Absofuckinglutely. I was going to write something along the lines of the rights of people with disabilities to sexual autonomy and pleasure. In this case, however, this poor man doesn’t seem to have the ability to give consent. The power dynamic between this ‘therapist’ and the victim is just perverse.

You can even develop and teach AAC techniques for moderate to severe intellectual disabilities but you’re not going to get long complicated utterances all of a sudden. More like they’ll be able to ask for some things or indicate if they’re in pain etc. (For example: there are communication board scanning methods that…

This case is even more horrific than it’s being presented as here. The kind of FC Stubblefield practices has been extensively and consistently disproven (ie, in multiple reproducible studies, if conflicting information is presented to the facilitator and the patient, 100% of the time the FC will express the info given…

Really? What’s a better punishment? We complain about mass incarceration in the abstract but want to keep everyone in prison forever in the concrete.

Abstaining from sex with clients is a solid idea for any therapist tbh

I’m simply responding to what you wrote. Like yours, mine are just jezebel comments. When you post comments on a public discussion board that do not make sense (or even completely misrepresent the story cited in order to make a point), people will respond with comments and questions about those comments. Citing…

you don’t lose your library card! don’t worry. i’m bi and can still work for all causes glbtq. also, being continually open about it has given my kids such an open and positive view of the subject as a whole.

I generally agree, yet at the same time, if my husband were David Bowie, and I found him in bed with a young Mick Jagger... Well. I might be inclined to give him a pass, just once. And then a thorough screening for STDs.

Well, thanks!!!!!

Oh please - let’s talk about another great parent of rock: Iggy Pop - from that time that he as an adult drug addict got a 14 year old pregnant. There’s a ton of other rock star dude parents who fell really short - like neglectful, not paying child support, uninvolved in their children’s lives whatsoever. Remember…

They both decided to send Duncan off to boarding school so they could party their brains out. They didnt give a shit about Duncan and Bowie even regretted this. They had the means to keep him around but didn’t. People kind get on Angie as riding on David’s coattails but what can you do when you were married to David…

Yes, agreed. And, in all the photographs, David Bowie himself seemed to have evolved from a London wild child to someone much more grounded in himself, calm, and at ease in his own skin with Iman. She is so regal, beautiful and loving; and I think this had a profound effect on his artistry as well.

She was married to David Bowie for 10 YEARS, and went through some major stuff with him. She was with him before he was a star, and was very resourceful in supporting his career. How does this = “awful woman” ?

In the UK papers she was quoted as saying she knew she was a wreck, had no home to live in, no job as she had been managing David, and was battling alcoholism -she didn’t fight for custody as she had nothing to offer him.

I’ve seen this behavior in my own life, with my brother’s biological father. He tried to drown my mom when he found out she was pregnant, despite them trying to have a kid. She went into hiding while trying to finalize the divorce. His new wife would always pick up my brother for visitation, never him, and that’s when…

I am starring you to get you out of the greys and because I agree about Kylie.

I mean...I appreciate it. I recently turned 40, and yeah, it’s a little drag that I can’t go with as little sleep or as much alcohol as I once could, and I have some minor, annoying back problems that I’m not loving. But overall? I like being in the world as a grown person in a grown body. I feel like I take better…

I believe advocation is an aspect of appreciation.

I do! She clearly isn’t afraid to talk about it, seeing as she’s written a book on it. I haven’t read the thing of course, but the way she’s describing it indicates that the content will be positive. And she frequently talks about how she loves getting older. She seems genuinely invested in starting a larger…

She’s nice, reasonable, and she has good intentions and is not totally up herself.