significant propensity for a particular disorder. Careful studies could have identified and graded methods of treatment. Given persistence in searching for correct methods of analysis, even accumulated episodic events could be sifted for transformation into valid information. Research would have proceeded more slowly and conclusions would have been less intuitive, but more stable.
The disciplines would more often have adhered to the medical principle of “first of all, do no harm”. In all probability preferred therapies would have resulted in far fewer people being enabled by society, or medicated into a passivity where they did not disturb others. Responsible research could also have acknowledged those pesky humans, who in spite of their genetics and upbringing, decide to live positive lives without APA professional help. Following those threads could have provided some valuable insights.
Instead, Psychology and Psychiatry chose to abandon all pretense of scientific rigor in exchange for popular societal and political acclaim. These three individuals need not have suffered the outcomes mentioned, if the military and other organizations were not prevented from providing help by the political scheme, which dominates these disciplines.
Action of APA to remove homosexuality from list of disorders DSM Link: http://conservativecolloquium.wordpress.com/2007/10/01/homosexual-activists-intimidate-american-psychiatric-association-into-removing-homosexuality-from-list-of-disorders/
Homosexuality and Sexual Orientation Disturbance: Proposed Change in DSM-II, 6th Printing, page 44 http://www.torahdec.org/Downloads/DSM-II_Homosexuality_Revision.pdf
The APA Decision http://www.thefreelibrary.com/The+APA+decision+December+1973%3A+declassification+of+homosexuality+as...-a094598255
Exposed: The Myth That Psychiatry Has Proven That Homosexual Behavior Is Normal http://traditionalvalues.org/content/article/30884/Exposed:%20The%20Myth%20That%20Psychiatry%20Has%20Proven%20That%20Homosexual%20Behavior%20Is%20Normal
It won’t matter in the end how much anti-nature weirdos change the vocabulary and labels. A human is a female or a male. By nature females are nurturers and males are builders.
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