Misogyny Is a Mental Health Issue

 How did that title grab you?

Oh, I do miss the good old days when I used to blog regularly. One of the many pleasures was thinking up inflammatory titles like the one above. But, alas, life moves on and so must I.

However.

In my wanderings in the real world, I did come across an interesting video interview. In this video a male psychotherapist says, "Misogyny is a mental health issue." (Hear that Doug Wilson and Mark Driscoll? Your misogyny is a mental health issue. Not the oracles of God as you falsely testify.)

And while I was quite intrigued by the video, I can't say that I agreed with everything the Psychotherapist, Previn Karian, said. But I may very well agree with the above quote.

Before I go on, I must head off or at least address my critics and Wilson/Driscoll worshipers. I fully expect that if you so happen to click on the video link below that you will have a kneejerk reaction. I expect that you will rail against this psychotherapist for being a bleeding-heart liberal and a weak man. To this, I will assert that Previn Karian has more courage than Driscoll, Wilson, and any Theobro who ever Theo-ed. Here is the reason I think this. Karian askes question those other guys are too afraid to ask. He has a deep and profound honesty that those guys will never understand until they can ask the same hard question he does.

We may look at some of those questions ourselves. But at a later date.

While I don't come to the same conclusions as Previn, I do appreciate the questions he asks. While I don't agree with several points Previn makes, I am intrigued and respectful of his journey and the understanding that he has come to. I see that he is trying to make sense of the hatred and violence of men using the tools at his disposal. While those tools have their limitations, he makes great use of them.

Also, a warning. If you click on the link. He is very hard on his gender. So much so, it makes me cringe. He labels all men rather negatively, even though he asserts that he is not trying to shame men. In his deep honesty and frustration for the state of things, he lays into all men quite harshly. One of my places of disagreement with him is his view that all men are violent and want to put down women at their core. I struggle to agree with this because of the wonderful men in the various parts of my life. Family, church, and work. 

Anyway, here is a link to the video.

Misogyny: Origins of Men's Hatred Toward Women.

His conclusions were quite dismal and depressing. He brought up Einstein and Freud near the end,

My own conclusions have more hope. But I will leave this for another possible post.

The Sin of Empathy Book Review Followup

 Dani Treweek, the author of the book review on "The Sin of Empathy" has, as expected, received pushback from people concerning that review. And she answers them well here:

On the Sin of Empathy Being a Woman

Her follow up does a good job answering the main, legitimate sounding complaints about her review.

She says lots of good things but I want to bring one thing to the forefront. Here is a quote from her writings. (There are many other good quotes touching on the same thing. I had to narrow it down and this one will do.)

when Rigney identifies empathy (weaponised, untethered, or otherwise) as the thing that leads to communities characterised by “cowardice, indifference, and cruelty,” the underlying reality he is primarily concerned about is a particular kind of sinful inclination (i.e., being emotionally swept away from reason and truth) which he sees as inherent to a particular group of people (i.e., women).

The reason I bring this up is because Treweek doesn't touch on something that I think is glaringly obvious concerning the total hypocrisy of Rigney, Doug Wilson, Canon Press (Doug's family press that published Rigney's book), and all associated with them.

Doug Wilson has displayed untethered empathy for pedophiles and abusers in his church. He is swept away by his own emotions and strong feelings that men are superior, more rational, more just than women. His feelings of superiority makes him indifferent to the horrendous amount of suffering he has caused and the injustice he has overseen against women and children.

In other words, Doug Wilson and his disciple, Joe Rigney, have untethered empathy for men, being a man, and all that this means to them, things like dominance, control, and power. Their empathy for the masculine to the exclusion and oppression of the feminine causes them a particular kind of sinful inclination as they are emotionally swept away from reason and truth. Their devotion to the cause and needs of men makes them blind to the importance and needs of women. They have such strong empathy for the masculine it boarders on worship. And through this weaponized empathy they have laid siege against all that is feminine. They attack not only the wayward feminist. They go after all women, because all women are falsely judged and found wanting in their toxic empathy for the masculine. This false balance and warped metric that they use to measure men and women makes them cowards, indifferent and cruel against women. The truth is, they are waging an unjust and relentless war against the feminine whether it's with the velvet glove approach Rigney tried (poorly) to do in his book or in one of Wilson's famous rants against women or "the bitch goddess of the state" (where Wilson almost channels Eric Cartman.).

I'm going to list a couple of links. I may add to this as things come up. But we'll start with these two:

[Updated 2] Pedophile Supported by Doug Wilson ‘Allegedly Sexually Abused** a Baby.

This pedophile is the son of man who contributes a lot of money to Doug Wilson's ministry. So Doug is carried away by his feelings of greed and has cruelly married this pedophile to a young, trusting, unassuming female.

Doug Wilson's Other Protected Pedophile

As I said, there may be more, but the above two links are a good start at exposing Doug Wilson's toxic empathy for abusers and pedophiles.

Women Seem Wicked and the "Sin" of Empathy

 Was driving down the road when a Doors song came on the radio. I'm not really a Doors fan. Their front man, Jim Morrison, rubs me the wrong way. However, the song on the radio "People Are Strange" had an interesting line that jumped out at me.

It went like this:

"Women seem wicked when you're unwanted. Streets are uneven when you're down"

And I thought in that moment, Wow, whatever I don't like about Jim Morrison, he sure is smarter than all the incels, red pillers and theobros put together.

Why do I say this? Because Jim had enough clarity, maturity, and self-understanding that he knew, just because he was feeling off didn't mean that women were wicked. They just seemed that way.

But incels, red pillers, and theobros have all decided that, because of how they feel on the inside, it must be women's fault. It's not that women seem wicked. To all these little men, women truly are wicked. All women are wicked, especially those that won't fit into the little packaged molds these men demand women to scrunch down into.

Incels, red pillers, and theobros can't zoom out from inside their head. How they feel inside must be the truth. Their heads are so far up their own orifices that they can't see beyond their own noses.

And I think this is why Joe Rigney's book "The Sin of Empathy" is so popular among the theobros. They like it inside their own heads. They don't want to be able to see beyond the limited confines of their own narrow and self-serving thoughts. They do not want to know what it might be like in a woman's shoes. They only want to be able to stand off to the side and judge women from their teeny tiny self-centered views.

"People Are Strange" Lyrics

People are strange
When you're a stranger
Faces look ugly
When you're alone

Women seem wicked
When you're unwanted
Streets are uneven
When you're down

When you're strange
Faces come out of the rain
When you're strange
No one remembers your name
When you're strange
When you're strange
When you're strange

The Sin of Being a Woman, er, I Mean Empathy

 I'm kind of late posting anything on this farce of a book.

But better late than never, right?

Especially since I've found the best little review on it.

Over on Facebook, I have gotten into several verbal disagreements with Doug Wilson and Joe Rigney fans over this accursed book. They keep saying something like, "You obviously haven't read the book because if you did, you would understand and wouldn't blindly and wildly criticize it."

In other words, they want me (and those like me) to buy the book. I let them know in no uncertain terms that Doug Wilson, Joe Rigney, and Canon Press will never get a single dime from me to fund their war on women.

"War on women?" you say?

Yes. War on women

Please read this review found here at Mere Orthodoxy to understand what I mean:

A Sham Trial: Reviewing 'The Sin of Empathy'

I'm glad Danielle Treweek read that infernal book so I don't have to