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ampriskitsune.livejournal.com) wrote in trans2004-03-09 01:34 pm
mwahahahaha!(please read)
x posted to my lj, bi girls, transgender
I...*drumroll please*...have got a plot!!! *thunder claps* it involves lots and lots of people and whatnot and stems from my psych. group study that we are doing....I was reading up on the various methods of Systematic Desensitization, particularly the en 'vivo' process...this is a practice that is used primarily in helping people cure their phobias...it states that the more often you are exposed to something that you fear, the less you fear it...its the opposite side of the behavioral conditioning that leads to the phobia developing in the first place...'en vivo' merely states that is a practice you actually experience instead of, say, imagining what you are afraid of...you start small and work your way up until you are experiencing what you previously feared without the fear, or at least without the debilitating, thought stopping, panic inducing fear...anywhoo, i am reading up on this and i think, hey, what about homophobia??? we could do that to this too...and the people with it don't even have to be aware they are experiencing the desensitization process...and so, The Plot was born...i propose that ALL of us, the gays, lesbians, transgendered, bisexuals...the whole lot, start showing it more in public...nothing too gross mind you...not like, sex in the middle of the mall or anything...but holding hands, kissing, cuddling(hehe the single people could borrow a friend), going out dressed up for the mtfs the ftms and anyone else who feels like it, just being our wonderful unique special selves for the world to see....and eventually, something pretty damn cool might happen....people may learn that we are not so odd and wrong after all....different, but still human...they may even start *gasp* identifying with us....and the beauty of it is that 'en vivo; systematic desensitization is the most reliable and permanent method of learned fear reduction and learned acceptance that there is...you are more likely to stay unafraid of this then you are to stay not smoking and what not...it is a learned behavior! *is all excited* and so, i propose that in lieu of all that is happening recently (anti gay marriage, etc.) that it is time to make a stand...to do the most daring and shocking thing that we can do....BE OURSELVES!!!! and not be afraid to show the rest of the world exactly who we are...i know that i will be trying this and i hope the rest of you will join me too...*crosses fingers, extends hand*
I...*drumroll please*...have got a plot!!! *thunder claps* it involves lots and lots of people and whatnot and stems from my psych. group study that we are doing....I was reading up on the various methods of Systematic Desensitization, particularly the en 'vivo' process...this is a practice that is used primarily in helping people cure their phobias...it states that the more often you are exposed to something that you fear, the less you fear it...its the opposite side of the behavioral conditioning that leads to the phobia developing in the first place...'en vivo' merely states that is a practice you actually experience instead of, say, imagining what you are afraid of...you start small and work your way up until you are experiencing what you previously feared without the fear, or at least without the debilitating, thought stopping, panic inducing fear...anywhoo, i am reading up on this and i think, hey, what about homophobia??? we could do that to this too...and the people with it don't even have to be aware they are experiencing the desensitization process...and so, The Plot was born...i propose that ALL of us, the gays, lesbians, transgendered, bisexuals...the whole lot, start showing it more in public...nothing too gross mind you...not like, sex in the middle of the mall or anything...but holding hands, kissing, cuddling(hehe the single people could borrow a friend), going out dressed up for the mtfs the ftms and anyone else who feels like it, just being our wonderful unique special selves for the world to see....and eventually, something pretty damn cool might happen....people may learn that we are not so odd and wrong after all....different, but still human...they may even start *gasp* identifying with us....and the beauty of it is that 'en vivo; systematic desensitization is the most reliable and permanent method of learned fear reduction and learned acceptance that there is...you are more likely to stay unafraid of this then you are to stay not smoking and what not...it is a learned behavior! *is all excited* and so, i propose that in lieu of all that is happening recently (anti gay marriage, etc.) that it is time to make a stand...to do the most daring and shocking thing that we can do....BE OURSELVES!!!! and not be afraid to show the rest of the world exactly who we are...i know that i will be trying this and i hope the rest of you will join me too...*crosses fingers, extends hand*