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2:41am December 23, 2011

➸ Wow. Stuff about the anti-political nature of therapy.

Or, specifically, of therapy culture. I am writing a response to someone and ended up finding this old blog post of mine and quoting from one of the people quoted in it. And I got caught up reading all the old quotes again. They’re mostly from radical feminists, which is something I’m not. But the stuff they say has a lot of points that get into the way therapy culture has invaded – and perverted – activism in general. So I thought if throw it out there for people to read. Be aware the links probably don’t work, but last I checked I could find most of the articles by googling parts of the quotes. I think this shift towards therapy culture that happened ages ago (I know someone who lived through it) can explain a lot about many of the ineffectual and downright twisted parts of modern activism. And lots of people my age and younger have never known a time when it wasn’t like this, and don’t even realize the origin of some of these problems. A lot of this is discussed in terms of class but lots of other factors (race, disability, etc.) can cause similar rifts.