The fact that he continued to see her while noting his own deficiencies in able to help her, rather than referring her to another more able/knowledgable/less gross therapist, makes me think he’s not the greatest therapist.

Okay, but there’s backstory.

Beyond a lack of ethics it is just pure lazy.

What the gallery owner seems to be missing is the chasm between the artist’s *legal* obligations to credit the original work, and the artist’s *moral* obligations to credit the original work. What’s effed up about this is that the derivative work isn’t cool because of his dumb grafitti on it, it’s cool because of the…

Maybe he should slowly pull off her glasses and take her hair out of its ponytail?

Right after I finally broke free of my father (who was sexually, physically, and emotionally abusing me) and was seeing a therapist courtesy of Victim Witness, she started telling me I was a sociopath.

Therapy is so goddamn hard that if she wanted to dress in her most comfortable and most comforting clothes each week to get through it, that would be normal. Is this guy really unaware that people wear different clothes on different occasions, for different reasons?

I think he was probably right to bring it up, but the way he handled her reluctance was all wrong. I feel like the thing to do would’ve been like, “I can see you’re reacting strongly to discussion about your appearance—is this a sore point for you?” and explore why that is. The impression I’d get from that reaction is…

There is someone out there for everyone. Ugly or frumpy or fat or whatever. I am both frumpy and fat and I have never had any problem attracting a man.

it seemed that she was clean and presentable, but extremely old fashioned- honestly? i bet she was just hugely practical. i mean he calls her shoes ‘too practical.’ like is that a t h i n g

Wow. Go Greta! There are tons of good comebacks to that, such as “go fuck yourself” and “eat a dick,” but “I dress up, asshole, just not for YOU” is a great one.

I’d put a caveat on that—talk therapy with no defined goal and end date is a scam. A good therapist will help you define goals, develop a timeline for meeting them, and frankly will push you out of the nest if things linger to the point where it’s clear they’re not helping.

The piece summarizes a decade of therapy with Greta,

There is no simple answer but here’s what I do know: white people are more likely to take other white people seriously. Call your racist grandfather out (I’m speaking hypothetically, not personally). Call your racist aunt out. Call your racist friend out. They are more likely to listen to you than me because they look…

The fact that Stormfront and Fox News are both pushing the “War on Christians” narrative is both deeply disturbing, yet completely unsurprising.

“It’s very bloody. It’s painful. There’s cramping, pelvic cramping.”

Not living in a Christian area where there are Children?

Has this woman never seen a children’s drawing? Kids fucking love rainbows.

I totally cried while compiling this post, not even going to try to lie to you about it.