Ewwwww

[joreth]

Please, somebody wake me up and convince me that I don't really live in a world where people who think like this really exist! 

Taken from http://www.okcupid.com/journal?pid=16311410781763656256&tuid=1705724830986337667#16260375995467196684 :

  














 

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[joreth]

One of the people who commented in the original OKC journal entry pretty much summed it up for me:

It sort of covers all the bases for me: it convulses, repulses, and enrages me at the same time.

[james-the-evil1.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the bit about how this guy's "therapy" works is instructive:

Oh, it gets much, much better. The author was on "The Daily Show". Are you aware what the therapy is that the good Mr. Cohen offers his "patients"? He sits at one end of a couch, and the hopeful heterosexual-to-be lies down on his side, facing Cohen, with his torso across Cohen's lap. Cohen then enfolds the hapless gentleman in his arms, thus supposedly providing the nurturing, entirely non-sexual male affection the lack of which has undoubtedly caused him to become a nancy-boy.

What? Why are you laughing?

[leora.livejournal.com]

So, if you want your daughters to not be gay, should you make sure you deprive them of their father's love, so they'll look to other men for it?

[leora.livejournal.com]

Okay, reading the OkC thread, I'm just sad. The guy's history is apparently that he had "repressed memories" of abuse that came out decades later. Which means that the odds are really good he was the victim of bad psychologists/therapists himself.

In the absence of a damn good cause for memories not being accessible, odds are good that any repressed memories are actually implanted memories. Implanting memories has been shown to be pretty easy. And he had an emotional motive. Whereas traumatic experiences almost never lead to repressed memories. They often lead to memories that haunt the person and that the person can't stop reliving, but not generally to repression.

But once you have implanted memories, they feel and act as real as any other memory. You have the experience.

I wish psych people would be more careful and responsible. It really hurts me to have people harming others like this.

[mosthings1z.livejournal.com]

Yes, that made me crack up violently.... nancy-boy.... LMAO

[omnifarious.livejournal.com]

It's kind of impressive that way really.