This kind of is pride year. It’s the 50th anniversary of the riots which broke out after the NY City police raided the Stonewall Inn in 1969 and set off the gay rights movement. The first freedom day parade (they weren’t called pride parades back then) was the following year.Pride week has become pride month. Maybe it’ll be pride year soon.
Huh? Blackface IS and always will be racist. By this reckoning I’d assume that anti-Catholic laws and feelings from the 1800s were not anti-Catholic simply because that’s the way it was. But resurrecting them now is anti-Catholic because we now know better. (please keep away from any laments about social issues being anti-Catholic, this was about the basic legitimacy and patriotism of the Catholic religion)BLACKFACE, for many decades in the U.S., was just entertainment and not just something that racists did.
The reevaluation of cultural icons says a lot about who we are now. Just because it was beloved does not necessarily make it right nor acceptable to everyone.I’m frankly surprised that the intelligentsia in the U.S. haven’t condemned…
What the gay activists did isn’t science, but I can see how a lot of them might have been angry about being mistreated by psychiatrists by being subjected in some cases to barbaric practices like “aversion therapy” with electroshock treatments and by being told that they were mentally ill when they knew that they weren’t. There’s no reason to submit to the authority of people who are wrong.Before 1973, what was the American Psychiatric Association telling people? I was there for the time period. People were still respectful regarding authority. So Frank Kameny and other radical gay activists get into the APA’s annual meeting using forged passes and tell them that they are declaring war on them? Was that science in action?
I go about my business.. How do the rest of you handle this?
Thanks for your thoughts.
What makes drag not sexist?Huh? Blackface IS and always will be racist.
One of the problems with psychiatrists classifying homosexuality as a mental illness is that many of the homosexuals in their studies were people who were already mentally disturbed and had sought psychiatric treatment for other conditions like schizophrenia. As such, their study sample was not at all representative of gay people in general, many of whom were perfectly well adjusted and didn’t have any mental problems. Some people got sent to psychiatrists as children or young adults by their parents for no reason than being gay and were convinced that this meant that they were mentally ill when they weren’t.Have you looked into any of the decades long studies conducted by the APA? They didn’t create the diagnosis because no gay person was seeing them. They had to observe and evaluate. There is/was no catch-up. ‘Here’s a patient’ and what? Don’t talk to him? Of course they interviewed gay people. If anywhere, a psychiatrist was trusted to keep whatever he was told confidential.
I posted about feeling a bit like this was appropriation of womanhood, but there is not any general perception that this is supposed to represent true womanhood.What makes drag not sexist?
I can give you one simple answer. Having brown eyes never got you arrested nor lost a good portion of your family and friend relationships.And I just don’t get gay pride. It’s like being proud to have brown eyes.
Well, you might want to take part in a parade for brown eyed people if you had grown up being told that it’s shameful to have brown eyes and that you should always try to conceal them by wearing dark glasses.And I just don’t get gay pride. It’s like being proud to have brown eyes. Or proud to be whatever.
Pride in accomplishment? Yes.
Pride by happenstance? Whatevs.
I doubt that most medical knowledge on mental health issues from the 1800s is very useful today.The APA has a long history going back to the 1800s. Do you think no one was trying to correct them?
None and it remains so. Despite some claims made by what are religiously funded “gay conversion” therapies, the reality is LGBTQ identities are quite innate. Those opposed to LGBTQ societal change seem to be of the impression that things are now magically effortless for LGBTQ people. They aren’t and still have a high cost in many scenarios, this is hardly some joy ride. What has changed is that, especially for trans people, LGBTQ identity has been understood to have little to do with a person’s ability to do work at a job or anything else. This is called civil rights, not necessarily a religious ztamp of approval which are two different things.The boy sees the psychiatrist who tells him it’s a disorder. The father is waiting outside to get the news. After getting the news, the father wants to know about treatment. He admits he doesn’t know anything about homosexuality and wants the psychiatrist’s advice.
What were his other options?