Dagobahn Eagle Posted January 17, 2003 Posted January 17, 2003 Thank you for writing. We welcome timely, insightful reactions to material we have published, and we can assure you that your observations found an attentive audience among the editors. Should your comments be selected for the column, you will be notified in advance of publication. Again, our thanks for letting us hear from you. We hope that you will write again should you discover something of particular interest in the news or in our reporting of it. -TIME Magazine
Zygomaticus Posted January 17, 2003 Posted January 17, 2003 heh, good for you! :thumbup: Remember to tell us if it gets published
Dagobahn Eagle Posted January 17, 2003 Author Posted January 17, 2003 What did I write? I read in your article on DSM (January 2003) that US doctors "list Fetishism along with schizofrena". Doctors also diagnose fetishists as "mentally retarded". The article's author then writes that "there obviously are many ways Americans are nuts". However, according to doctors in Sweden, Europe, fetishism is neither a sickness, disorder, og a sign of retardation. According to doctors in the neighbouring nation of Norway, who have found that 1/15 have some sort of fetish, fetishism is today what homosexuality was 50 years ago: Labelled among Down's syndrome and, well, schizofrena. If you somehow liked another person of your own gender, obviously something had to be wrong with your head. The article also stated that homosexuality was removed from the list of DSMs in 1974. Isn't homosexuality really the same as fetishism (being attracted to something that most people of your own gender is not attracted to)? If so, why do US doctors diagnose it and list it as a disorder? Öyvind W., Houston
Sherack Nhar Posted January 17, 2003 Posted January 17, 2003 That's 100% you, Eagle So, you're a fetishist?
Rogue Nine Posted January 18, 2003 Posted January 18, 2003 I have a fetish for highly intelligent people. Fetishes, I think, are simply very weird predilections that some very weird people have and aren't any sort of disease. It's like calling someone retarded for liking something out of the ordinary. It does not belong with such conditions as schizophrenia.
Dagobahn Eagle Posted January 18, 2003 Author Posted January 18, 2003 That's basically what I told them too, Rogue. Is it a disorder for a Norseman to like a Pakistani immigrant instead of a brown/blonde-haired person from your own nation, for example?
Admiral Odin Posted January 18, 2003 Posted January 18, 2003 Yes, that is a disorder and you need to see a doctor immediatly
Jatt13 Posted January 18, 2003 Posted January 18, 2003 well, congrats to ya, eagle. here's to it getting published!
Dagobahn Eagle Posted January 19, 2003 Author Posted January 19, 2003 Yes, that is a disorder and you need to see a doctor immediatly Why was I halfway expecting someone to answer yes to that ?
Sherack Nhar Posted January 19, 2003 Posted January 19, 2003 Because you're only halfway as crazy as people on this board
Lord Fergie Posted January 19, 2003 Posted January 19, 2003 I halfway own the world except for the 9/2s I don't rule which I 1/3way know the dictators are halfway in my halfway
SlashAndBurn Posted January 19, 2003 Posted January 19, 2003 Uhhh...I think I'll ignore 3/4s of te previous posts and just say congrats to Dagobahn Eagle and say that I hope you do get published.
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