Tal Bachman: We Have Met the Enemy, part XIV

Steyn Online ^ | 30 July 2021 | Tal Bachman

[Rummyfan]

John Money settled into his academic catbird seat in 1952.

To the extent he was capable of feeling any emotions at all, he must have felt supremely satisfied with himself. Brand new PhD from Harvard. Brand new professorship at Johns Hopkins. Not only a brand new professorship, but the first professorship in history of a fancy new sub-discipline called "pediatric psychoendocrinology" (a glorious designation I surmise Money invented for himself, even though he was simply a psychologist, with no actual training or experience as a medical doctor, pediatrician, psychiatrist, or endocrinologist). And to top it all off, he also now had a leading role in Johns Hopkins's brand new sex research institute.

The frail, contemptuous, religion-hating, revenge-fantasizing boy raised by a widowed mother and spinster aunties—the boy who had concluded he was the intellectual superior of everyone around him, who had vowed to use his intellectual superiority to gain power over a world he despised, whose only childhood social experiences (besides being razzed by local boys and babied by overweening women) involved playing with a female cousin in a shed—now had power, credibility, authority, influence, status, title, backing, academic fame, healthy income, a huge budget, and control of a whole research team.

[Rummyfan]

Are all psychologists insane?

Rhetorical question.....

[wildcard_redneck]

Back in college when I found out that a girl I was talking to was majoring in psychology I would ask her if she had figured out what’s wrong with herself yet. It was just my experience that these women were just nuttier than average.

Yes, female Freepers and Lurkers, I am divorced.

[Rummyfan]

Ever seen the flick Twelve Monkeys? There 's a great scene where Christopher Plummer, playing a Nobel-prize winning virologist, growls .... female psychiatrists... it's practically worth the whole movie.

[marktwain]

Wow. There was a group of homosexual high up in British society who vowed to do the same thing: bring down Western Civilization. Normalize homosexuality.

Just wow.

[wildcard_redneck]

I will have to check 12 Monkeys out again. I saw it when it first came out but not again.