Sissy Therapy

Satirizing therapy is almost too easy. Of course, I am not talking about all therapy, but only most therapy. There's a reason they call it psycho.

For upwards of fourteen years I have blogged about the state of therapy. Unfortunately, the profession has descended into self-parody, to the point where satirizing it is, as I say, almost too easy.

Anyway, the satirical site, The Babylon Bee, takes a swing at therapy and largely gets it right. Much of their critique-- if you care to call it that-- has appeared on this blog, but still, they are well worth repeating.

The Bee begins its expose by pointing out that today’s therapy, when addressed to men, attempts to make them into girls. This produces a situation where women are constantly droning on about how men should go to therapy to get in touch with their feelings. For the record, and at the same time, said women are numbing their faces with cosmetic procedures, all of which inhibit their ability to express emotion. 

The Bee calls it “sissy therapy,” surely an unacceptable phrase. It describes today’s therapy thusly:

Our effeminate culture keeps trying to push men to talk about their feelings and go to something lame-sounding called "therapy". While this might work for today's beta male, old-school, 100% genuine REAL men have better ways of overcoming challenges in their lives.

Of course, men are constantly on the lookout for ways to avoid therapy, and such is the basis for the Bee’s analysis.

Naturally, the Bee does not miss the opportunity to satirize the male of the species, especially the American male. 

Among the therapeutic nostrums it offers up, nostrums that it declares to be more effective than therapy-- for men, of course- are these:

Swinging a bat at a ball. Surely, as the Bee says, this is more therapeutic than talking about feelings.

And then there is the beer sipping cure. One suspects that this only works if the beer is not a Bud Light.

Strenuous exercise, the kind where you pick up heavy objects, also makes the list, as does shooting at a gun range.

And, of course, there is the Elon Musk cure for what ails you:

Buy a social media company and then launch the largest rocket of all time into space: Soothe the inner voices, whatever it takes.

Of course, you read this list and you come away feeling that the Bee is also satirizing male attitudes. It is their right. In truth, they have every right to caricature males, as a correlate of their efforts to expose the feminization that therapy is attempting to foist  on unsuspecting men. 

Do the two correlate? Surely, they do. The more women keep telling men to get in touch with their feelings and to learn how better to feel empathy, the more these same men react by manifesting some more flagrant forms of macho behavior.

Haven’t we mentioned that machismo, the caricature of masculinity, tends largely to exist in matriarchal cultures. The more feminine the culture, the less place there is for genteel manliness. Thus, men become vulgar caricatures, because that is all that is left for them. 

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