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— Rick Deckard, ''Blade Runner'' | — Rick Deckard, ''Blade Runner'' | ||
The '''pathology paradigm''', or '''medical model''', consists of trying to get people's bodies and actions to conform to entitled societal expectations. It's essentially medicalised conformity to the majority. This includes, but is not limited to, conversion "therapy". Contrast with the ''diversity paradigm'', or ''social model'', which allows consent, and bodily autonomy, and acknowledges that people in minorities are not broken — a healthy population is ''supposed'' to be diverse. | |||
The '''pathology paradigm''', or '''medical model''', consists of trying to get people's bodies and actions to conform to entitled societal expectations. It's essentially medicalised conformity to the majority. This includes, but is not limited to, conversion "therapy". Contrast with the '' | |||
To a large extent, the twentieth century view of mental health, and even some physical health, was chiefly concerned with making people in minority groups — especially invisible minority groups — conform to the majority. Fundamentally, the goal was to force a diverse range of people to conform to the unrealistic and entitled standards of the majority: to pass for straight, cisgender, endosex, [[Allism|allistic]], and so on. | To a large extent, the twentieth century view of mental health, and even some physical health, was chiefly concerned with making people in minority groups — especially invisible minority groups — conform to the majority. Fundamentally, the goal was to force a diverse range of people to conform to the unrealistic and entitled standards of the majority: to pass for straight, cisgender, endosex, [[Allism|allistic]], and so on. | ||
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* "Fixing" healthy intersex babies' bodies | * "Fixing" healthy intersex babies' bodies | ||
* Refusing to fix | * Refusing to fix trans people's bodies | ||
* Torturing gay people into pretending to be straight | * Torturing gay people into pretending to be straight | ||
* | * Torturing autistic people into [[Masking|pretending to be allistic]] | ||
These all ''very negatively'' affect the patients' mental health, because they're not trying to help people be comfortable. They're trying to force people to conform, for ''other people's'' entitled comfort. | These all ''very negatively'' affect the patients' mental health, because they're not trying to help people be comfortable. They're trying to force people to conform, for ''other people's'' entitled comfort. |