My Abnormal Psych Professor Told Me That Exact Story About The Kid With The Barrettes! It Stuck With

My abnormal psych professor told me that exact story about the kid with the barrettes! It stuck with me all these years.

Omg. So.

Today at work (an inpatient adolescent mental health unit), we were having one of our daily unit meeting with all the patients, where they all sit in a circle and go around one by one and say their name, current mood, therapeutic goal for the day etc. Anyway, one of the things on this list that they are supposed to tell everyone is their pronouns because, like 30% or more of o

ur patients claim to be trans at this point. So today, we get this new patient. Teenage boy, obviously suffering from a little mania and not afraid to speak his slightly jumbled mind. So, the patient next to him hands him the sheet of questions, and he goes, "What's a pronoun?". Another person tries to explain that it's words used to refer to someone or in her words, "it's whatever you identify as!"

And without missing a beat, this guy says with a straight face, "Oh! Well, I identify as a racecar." And then moved on to the next question.

I really wanted to high-five him.

imagine… Alma Deutscher: Finding Cinderella

Musical prodigy Alma Deutscher aged 11 (seen here with younger sister Helen), is staging her first full-length opera, Cinderella.

Composer, pianist, violinist… Alma learned to read music before she could read words. She began playing the piano aged two and at four years old she was composing her own music.

I work with 15 year old girls who are so brainwashed by their pimps. They will try to run away from a safe place to get back to this man. They have stop orders on them if they run so we have to restrain them from going back to a life of abuse. They have specific lists of who they can call and I have to listen to their intimate conversations with mom, grandma.

Sometimes we fail. And she gets away. And we never see her again.

These same girls have their pimp aggressively looking for them. To him, she is no different than a 20 year old other than the fact she can make him much more money. To him, she is property. He calls the house to find her. He goes to family members houses posing as a social worker. He waits outside the facility in case she runs. We are to call the police when we see them. Cops show up, this man walks free. Despite being a known child trafficker with tattoos of his name on a 14 year olds body.

So when I hear you defend prostitution, this is what I hear you defending. These pimps are not anomalies and they do not solely prey upon children. They are the ones managing the women who you so strongly defend the right to abuse.

If you defend prostitution or purchase women’s bodies, you are defending child trafficking and unimaginable suffering.

I saw a post about his woman the other day where everyone was like "trans people have always existed", "trans history ftw" etc. And I was so fucking annoyed. Like, does anyone really think this woman woke up one day and went "I really identify with men and I think I am going to live the rest of my life as one because that’s just how I feel and haters gonna hate! It has absolutely nothing to do with the fact that women aren’t allowed to live an unwed life in the service of education. And it certainly isn't motivated by a desire to study medicine which women also aren’t allowed to do at this point in time. And the fact that I want to be with women, which is also frowned upon by society since I am also a woman, is also not one of the factors influencing my decision."

Beyond Curie—a design project celebrating women in STEM

Margaret Ann Bulkley — Beyond Curie—a design project celebrating women in STEM

A woman ahead of her time, who pretended to be a man to pursue a career where she was not welcome

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David Sedaris on coming out, all over again

The humorist has some thoughts about the term "queer" and how people today (or perhaps just humanities professors) identify themselves."CBS

David Sedaris on coming out, all over again. The humorist has some thoughts about the term "queer" and how people today (or perhaps just humanities professors) identify themselves.