Skulldrinker
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Skulldrinker
6d ago
Just to make sure I follow, is the TL;DR of this that it's illegal to not maximally encourage trans/queerness in therapy, even when neutrality is what the client is asking for?
Or is this sort of therapy really just laundered gay conversion treatment?
Skulldrinker
6d ago
Well, someone is telling them that being "very liberal" requires shitting on stuff from a very specific list that someone put together.
Skulldrinker
6d ago
Yeah, this. "Girls Need Role Models" thing has been beaten on the cliche drum for decades, and in the Girlboss era of screenwriting you'd have to be living under a rock to not notice it.
In my personal life, I've even noticed a reflexive poisoned-well disdain among women for anything empathetic towards men that feels downright-coordinated; Blade Runner 2047 is Misogynistic, Frankenstein is Incel. Basically anything with Ryan Gosling in it makes them uncomfortable, and I don't know what the vector for all this groupthink is. I just know that I can't get through a casual conversation about film with a woman without them shitting on something that spoke to me. Or praising something for being "so queer" when they themselves are obstensibly straight.
The first and only time I encountered Infinite Jest, it was the guy so dedicated to social climbing he became a gay black communist to pick up college-educated white chicks. And he had suddenly started talking about infinite jest without ever mentioning anything about infinite jest. I was just there when he reliably brought it up with the same lines in every interaction with a new person. He was 30 though and knew exactly what he was doing.
I was frankly confused as to why he was so obsessed with a book he wasn't actually reading and couldn't explain what he liked about it.
I like genre trash, and am not embarrassed about it, and I have very low tolerance for performative waffling.
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