Posted by noa on April 17, 2004, at 10:26:43
In reply to Re: Laughing Academy Faculty Bloopers Anyone? » noa, posted by MrSandman on April 17, 2004, at 2:30:02
LOL to your last sentence, though the rest of your story is nothing to laugh at--I'm sorry about your experience. Yikes.
Reading your experience made me think about mine again. What is interesting is that I went to a women's college, where the student and faculty community was very progressive on women's issues, and, being such a place, although things weren't as open in those days as they are now, it was a place that was, I suppose, relatively friendly to lesbians compared to general society (although still rare even on this women's college campus, there were occasionally lesbian couples seen walking hand in hand, or known couples sharing a room and a bed in the dorm, which I don't think I would have encountered in other settings at that time). I'm not a lesbian, but imagine if I had been and this psychiatrist is telling me that all my problems could be solved by going out and meeting guys. How enlightened! (and she might as well have added "and on your way out, dear, do stop in at the door down the hall and pick up a diaphragm").
But she was, I believe, some strain of psychoanalytically oriented with a little bit of "let it all hang out" on the side, and I guess she thought that sex would cure all, but which was, of course, missing the mark for me.
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