His whole weird theory about penis envy and children being sexually attracted to their parents and secret desires and all that shit actually came straight out of an attempt to ally himself with wealthy and influential rapists and was a direct form of victim blaming.
He had started the research looking into “hysteria” which at the time was really usually referring to women’s symptoms of PTSD. It turned out that the reason so many woman had these symptoms is because so many of them had experienced sexual violence– especially CSA and incest at the hands of their fathers.
At first he was making real progress, and it was through working with these women that he discovered that talk therapy could be used to treat trauma. The symptoms of PTSD were lessened when women were able to safely speak about their experiences out loud and be believed.
But it wasn’t the women who paid for the therapy. It was their fathers, husbands, the same men who were perpetuating the violence in the first place. And Freud didn’t want to validate his patients (the women) if it meant making his clients (the men) unhappy.
So he came up with a new idea. These symptoms weren’t from trauma. The memories weren’t real. These women were just sexual beings as children and had penis envy and it made them lust for their fathers and fantasize about the rape that they had reported to him. That’s where the shittiest parts of Freud’s theories emerged.
Another part of it besides just the monetary aspect, though, was that there was a feminist movement on the fringes starting up at the time and by publishing work about women’s CSA he would be aligning himself with it and therefore losing support, respect, funding, prestige from his male peers and from the psychological community at large. He literally made that gross victim blaming shit up to keep his own reputation with these fucks and to make sure he still got publication and fame.
By coming up with fake theory about little girls fantasizing about incest he not only fucked over generations of women, the feminist movement that was arising, and the entire psychology field for years to come, but he also completely swept away any progress made in understanding trauma and so we didn’t have any clue why men coming back from war had “hysteria” like women during WWI.
And our research on PTSD and trauma is still lacking to this day, especially because of the stigma that maybe traumatized people deserved it or wanted it or imagined it. People don’t want to believe it’s real. Perpetrators of traumatic violence want everyone to forget about it, not acknowledge it, or trivialize it.
And they have Freud’s cultural legacy to help them.
Can you provide academic citations for this? This is really neat.
If you want some more, just google, “Sigmund Freud Seduction Theory Problematic.” There’s lots of academic and non-academic discussion on the topic, but TLDR Sigmund Freud is basically disregarded in almost all aspects of psychology by anyone who actually cares about their patients, so fuck that guy for holding psychology back.
Words cannot express how much I hate Freud. His theories have been entirely disproven by current psychological research, but using him to interpret literary texts is still a widely accepted technique in the field of literary study today.
English departments across the country will not bat an eye at tenured professors bringing Freud into lectures and citing him in scholarly articles and books. Doing a “Freudian reading” of a literary character or theme is regarded as a valid means of understanding and drawing meaning from works by authors as diverse as William Shakespeare, James Joyce, and C.S. Lewis. And it is based entirely on this guy’s unbelievably sexist, flat-out fraudulent, and thoroughly disproven research. It’s insane.
Just so everyone on my dash is aware that Freud’s theories are pseudoscience.
I too hate Freud and everything he stands for. I just wish people knew why I hate him so much.
No joke, in EVERY SINGLE ONE of my university courses, Freud was mentioned and “Freudian Readings” were used and every single time I’m just
Young girls really are pressured now more than ever to be seen as beautiful and sexy and perfect like IG models and whatever the fuck…..like that’s why you see “me at 14 vs 14 year old girls today” posts……….we didn’t have this constant stream of content like they do…..content telling us to be perfect and to have perfect clothes and sharp eyeliner wings that look photoshopped and shit like that….I mean it’s always been there but not like this…and while I think girls should be able to dress however they want and do whatever they want…..you have to take into consideration the fact that this all stems from a toxic culture where women have to be perfect and beautiful…now at younger and younger ages….and it’s really gross…and the media continues to sexualize and like…make young girls seem older and more appealing than they actually are idk the whole thing makes me so uncomfortable and it’s only going to get worse
And the wildest thing is, people will still try and justify it with the “there’s always been girls that dress older than they are!” argument. Which is true. But it was never the norm. Pre social media, most young girls were allowed be young girls. Here’s Miley Cyrus, Selena Gomez and Lindsay Lohan at 14/15 in 2001-2007. They were arguably the biggest young stars of the time but this is how they presented
They aren’t being styled to look leagues older than they are. They’re allowed to just be their own age and look their own age. Now, here’s Millie Bobbie Brown at 13 in 2018, Veronika Bonell at 15/16 in 2017, Skai Jackson at 13 in 2015, and Caitlin Carmichael at 13 in 2017.
There is a deep problem in our society that this is what people are styling children to look like. They don’t look like children, they look like young adults. They could wear these exact same looks in 10 years and they wouldn’t be questioned because they’re dressed and made up to present as adults. This is what is presented as normal for young girls, this is the image they’re told is the “right” one, the one they should aspire to.
There’s nothing wrong with girls – or boys – wanting to be pretty. But there is a problem with young girls being constantly told that pretty for them means looking over 21 at 13.
There’s nothing wrong with girls – or boys – wanting to be pretty. But there is a problem with young girls being constantly told that pretty for them means looking over 21 at 13.
people who have quite literally never experienced naturally formed lgbt community of any kind in their lives and are also very sexually inexperienced: i am a righteous authority about all identities, who belongs where, who is predatory, how sex/attraction works, what is exclusionary, etc
So you should probably ask a lesbian but a lot of bi women don’t take female attraction seriously and act like woman/woman relationships arent “real” and would only seriously consider marrying a man, and for some lesbians they feel like only other lesbians can understand their exclusively female attraction. (Ask a lesbian for her opinions on this, not me(
So those are some reasons I’ve heard but tbh that’s not the fucking point, the point is that no one respects lesbians’ boundaries or preferences
Anon, I can personally speak as a lesbian, the only relationships I had were with 2 bi women and both of them treated me like a toy and some kind of novelty item before discarding me and now they are both with men. I don’t mind that they are with men, I mind being dehumanized and being seen as a fun pastime for them to occupy themselves with while they search for an actual relationship, I don’t like being a toy. So personally, to me that’s why I am wary of dating bi women. I also had a close bi friend make advances towards me and openly flirting and even though she has a boyfriend, she keeps doing it, again like I’m some kind of toy she can have a bit of fun with. It’s disgusting, it’s uncomfortable and it’s depressing.
so because you’ve had two bad experiences with bi women you wanna write the rest of us off and act like our attraction to women is some kind of phase/something we’re not serious about? lmao ok
Wow, the biphobia in this post is disturbingly strong.
OP and all the people agreeing with her are Terfs like are y’all even surprised
Cis lesbians are the WORST of all biphobes
Nah, I wouldn’t say that, I know tons of cis lesbians that aren’t pieces of shit, I’m mutuals with a few cis lesbians and they’re good ppl
I meant of the types of biphobes I have experienced that cis lesbians are the worst. Obvi not all lesbians are assholes. I have beef with BIPHOBIC cis lesbians bc they are usually all TERFs too.
A lesbian: *explains why she personally doesn’t date bi women because in the past bi women have hurt her and shown they didn’t take female relationships seriously*
Fucking gender terrorist nonbinary “witches” on this hellsite: ummm sweaty???? Didn’t you know lesbians are literally not allowed to have boundaries????? Cis lesbians are literally the worst people!!! So just cuz you dated two assholes you still think you’re allowed to have preferences??? Wowwwww 🙄
It’s so fucking ironic that I never hear this talk directed at straight men and women with preferences, it’s almost as if yall just hate women who assert their boundaries! @stonerbrujx is literally a straight woman in a heterosexual relationship who calls herself “nonbinary” telling an actual lesbian that she’s not allowed to have boundaries. Who’s yalls fucking dealer? Can you hook me up?
A Lesbian:
“personally, to me that’s why I am wary of dating bi women” These People: OH MY FUCKING GOD YOU’RE SO BIPHOBIC YOU FUCKING TERF I CAN’T BELIEVE YOU’D LITERALLY SAY THAT LITERALLY ALL BI WOMEN ARE FAKING THEIR ORIENTATION YOU PIECE OF SHIT
I’ve met so many straight ppl who won’t date bi people, guess how many times they’ve been called out for it
Big Mean Sweaty Dyke 