some of your points are valid—but let’s be honest: you’re blaming the very women you claim to be concerned for. it might not be obvious to everyone, because you’ve wrapped your critique in shared cultural anxiety and spiritual language. but the misogyny is clear. the disgust isn’t directed at systems—it’s aimed at girls. and i see through it, Dr. Roger McFillin.
i might write a critique of your critique—because women need to understand how easily we’re conditioned to trust voices that sound protective, but are rigged against us no matter what we do. even your concern is laced with contempt. and that tells me everything.
100% this is just purity culture wrapped in a face of care. Alex is not celebrating women getting STD’s, she is retaliating against a culture that shames women for catching one. Same with reframing and empowering people with a diagnosis. Suicide rates are higher than ever, yet he is concerned people are seeking awareness about mental health and SSRI treatment?
Completely agree! I was on board until I read the commentary on medication. As someone with ADHD that went undiagnosed until my 20s, causing anxiety and depression, I’m not even sure I’d even be here without treatment. Even SSRI’s that I took before getting diagnosed with ADHD helped save me. How is spiritual thinking going to help me keep my job, pay the bills, and do other basic tasks that require some level of executive functioning? The material conditions exist whether I want them to or not. Spirituality is great, but you cant apply it to everything.
The thing that really gets me about people slagging off medication for mental health is, they’ve never actually BEEN to the places that require it. If they really knew how bad depression can get, they would never suggest not using it. Ffs, anyone on medication for mental health is usually on it as a last resort. Like you said, we have jobs, and bills, and responsibilities, and these can't get done with the pills. OP is suggesting we need to undo all of societies woes, then we won't need medication or depression, anxiety, etc. Okay mate 🤭 Kind of clueless
I thoroughly agree - I was particularly disturbed at the comment around "seeing ADHD as a superpower" as if it is a bad thing. It's proven that some of our most brilliant minds (let's be honest - most of our most brilliant minds) were and are neurodivergent. There is a dark and light to everything. It's not that we need "meth" to cope - it's that society is structured in a way that doesn't support all of our mental profiles, and can make it impossible to function - dissuading people from taking meds can kill them. It's not really fair to have an opinion about other people's medical needs and while I hate on big-pharma as much as the next guy, I have also witnessed meds SAVE LIVES. This world is cruel to those who are "different," even though our great artists and inventors were. Everyone profits off of what neurodivergent people create. The least we can do for one another is not judge how we cope, and how we empower ourselves.
I agree wholeheartedly with your comment. I struggled with extreme generalised and social anxiety for the entirety of my tween and teen years. I started going to therapy at 13 and switched therapists twice. The people around me told me that I didn't need medication, that it would "de-purify" my body - they said that I had to deal with it through therapy and mental resilience alone. That did not work, it was useless; my anxiety stemmed from actual experiences that I went through, and although I had consciously dealt with them, subconsciously, my body hadn't.
Thankfully, my third therapist recognised that I couldn't fully overcome my anxiety without the little helpful push of SSRIs. I had been hoping for someone to realise this since I was 14. At 18 I started taking my medication, and it has changed my life for the better. I can't imagine the amount of amazing experiences I would've missed if I didn't have my medication to give me that support to deal with my anxiety.
By no means do I think medication should be given all willy nilly, with no consultation or proper diagnosis. Medication is not something to take lightly, but when you've tried most everything and you're only moving backwards, maybe medication can be the boost you need. I don't believe that medicine can cure mental health issues on its own, but it sure helps when paired with talk therapy and personal growth. I can't say that my anxiety has completely disappeared, but it's a fuck ton easier to deal with compared to 13-year-old me who couldn't even leave the house or order a meal in a restaurant without going into fight-or-flight mode.
Came to say this! Crazy idea but what if the women are having sex for their own pleasure and not someone else’s? I can accept the critique of the content for young girls but every other sentence about it is giving purity culture vibes - maybe we wouldn’t need influencers like Alex if old men would stop telling us what to do with our bodies
That is not what I took from this at all and I am a woman who is pretty sensitive to this phenomenon. We women aren’t helpless to what we choose to consume. If mothers are taking their daughters to this show they are absolutely complicit in encouraging their daughters to consume this
This is calling for people to have more care and control. In this instance, yes the examples are women… but all people should have more control than we have let ourselves. There was a time when I too would have said “ugh man being critical of woman= mysogeny” but that is a very shallow, accountability dodging read of this essay in my opinion.
Guys like Roger model their arguments after the "original sin" bullshit they tell us about Adam and Eve... Eve is "duplicitous" for convincing Adam to eat the apple, and somehow Adam has zero culpability for making the final decision to eat it his own damn self.
Did you catch how he didn't quote Alex Cooper a single time in this long-ass article, when most of it is supposedly a reaction to problems Alex allegedly personifies? It's because if he did quote her, his slut-shaming "purity culture" nonsense would sound hysterical and over-dramaticto the average reader.
Adam is just as culpable in Genesis. He failed to tell her of the tree and to never eat from it. He failed as protector when the snake appeared. He is just as culpable.
so real, the title and cover image choice, combined with the casual disclaimer of «i have a wife btw. and married men are totally not creeps» told way more than the rest of his essay did lol
Alex Cooper is a grown woman, not a girl. the mothers with their children at a sexually explicit show cheering for STDs are also grown women, not girls. Dr. Roger McFillin was not critiquing the children in the situation but the adults.
the only person reducing anyone here is the man who can’t talk about women without bringing up STDs and trauma like they’re proof of moral collapse. your concern for “proper framing” is noted and rejected.
critiquing someones behavior is not reducing them to that behavior.
You are calling adults children. why? what is the point in taking away a woman's agency in her own behavior by calling her a girl? A girl, a child, an adolescent, its the infantilizing adult women, you are just as bad as any misogynist.
i have no idea what you’re on about…. i used «women» more than the word girls. stop replying to me if you have no intentions of using the last two of your braincells
When you start throwing around insults, you've lost the argument.
you used girl as a synonym to women, it doesn't matter is you used «women» more, Woman and girl are not interchangeable. to assume they are, is to believe women are akin to children, that's misogyny :/
I asked why... you couldn't answer. unfortunate really.
ah yes, because nothing screams “i’m a feminist” like lecturing a woman on her word choice instead of engaging with the critique of male power. congrats on becoming the comment section’s honorary mansplainer—just in a slightly softer font.🥴
Nanou appears to be a bitter woman who obviously lives and dies by the brand of Call Me Daddy. Done all that, can't admit she wishes she hadn't, and spends many words peppered with arrogance and insults to justify her behavior. But maybe I shouldn't be so hard on her. She's probably only 14.
i wouldn’t bother, it’s more likely that galina is a man pretending to be a woman. they try that when everything else they are so used to reach for, fails.
Because these “grown woman” are behaving like children, or adolescent girls at best. Believe it or not, I slept with Alex just as her Barstool Days were getting started. She spent half the night babbling about sexual liberation, and I pretended to listen.
I couldn’t help myself; after our regrettable interlude, I asked if she thinks she’s better in bed due to her promiscuity. She thought for a sec, and said yeah probably.
Thing is, 15 min beforehand, she had her back arched like a cat puking when I hit it from behind, and looked flabbergasted when I told her to put her legs inside of mine for Reverse Cow.
I said If you learn how to actually f*ck, you’ll get more out of each experience, each connection. You aren’t in college so stop acting like the town whore.
Men and women are not the same. The optimal sexual strategy for men is unlimited access to unlimited sex with an unlimited number of hot women.
Women have been raised to believe that male happiness is “more fun,” and so the correct path is to become more like men.
Except women aren’t men. A woman’s value to men is her fertility and a reasonable level of purity. You don’t like that, and you won’t agree, but I do not give any f*cks, because your agreement is irrelevant: you are not a man. Who are you to tell me what we value in women?
Feminism created whores
Whores create single mothers
Single mothers raise weak sons
Weak sons become weak leaders
Weak leaders ruin societies.
And they let mentally ill women celebrate STDs, as “role models.” Ie, women who act like children.
I love women. Built a family. I do hate what women have become and it’s a shame because at the end of the day it’s the fault of men. Empowering women was a giant mistake and it’s destroying the world. They will destroy themselves and prove this every day.
I stopped taking this piece seriously when a woman being sexual explicit became 'degrading'. I know at that point the author and I fundamentally disagree about women's agency in their own lives and that what I'm going to get is patriarchal 'concern'. I'd love to read your critique though.
Well let’s see. What we’re really talking about here is susceptibility to emotional manipulation, and the most susceptible creature on planet earth is American women, ESPECIALLY liberal women. You don’t like what I just said. Because you don’t *want* it to be true. You need to learn that the truth doesn’t give a fuck what you want. Truth is truth, and it isn’t “your truth.
Truth: 50% of liberal women aged 20-50 have been clinically diagnosed with at least one mental illness. In other words, it’s not misogynistic to say these women aren’t fit for responsibility: they’re fucking mentally ill. Literally.
When someone has a problem with the facts, the facts aren’t the problem. Your shrieking about “misogyny” is getting louder and louder because our response to “you’re a misogynist for saying that!” Is:
“I don’t care.”
And when you don’t have an alternative explanation for why 55 year old white lesbian women are walking up to black people on the street to inform them of the “oppression” they suffer, you call anyone who points to the truth a “misogynist.”
And when you don’t have an alternative explanation for why liberal women were protesting against Palestinian “genocide” but can’t protest about the current events in Iran because it completely exposes the contradiction, you say nothing, just wait for the next opportunity to effusively addict yourself to whichever Leftwing narrative keeps you from:
Facing the TRUTH: You hate yourself. Half this country’s women hate themselves, and the perfect solution is the villain that the media created, so that women would ruin their lives with addiction - to hating Donald Trump, to TikTok, to labeling men “incels,” to spending 20 years ordering Uber Eats instead of starting families, and ending up single, childless and in psych wards after 40 (fact: largest patient population in psychiatric hospitals? Middle aged childless women).
So go on. Say it’s all misogynistic. Problem is, it’s all true.
And we don’t fucking care if it makes us misogynists. Mother Nature gave her sons reproductive longevity in case a couple generations of Feminists needed their genes to be wiped off the face of the earth.
If misogyny is protecting our daughters from the spectacle of celebrating the contraction of an STD and the degrading ideals of "Call Her Daddy", than I absolutely thrilled to wear that designation.
Good God Roger, you seem to have drawn quite the ire from a lot of mentally ill women that find you mysoginistic! But we can’t blame THEM for anything, I mean the syphilis they carry has probably rotted their brains, and secondly, of course, as every and any feminist will tell you, women have absolutely no agency whatsoever, they are mere herd animals with less free will than a herd of drugged up cattle. Presumably being led to the slaughtering of their babies and infecting of their vaginas by the evil patriarchy that they, as mere herd animals with zero agency can only acquiesce to as the poor beasts of burden that they are.
I agree, reading that point felt really weird to me and I couldn’t quite put my finger on why until your comment. Like of course children shouldn’t be exposed to overly sexual content that they can’t understand the nuance of. I have never listened to call her Daddy so I can’t speak on that, but the problem has never been women talking about or having sex in general, it’s the fact that women and girls are exposed to this glorification of sex/porn/sex work online without the education to make good decisions about how to engage with it. When I was a teenager it was the sugar daddy lifestyle prevalent on tumblr. I was indoctrinated (for lack of a better word) into that lifestyle and started doing it as soon as I turned 18 just because it seemed cool online and like easy money. Now I know that I did not have the sex education (thanks Catholic school /s) or the boundary setting skills to engage in that kind of work so young and there are consequences from my decisions I have to now live with for the rest of my life.
There needs to be a balance between glorification and education. Catholic and religious schools do a terrible job at this educational aspect and everyone knows at this point that the abstinence mindset just doesn’t work at all. Thinking sex work is easy money like I did is almost more insulting than saying it’s not work: it’s unregulated, dangerous, and at times dehumanizing especially when you are young and don’t know how to set boundaries or protect yourself mentally and physically. What you are making in money, you are paying for in trauma, degradation, etc. when you are unable to advocate for yourself, protect yourself, and set boundaries around what you choose to do. And believe me, the people who want to take advantage of young vulnerable women in sex work can spot one (as opposed to an experienced sex worker with clear boundaries) from a mile away. Again, the problem here seems to keep coming back to the men who take advantage and fail to educate young women, not the women themselves. If you are teaching your daughters how to engage with sex safely and with a full understanding of the pros and cons, you probably don’t have to worry about them listening to a podcast.
Again, this is not because of the sex work in general but because of the men who take advantage of those in sex work because it is an unregulated field, especially the people who go into sex work because it’s their only option to get out of poverty (which was not the case for me). I am also aware this post was not centred around sex work, but when people start choosing promiscuity, it can be a slippery slope into sec work (not shaming just speaking from personal experience) the mindset of “I’m doing this for free anyway so I may as well get paid for it.”
What I am trying to say is we don’t need less people talking about women having sex, we need more people especially women talking about the good and bad aspects of sex and sex work so people can make their own educated decisions for engaging or not engaging with it: yes it can be empowering but it can also be dangerous, dehumanizing, etc. people get STI’s because of a lack of education surrounding safe sex (I blame the Catholics and religious people AGAIN), not because they are having too much sex, and they definitely don’t need to be shamed for it.
Specifically, the voices of people experienced in sex work, especially people of colour or people in poverty who may be more vulnerable to harm, survivors of sex trafficking etc. need to be listened to.
Women need to be educated about sex in order to make the right decisions surrounding it, not be forced into silence and taken advantage of like what has been happening for years.
“The kids these days” said with absolute disgust and disbelief is a statement made by elders since the beginning of humankind. But yet, we are still here. You might just be getting old. I know plenty of great kids including girls and young women. It’s the testosterone fueled war-mongering males that are going to get us all killed. Focus on stopping that and don’t worry too much about young people- they will find their way and end up just about like us when they are all grown up.
Unprecedented rates of depression, anxiety, suicide in a population where it historically did not exist. Over 20% of adolescent girls taking SSRI's... this is NOT typical adolescent development and what they are exposed to (my point of the article) is a root cause factor that needs to be recognized and addressed.
Adolescent girls haven’t been given SSRI’s (or had their mental and physical health properly researched or diagnosed) for long enough to have a generational comparison.
Wow the feminist brigade really showed up in your comments section, ironically, proving your point about the level of delusion achieved in mass popular culture. The rhetoric in this comment section is wild.
Believe me, you don't know the half of it. Like Fred Neil sang, "there's another side to this world, my darling". Psychiatric drugs and their withdrawal are nothing short of a mass abuse an oppression of vulnerable people in the name of profit.
This whole essay proves that we shouldn't want our children to end up like us. The only way forward is to break this cycle of depravity and dehumanization, which I would argue, begins with those very children and the people raising them. But this is no small feat when podcasters, mainstream media, and even medical doctors have normalized the very horrors Dr. McFillin describes here. This is not the same as elders ranting about "those crazy kids listening to rock and roll." This is pornography in the hands of children. It's AI doing everything for us and removing all critical thought from our society. It's doctors dispensing SSRIs like candy. The problem is so much bigger and more complex than it's ever been, because increasingly nonhuman technology and modes of mass communication now exist to bolster and spread these messages. To throw up our hands and say "It'll all work out eventually," is to turn a blind eye to the destruction of humanity.
Actually the statistics show that the doc’s right about girls and young women - positively off the charts rates of anxiety, depression, and misogynistic gender dysphoria which many of the adults around them aid and abet. The kids are most definitely not “alright”, and we ignore the impact of this toxic culture on them at our peril.
Pornography has made girls feel worthless; they are overcompensating in a very destructive way. Then there is the diet that does not support hormonal balance, and stress also throws hormonal balance off, leading to emotional problems, then the docs drug 'em to shut 'em up. Children need a ton of parental input at home, can't be done when both parents work.
Kids need a parent at home to nurture, protect and guide them. I know some women who have jobs working from home and it makes a huge difference. Or, if the dad is working from home, that works too.
Hi-holistic trauma therapist with two decades of experience. No, a lot of the kids won’t “find their way”. How do you “find your way” when your brain has marinated in chemicals since elementary school? How do you “find your way” when you realize that the experts led you down a path that utterly destroyed your body? How do you “find your way” when you realize one day that those body parts that they told you to cut off or alter or those hormones they gave you actually destroyed you?
This is a true holocaust happening all around us every day; the slaughtering of helpless children in the womb by credentialed men and women in white coats, who collect their coins and casually send generations of bereft and broken mothers off to lives of turmoil, anguish, despair. Come, Lord Jesus.
1. People have only recently been concerned about the youth (last century or so) since their upbringing was influenced by the state, corporations, Hollywood, MIC etc. Before that, when parents actually raised their children and passed on their culture, there was no concern about the state of the youth.
2. Testosterone is produced in response to conflict. It promotes conflict resolution.
3. The absence of fathers in the home, and strong male role models generally (in schools etc) is the main driver of gang culture, teenage promiscuity/ pregnancy, hyper sexuality, criminality and failure to launch. Feminism drove men out of the lives of children, and marginalised strong, hard working, decent men. Feminists have formed an alliance with the most power hungry, violent and psychopathic men (and women) in society - namely the state.
4. All wars would end if women collectively agreed to leave the harem of government, partner with ordinary working men instead, raise children at home in a strong family unit (which means careful mate selection before having children), and not ever hit their children. Ending wars begins with peaceful parenting. All of the tyrants of history were beaten as children.
This is the reason that I am most interested in reading authors like CS Lewis and understanding my faith (Christianity). The Screwtape Letters by Lewis seems to have nailed a lot of topics of current day. This is why I take my young kids to church every Sunday and my main goal as a parent is to give them faith in God- bc I don’t know how they navigate this crazy world without it.
without god YOU are lost...some of us don't require that mental construct to establish, maintain. and adapt a healthy sense of morality that agrees with the bulk of what was said by OP. I am all for YOUR faith in YOUR god to provide YOU with all the comfort and community YOU require. Leave the WE out of it. Take care.
here's a thought: u do u & let me do me. that was the point of me saying don't use the word WE when you mean ME. Or carry on being a snowflake with a persecution complex, u do u...
I'm trying to indoctrinated you by saying 1 thing in reply to an important comment you made? Oh boy. Your kids will see your Persecution complex from a mile away, if they haven't already. They're already thinking for themselves out of pure embarrassment. Thanks for leaving them an opening to break free. I truly believe God does work in mysterious ways
Just remember… “magical sky daddy” might be the only one who actually cares about you. His name is Jesus. When youre at the end of your road, hed be happy to help. Hope you find the way.
You have described the exact reason I am still practicing at 73 years old. The art of psychotherapy has been hijacked by Pharma, social media, DSM labels,etc. Our current society has developed a tolerance for the absurd and outrageous at the expense of lost cohesion of simple values like kindness, compassion, respect, courtesy, and so on and so on.
Hi-same here! I’m almost 69 and I can’t retire in good conscience. I unplugged from the system, went solo, don’t take insurance, don’t “diagnose” and try to help folks get off of psych meds if they want to (which is an absolute nightmare for most).
Yes they are. If the meds are causing unpleasant side effects and a person wants psychological support while tapering (with medical supervision) they have that right.
Don't possibly kno how u can hav a quality life given the diabolical side effects of BigHarma - ur comment seems2offer a black or white perspective clouded by propaganda. It's always best2 DYOR & keep all options at hand.
OhMy easily triggered I c. Pls consider educating urself as there r many Xcellent books&resources available👊
(from an x- hypothyroidism patient who suffered terribly 4Many, many yrs until doing Real Research re God's Real medicines & Finally got Cured. It's amazing what can b accomplished when u take the blinders off & decide2take Responsibility4ur own well-being & stop poisoning urself w/dangerous, synthetic, tainted Chemicals. Best2u&good health.)
But here's the thing - earth rlly does provide us with everything we need to live a healthy life - with none of the Horrific side effects of man's synthetic toxins. Over 250k prescription "medicines" & not one Cure. Natural medicines & methods Do Cure. Perhaps our approach to sickness needs rethinking as well as an upgrade. Natural cures aren't patentable & r there4 now allowed, hidden or demonized. Seems2me modern/industrial medicine has been co-opted & corrupted2the point of Us believing in & relying on a system that we're paying2slowly kill/disable/enslave us - simply bc we choose convenience & so called xperts rather than personal responsibility. Then again I hav the Gift of "sight" & can see demons & yup they're supremely sneaky & SoVery Real (but nothing2fear if we kno our own power).
Antipsychotics shrink the brain. They "work" by atrophying the grey and white matter of the frontal brain. If one agrees that it is an acceptable sacrifice, that is their choice. However, most people (if not all!) prescribed these drugs are not even told this outcome is possible, never mind very probable.
Was somewhat on the same page until you mentioned “gender ideology”. Transgender people exist and people around the world (including children) deserve to know that it’s okay to be transgender. Transitioning changed my life for the better and I would have had a harder time coming to terms with it without having an online community. I was never able to stand up straight or feel good in my body before I accepted my identity, and there’s mountains of research to support the positive effects of gender affirming care. Admittedly, being opening transgender is difficult in a world that is so hostile to us and the community isn’t perfect (it is only human to be fallible). But there’s no denying that we exist, have always existed, and can go on to exist happily like anyone else when given half the chance. I implore you to engage with transgender thinkers on this topic, rather than discount us based on the information given to you by bad actors who are intent on scapegoating us for their own political gain.
We can accept that there is no one way to be a boy or girl, but telling kids they can choose to be a different sex is WRONG and a LIE. Roger is spot on in this article and there is a huge social contagion re being “trans” that has huge repercussions.
That saddens me you feel this way and I know it’s unlikely I could change your mind. I hope you take what I’m going to say next to heart however, that it’s never too late to change. It’s never too late to abandon the path of fear and walk the path of love.
It is a path of love - it’s the truth. Adults of sound mind can choose what they want for themselves but we mustn’t have a society that medicalizes/sterialuzes
no one is saying you can be a different sex. sex and gender are not the same and your conflation of the two shows how little you understand about eye “ideology” you claim to be against
just wanna add here (as an environmental biologist) that “sex” isn’t actually as binary as society makes it out to be, from a biological perspective. there are the external genitals, which is how sex is assigned at birth, but there’s also a TON going on internally that you can’t see, most notably the way hormones can differ. the most obvious example of this is the existence of intersex people. some intersex people even appear to have a clear sex based on their external genitalia, only to realize in puberty or later in life when something is off and they realize it’s because their sex wasn’t so black and white after all! one of my favorite lessons i’ve learned about the world from biology is that no matter how much we attempt to categorize the world into bite-sized parts that are easier to understand, there will ALWAYS be exceptions. that applies to humans too, and our experience of both gender AND sex.
Hey you can’t have it both ways. Society cannot both say “hey you can’t like blue! And YOU can’t play with dolls! And YOU can’t wear dresses! And YOU can’t have a “boys haircut” AND “you can’t change who you are to fit our ridiculous made up rules”
I’m sorry for your experience. But gender dysphoria is serious. The solution to any kind of dysmorphia is not to play into the dysmorphia. We need to do research and make progress on real solutions, not treat the symptoms in the worst way possible. We need to attack the root of the issue
It's incredibly telling that you wrote all those words about Alex Cooper and the "Call Her Daddy" podcast, but didn't bother to quote her own words a single time. You didn't bother to quote her, because you are characterizing her show completely unfairly, using the same old tired tropes of moral panic and "slut shaming" bullshit. This is a trick as old as time, and I'm a bit sad more people aren't seeing right through it.
Thanks for your perspective! I’m a Family Nurse Practitioner and I saw medicine and nursing heading in this direction 30 years ago. I had to create my own path and practice to stay out of the insanity!
I would like to add to number 1 the way the increasingly violent and extreme imagery/themes of pornography (and OnlyFans) impacts boys and men, along with the addictive nature of it.
Also, to add to number 2, just as we have become desensitized to the tragedy of mass death, we have become desensitized to the power of birth and as an extension, infancy. Babies are born in often (not always of course) unnecessarily overly clinical, overly medical, overly sterilized ways and then go home to be left to cry themselves to sleep so they can better fit into their parent’s work schedules, have robot cradles to rock them lest their parents have to it themselves, and then go to daycare at 8 weeks old.
Not surprisingly, both of these create more opportunity for number three. Porn surely helps sell Viagra for ED, as well as antidepressants. Women with birth trauma and babies with poor attachment potentially go on to seek all sorts of pharmaceutical solutions. Not to mention those mothers on their mental health meds then prioritize that over breastfeeding and that pads the pockets of giant formula manufacturers that non-coincidentally love to use “maternal mental health” in their ads.
Oh yeah because nothing screams living your life like being trapped in a hospital, unable to heal and repeating the same day, same tests, same surgery over and over again.
So the solution is murder rather than stopping treatment and bringing them home with their families? I fail to see how quality of life would justify murder/suicide. There are plenty of other solutions if you are creative enough. This is the problem with our society. We don’t want to think on an issue for more than five seconds. We want quick microwave solutions.
Your user name tells me enough about you already but we can’t even have this conversation if you consider it murder. I thought murder was taking the life of others without consent, usually a heinous act of aggression or malice involved? But let me guess you also believe a 6 week old fetus is more deserving of respect than the woman whose body it resides in.
Consent is irrelevant to murder. If I told you to kill me with an ax right now, it would still be murder. Murder is unlawful or unjustifiable killing. The unjustifiable is the important part of the definition though, as sadly the law can poorly reflect the truth of a situation, like what happened at Auschwitz. This is not a conversation on abortion. If you want to change the topic, we surely can. However, we are talking about euthanasia. And if your position on this moral topic is so weak as to be unable to even defend it, I say that shows how weak the position is that we should kill people due to poor life circumstances.
Well said. Thank you. Now what? How do you think we should resist? My weapons are prayer and stillness . And believing that as Christ is, so are we in this world. Who will open the scroll? The Lion of the tribe of Judah. I turned and saw a lamb that had been slaughtered. The willing victim that does not succumb to evil. The table will crack and Death itself would start working backwards.
People are misdiagnosing themselves to be part of a clique. I have always been irritated by medication ads on TV and lately on streaming. Recently, the ads on YouTube are mostly about ADHD! "This app is perfect for someone who has ADHD!" It looks like that if you break a fingernail, poof! You have ADHD!
I know that you mention a lot about children and adolescents, but the first part of the problem are the parents. As you mentioned in the article, parents dragging their 13-year-old to watch an adult show makes no sense to me. The new generation of parenthood have no boundaries - they just want to be the BFF of their kids, not a role model to guide their kids.
We go on Reddit and Quora, children and teens are depressed, they can't talk to their parents, because the parents are also addicted to their phones or just don't want to take the responsibility of being a parent.
some of your points are valid—but let’s be honest: you’re blaming the very women you claim to be concerned for. it might not be obvious to everyone, because you’ve wrapped your critique in shared cultural anxiety and spiritual language. but the misogyny is clear. the disgust isn’t directed at systems—it’s aimed at girls. and i see through it, Dr. Roger McFillin.
i might write a critique of your critique—because women need to understand how easily we’re conditioned to trust voices that sound protective, but are rigged against us no matter what we do. even your concern is laced with contempt. and that tells me everything.
100% this is just purity culture wrapped in a face of care. Alex is not celebrating women getting STD’s, she is retaliating against a culture that shames women for catching one. Same with reframing and empowering people with a diagnosis. Suicide rates are higher than ever, yet he is concerned people are seeking awareness about mental health and SSRI treatment?
Oh thank God, I thought I was going to have to spell it out for him. 🙏🏾
Completely agree! I was on board until I read the commentary on medication. As someone with ADHD that went undiagnosed until my 20s, causing anxiety and depression, I’m not even sure I’d even be here without treatment. Even SSRI’s that I took before getting diagnosed with ADHD helped save me. How is spiritual thinking going to help me keep my job, pay the bills, and do other basic tasks that require some level of executive functioning? The material conditions exist whether I want them to or not. Spirituality is great, but you cant apply it to everything.
The thing that really gets me about people slagging off medication for mental health is, they’ve never actually BEEN to the places that require it. If they really knew how bad depression can get, they would never suggest not using it. Ffs, anyone on medication for mental health is usually on it as a last resort. Like you said, we have jobs, and bills, and responsibilities, and these can't get done with the pills. OP is suggesting we need to undo all of societies woes, then we won't need medication or depression, anxiety, etc. Okay mate 🤭 Kind of clueless
I thoroughly agree - I was particularly disturbed at the comment around "seeing ADHD as a superpower" as if it is a bad thing. It's proven that some of our most brilliant minds (let's be honest - most of our most brilliant minds) were and are neurodivergent. There is a dark and light to everything. It's not that we need "meth" to cope - it's that society is structured in a way that doesn't support all of our mental profiles, and can make it impossible to function - dissuading people from taking meds can kill them. It's not really fair to have an opinion about other people's medical needs and while I hate on big-pharma as much as the next guy, I have also witnessed meds SAVE LIVES. This world is cruel to those who are "different," even though our great artists and inventors were. Everyone profits off of what neurodivergent people create. The least we can do for one another is not judge how we cope, and how we empower ourselves.
"Ffs, anyone on medication for mental health is usually on it as a last resort."
This is highly debatable. It's often a first treatment, which is his point.
Yes, I agree. In my experience, doctors are fairly quick to offer anti-depressants.
I meant last resort as a personal thing, not as a treatment.
I agree wholeheartedly with your comment. I struggled with extreme generalised and social anxiety for the entirety of my tween and teen years. I started going to therapy at 13 and switched therapists twice. The people around me told me that I didn't need medication, that it would "de-purify" my body - they said that I had to deal with it through therapy and mental resilience alone. That did not work, it was useless; my anxiety stemmed from actual experiences that I went through, and although I had consciously dealt with them, subconsciously, my body hadn't.
Thankfully, my third therapist recognised that I couldn't fully overcome my anxiety without the little helpful push of SSRIs. I had been hoping for someone to realise this since I was 14. At 18 I started taking my medication, and it has changed my life for the better. I can't imagine the amount of amazing experiences I would've missed if I didn't have my medication to give me that support to deal with my anxiety.
By no means do I think medication should be given all willy nilly, with no consultation or proper diagnosis. Medication is not something to take lightly, but when you've tried most everything and you're only moving backwards, maybe medication can be the boost you need. I don't believe that medicine can cure mental health issues on its own, but it sure helps when paired with talk therapy and personal growth. I can't say that my anxiety has completely disappeared, but it's a fuck ton easier to deal with compared to 13-year-old me who couldn't even leave the house or order a meal in a restaurant without going into fight-or-flight mode.
Came to say this! Crazy idea but what if the women are having sex for their own pleasure and not someone else’s? I can accept the critique of the content for young girls but every other sentence about it is giving purity culture vibes - maybe we wouldn’t need influencers like Alex if old men would stop telling us what to do with our bodies
Yes!!!!
I can’t tell if you’re a troll, an incel, or just daft. Regardless, grow the fuck up
Good luck with your full blown aids.
That is not what I took from this at all and I am a woman who is pretty sensitive to this phenomenon. We women aren’t helpless to what we choose to consume. If mothers are taking their daughters to this show they are absolutely complicit in encouraging their daughters to consume this
you’re exactly who these men go for. you do you though because rather your gullible ahh than me🫶
This is calling for people to have more care and control. In this instance, yes the examples are women… but all people should have more control than we have let ourselves. There was a time when I too would have said “ugh man being critical of woman= mysogeny” but that is a very shallow, accountability dodging read of this essay in my opinion.
Guys like Roger model their arguments after the "original sin" bullshit they tell us about Adam and Eve... Eve is "duplicitous" for convincing Adam to eat the apple, and somehow Adam has zero culpability for making the final decision to eat it his own damn self.
Did you catch how he didn't quote Alex Cooper a single time in this long-ass article, when most of it is supposedly a reaction to problems Alex allegedly personifies? It's because if he did quote her, his slut-shaming "purity culture" nonsense would sound hysterical and over-dramaticto the average reader.
Adam is just as culpable in Genesis. He failed to tell her of the tree and to never eat from it. He failed as protector when the snake appeared. He is just as culpable.
More so. Eve was deceived. Adam willingly did something God told him not to do.
Get a grip, you AI avatar clown. No woman could ever fall lower than you are, fake-ass, fanatical, freak.
Good luck with your full blown aids. Whore.
I'm glad someone called that part out. I knew it was a man before he did the whole "as a father of daughters" speil
so real, the title and cover image choice, combined with the casual disclaimer of «i have a wife btw. and married men are totally not creeps» told way more than the rest of his essay did lol
Alex Cooper is a grown woman, not a girl. the mothers with their children at a sexually explicit show cheering for STDs are also grown women, not girls. Dr. Roger McFillin was not critiquing the children in the situation but the adults.
why are you reducing grown women to girls?
the only person reducing anyone here is the man who can’t talk about women without bringing up STDs and trauma like they’re proof of moral collapse. your concern for “proper framing” is noted and rejected.
critiquing someones behavior is not reducing them to that behavior.
You are calling adults children. why? what is the point in taking away a woman's agency in her own behavior by calling her a girl? A girl, a child, an adolescent, its the infantilizing adult women, you are just as bad as any misogynist.
i have no idea what you’re on about…. i used «women» more than the word girls. stop replying to me if you have no intentions of using the last two of your braincells
When you start throwing around insults, you've lost the argument.
you used girl as a synonym to women, it doesn't matter is you used «women» more, Woman and girl are not interchangeable. to assume they are, is to believe women are akin to children, that's misogyny :/
I asked why... you couldn't answer. unfortunate really.
ah yes, because nothing screams “i’m a feminist” like lecturing a woman on her word choice instead of engaging with the critique of male power. congrats on becoming the comment section’s honorary mansplainer—just in a slightly softer font.🥴
Nanou appears to be a bitter woman who obviously lives and dies by the brand of Call Me Daddy. Done all that, can't admit she wishes she hadn't, and spends many words peppered with arrogance and insults to justify her behavior. But maybe I shouldn't be so hard on her. She's probably only 14.
i wouldn’t bother, it’s more likely that galina is a man pretending to be a woman. they try that when everything else they are so used to reach for, fails.
You’re so raped and you don’t even know it :/ God bless your heart
Nanou is way way off. And all of the ones approving her. There's nothing sexually liberating about celebrating STDs.
Because these “grown woman” are behaving like children, or adolescent girls at best. Believe it or not, I slept with Alex just as her Barstool Days were getting started. She spent half the night babbling about sexual liberation, and I pretended to listen.
I couldn’t help myself; after our regrettable interlude, I asked if she thinks she’s better in bed due to her promiscuity. She thought for a sec, and said yeah probably.
Thing is, 15 min beforehand, she had her back arched like a cat puking when I hit it from behind, and looked flabbergasted when I told her to put her legs inside of mine for Reverse Cow.
I said If you learn how to actually f*ck, you’ll get more out of each experience, each connection. You aren’t in college so stop acting like the town whore.
Men and women are not the same. The optimal sexual strategy for men is unlimited access to unlimited sex with an unlimited number of hot women.
Women have been raised to believe that male happiness is “more fun,” and so the correct path is to become more like men.
Except women aren’t men. A woman’s value to men is her fertility and a reasonable level of purity. You don’t like that, and you won’t agree, but I do not give any f*cks, because your agreement is irrelevant: you are not a man. Who are you to tell me what we value in women?
Feminism created whores
Whores create single mothers
Single mothers raise weak sons
Weak sons become weak leaders
Weak leaders ruin societies.
And they let mentally ill women celebrate STDs, as “role models.” Ie, women who act like children.
Accountability is not blame, dear.
And the rest of the braindead female responses here? Meh...
say you’re misogynistic and go. because starting a debate (or whatever you call that response of yours) with me won’t read well :)
I already gave u all u need: accountability. But keep on unpacking those truths, gurrll
nothing says “i lost” like sarcasm in place of substance. but thanks for playing.
nanou says with a heavy dose of sarcasm. but its all lowercase...so we know its brimming with 'substance'.
no no—keep going. i want to see how many straws you’ll reach for just to convince yourself you mattered in this conversation.
maybe my shoe size?
I love women. Built a family. I do hate what women have become and it’s a shame because at the end of the day it’s the fault of men. Empowering women was a giant mistake and it’s destroying the world. They will destroy themselves and prove this every day.
Ahh..the m word…another self-terminating cliche that means nothing.
give me something that makes sense. because untill then? yes wear your misogyny like a flag.
trying to understand your viewpoint...is any critique of women (not systems) valid or are they all misogyny?
I stopped taking this piece seriously when a woman being sexual explicit became 'degrading'. I know at that point the author and I fundamentally disagree about women's agency in their own lives and that what I'm going to get is patriarchal 'concern'. I'd love to read your critique though.
Women being sexually explicit is gross and those that do should be ashamed of themselves. Like have some fucking pride honey.
Well let’s see. What we’re really talking about here is susceptibility to emotional manipulation, and the most susceptible creature on planet earth is American women, ESPECIALLY liberal women. You don’t like what I just said. Because you don’t *want* it to be true. You need to learn that the truth doesn’t give a fuck what you want. Truth is truth, and it isn’t “your truth.
Truth: 50% of liberal women aged 20-50 have been clinically diagnosed with at least one mental illness. In other words, it’s not misogynistic to say these women aren’t fit for responsibility: they’re fucking mentally ill. Literally.
When someone has a problem with the facts, the facts aren’t the problem. Your shrieking about “misogyny” is getting louder and louder because our response to “you’re a misogynist for saying that!” Is:
“I don’t care.”
And when you don’t have an alternative explanation for why 55 year old white lesbian women are walking up to black people on the street to inform them of the “oppression” they suffer, you call anyone who points to the truth a “misogynist.”
And when you don’t have an alternative explanation for why liberal women were protesting against Palestinian “genocide” but can’t protest about the current events in Iran because it completely exposes the contradiction, you say nothing, just wait for the next opportunity to effusively addict yourself to whichever Leftwing narrative keeps you from:
Facing the TRUTH: You hate yourself. Half this country’s women hate themselves, and the perfect solution is the villain that the media created, so that women would ruin their lives with addiction - to hating Donald Trump, to TikTok, to labeling men “incels,” to spending 20 years ordering Uber Eats instead of starting families, and ending up single, childless and in psych wards after 40 (fact: largest patient population in psychiatric hospitals? Middle aged childless women).
So go on. Say it’s all misogynistic. Problem is, it’s all true.
And we don’t fucking care if it makes us misogynists. Mother Nature gave her sons reproductive longevity in case a couple generations of Feminists needed their genes to be wiped off the face of the earth.
Can’t protest your way out of infertility.
How’s that taste?
If misogyny is protecting our daughters from the spectacle of celebrating the contraction of an STD and the degrading ideals of "Call Her Daddy", than I absolutely thrilled to wear that designation.
It sounds like you are already lost
Good God Roger, you seem to have drawn quite the ire from a lot of mentally ill women that find you mysoginistic! But we can’t blame THEM for anything, I mean the syphilis they carry has probably rotted their brains, and secondly, of course, as every and any feminist will tell you, women have absolutely no agency whatsoever, they are mere herd animals with less free will than a herd of drugged up cattle. Presumably being led to the slaughtering of their babies and infecting of their vaginas by the evil patriarchy that they, as mere herd animals with zero agency can only acquiesce to as the poor beasts of burden that they are.
You naughty, naughty, naughty man!
I haven’t laughed out loud with such a bellow, in a long time.
Those two paragraphs make his point.
This 🎯
I agree, reading that point felt really weird to me and I couldn’t quite put my finger on why until your comment. Like of course children shouldn’t be exposed to overly sexual content that they can’t understand the nuance of. I have never listened to call her Daddy so I can’t speak on that, but the problem has never been women talking about or having sex in general, it’s the fact that women and girls are exposed to this glorification of sex/porn/sex work online without the education to make good decisions about how to engage with it. When I was a teenager it was the sugar daddy lifestyle prevalent on tumblr. I was indoctrinated (for lack of a better word) into that lifestyle and started doing it as soon as I turned 18 just because it seemed cool online and like easy money. Now I know that I did not have the sex education (thanks Catholic school /s) or the boundary setting skills to engage in that kind of work so young and there are consequences from my decisions I have to now live with for the rest of my life.
There needs to be a balance between glorification and education. Catholic and religious schools do a terrible job at this educational aspect and everyone knows at this point that the abstinence mindset just doesn’t work at all. Thinking sex work is easy money like I did is almost more insulting than saying it’s not work: it’s unregulated, dangerous, and at times dehumanizing especially when you are young and don’t know how to set boundaries or protect yourself mentally and physically. What you are making in money, you are paying for in trauma, degradation, etc. when you are unable to advocate for yourself, protect yourself, and set boundaries around what you choose to do. And believe me, the people who want to take advantage of young vulnerable women in sex work can spot one (as opposed to an experienced sex worker with clear boundaries) from a mile away. Again, the problem here seems to keep coming back to the men who take advantage and fail to educate young women, not the women themselves. If you are teaching your daughters how to engage with sex safely and with a full understanding of the pros and cons, you probably don’t have to worry about them listening to a podcast.
Again, this is not because of the sex work in general but because of the men who take advantage of those in sex work because it is an unregulated field, especially the people who go into sex work because it’s their only option to get out of poverty (which was not the case for me). I am also aware this post was not centred around sex work, but when people start choosing promiscuity, it can be a slippery slope into sec work (not shaming just speaking from personal experience) the mindset of “I’m doing this for free anyway so I may as well get paid for it.”
What I am trying to say is we don’t need less people talking about women having sex, we need more people especially women talking about the good and bad aspects of sex and sex work so people can make their own educated decisions for engaging or not engaging with it: yes it can be empowering but it can also be dangerous, dehumanizing, etc. people get STI’s because of a lack of education surrounding safe sex (I blame the Catholics and religious people AGAIN), not because they are having too much sex, and they definitely don’t need to be shamed for it.
Specifically, the voices of people experienced in sex work, especially people of colour or people in poverty who may be more vulnerable to harm, survivors of sex trafficking etc. need to be listened to.
Women need to be educated about sex in order to make the right decisions surrounding it, not be forced into silence and taken advantage of like what has been happening for years.
“The kids these days” said with absolute disgust and disbelief is a statement made by elders since the beginning of humankind. But yet, we are still here. You might just be getting old. I know plenty of great kids including girls and young women. It’s the testosterone fueled war-mongering males that are going to get us all killed. Focus on stopping that and don’t worry too much about young people- they will find their way and end up just about like us when they are all grown up.
Unprecedented rates of depression, anxiety, suicide in a population where it historically did not exist. Over 20% of adolescent girls taking SSRI's... this is NOT typical adolescent development and what they are exposed to (my point of the article) is a root cause factor that needs to be recognized and addressed.
Adolescent girls haven’t been given SSRI’s (or had their mental and physical health properly researched or diagnosed) for long enough to have a generational comparison.
Wow the feminist brigade really showed up in your comments section, ironically, proving your point about the level of delusion achieved in mass popular culture. The rhetoric in this comment section is wild.
The most spot on comment in this thread. Bingo.
Why just the fixation on girls though? What are the stats for boy on SSRI's? I'm sure they'll be higher too
I just watched a documentary episode about people who want to get off SSRI’s…. Shook me to the core.
Believe me, you don't know the half of it. Like Fred Neil sang, "there's another side to this world, my darling". Psychiatric drugs and their withdrawal are nothing short of a mass abuse an oppression of vulnerable people in the name of profit.
This whole essay proves that we shouldn't want our children to end up like us. The only way forward is to break this cycle of depravity and dehumanization, which I would argue, begins with those very children and the people raising them. But this is no small feat when podcasters, mainstream media, and even medical doctors have normalized the very horrors Dr. McFillin describes here. This is not the same as elders ranting about "those crazy kids listening to rock and roll." This is pornography in the hands of children. It's AI doing everything for us and removing all critical thought from our society. It's doctors dispensing SSRIs like candy. The problem is so much bigger and more complex than it's ever been, because increasingly nonhuman technology and modes of mass communication now exist to bolster and spread these messages. To throw up our hands and say "It'll all work out eventually," is to turn a blind eye to the destruction of humanity.
What children are exposed to by the adult world is monstrous.
He isn’t looking down on kids today. This is a critique of what adults are doing to kids today. Which amounts to child abuse
Actually the statistics show that the doc’s right about girls and young women - positively off the charts rates of anxiety, depression, and misogynistic gender dysphoria which many of the adults around them aid and abet. The kids are most definitely not “alright”, and we ignore the impact of this toxic culture on them at our peril.
Pornography has made girls feel worthless; they are overcompensating in a very destructive way. Then there is the diet that does not support hormonal balance, and stress also throws hormonal balance off, leading to emotional problems, then the docs drug 'em to shut 'em up. Children need a ton of parental input at home, can't be done when both parents work.
I’d def can be done with two people at work… especially if they work the same hours kids are ins school
Kids need a parent at home to nurture, protect and guide them. I know some women who have jobs working from home and it makes a huge difference. Or, if the dad is working from home, that works too.
Once they’re in school it doesn’t really matter
I think there are still latchkey kids though. Yeah, if the parents finish work at the end of school time, that works.
Hi-holistic trauma therapist with two decades of experience. No, a lot of the kids won’t “find their way”. How do you “find your way” when your brain has marinated in chemicals since elementary school? How do you “find your way” when you realize that the experts led you down a path that utterly destroyed your body? How do you “find your way” when you realize one day that those body parts that they told you to cut off or alter or those hormones they gave you actually destroyed you?
Child sacrifice is not a thing of the past.
Abortion.
>It’s the testosterone fueled war-mongering males that are going to get us all killed.
Tell that to the billions of children murdered in the womb and used in psycopathic scientific experimentation to fulfill people's 'wishes.'
This is a true holocaust happening all around us every day; the slaughtering of helpless children in the womb by credentialed men and women in white coats, who collect their coins and casually send generations of bereft and broken mothers off to lives of turmoil, anguish, despair. Come, Lord Jesus.
1. People have only recently been concerned about the youth (last century or so) since their upbringing was influenced by the state, corporations, Hollywood, MIC etc. Before that, when parents actually raised their children and passed on their culture, there was no concern about the state of the youth.
2. Testosterone is produced in response to conflict. It promotes conflict resolution.
3. The absence of fathers in the home, and strong male role models generally (in schools etc) is the main driver of gang culture, teenage promiscuity/ pregnancy, hyper sexuality, criminality and failure to launch. Feminism drove men out of the lives of children, and marginalised strong, hard working, decent men. Feminists have formed an alliance with the most power hungry, violent and psychopathic men (and women) in society - namely the state.
4. All wars would end if women collectively agreed to leave the harem of government, partner with ordinary working men instead, raise children at home in a strong family unit (which means careful mate selection before having children), and not ever hit their children. Ending wars begins with peaceful parenting. All of the tyrants of history were beaten as children.
You no idea what's coming. Your ignorance is palpable. Your indoctrination is showing through too…
Hey not to poke or anything
ALL IN THA PHAMILY BAYBEE!!!!
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This is the reason that I am most interested in reading authors like CS Lewis and understanding my faith (Christianity). The Screwtape Letters by Lewis seems to have nailed a lot of topics of current day. This is why I take my young kids to church every Sunday and my main goal as a parent is to give them faith in God- bc I don’t know how they navigate this crazy world without it.
Exactly right! Without God, we are utterly lost. We weren’t meant to traverse this life on our own.
Magical beings are not real. No one hovers over you. You are being scammed.
Here's a thought: u do u & let her do her...Or, just b easily Triggered.
without god YOU are lost...some of us don't require that mental construct to establish, maintain. and adapt a healthy sense of morality that agrees with the bulk of what was said by OP. I am all for YOUR faith in YOUR god to provide YOU with all the comfort and community YOU require. Leave the WE out of it. Take care.
So....You can hav/XpressMusic Your opinion but she shouldn't bc You disagree. Ok got it.
here's a thought: u do u & let me do me. that was the point of me saying don't use the word WE when you mean ME. Or carry on being a snowflake with a persecution complex, u do u...
Eyes R Useless When the Mind is Blind-Hypnotized-Owned
the idea of God may temper our confusion in this life, but to me, that comfort doesn't suggest one's arrival at a truth
2 completely different things.
If you like CS Lewis wait until you read Mirari Vos and Quanta Cura :-}
Better figure out how to, just in case they ever decide to drop the faith you've forced onto them.
It's almost as if we were once kids like yours and had to learn to develop morality outside of the corrupt faith we were forcefed
I'm trying to indoctrinated you by saying 1 thing in reply to an important comment you made? Oh boy. Your kids will see your Persecution complex from a mile away, if they haven't already. They're already thinking for themselves out of pure embarrassment. Thanks for leaving them an opening to break free. I truly believe God does work in mysterious ways
Hey so this is called indoctrination.
Magical sky daddy is the gateway to something that actually is there and you'll only understand that when you're mature enough
Oh honey, sure. Blame your delusion on my “immaturity” if that helps you sleep at night
& watching her raunchy ass isn't indoctrination??? There R many means of indoctrination - u pic yours & let her have her choice.
Just remember… “magical sky daddy” might be the only one who actually cares about you. His name is Jesus. When youre at the end of your road, hed be happy to help. Hope you find the way.
Everyone indoctrinates their children, is the thing. Everyone. There is no neutral worldview.
There is so much evidence that points to Christ when the veil of ignorance is lifted.
That sounds too determined to leave enough room for further discussion.
Yeah, don't come crying when your old ass is left alone saying "WhY wOnT mY kIdS tAlK tO mE"
Sincerely, "the left" 🤣🤣🤣
What a weird way to think about your kids, wanting tobe their first enemy sure is crazy work
You have described the exact reason I am still practicing at 73 years old. The art of psychotherapy has been hijacked by Pharma, social media, DSM labels,etc. Our current society has developed a tolerance for the absurd and outrageous at the expense of lost cohesion of simple values like kindness, compassion, respect, courtesy, and so on and so on.
Hi-same here! I’m almost 69 and I can’t retire in good conscience. I unplugged from the system, went solo, don’t take insurance, don’t “diagnose” and try to help folks get off of psych meds if they want to (which is an absolute nightmare for most).
You should join the Conscious Clinician Collective! We need you in our directory
Is this directory something available to clients in all states? I’d like help finding a professional who isn’t taken by the system
I will look into that. Thank you!
Yes they are. If the meds are causing unpleasant side effects and a person wants psychological support while tapering (with medical supervision) they have that right.
Don't possibly kno how u can hav a quality life given the diabolical side effects of BigHarma - ur comment seems2offer a black or white perspective clouded by propaganda. It's always best2 DYOR & keep all options at hand.
OhMy easily triggered I c. Pls consider educating urself as there r many Xcellent books&resources available👊
(from an x- hypothyroidism patient who suffered terribly 4Many, many yrs until doing Real Research re God's Real medicines & Finally got Cured. It's amazing what can b accomplished when u take the blinders off & decide2take Responsibility4ur own well-being & stop poisoning urself w/dangerous, synthetic, tainted Chemicals. Best2u&good health.)
But here's the thing - earth rlly does provide us with everything we need to live a healthy life - with none of the Horrific side effects of man's synthetic toxins. Over 250k prescription "medicines" & not one Cure. Natural medicines & methods Do Cure. Perhaps our approach to sickness needs rethinking as well as an upgrade. Natural cures aren't patentable & r there4 now allowed, hidden or demonized. Seems2me modern/industrial medicine has been co-opted & corrupted2the point of Us believing in & relying on a system that we're paying2slowly kill/disable/enslave us - simply bc we choose convenience & so called xperts rather than personal responsibility. Then again I hav the Gift of "sight" & can see demons & yup they're supremely sneaky & SoVery Real (but nothing2fear if we kno our own power).
Antipsychotics shrink the brain. They "work" by atrophying the grey and white matter of the frontal brain. If one agrees that it is an acceptable sacrifice, that is their choice. However, most people (if not all!) prescribed these drugs are not even told this outcome is possible, never mind very probable.
And we get what we tolerate.
Was somewhat on the same page until you mentioned “gender ideology”. Transgender people exist and people around the world (including children) deserve to know that it’s okay to be transgender. Transitioning changed my life for the better and I would have had a harder time coming to terms with it without having an online community. I was never able to stand up straight or feel good in my body before I accepted my identity, and there’s mountains of research to support the positive effects of gender affirming care. Admittedly, being opening transgender is difficult in a world that is so hostile to us and the community isn’t perfect (it is only human to be fallible). But there’s no denying that we exist, have always existed, and can go on to exist happily like anyone else when given half the chance. I implore you to engage with transgender thinkers on this topic, rather than discount us based on the information given to you by bad actors who are intent on scapegoating us for their own political gain.
We can accept that there is no one way to be a boy or girl, but telling kids they can choose to be a different sex is WRONG and a LIE. Roger is spot on in this article and there is a huge social contagion re being “trans” that has huge repercussions.
That saddens me you feel this way and I know it’s unlikely I could change your mind. I hope you take what I’m going to say next to heart however, that it’s never too late to change. It’s never too late to abandon the path of fear and walk the path of love.
It is a path of love - it’s the truth. Adults of sound mind can choose what they want for themselves but we mustn’t have a society that medicalizes/sterialuzes
Children and vulnerable.
There are also trans people who completely agree with Mr. McFillin' on this (as do I). Such as Buck Angel, Debbie Hayton, and many others.
no one is saying you can be a different sex. sex and gender are not the same and your conflation of the two shows how little you understand about eye “ideology” you claim to be against
just wanna add here (as an environmental biologist) that “sex” isn’t actually as binary as society makes it out to be, from a biological perspective. there are the external genitals, which is how sex is assigned at birth, but there’s also a TON going on internally that you can’t see, most notably the way hormones can differ. the most obvious example of this is the existence of intersex people. some intersex people even appear to have a clear sex based on their external genitalia, only to realize in puberty or later in life when something is off and they realize it’s because their sex wasn’t so black and white after all! one of my favorite lessons i’ve learned about the world from biology is that no matter how much we attempt to categorize the world into bite-sized parts that are easier to understand, there will ALWAYS be exceptions. that applies to humans too, and our experience of both gender AND sex.
Hey you can’t have it both ways. Society cannot both say “hey you can’t like blue! And YOU can’t play with dolls! And YOU can’t wear dresses! And YOU can’t have a “boys haircut” AND “you can’t change who you are to fit our ridiculous made up rules”
Make up your mind.
I’m sorry for your experience. But gender dysphoria is serious. The solution to any kind of dysmorphia is not to play into the dysmorphia. We need to do research and make progress on real solutions, not treat the symptoms in the worst way possible. We need to attack the root of the issue
It's incredibly telling that you wrote all those words about Alex Cooper and the "Call Her Daddy" podcast, but didn't bother to quote her own words a single time. You didn't bother to quote her, because you are characterizing her show completely unfairly, using the same old tired tropes of moral panic and "slut shaming" bullshit. This is a trick as old as time, and I'm a bit sad more people aren't seeing right through it.
Oh look, another man who thinks he needs to share his opinion on something he admits he knows nothing about. How refreshing 🙄
Thanks for your perspective! I’m a Family Nurse Practitioner and I saw medicine and nursing heading in this direction 30 years ago. I had to create my own path and practice to stay out of the insanity!
Very good points all around in this one!
I would like to add to number 1 the way the increasingly violent and extreme imagery/themes of pornography (and OnlyFans) impacts boys and men, along with the addictive nature of it.
Also, to add to number 2, just as we have become desensitized to the tragedy of mass death, we have become desensitized to the power of birth and as an extension, infancy. Babies are born in often (not always of course) unnecessarily overly clinical, overly medical, overly sterilized ways and then go home to be left to cry themselves to sleep so they can better fit into their parent’s work schedules, have robot cradles to rock them lest their parents have to it themselves, and then go to daycare at 8 weeks old.
Not surprisingly, both of these create more opportunity for number three. Porn surely helps sell Viagra for ED, as well as antidepressants. Women with birth trauma and babies with poor attachment potentially go on to seek all sorts of pharmaceutical solutions. Not to mention those mothers on their mental health meds then prioritize that over breastfeeding and that pads the pockets of giant formula manufacturers that non-coincidentally love to use “maternal mental health” in their ads.
You managed to get through that without mentioning assisted dying - (aka, Euthanasia).
Oh yeah because nothing screams living your life like being trapped in a hospital, unable to heal and repeating the same day, same tests, same surgery over and over again.
So the solution is murder rather than stopping treatment and bringing them home with their families? I fail to see how quality of life would justify murder/suicide. There are plenty of other solutions if you are creative enough. This is the problem with our society. We don’t want to think on an issue for more than five seconds. We want quick microwave solutions.
Your user name tells me enough about you already but we can’t even have this conversation if you consider it murder. I thought murder was taking the life of others without consent, usually a heinous act of aggression or malice involved? But let me guess you also believe a 6 week old fetus is more deserving of respect than the woman whose body it resides in.
Consent is irrelevant to murder. If I told you to kill me with an ax right now, it would still be murder. Murder is unlawful or unjustifiable killing. The unjustifiable is the important part of the definition though, as sadly the law can poorly reflect the truth of a situation, like what happened at Auschwitz. This is not a conversation on abortion. If you want to change the topic, we surely can. However, we are talking about euthanasia. And if your position on this moral topic is so weak as to be unable to even defend it, I say that shows how weak the position is that we should kill people due to poor life circumstances.
Well said. Thank you. Now what? How do you think we should resist? My weapons are prayer and stillness . And believing that as Christ is, so are we in this world. Who will open the scroll? The Lion of the tribe of Judah. I turned and saw a lamb that had been slaughtered. The willing victim that does not succumb to evil. The table will crack and Death itself would start working backwards.
You are resisting!
I hope so.
Amen! Christ reigns victorious over all of this.
Yes he does. He sits in the heavens and laughs.
Mental health professionals have ignored the attack on everyone via internet “porn” for 20 years. It’s so beyond insane.
Lots of chatGPT phrasing in this article; the constant use of ‘it’s not just x, it’s y’ is a particular tell
Imagine trying to become the first woman President, and going on this show.
Excellent article!
People are misdiagnosing themselves to be part of a clique. I have always been irritated by medication ads on TV and lately on streaming. Recently, the ads on YouTube are mostly about ADHD! "This app is perfect for someone who has ADHD!" It looks like that if you break a fingernail, poof! You have ADHD!
I know that you mention a lot about children and adolescents, but the first part of the problem are the parents. As you mentioned in the article, parents dragging their 13-year-old to watch an adult show makes no sense to me. The new generation of parenthood have no boundaries - they just want to be the BFF of their kids, not a role model to guide their kids.
We go on Reddit and Quora, children and teens are depressed, they can't talk to their parents, because the parents are also addicted to their phones or just don't want to take the responsibility of being a parent.
Yes exactly to the point about parents being their child’s friend and not their parent. DANGEROUS!!
Excellent post. And oh how I can relate to this: "And somewhere in that moment, I felt a piece of my soul die."