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John Carter's avatar

With less than 5% of psychologists under 30 being male (and how many of those 5% are gay), and the overwhelming majority of the girl therapists certainly having been indoctrinated in leftist ideology, merely cancelling membership in the APA will do little or nothing. The APA won't even notice.

Telling conservatives to go to academia and join the discipline isn't so straightforward either. Academia too is now a female, left-wing operation. Conservatives either get converted or weeded out.

The answer, I believe, is withdrawal, collapse, and refounding. Both professional organizations like the APA and institutions like academia are past the point of no return. However, they're also beclowning themselves, burning through centuries of cultural capital in a spasm of madness. Before long universities will be regarded as convents for hysterical women, psychology will be considered a pseudoscience, and neither will be considered remotely prestigious - in fact quite the opposite.

Meanwhile, the competent right wing men who have been ejected from those institutions are still competent. It falls on us to build the successor institutions, including venues for training psychologists and outlets for offering men the psychological support they actually need. There's already a huge cottage industry of anons and feral academics offering precisely these services, and they are gathering to themselves all of the status once conferred on the legacy institutions.

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Martin Greenwald, M.D.'s avatar

This is reflective of the broader reality that our culture currently has no widely agreed upon, healthy, way to think about manhood. This is all stuff people have talked about before: decline in men-only spaces/activities, depreciation of fatherhood, depreciation of the value of work, discouraging rough play among boys, etc etc, and overall men finding themselves with life trajectories that are profoundly dissatisfying and empty.

Also, pretty much everything above could be applied to womanhood with a few changes in the specifics.

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