- cross-posted to:
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- comicstrips@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- acab@quokk.au
- comicstrips@lemmy.world
cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/52502967
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Job of the cops is to protect the current order and punish deviation never “help” anyone not of the ruling class.
If it’s not an emergency (as in not actively attempting, and I assume this is the case by the language used in panel 1), your best bet to get someone involuntarily committed is by visiting the courthouse, filing a petition, and demonstrating with evidence they are a danger.
If it is an emergency, the yeah you have to call, and yeah they’ll probably send cops with the ambulance, and yeah the cops like doing that sometimes. But maybe you’ll get lucky, most of the time nothing bad happens and so it doesn’t become a national story and a point in your confirmation bias folder, so it’ll probably still be fine. Probably still better to seek option one though…
Back in my day, if you got sick of your wife you could just drop her off at the asylum and tell them she is “hysterical” and they’d take it from there.
She may not even complain. Look up the treatment for female hysteria.
That’s where the word “Hysterectomy” came from.
Even though the word comes from the old Greek root “hyster” for womb, we don’t call the organ itself by that name, we use “uterus” (from Latin). The name origins from being the primary treatment for hysteria.
Hysteria, itself, was an official diagnosis until 1980, and while there are medically valid reasons for a hysterectomy, the term itself is rooted in misogyny, and some people want to rename the procedure as a result.
you got it backwards.
How? I said hysterectomy is named from the disease hysteria. You linked etymologies saying hysteria is from early 19th century and hysterectomy is from late 19th century. That seems to be the same order I said.
I said hysterectomy is named from the disease hysteria.
it is not. both words come from greek hystera meaning uterus.
hysterectomy is removal of uterus, not removal of hysteria,
That seems to be the same order I said.
correlation does not equal causality, neither is Post hoc fallacy true.
i imagine doing that would bring her to the phase where you didn’t really need to lie, kind of self-fulfilling lie :D
Yes…she can yell and scream at them and tell the doctors that she’s sane and you’re lying to control her, that you’re abusive, that you time-traveled back from a post-apocolyptic future to prevent the machines from starting a nuclear war, etc.
But that just proves that she’s clearly unhinged and in need of serious therapy like a lobotomy or heavy medication.
This is part of what made America “great”, in the conservative viewpoint. Dissenters could be easily managed.
And it’s starting to seem that we are headed back into that direction. Women get autonomy over reproductive health taken back. For the people of color, we’ll bring back Jim Crow. LGBTQ rights are fairly new, those should be able to get clawed back easily.
The rest are all brainwashed into agreement, imprisoned over weed possession or debt, or trapped in a metaphorical prison where they are the only sane people surrounded by idiots.
Then just throw what’s left of the voting rights act into the bin and redistrict to ensure perpetual conservative victory. We’ll get back there eventually, at this rate.
Additionally, mental hospitals are overused.
When someone has a crisis, instead of receiving a meaningful intervention at the source of the crisis, the intervention will consist of locking them in a hospital and forcing them to take drugs, offering no other support. They may stay confined as long as an unaccountable judgment is maintained that they are not adequately stable, and they have essentially no rights in the interim. The whole system is farcical.
I think I’d rather be shot.
It’s one more reason to find alternatives to calling the cops.
Taking someone to a mental hospital may feel like the only option in some cases, but only because society has not developed the capacities to help people, in a natural setting, to solve actual problems at the root.
