Modern Parenting Is DESTROYING Childhood - Nancy McDermott (#20)
What if the very way we parent today — hovering, curating, protecting — is destroying our children's ability to grow up?Nancy McDermott’s journey from Park Slope mom to parenting culture expert reveals how the family transformed from a sturdy institution into a fragile vehicle for self-fulfillment. As gentle parenting fails another generation and schools strip away parental authority, McDermott exposes how the 1970s divorce revolution created a traumatized generation now raising kids in perpetual fear.From birthday party invitations that require including everyone to teens who can't handle disappointment, this conversation reveals why modern parenting makes everyone miserable — and how we might find our way back.
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Poisoned in the Womb: When Medicine's Mistakes Echo Through Generations - Jill Escher (#19)
What if millions of pregnant women were unknowingly given drugs that altered their children’s brains, and their grandchildren’s?In this episode, Jill Escher, autism advocate and president of the National Council on Severe Autism, shares the shocking discovery that reshaped her understanding of her family, and the modern neurodevelopmental crisis. Escher’s journey began with two profoundly autistic sons and led her to a startling truth: her mother received weekly injections of synthetic steroid hormones during pregnancy.Now, as rates of both autism and gender dysphoria skyrocket, Jill connects dots that the medical establishment refuses to acknowledge, from DES disasters to modern anti-miscarriage drugs still in use until 2023.
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The "Transgender Child": How Psychiatry Created Its Most Destructive Diagnosis - Stella & Mia (#18)
What if the most destructive concept in modern psychiatry emerged from men lying to get hormones? Mia Hughes traces the shocking origins of childhood gender dysphoria back to the 1960s, when researchers studying effeminate boys were actually chasing ghosts—transgender children who didn't exist. Meanwhile, Stella O'Malley shares her harrowing personal journey as a child who desperately wanted to be a boy, offering a rare window into what gender dysphoria actually feels like from the inside. Their conversation challenges everything: Is this a real diagnosis? Should it exist? And in our current culture, is it too dangerous to leave in the DSM?
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Narcissists Are Destroying Society – Joshua Slocum (#17)
“To a close approximation, I would, quote, diagnose the West as having a thoroughgoing case of borderline and narcissistic personality disorders.”What if the same psychological abuse tactics you escaped from your childhood home are now running our political culture? Josh Slocum saw it first in his borderline mother's rages, then in his leftist activist circles, and now everywhere: the emotional manipulation, reality distortion, and performative victimhood of Cluster B personality disorders have infected the body politic. A former funeral industry reformer turned cultural critic, Slocum brings 20 years of nonprofit leadership and personal trauma recovery to decode our narcissistic age. His message is blunt: we're being governed by the psychological rules of the personality disordered, and the only cure is learning to say "no."Full shownotes: https://stellaomalley.substack.com/p/cluster-b-politics-an-abuse-survivors
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Disgust, Dating, and Autogynephilia: An Evolutionary Psychologist's Taboo Takes - Diana Fleischman
Buckle up for evolutionary psychology without guardrails. Diana Fleischman tackles the questions everyone thinks but nobody asks: Why do women feel visceral disgust at pregnant “transmen”? Why did #MeToo accidentally break dating? Could autogynephilia be men trying to psychologically "hunt" women? A polyamorous mother of two who openly advocates eugenics, Fleischman brings hard science to our softest taboos. She explains why your disgust reflexes know things your politics don't, why patriarchy might be "the natural order," and how millions of years of evolution shape today's gender wars. No apologies, no euphemisms - just data that nobody wants to hear.Full show notes: https://stellaomalley.substack.com/p/disgust-dating-and-autogynephilia
What’s really going on with gender? Psychotherapist Stella O’Malley, researcher Mia Hughes, and psychologist Bret Alderman explore how gender fits into a much bigger cultural shift—and what that means for all of us.
Through conversations with researchers, doctors, therapists, parents, and detransitioners, they cut through the noise to get to the heart of the issue. No jargon, no agendas—just honest, thoughtful discussions about one of the most pressing topics of our time.
If you’ve ever felt like something bigger is happening but struggled to make sense of it, this podcast is for you.
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