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There's a lot of untrained or poorly trained people on social media. I mean - even having a therapeutic presence online is something you should question, & think carefully about. It's useful for therapists to be quite opaque.

I would ask "qualified how"? I mean, where did she do her training etc.

This is a great discussion about narcissism. It begins with an attempt to distinguish clinical use of the term from the pop cultural: https://www.psychiatrypodcast.com/psychiatry-psychotherapy-podcast/185-narcissism-with-jonathan-shedler They are unsurprisingly miles apart. Concepts passing...

Interesting point about language there, and I don't deny the prevalence of therapy may have an affect on the wider culture. But in terms of practicing as a therapist, you avoid that shit like the plague - one of the things that makes it curative is your ability to have real emotional contact...

Speaking as a therapist the whole therapy language thing is bollocks. It's important you talk clearly and openly to patients. I blame TikTok.

Diane Abbott obviously gets a massive amount of shit for just being a black women. I imagine it's tremendously stressful. Just look at the comments under any articles mentioning here. I don't like her politics at all but that seems undeniable. Sarker is younger, prettier and has the buffer of...

I remember Larry Heard playing the Skyy Club! I didn't go though 😭

On I hope a more interesting note - I don't quite understand the weird interest I have in internal Labour party affairs, its like a fetish - the thing that would interest me, up close, would be how these people relate to politics from an emotional and identity point of view. Is it being used...

I agree it's a strange world. It must be doubly so at the moment with things gearing up for a Labour government and people those you're talking about having completely shut themselves out of power and influence. Owen Jones seems particularly apposite here, a few different decisions and he'd be...

Ah Droid has already said that better than me.

But when literally every other group in the world use the acronym LGBT the exclusion stands out and strikes one as absolutely deliberate. This is such a disingenuous claim.

Sure, here ya go: https://thedigradio.com/podcast/trans-children-w-jules-gill-peterson/ Would like to read her book but I already have too many tomes to get through

To develop that, and respond to your point above, to convince me, you'd have to convince me that the positions your advocating aren't going to turn up the dial on violence, verbal or otherwise.

This is the roots of my position, really. It's essentially an ethical one, aside from all the arguments and definitions of what gender really is etc etc. It's interesting etc etc but really being pro-trans rights is simply an affirmation against cruelty. No one arguing the anti-trans position...

BTW listening to that podcast about trans children upthread was genuinely illuminating for me - it showed the historical ubiquity of transness and how these bodies were policed and medicalised. I don't think someone could argue me out of thinking the evidence presented there is basically...

I agree with you about bad faith attacks, it's why I don't bother arguing online much. As to what would convince me - I think a really open, honest acknowledgment that you might not understand another's experience. I don't *understand* the lived experience of being trans *from the inside* but I...

Where? I can see you posted a bunch of random, fact-free assertions, but that's not how you prove your point.

There aren't any. You've lost an argument with someone more intelligent than yourself. Log off and go away.

If it's an opinion Dinesh D'`souza holds it's by default wrong. I can see the popularity of outlaws in American discourse, sure. I can also see how "revolt against the elites" has worked in the US and in the UK. It's the essence of the culture wars really. But "the black vote" going for Trump...

Entirety of the black vote? It's too early to call things like this. Not sure that he'll beat 4 indictments. Can't say though, it's such an unprecedented situation.