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Ok I check all 3 boxes, I confess, I’m a member of the commie therapist vanguard

tbh they or their type def exist tho. it’s the horse girl nurse trope: still white, still afab, but secretly uber religious christian and only became a therapist to control people when they can’t control their own lives

"Approximately" hey get the actual stats or hit the garden grass

It's like the "why aren't their any prominent conservative science professors?" Because conservatives have systematically rejected science over the past 30 or so years. Someone who doesn't believe in climate change/evolution isn't getting a job teaching about the climate or biology.

Therapists require education.

imagining a therapist who listens to your problems etc and invariably recommends that you 'figure it out yourself, what are you some kind of hippie? how is this MY problem?!"

This whole hysteria on the right about under representation of cons in academia drives me crazy. It is endogenous and self selecting. Free inquiry into the liberal arts is inherently left coded. Material rewards are lacking. Why go into academic STEM when you could make more money in industry, etc?

Where did those statistics come from? There are a lot of faith-based counselors these days whose ideology could hardly be considered 'liberal.' It's a problem for people who want secular help. Also, how are they defining the term 'liberal'?

I wonder what the political affiliations and demographics are of the nation's police officers. Should it be 50/50 on all counts?

Sometimes, therapy gives people awareness, language and tools to escape abusive situations. Can't think why modern Conservatives wouldn't want that.

Need and seek different things. Self-aware and introspective people are attracted to therapy and repulsed by conservatism.

It's true. Never had a male teacher until my first year of high school. Didn't care one iota. The only thing I knew was kid me hated school like most people my age...

I don't even think this Michelle Tandler stat is true. Where did she get this from, anyway? Catholic/Evangelical/LDS culture is awash in "Christian counseling" services, which is supposed to offer "faith-based" therapy. It's very right-wing, often abusive. It's just bullshit vibe-whining.

Ah yes, Michelle Tandler. A few years ago she became a twitter main character for trying to push democrats to the center. She went independent a few years ago and registered as a republican this year. A textbook case of using centrism as a cover for conservative beliefs.

Unfortunately, there has been a concerted psychological/info warfare attack on the alternative health & wellness community. The objective appears to be to pull them into the RW alternate “reality,” using emotional hooks, fake info, and compromised experts. 😞

TRUE

Empathy and the required education.

i'm an empath and male so i think therapists are evil for having no empathy towards men who suffer from capitalism

Love that response 👏👏👏

For get that a conservative therapist would be ineffective... Conservatives will do anything, up to and including becoming president and starting a global conflict in order to avoid going to a therapist. Fred Trump didn't love Donny unconditionally, so now we have to deal with all this bullshit.

Could it be because all the male conservative therapists just become preachers/clergy? Nah, that can't be it. *Eye roll* Regardless, they were always going to come for the mental health crowd. It's part of the playbook.

There are no conservative male therapists because conservative men fucking despise emotions. They believe being anything other than a cold, unfeeling machine is a sign of weakness. Hence why their wives keep leaving them

Absolutely correct!

Well if Donnie had gotten therapy we wouldn’t be where we are today

Citation please!

My wife is a therapist, she is liberal and white so those numbers check out. Therapist don’t go into their line of work expecting to make money. They may have gone into it because they suffered trama in their life and they want to help others. These are all things conservatives dislike

Thanks, Dr. Phil!

Maybe lack of empathy is poorly suited for this profession.

heeyyyooo! 😎👉👉

therapy is woke, eat shit and die

And here I thought it as because most conservatives were just dense.

As if we don't already have enough evidence that conservative ideology isn't actually an ideology but a mental illness

"What appears to be the problem?" "Well Doctor..." "Oh for Gods sake, pull your socks up! Nobody ever gave me anything for just sitting there and moaning!"

It's an equally big mystery why people who think empathy is evil *do* become the rapists.

they tend to become psychiatrists instead

And yet no curiosity as to why so many mass shooters are conservative white males.

Ya I have a hard time picturing anyone who belongs to a cult of pain and cruelty making it all the way through the education required to become a therapist without snapping at a teacher/professor and being expelled...

I sometimes look at Politico’s “Cartoon Carousel” & they do a fair and balanced thing w equal numbers of left and right views, except there just aren’t many right-wing cartoonists, so they always give *two* cartoons to the one right-winger Ramirez. Some professions skew non-right for a reason.

Isn't this how you got your dumb "electoral college"?

I'm still not super clear on this person's argument. Complaining they're mostly liberal, they're mostly women and they're mostly white... If someone was gonna complain about something being too diverse or not diverse enough, why would they complain about all three?

Right wing therapist telling you depresion is woke propaganda and that finding a job and stopping being lazy will solve my mental issues and "man up"

Cough. Jordan Peterson. Cough

Love too pay $100 an hour for someone to tell me to pick myself up by my bootstraps.

The initial four years of school that it takes to get to the graduate level degree often moves young people to the center or left...through education. They mostly can't get there and remain conservative. It takes going to a conservative school that eschews knowledge and science for dogma.

It could be dangerous to one's identity to reflect, listen, experience personal growth, or learn anger control.

I’m sure they’re just as outraged by the demographics of the finance industry…

Pretending to have empathy enough to be a therapist, but actually being a conservative, is absolutely false advertising.

DEI for Christian Nationalists baby...

Only 5 % of border patrol agents are women. Only 13% of ice agents are women. What is going on here?

Someone tell her about the gender divide in nursing, early childhood education, or policing.

lol— laughs the therapist.

Reminding me of a Bob Newhart sketch… youtu.be/bcSAQyzPcl0?...

There’s only therapists. There aren’t any smart therapists that are gonna tell these people what they want to hear. The reason there’s no republican therapists is because republicans are fucking stupid people. It’s that simple.

She needs to get her ass beat for real; fix all this "I saw a mean sign" whining. Let me be her conservative therapist, I'll kick her ass

Pretty certain covering your ears won't help. You'll still hear it...but quieter... A rusty ice pick however... /s

this is probably the most confusing thing ive seen all week. how do you hear the things people are saying at these protests and get scared?? how do you get scared by a SCARF??

I believe in the South, they have a phrase that seems fitting in this situation: "Bless her soul." 😜

I don't believe a word of that. 😀

She got so upset by the “land back” themed sign that she made sure to quote it lmao

"Women wore hats that simply said 'Abortion'" Help I'm being oppressed by words!

I've met few therapists or shrinks with ill intent.

The best line from him was, “I don’t want to talk about political issues but no, you’re not bisexual. I have a gay friend and you’re nothing like him.”

Conservative therapist: get out of my office you big whiny baby, suck it up pull yourself up by your bootstraps, be a man, oh and you owe me 200 bucks for the hour

…they become coaches.

Don't they just sub the Bible for the DSM?

You can tell that conservatives don't really think, because anyone with half a brain who spends more than 30 seconds thinking about this would realize why a profession that requires you to have an education and care about people and their feelings would skew this way.

Damn. Now that you mention it, the therapist that actually changed my life for the better was the one that was a 3rd wave feminist.

Or make the whole profession illegal

I also feel like these percents need backed up? I live in a rural area and there are plenty of christian evangelical therapists Not every therapist is like the sopranos some of them just suck

But being couplea therapist could be a good way to feed on someone's anger. After all that is what conservatives crave.

A mystery inside an enigma wrapped in a white hood.

So some people on the right feel guilty that they're selfish assholes?

I hear that

"What's the deal with Scientologists? Why aren't more of them becoming therapists?"

The victim mindset is strong along conservatives.

So they do want DEI, but only in some specific areas.

As a therapist/psychologist, the ideas of the modern conservatism & maga are fundamentally opposed to basically all of therapy/psychology. It would be like asking “Why aren’t there more goldfish climbing Mt Everest?”

"90% of dentists think teeth are real. what's going on!?!"

GOP-voting therapists talking to their patients: "LOL depressed, git gud libtard" Yeah no clue why that isn't more common 🤷‍♂️

99% of ICE agents are MAGA.

Maybe that particular slice of society cares about helping people more than MAGA does. Isn't that what Therapists are supposed to do?

I’d refuse to see a therapist who wasn’t liberal.

Is she also Very Upset that the gender/politics numbers are flipped for jobs in finance?

team "f*ck your feelings" feels underrepresented 😥

Conservatives literally disrespect therapists regularly, and discourage kids from getting degrees in social sciences like psychology. The conservatives that do get those degrees are some of the worst people you'll ever meet, because they gaslight & manipulate A LOT!

I have been told it works in reverse. Those who train in therapy and enter the profession learn further empathy and become less likely to be attached to conservative ideologies.

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I am not even kidding, that is my mom’s ex boyfriend. I hated him. (Okay it was actually a “you can offend me, I can take it” or something like that shirt that he had custom printed for when I visited! But the spirit is there)

Drinking vodka out of a SUCK IT UP, BUTTERCUP coffee mug wearing a LIBERAL TEARS TASTE LIKE VODKA ball cap.

Blinks … blinks again.

Pretty sure I knew more about my therapist by the end than he knew about me. Do you want to hear about his side business selling 3D printed junk online?

Being married to a Black therapist myself, it's not hard to believe that racists and misogynists don't want to go into this helping profession

She’s part way there to critically thinking about where she’s at, but the next step is literally a bridge too far for the vast majority stuck in their Fox News echo chambers…

Everyone should have therapy. We wouldn’t be in the mess we’re in if there weren’t so many broken people with unhealed childhood trauma and anger issues. Looking at you MAGA.

Michelle is gonna kill that dog ….

I wonder if they are confused because a lot of therapist are self employed…they seem to think all small business owners are Republicans.

As for why most are women - well, women are socialized to be caretakers. As for why most are white? Is this person dumb? Who do they think has more access to higher education?

Except for the white part. Though we can attribute that to higher ed really fucking over non-white students.

Yeah, I don't really want to pour out my feelings to a therapist and have them say, "Fuck your feelings."

MAGA tends toward dual credentialed Analyst/Therapists

I want my therapist to believe holding a door for someone is the pinnacle of human weakness

I think congress and the senate lean almost as badly

You had a lot of work to do to get to this, but I appreciate the effort.

Sounds very communist if you ask me

Idiots underrepresented in the sciences shock

Some conservatives think empathy is evil. But most of them are just sociopaths and don't even understand the concept.

The people who think empathy is evil become millionaire “life coaches”.

I'm confused. Ate you trying to say that the "fuck your feelings" crowd wouldn't make great therapists

I know, believing in equal rights for all is a big red flag. 😏