heyyy

This phone call was a turning point for me as a parent. It was the first time, ever, that I listened to a medical professional giving me instructions for the benefit of my child and thought, That sounds crazy. I have a natural respect for authority, and I love doctors

!foidmoment

Imagine having anything but a natural dislike and mistrust of all forms of authority

Critics of SEL, like Shrier, see it as yet another way we are teaching our children to overfocus on their emotions, promoting helplessness instead of resilience. Shrier reports on a Salt Lake City fifth grade classroom where the teacher's morning prompt, “What is something that is making you really sad right now?,” led to a sort of group breakdown, with kids crying about their parents' divorces. A teacher explains how she openly discusses with her students the pain of growing up with a drug-addicted mother, in order to model emotional vulnerability. At a California conference that Shrier attends, the facilitator encourages participants to share emotions like anxiety and fear with students before math class. “I began to wonder whether this wasn't some sort of ploy by the Chinese Communist Party to obliterate American mathematical competence,” Shrier writes.

!nooticers this lot realizes shit like this just nukes people respect for them right? I remember being a wee little boy of 11 and disregarding the foid teachers because I was clearly much more capable then them when they did shit (no where half as bad) like this

The problem is how Shrier generalizes, spinning her interviews into an attack on the very idea of teaching kids emotional literacy. She has talked to many parents and educators, sure, but that cannot be scaled to the population level. While it's clear SEL has gone off in the rails in some classrooms, it can also have a lot of benefits, especially for boys, who often suffer in a culture that tells them the only way they can express emotion is through anger.

!fellas I hate this shit so much. I was told I could express myself in all sorts of way, I choose anger because I was angry and it's what I wanted to express.

I'm extremely surprised that slate of all places published an article about an author best known for writing a truth nuke about FTM s and didn't condemn her whenever possible. In fact, the only ways they criticized her were for being too harsh on SEL, as well as saying "I felt a little discomfort when Shrier and I agreed, given that her politics definitely lean redder than mine" rather than "she's a fascist-adjacent TERF misinformation grifter".

And notice women never offer problem solving or solutions. It's just constant analysis of their own feelings and problems.

It's what happened when a field of fixers like soren kirkegaard or Jung (mock me all you want, if you want psychological therapy there the only effective ones imo)

All my female friends of friends in therapy with female therapists never make progress and only get worse.

Women are on more SSRIs than ever in history. Turning them into nihilistic drones.

When it comes to kids they need direction and control, not just a constant spilling of unregulated emotions. Something I try to teach my three year old girl.

Foid desire to micromanage everything

Is her new book any good?

Go sleep buddy

Which proves trans women are women all the darn time

!nonchuds

I think BPD is normally shorthand for borderline. Because saying borderline personality disorder outloud makes u be realize what a non issue is.

Imagine saying u have a borderline kidney disorder. Boozers in shambles