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Friday, February 22, 2019

How To Downplay Ableism & Sexual Violence Against Especially Women With Mental Illnesses: Be Like the "Boston Globe", Among Others

With the none-too-surprising allegations against Dr. Keith Albow coming out in the news, Dr. Ablow reminds us of two facts:

1) Those with disabilities, such as mental illnesses, are more likely to be victims of sexual and non-sexual abuse than the general population is.

2) There are people whom either:

a)  go into the mental-health field and become ableists & abusers of those with mental illnesses

or

b) went into the mental-health field to exploit people with mental illnesses in the first place

The "Boston Globe", meanwhile, harbors that same kind of ableism against especially women with mental illnesses, as their the headline is misleading & should be something like, "‘I own you’: Prominent psychiatrist accused of raping patients and sexually exploiting other patients in other ways".

As for Andrea Celenza, she is among those whom also harbor those sentiments. Even though she clearly does not care to admit that, her statement obviously has those glaring sentiments in it:

"Andrea Celenza, a Lexington psychoanalyst who interviewed the women and reviewed their medical records as an expert witness hired by the plaintiffs, said in a letter filed with the lawsuits that Ablow’s behavior in the case of the New York woman “was sadomasochistic, anti-therapeutic, and constitutes a perverse use of his status and power.” The former patient said that, during their seven-year sexual relationship, Ablow persuaded her to get his initials tattooed on her arm."
Also:

"Celenza, in her letter to the women’s attorney, said Ablow’s alleged sexual misconduct with the Minnesota woman amounted to “the most egregious violation” of the American Psychiatric Association’s ethical code. “These behaviors are grossly unprofessional and unethical,” she said, adding that they “represent the worst and most damaging kind of abuse” in a therapeutic setting. 

If she did not actually agree with Dr. Ablow and the "Boston Globe" themselves, each of letters would contain unequivocal statements that Dr. Ablow's behavior was unethical as well as immoral, illegal, and unfaithful to the Hippocratic Oath, sadistic (not "sadomasochistic"), abusive in general (not just "anti-theraputic"), and general as well as specifically-ableist sexual abuse and non-sexual abuse (not "constitutes a perverse use of his status and power", as "constitutes a perverse use of his status and power" implies that his victim had some amount of complicity in what he did as well as that it "[only] constitutes" and isn't wholly a categorical abuse of status and power).

As for society in general, it needs to ask itself how and why it enables, outright encourages, and outright engages in—as NAMI calls ableism for what it is—ableist "discrimination, not stigma". After all, society affects and effects ableism to increasingly prevalent and severe as it, for example:


  1. Tries every damned way to get around the ADA and HIPPA
  2. Uses people with disabilities in of themselves as targets of "jokes" and other thinly-disguised abuse
  3. Making light of disabilities by coining terms such as "libtard" as well as classifying evils such as sociopathy and narcissism as mental illnesses—which, by the way, sociopaths and narcisstics love, as it enables them to abuse especially people with real mental illnesses by affecting them to not be taken seriously when they seek mental-health treatment.
  4. Ultimately affecting and effecting the creation of ableists from people such as Dr. Ablow all the way to the typical man (usually man, though sometimes woman) whom has a child with a disability and thus ableistically abandons and/or otherwise abuses his (or her) family (and yes, abandoning your family because you don't want a child with a disability is abuse).

Thursday, February 21, 2019

A PSA From "Momma" And Reilly

PS Yes, this really happened (and happens a lot)! At least "Momma" got to take pictures for and come up with an idea for the (albe-posted-a-few-minutes-late) Love Your Pet Day 2019 card

Tuesday, February 19, 2019

Somebody Still Hates Pictures....And Hates Getting Her Pawprint Painted For Stamping!

The sleepyhead was unamused.







"I don't care how cute you think that I am. It's not cute or funny, and I'm turning away from the camera."





"Not happy at all...stop ruining my belly rubs from 'Mom-Mom'!"




No Reillys were harmed in the making of this pawprint, despite how unhappy was (In fact, "Momma" went out her way to use pup-safe paint and pup-safe hand wipes!)



"Momma" painted a picture of Reilly's unique markings and curly tail, and the subject in question (Reilly) alone made the painting turn out well.




Reilly actually ran away from the camera twice. When she got back up on the chair the second time, "Momma" got her picture as well as an unamused look from her. 

Tuesday, February 12, 2019

Friday, February 8, 2019

#FluffyFriday and #FlashbackFriday...To Yesterday; And "Auntie Nicole" et. al. Are Amazingly Still Alive

"But his uncle sat where he was and ate on, now from this bowl and now from that, and Wang Lung stood there bursting with his blood, and when he saw his uncle paid, no heed to him, he stepped forward with his arm upraised. Then the uncle turned and said: 'Drive me out if you dare.'...

"Then Wang Lung stood still and rigid, for he saw there [in his uncle's coat lining] a false beard of red hair and a length of red cloth, and Wang Lung stared at these things, and the anger went out of him like water and he shook because there was no strength left in him."



"Auntie Nicole" thought that it was "Try me if you dare." Either way, that's the passage of which Camille reminded her as she guarded her new toy—and she glared at Reilly, too!—and actually amazed "Auntie Nicole" when she let me throw it
—and this after she growled at "Mom-Mom" and "Mimi" as well as caused Reilly to drop the other new toy in dread!



(And oh yeah...Camille is a Light Apricot Toy Maltipoo, and thus has a red Maltese beard!)


(Not to mention that she just came over for scritches when she heard "Cam, come here!" as "Auntie Nicole" played the second video! 😆

(Cam is quite a character. 🙂



)


Thursday, February 7, 2019

Year Of the Puppy? So Reilly Would Like To Think; Or...

She wants to think that every year is the Year of the Reilly 🙂.

PS This card was made when "Momma" didn't realize that yesterday was Rosh Chodesh Adar (which has particular importance for Reilly because she was born in Second Adar 5774, and so she'll celebrate her birthday in this month of Adar if there isn't a Second Adar this year.)

Tuesday, February 5, 2019

An Early Valentine's Day Card From Reilly? Or...

A tribute for Friends Day and World Cancer Day (February 4, 2019. PS Reilly's fine, thanks be to Yehovah. "Momma" factored in World Cancer Day for another reason related to Reilly):

Ode To a Gregarious Rose Of a Fur-riend (and Her "Momma"'s Little Valentine)

"Reilly"—"gregarious"

"Rosalita"—"little rose"

Reilly Rosalita, with gorgeous

Fur, colors and markings, and eyes

And cute ears and a cute little nose, 

The latter of which she uses for all of her tries

To find whatever "nasties" she can sniff out and eat

Even though she knows that a "nasty" is not a treat, 

And despite that all of her human loved ones have explained

That they don't want her to end up getting any "nasty" that's really dangerous!

If anything ever did happen to Reilly, all of them would be pained—

That's even part of why Reilly got spayed and doesn't get conventional food, treats, or toys

—And Yehovah forbid that she would ever get a "nasty" with carcinogens!—

What would "Momma" alone do if her "dogter", who brings her a lot of joy,

Ever had mammary and/or other types of cancers?

May her prayer for Reilly to live at least 120 healthy canine years 

Be a prayer that Yehovah answers

In her favor, and preferably

Until she herself's lived at least 256 canine years and is near

Her own time to cross the Rainbow Bridge and—as she

Always tells Reilly, anyone who leaves this world is going—"to see

"Jesus", to Whose throne they believe that the Rainbow Bridge leads








Sunday, February 3, 2019