Taking the black pill is one of the worst things you can do for your mental health. As much as I understand how some folks get there, it's important to get out of there and fast. Let's talk about some reasons why, and some strategies to counter it.

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The practice of psychology can still be plenty useful for men. But you have to know how to look to avoid the therapists that have been ideologically captured.

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Why don't I talk about women's issues? Broadly speaking, there are a few reasons for that. Let's talk about some of them.

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An APA Guideline that ISN'T terrible the entire way through? ALERT THE PRESS!

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A quick holiday video talking about some of the successes and challenges I have been having in my work with men out there in that mysterious thing called "Real Life". :) Merry Christmas everyone!

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Sorry for my cold-stricken voice in this one. Today we're covering the APA Guidelines for Men and Boys, Guideline 4. It purports to know all about the harmful ways men relate to each other and tells you how you can help men to "be better". Ugh.

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A little bonus video for the month (I'm still putting out another one--this one won't be going on Patreon). This is the speech I gave locally for our Canadian Centre for Men and Families Town Hall event on International Men's Day.

The message behind the speech was talking about how to specifically tailor a mental health approach to respect men's specific needs.

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An appropriately fall themed topic to discuss for the fall season. Sorry if it seems a bit silly, but I need a bit of a break this month.

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Pumpkin Spice Misogyny:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/oct/01/this-is-the-season-of-crunchy-leaves-chunky-knits-and-pumpkin-spice-latte-misogyny
https://westerngazette.ca/opinion/opinion-enough-with-pumpkin-spiced-misogyny/article_7d9f3da6-b78f-11e8-b124-b7bfc5947ff8.html
https://mancunion.com/2021/12/03/pumpkin-spice-latte-hate-or-misogyny/
https://theappalachianonline.com/hijabi-hot-takes-pumpkin-spice-hate-is-misogynistic/

A continuation of the previous video covering the ridiculous "Internalized Sexism Inventory" and explaining a little bit about how and why misusing this word in this way can result in some problems down the road.

http://www.culturalbridgestojustice.org/resources/written/internalized-sexism-inventory

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(Stay tuned at the end of the video for a special guest appearance xD.)

EDIT: Yeeeees I made an error in the end because said friend had testicular cancer, not prostate cancer. I am a gomer. But THE POINT STILL STANDS DAMMIT.

Sorry for the absence, guys. Things have been absolutely nuts for me. I've actually been working on multiple scripts at a time which is probably a bad idea in terms of getting videos out. But seriously, I could scarcely resist switching my course when I encountered this gem of a website in my class: http://www.culturalbridgestojustice.org/resources/written/internalized-sexism-inventory

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I woke up this morning and thought, yeah, I'm gonna do this. So I dood it. Hope you enjoy! New Hijacking of Higher Education coming out soon, I promise! In the meantime, have a nice little tidbit that was included in one of the weekly lessons.

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Stats Canada 2014:
http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/85-002-x/2016001/article/14303/01-eng.htm

Stats Canada 2016:
http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/85-002-x/2018001/article/54893/03-eng.htm

Why do women outnumber men in college?
http://www.nber.org/digest/jan07/w12139.html

Gender degree gap favouring women:
https://www.aei.org/publication/prediction-no-2017-graduation-speaker-will-mention-this-the-growing-gender-college-degree-gap-favoring-women/

Whole bunch of stats comparing men and women's degree earnings:
https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/current_tables.asp

Women earn more higher level degrees as well:
http://www.aei.org/publication/women-earned-majority-of-doctoral-degrees-in-2015-for-7th-straight-year-and-outnumber-men-in-grad-school-134-to-100/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+aei-ideas%2Fcarpe-diem+%28AEIdeas+%C2%BB+Carpe+Diem%29

CONSAD Report on the wage gap:
https://www.shrm.org/hr-today/public-policy/hr-public-policy-issues/Documents/Gender%20Wage%20Gap%20Final%20Report.pdf

Just the very start of several, several problematic aspects of the course that I've noticed so far. I thought I could fit all the problems I'd been seeing into one video. How naive of me. Enjoy!

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PRE-EMPTIVE NOTE: The banter with my husband in this is not reflective of our actual real life interactions xD. It's just for making fun of the article writer and he helped me script it and come up with funny ideas.

I saw this article and I couldn't resist tearing it apart. Sorry for the long absence. Real life is keeping me very busy at the moment. Hope you enjoy!

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Women Aren't Nags: We're Just Fed Up: http://www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/features/a12063822/emotional-labor-gender-equality/

(Headline) We should stop putting women in jail:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2014/11/06/we-should-stop-putting-women-in-jail-for-anything/?utm_term=.d1710253394f

(Headline) Men sentenced to longer prison terms:
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/11/men-women-prison-sentence-length-gender-gap_n_1874742.html

(Headline) More women accepted into universities:
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2017/aug/28/university-gender-gap-at-record-high-as-30000-more-women-accepted

(Headline): Obama’s right, women are superior to men. Let me count the ways...: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/dec/06/obama-women-superior-men-washing-up-driving-patriarchy

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a) This didn't turn out to be short at all
b) This is mostly unscripted so that's why I sound like I'm spilling my spaghetti half the time. I wanted to get this out quickly so I used the "Eff it, we'll do it live" school of thought. ;)

Just wanted to provide a less damning perspective on counselling theories. The next video will be more entertaining, I promise. :)

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I have finally finished my first class, so now I have a month before the next one starts. Now is the time to get out some of the videos I've been working on.

I did a video talking briefly about this stuff on the Honey Badger Radio channel, but I really wanted to do one for my own channel and subscribers. More people deserve to know about this sort of thing so that they can do their damnedest to avoid it. Therapy has been proven to be helpful to a lot of people, but this sort of garbage shouldn't be called "therapy" at all. I have seen many examples of the harm this stuff can cause, and it infuriates me that it hasn't been called out for the harm that it is. Well, here's me, calling it out and showing you guys exactly why I have such an issue with it.

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Just a quick little rant about the Me Too campaign and the fallout I've been seeing as a result of it.

Had a little bit of spare time between the mountains of schoolwork to vent about this. Yay!

I hope you can understand why this video has taken me so long. I've been very busy with a lot of things in my life and now this whole demonitization thing has really taken the wind out of my sails when it comes to making videos. I'll try not to stop, but honestly, with everything going on, it's going to be a lot harder.

I got the first text for my degree, and I discovered some... unfortunate things as early as the first page. This is gonna be a good time...

Whether the next video will be this or the next misuse of words thing, we'll see. Depends on how much BS I have to wade through in my classes. ;)

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Apa page on homosexuality:
http://www.apa.org/pi/lgbt/resources/language.aspx

Guidelines for non-handicapping language:
http://www.apastyle.org/manual/related/nonhandicapping-language.aspx

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I'm sorry, guys. I don't mean to come across like a whiner, but I was really frustrated by all of this stuff and I didn't really have a lot of time to dedicate to a proper "Misuse of Words" video this week (You can think of this as an unofficial misuse of the word "Hate" if you like). I'll try to have one out later next week or early-next next week.

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Fireside Chat with Brittany Simon:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sUMkM0USXo

HBR Show with CAFE member Justin Trottier:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Fl58ozTPlo

The last episode in my feminist issues series. This one was really all over the place and picked weird, specific things to talk about. The main problem: almost none of the claims stood up to any scrutiny.

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Original article I pulled this particular set of feminist “Issues” from:
http://www.newstatesman.com/v-spot/2013/05/five-main-issues-facing-modern-feminism

Infant toy preferences based on sex:
http://infantcognition.tamu.edu/files/2013/10/Alexander-G.M.-Wilcox-T.-Woods-R.-2009.pdf

Some examples of what qualifies as “discrimination” against transgender people these days:
http://queergrace.com/transphobia/

Timeline of LGBT rights in the UK (Gay acts were proposed to be decriminalized in the 60s, but lesbianism was never criminalized. Surprise Surprise):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_LGBT_history_in_the_United_Kingdom

Lesbians paid more than straight women, gay men paid less than straight men.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/jobs/11300056/Gay-men-earn-less-than-straight-men-but-lesbians-are-paid-more.html
http://www.newswise.com/articles/gay-men-but-not-lesbians-are-discriminated-against-in-jobs

Rates of LGBT abuse higher for men than for women:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK64800/

Neither Lesbians nor Gay Men Discriminated Against in Hiring across several cities in the US:
http://brewright.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/2013-Bailey-Wallace-Wright.pdf

Asylum Seekers 7 times more likely to die than people who live in the UK
https://www.opendemocracy.net/5050/ramya-ramaswami/why-migrant-mothers-die-in-childbirth-in-uk

The EHRC report in question:
https://www.equalityhumanrights.com/sites/default/files/tr_execsumm.pdf

Welcome to the next video in my Misuse of Words series. In this video I begin to explore the use of the word "phobia" and how, even if we accept the fact that it has deviated from its original concept of an "irrational fear", it is still often over-applied as, a lot of the time, people aren't actually being hateful or intolerant.

The next video in the series will cover Homo- and Trans- phobia, though I can't guarantee that'll be the next thing I put out. I have a lot of videos I've been planning. It also might take me a little longer than usual as I really want to get some new panels drawn. I'd hate for you guys to get bored of the same old expressions. ;)

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Tesco worker refuses to sell pork and liquor due to it being against her religion:
http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/747908/Muslim-worker-refused-sell-alcohol-customer-against-religion-Tesco-apologised

French Magazine targeted by Muslim terrorists over Muhammad cartoons:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Hebdo

Human Rights in the Middle East:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_the_Middle_East

LGBT in the Middle East:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_in_the_Middle_East

Muslim statistics (Shari'ah):
https://wikiislam.net/wiki/Muslim_Statistics_-_Shariah

Percentage of Muslims in various countries believing in specific moral codes:
http://www.pewforum.org/2013/04/30/the-worlds-muslims-religion-politics-society-morality/

Women Protesting the Hijab in Iran:
http://rarehistoricalphotos.com/women-protesting-hijab-1979/

If it is from Allah, that is the best punishment ever possible:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bV710c1dgpU

Xenophobia in Japan:
http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0306396816657719?journalCode=racb

Japan accepts a whopping 150 refugees:
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/222056

Migrant rape crisis in Germany (January 2017):
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/9934/germany-rape-january

Women warned not to go out alone in Sweden after increase of sex attacks:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/sweden/12188274/Police-warn-women-not-to-go-out-alone-in-Swedish-town-after-spate-of-sex-attacks.html

Increased Rape throughout Europe:
http://www.news.com.au/finance/economy/world-economy/cologne-is-every-day-europes-rape-epidemic/news-story/e2e618e17ad4400b5ed65045e65e141d

FGM on the rise in Europe:
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/apr/30/female-genital-mutilation-england-fgm-girls

All women could be told to wear hijabs in solidarity with Islam:
https://www.rt.com/news/386378-austrian-president-women-headscarves/

Child brides increasing in Europe due to migration:
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-37518289

Sweden Rape Livestreamed by Afghan Men:
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/2709224/two-afghan-migrants-revealed-as-those-arrested-over-horrific-three-hour-rape-streamed-on-facebook-live-in-sweden/

Muslim Praise of the Orlando Pulse Shooter:
http://thoughtcatalog.com/jacob-geers/2016/06/here-are-all-the-people-applauding-the-orlando-gay-club-shooter/

The second video in my Misuse of Words series. This one is a little bit less technical and more philosophical, but it's a topic that tends to not really have a concrete answer, or at least not one that everyone can agree on. I think one thing that we can all agree on is that Islam is not a freaking race, and we should stop acting like criticizing Islamic tenets is tantamount to racism.

We don't have to say that every little bit of criticism is racist, and we don't have to say that every single Muslim is a terrorist and should all be deported. There's a middle ground in there somewhere, and I'm sure we could find it if we looked.

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No-go-zones in France a hotbed for terrorism:
http://news.nationalpost.com/full-comment/europes-no-go-zones-inside-the-lawless-ghettos-that-breed-and-harbour-terrorists

Second generation terrorists:
http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/24/opinions/homegrown-terrorism-opinion-bergen/
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/cas-mudde/the-brussels-attacks-and_b_9521360.html
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/what-to-do-about-second-generation-terrorists/article/2618291

Unfortunately, Islam does have a lot of violent passages within the Quran. Among the many selections are passages forbidding criticism of Islam:
http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/pages/quran/insulters-islam.aspx

The dangerous moves to restrict criticism of Islam:
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/9525/europe-illegal-criticize-islam
http://www.torontosun.com/2017/02/11/yes-canadas-anti-islamophobia-motion-poses-a-problem

M-103 passes even as most Canadians say they would vote against it:
http://news.nationalpost.com/news/canada/canadian-politics/mps-certain-to-pass-m-103-thursday-but-new-poll-says-canadians-would-vote-down-anti-islamophobia-motion

For clarity, M-103 is not a bill, nor a law against criticizing Islam, but it still sets a dangerous precedent:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_103

I'm in the process of working on the other half of my racism video, but while I was volunteering the other day, I tacked out a quick rant on an image that has been busting my balls lately. I figured, while I'm working on the other one, I could put this one out to tide people over! Just a silly little thing that I hope you enjoy.

Sorry that it took me a while to get this out. There's actually quite a lot to go over in how this one single word is being misused. Hell, this video is only part of it. I still have an entire other segment to go over in which it's being misused. I'll try to have part 2 out sometime next week. I don't like missing weeks to upload, but I've been crazy busy so it's hard to find time to do everything I want!

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Irish Indentured Servitude:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_indentured_servants

Race and genetics:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_and_genetics

Household earnings in America by ethnicity:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ethnic_groups_in_the_United_States_by_household_income

World demographics:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_the_world

Several examples where white people "can't be victims of racism":
http://www.dailywire.com/news/9671/can-white-people-be-victims-racism-heres-what-amanda-prestigiacomo
http://www.wnd.com/2017/03/white-people-cant-be-victims/
https://medium.com/athena-talks/you-cant-be-racist-against-white-people-d779e7531547
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/1901544/google-promotes-controversial-claim-its-not-possible-for-ethnic-minorities-to-be-racist-against-white-people/
https://www.vice.com/en_ca/article/dear-white-people-please-stop-pretending-reverse-racism-is-real

Children being made to feel guilty for being white:
http://nypost.com/2016/07/01/elite-k-8-school-teaches-white-students-theyre-born-racist/

White farms attacked in South Africa:
http://www.news.com.au/finance/economy/world-economy/bury-them-alive-white-south-africans-fear-for-their-future-as-horrific-farm-attacks-escalate/news-story/3a63389a1b0066b6b0b77522c06d6476

Irish Slaves Myth (ugh):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_slaves_myth

Yes, there are students seriously whining about studying white authors:
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/jun/2/yale-students-white-male-writers-hostile-culture/

Honey Badger Radio Pussycat Cast 9:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Fl58ozTPlo

Gofundme Link for Ottawa's first Men's Centre:
https://www.gofundme.com/open-ottawas-first-center-for-men

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A brief introduction to my Misuse of Words series in which I'll be covering several examples of words that the authoritarian left has decided to take into their own hands and redefine/alter/shred until they're mere shadows of their former selves.

I think this is an extremely important thing to examine in greater depth because it is causing legitimate problems in the world, even if it might not initially seem that way. Also, I think that a lot of people have briefly gone over some examples, but I strongly believe it will be a good thing to create dedicated videos intended to examine words in specific and to provide examples of how their misuse is causing problems. So that will be my intention for the rest of this series!