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Nell Daly, I have my doubts about her qualifications as a psychotherapist.

Firstly, she labels people who disagree with her as toxic, her assumption that all the people who disagree with her are male. I'd like to see the data.

Secondly, her rationalisation is that just because women do not commit violent crimes to the same level as men, there is no toxic feminity. Yeah, right, she needs, in my opinion, to undertake a little more psychotherapy for herself.

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Sadly, there are many more like her....

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I wish there was an 'eweeee' button to select...

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Good one Tom.

Isn't that Nell Daly a piece of work!!

A Psychotherapist getting on main stream television telling us that toxic femininity doesn't exist... alright.. but someone needs to tell her that there are no females without a male, no black without white.. Whether we like it or not we currently live in a world that is binary.

A Trans Man cannot be so without women existing and the same goes for TransWomen.. sorry I'm going off track.. but I just posted a comment on Janices blog and said, "I've wondered if there are women out there that had bad therapy (I will not suggest anyone here) and couldn't get proper answers or instructions and in desperation they then sort out Groups and ended up in some feminist group and ended up throwing rocks at Men rather than working on their own inner life!"

Nice comparison with the blacks and men today..

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Thanks Jamie. It seems to be human nature to need a scapegoat.

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Erin Pizzey wrote that she was not seeing Social Workers graduate, but Social activists.

There is, from what I believe, a trend for psychologists who graduate to be mostly female, and the reveal that therapy is not working for members of the male gender raises suspicions about what is going on.

The chief Psychologist of Relationships Australia has tried to convince/persuade elderly female clients to have same-sex relationships.

There was a male psychologist who lost his job with Relationships Australia, I think it was because he objected to how the organisation was defining masculinity as being toxic.

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Erin is correct, plus some. The hatred that is being taught in grad schools is over the top. I hear from young men who are in training and the misandry is everywhere and cannot be debated. It's a mess.

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Reading "Who Stole Feminism" combined with "Lying in a Room of One's Own" plus taking titbits from other sources, a picture can be built up on how the Professors of Gender/Women's studies engage in a subtle form of emotional manipulation that results in brainwashing their undergraduates to create activists.

Once a student is emotionally hooked, it then becomes easier to direct them; this is perhaps why male students tend to rebel, as they are not so easily hooked in that way.

I know someone who undertook Social Work study as a mature age student, and they said it almost ruined her marriage.

This is the flow-on effect of my hypothesis relating to "Women's Magazines" and the use of pop psychology questionnaires and stories that relate to the questionnaire.

So, if a timeline is mapped out, these stories/questionnaires by the Spin Sisters started appearing in the 1970's and Women's/Gender Studies in the late 1980's early 1990's.

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I realise a little bit more and more at how I forget that these Newspapers and Magazines are wanting to make money; it is business - despite the editors or employee's passion about their topics. Example: Fashion.

You are more than 100% correct about the subtleness of the 'flow on effect'..

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If I go from what a close friend tells me, he is a psychoanalyst and involved in this world, there are some idiots and nasty people (that normally the general public do not hear about) in these Organisations and Institutes.

Personal experience: I remember how my last therapist acted when I questioned him about Freud.

His annoyance at me was palpable. YET this was the same person that was trying to tell me to more flexible, open etc., Right now I am wordless but simple put: it was a case of, 'the pot calling the kettle black'.

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Sadly, therapy training tends to be a common choice for those with a good deal of unfinished business from the family of origin. Consumer beware!

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The power of cultural narratives to skew perception and create a multitude of “judges with evil thoughts” certainly is insidious. There is a lot of anecdotal nonsense by which gender feminists have projected real stories of abuse and misogyny on the general population of men.

I think it's important to realize, however, that toxic narratives have the effect of self-fulfilling prophecy, so that these toxic-masculinity narratives really are producing toxic men, by deep frustration if by nothing else.

The feminists really didn't create this narrative of toxic masculinity. They aren't that imaginative. It was created for them in the 18th and 19th centuries with what Nancy Pearcey, drawing on E Anthony Rotundo's careful research, calls the “real man,” a narrative characterization that contrasts with the traditional communal man, the recasting of the world into overproduction and over consumption with industrialization, and the alienation of people from the land and relative self-sufficiency and mutual reliance within family and small community. Everything is done to “build up the nation,” just like Cain’s restless progeny built their tower of confusion (“Babel”)

There's a lot of good scholarship exposing this: Hannah Arendt’s observations in “The Human Condition,” EF Schumacher's observations about meaningful work versus modern production and the Toxic effect of margin of profit, Tolkien's and Sayers’ observations about rampant orc like materialism and waste. The modern world has moved away from responsive community and mutual submission and support, to orc-like selfishness: “lovers of self, lovers of money…”

The feminists are simply striving to get their peace of the materialistic pie, competing with men as the ancient Roman women competed with their men, draining Rome of any sense that life was about mutual responsiveness, and turning just about everyone into a Gollem or orc. It's simply part of the ebb and flow between civilization and culture, Cain vs Abel. When Rome collapsed, culture began to grow with the writings of Augustine and Boethius, exploding exponentially with Bede.

The sky is not falling, even if the towers of confusion are falling. I'm good with the dogs tearing at each other, and have no need to take them by the ears.

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Thanks for an interesting comment!

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Thousands of young people are being brainwashed to think they are victims of White men by these so-called counselors and psychologists, and it is paid for by tax-payer funded health insurance.

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Sad but true.

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I saw the following on a Facebook reel/video::::

The real reason why women lead more happier lives than men is most of them don’t have wives.

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LOL!

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Great thought provoking writing once again. It really is a war on males and just when you think there might be some realisation of this, the media finds yet another female story to garner sympathy regardless of facts. I’d love to see the same coverage given to all the broken men out there. Feminists are a hate group and as such ought to be held to account.

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Amen Lea.

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