Social media hasn’t created more cruelty—it’s just made it harder to ignore. Sexual assault, racism, abuse—they’ve always been here. The difference is we can’t hide them anymore. As a survivor of both childhood assault and military sexual trauma, I can say this much: rape isn’t about sex. It’s about control. And it’s past time we stopped excusing it.
Category: Mens Issues
Maybe It’s Time to Take Pride Back to Its Roots, before we are forced to.
I saw yesterday that the Felon-in-Chief has decided to rename June as "Title IX Month" instead of Pride Month. Bold move for a guy who clearly doesn’t give a damn about women—just listen to anything he’s ever said. But like many of his rabid followers, he’s especially frightened by transgender people. He …
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An overdue follow-up…
Way back in March, when I was young and naïve and thought, "I will recommit to a daily blog, I talked about the Vanessa Guillen act and how it did nothing to deal with survivors. Well, finally the "next few days," have happened and here is one of the follow-ups. Be warned; I am going …
I think I can say I am honestly shocked…
As many of you know, I work psych as a medicine person, not a psych person (believe me, you need to differentiate in psych). I have spent a great deal of time hearing that the patient has a somatic disorder in my career. Somatic symptom disorder involves a significant focus on physical symptoms, such as …