@ICanSeeForever1 Feels to me all this actually does is prove what women have been saying all along. Predatory men will stop at nothing to enter women's space. If they're likely to pretend to be a trans man "I'm female", they're just as likely to stick on a wig and say "I'm trans". Thats the point
"I understand why you're doing it but for heaven's sake...
...and then you see the scenes in Spain."
It's a relief to see @mrjamesob connecting the dots. So few journalists are. Direct action from ordinary people is needed more than ever to force those in power to act.
The public don’t understand that the olive oil price is skyrocketing because crops in Europe have been devastated by extreme drought because of climate change, and that it’s going to get much worse - or that David Attenborough warns the collapse of the food system is on the horizon which means extreme violence… https://t.co/wJrrqNWkuz The public don’t understand because the media aren’t interested and aren’t telling them. More about it here: https://t.co/CahvjaCj5o
I’m anti-pathology.
As in, I don’t believe the theories of mental disorders and illnesses.
I don’t believe in medicalising humans. I don’t believe labelling them as mentally ill for the rest of their lives help them. I don’t believe we have proof of serotonin or dopamine ‘imbalances’.
That includes ADHD.
That includes anything that labels humans as ‘disordered’ or ‘divergent’ from some made-up ‘norm’ that’s been used to oppress marginalised groups for centuries.
It’s not ‘I’m anti-pathology but I definitely believe THIS disorder is real, but not the other ones’. None of them have an objective evidence base. The biomedical model of mental illness is powerful, but it isn’t accurate.
There are NO biomarkers for mental disorders. NO tests have been developed. NO scans. NO genes.
The psychiatric meds industry pockets $15.6 trillion a year but can’t accurately develop ONE diagnostic test? Give over.
We are given drugs for the rest of our lives for what? To cure what? To rebalance what? No one really knows. It’s all theory and marketing.
Consider this: maybe they don’t want to create a diagnostic test because it would severely limit their customer base. Or maybe they don’t want to attempt to create a true diagnostic test because they know it won’t work, and they know there are no objective measurements or biomarkers to explore.
Psychiatry is more religion than it is science.
We are all required to believe it, chant the mantras, believe what we are told, don’t question the lack of evidence, don’t ask questions about the social control or the decades of oppression. Don’t ask for proof of your chemical imbalance you apparently have.
Just shut up and believe the theories. You’re wrong and they’re right. If you question it more, then that’s just more evidence of how ‘mentally ill’ you are.
That’s not how science works.
That’s a belief system.
People like me are pelted with insults, that we are conspiracy theorists, liars and quacks, but then; why are the APA, Stanford, Harvard, professional psychiatrists and leading academics saying the same things but in their own inner circles? In their conferences? In their papers?
I might be the easy target online, but don’t think for a moment I’m a lone voice.
Here’s some of your pals talking about the fact that no one actually has any proof of the biological basis of mental illness.
They talk about the lack of evidence base all the time in their own circles, so why is it so dangerous when we bring this conversation to the general public?