May 2011
120 posts
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I’ve known older men in comedy who can barely feed and clean themselves, and they still work. The women, though, they’re all “crazy.”
I have a suspicion - and hear me out, ‘cause this is a rough one - I have a suspicion that the definition of “crazy” in show business is a woman who keeps talking even after no one wants to fuck her anymore.
The only person I can think of that has escaped the “crazy” moniker is Betty White, which, obviously, is because people still want to have sex with her.
This is the infuriating thing that dawns on you one day: Even if you would never sleep with or flirt with anyone to get ahead, you are being sexually adjudicated by these L.A. creeps. Network executives really do say things like “I don’t know. I don’t want to fuck anybody on this show.” They really do say that stuff.
” —Tina Fey, Bossypants (via edman)
The use of crazy as a stigmatizing label in the entertainment industry.
Trigger Warning: Drug abuse, violence, rape, scenes of a generally disturbing nature →
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I reiterate: this makes for a pretty gritty watch. Please give it a wide birth if you suspect you may be triggered.
A montage of The Meth Project’s ’Not even once’ adverts, aiming at prevention of methamphetamine abuse, found via my colleague’s blog (of relevance here as substance abuse disorders fall under mental healthcare provision and are often comorbid with other psychiatric diagnoses).
I agree with others that the adverts are a striking method to shock teens and young adults into realizing the downward spiral involved in trying meth, but has anyone else noticed that it’s targeted at middle class white kids, and the only time a person of colour appears, he’s a dealer? Are privileged white youths the only demographic this project is concerned about saving, or are they operating on a damaging stereotype? Either way, all evidence points to ‘racist’.
Ahaha! What you said about the Facebook ads! I get that same social worker one all the time, except they use either a typically "ugly" kid, or a kid throwing a fit!! Are they trying to KEEP people from becoming social workers?? And I'm an animator, so why are they aiming at me? (Besides the fact I have my BFA, and they keep giving me "go to art school" ads. Uh, I already did, thanks!!)
Hah! That was actually a submission from someone (I am largely blinkered to Facebook advertising), but I’ll be on the look-out from now on to see what offensive adverts they throw my way!
Any follow recommendations for twitter? Given that I am finally entering the ‘real’ world of work, I decided I would probably need one…
All suggestions welcome.
I’ve had no accounts of involuntary hospitalisation. If you would like to write about your experiences of being sectioned under the Mental Health Act. Please submit (anonymously if you like) at mindovermatterzine.tumblr.com/submit
I submitted one. I know several of my followers are stuggling with mental issues, so if this is applicable to you please check out this zine.
a) thank you so much for the signal boost
b) thank you so much also for submitting: my only experience of involuntary mental health care is from lectures and, of course, my teachers (also clinical psychologists / psychiatrists) are the first to say why such systems are good. I wanted to hear a voice from the other perspective. Also, all the accounts for the zine so far have featured people with largely good insight who presented themselves to mental health services or who went voluntarily at the suggestion of family / friends - that’s not how it always is, and everybody’s voice needs to be represented.
Ridic.
I constantly have this ad on the side of my Facebook page. I mean, what the shit is this, Facebook? Is the picture for psych majors honestly someone who is supposed to look “crazy”? grrr. And why is there a baby in an egg?
Submitted by sophiecannon
My supervisor keeps asking me to be in the department on Thursdays / Fridays & I have to keep reminding her that I work 30+ hours a week & cannot make those days. I hate the blind assumption in academia that I have the money to be sitting around studying all day. How on earth do they think I pay my rent?
(Ok, this wasn’t strictly mental health related, but I’m a mental health postgrad, so just let me have this one rant. Thanks.)
I’ve had no accounts of involuntary hospitalisation. If you would like to write about your experiences of being sectioned under the Mental Health Act. Please submit (anonymously if you like) at mindovermatterzine.tumblr.com/submit
“It feels good at the beginning, you’re bursting with ideas; then you get delusional and think you can survive walking into traffic. I don’t want to ‘cure’ it. It feels like a gift.”
—Photographer David LaChapelle, on having bipolar disorder.
Today is the International Day Against Homophobia. Let’s take a moment to consider that homosexuality was only declassified as a psychiatric disorder in 1973 - we’ve still a long way to go in our mental healthcare provisions for the LGBTQ community. Peace.
If you're wondering about the author of the Psychology Today article, Jezebel has a nice summary of his crap work there:
http://jezebel.com/5786394/the-illustrious-career-of-a-crap-psychologist
This guy is in the LSE and says that to guarantee general human happiness, "the best thing to do is to kill all the feminists and hippies and liberals." For a scientist, he sure as hell likes to make a lot of unscientific and hateful statements.
Wow, thanks. I honestly cannot believe this guy. Is he just irl trolling us all?
For the person who asked how such an article could end up on an otherwise "respectable" magazine: Psychology Today is a pop science magazine, it's not a respected scientific journal.I agree this article is trash, not an ounce of science, and the author deserves to be blacklisted from the scientific community, but it's not exactly a respected journal.
I agree. It’s certainly not an academic journal!
have you seen this?
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-scientific-fundamentalist/201105/why-are-black-women-less-physically-attractive-other-women
how is it possible that such an embarrassing, racist, sexist piece of pseudoscientific vomit found its way into an otherwise respectable publication? I don't know if I can ever take them seriously again.
[Trigger Warning: Racism]
That link doesn’t work for me, so I really hope it’s been removed from the Psychology Today website. There’s a write-up about it here. No words to explain this fuckery.
awesome blog! love it.
Thanks, yo!
