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In reply to the discussion: Eric Swalwell and the Death of Accountability [View all]jfz9580m
(17,356 posts)And if you come forward early it doesnt change much. God forbid you happen to be a flawed human woman.
I am dealing with year 15 of being a Crazy lady and thrown away myself.
I have mixed feelings about pretty much my only secret being marijuana use.
On the one hand it is a lot less icky than the shit women have to deal with if they dont live in a damn nunnery. Aversion to human contact has had its pluses for me. Today more than ever privacy is important when it will be so icky for so many women unless they married a creep at 18 and churned out kids and have nothing to report unless a collection of masked men broke into their homes and assaulted them.
Otoh psychiatrically speaking it makes it easier to fall into psychiatric systems that permanently label you schizophrenic for ordinary behavior when angered by sleazy systems.
I dont know which is worse. The scarlet letter or something where dems especially can be frustratingly unwilling to admit that psychiatry isnt the same as regular medicine and has higher potential for abuse.
I am far from the Apple Cider Vinegar type/RFK or Laura Delano type. I am not an anti vaxxer. But to let privacy violating surveillance capitalists try to force a straight edge agenda that is worse for ones health in this shitty society.
I am not even anti-psychiatry. Half the shrinks I have met have been cool. But the others are so by the book it is just not good medicine.
It is a crappy understanding of human behavior. Hell I think Mad in America can be too ott though they do grasp the civil rights implications too often spoken about in hedging ways.
Psychiatry has a history of political abuse (gay conversion therapy anyone? Sluggish schizophrenia in Russia and China).
There are simply too many blatant conflicts of interest in allowing Facebook, Google etc to force deals and rubberstamps with hospitals increasingly owned by shitty private equity.
It is shitty for marijuana and psychedelics etc and for patients.
And this bible banging undercurrent of sobriety pushing when alcohol, a known carcinogen is legal..
They find ways to screw women over disproportionately. As if all those douchey frat boys are sober. The difference is that I am not going to let some privacy violating, informed consent and IrB free VR experiment run by creepy charlatans in a hell break the web of life with creepy Yimbies and Facebook and Google times year after year getting away with harassment and Human Terrain System style garbage anthropology and MIt Media Lab and Alex Pentland adjacent rot.
Bollocks to all this.
Uhhh right..sorry. Lol.