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Implicit denial of how prevalent and acceptable sexism is
http://womensenews.org/2017/01/how-mainstream-comedy-has-helped-normalize-trumps-misogyny/ Just as people have argued that “there’s no such thing as an anti-war film” (a quote generally attributed to the French filmmaker François Truffaut), I tend to disagree with Solnit and Schumer. There’s no such thing as anti-rape humor, at least not for the men in the audience. Humor can make the act one…
UPSIDES: Using Peer Support In Developing Empowering Mental Health Services.
The main objective of UPSIDES is to widen access to peer support interventions for people with severe mental illness, by researching sustainable best practice in high-, middle- and low-resource settings. The UPSIDES project involves scientists, mental health professionals, peer workers and service users from six countries in Europe, Africa and Asia. https://www.upsides.org/ ObjectivesThe aim of…
#No #law #existed #1970 #female #offender
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?objectid=11924104&ref=twitter This is supported by a 2015 report by Judge Carolyn Henwood, who chaired the government-commissioned Confidential Listening and Assistance Service, which spent seven years hearing the stories of more than 1000 boys and girls in state care before 1992. She found as many boys were sexually abused as girls and that the abusers were…
Is sex addiction real?
“It’s not about the kind of sex you have, who you have it with or even how often you have it,” explained certified sex addiction therapist Robert Weiss. “We don’t base the definition of alcoholism on the type of alcohol someone drinks. Like alcoholism, the sex addiction diagnosis is based on whether or not that…
Childhood Pain Can Lead to Adult Relationship Abuse
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/charm-harm/202008/childhood-pain-can-lead-adult-relationship-abuse Children who sustained painful emotional wounds from their parents and others can carry that pain into adulthood. Their adult relationships bring up their original pain and cause a lot of inner conflict. Often it is easier to inflict that pain onto their partners rather than look inward for the real source of their hurt, anger,