Social Alienation Syndrome
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The lesson (see so-called gender equity below) - More than thirty years ago, I lived in a two-story house that was converted to four separate apartments.   One day, a neighbor in the apartment above me pounded on the back door and told me of a fire in the basement where a coal furnace that had been converted to natural gas many years before. He was trying to extinguish the flames with a manual fire pump.  Though full of water, the pump was not much use. 

The fire was contained in the furnace but the danger was near, and I gave him the keys to my car and told him where I kept a suitable fire ABC fire extinguisher. I found the stopcock and he found the fire extinguisher and we put out the fire. Now the ‘A’ in the term ‘ABC’ means that the fire extinguisher is suitable for use on ordinary combustibles such as paper and wood. The ‘B’ means that the fire extinguisher is suitable for use on flammable liquids and the ‘C’ means that the fire extinguisher is suitable use on electrical equipment.

These facts are something that every person should know. Every home should have at least two ‘ABC’ fire extinguishers. Every living space must have a smoke detector, a monoxide detector, and emergency lighting. Every door frame must be large enough so that a firefighter in full gear can enter and leave without obstruction. Every living space that has an exterior wall, with the exception of lavatories, must have a window large enough so that a firefighter in full gear can enter and leave without obstruction.

Definition - I coined the term, Social Alienation Syndrome, because I wanted to describe social alienation outside the context of relationship and gender. Social Alienation Syndrome is not an illness. It is the set of behaviors designed to estrange the relationship between society and a person or a group of people.

Social Alienation Syndrome is rooted in the terms of ‘bigot’ and ‘jealously’. A bigot is a person who does and remains devoted their own opinions and prejudices at the expense of another person or group. Bigotry is the practice of a person or group of people who treats another person with intolerance and hatred. Bigots and those who practice bigotry do not recognize the notion of egalitarianism. All of us have equal social, political, legal, and economic rights; we all have equal obligations within our individual capabilities.

Authoritarianism and Radical Feminism - Authoritarian regimes are intrinsically evil. Nazism, Fascism, and Communism are examples of authoritarian regimes of the 20^th Century. They invented a doctrine of supremacy that only benefits a selected elite of toadies and agitators. The remaining population fared badly because these regimes did not embrace the notion of egalitarianism.

As this of authoritarian regimes of the 20^th Century, radical feminism does not embrace truthfulness nor egalitarianism. Instead, radical feminism has invented a doctrine based on deception, lies, and the myth of radical feminist ascendancy. Their selfish and divisive strictures are designed to put the dissident females and the male population under their control. Only a selected elite of toadies and agitators will benefit under radical feminism, the rest of us will fare badly.

The Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) has been used by pernicious individuals to foster radical feminist propaganda for the purpose of defaming and alienating males. To put in it terms of communist ideology, radical feminists see males as the proletariat, the lowest social, political, and economic class. These are their disproved notions:

• Violence against males does not exist.
• Parental Alienation Syndrome does not exist.
• False allegations of sexual abuse of a child does not exist.
• False allegations of rape and sexual assault does not exist.
• False allegations of domestic assault or battery does not exist.
• The standard of ‘possible cause exceeds’ the ‘standard of probable cause’.
• Section 1 of the 14^th Amendment is obsolete and undesirable.
• Section 1 of the 14^th Amendment is incongruous to the present state of affairs.
• Without actual cause or warrant, the arrest and detention of males is desired.
• It is proper to teach females to lie.
• Adultery is not a crime.
• There is no such notion of separate property nor should male have property.
• A tower in San Francisco is a phallic symbol and not a tribute to bravery.
• Creating penises and hanging them out to dry is good.
• There is no such notion of an innocent man.

Gender Identity - Radical feminism embraced the theory of Dr. John Money, of Johns Hopkins, who presented the notion that gender identity is socially malleable and not fixed. In other words, males can be changed into females by training. Dr. Money was wrong and this led to suicide of a child. Gender identity is more likely determined within the womb by hereditary factors that are not completely understood and Dr. Darshak Sanghvi explains this in his work, ‘A Map of the Child’, ISBN 0-8050-6724-8.

I was not satisfied with the hippocampus theory that received much attention some years ago. I do not know why some choose same gender intimate relationships yet I am compelled to recognize that such relationships exist and can be good.

In his book, ‘Gender Matters’, ISBN 0-385-51073-X, Dr. Leonard Sax wrote about the terms ‘gender’ and ‘sex’. In his writing on page 252 was something did not see before, a monograph by the National Academies. I agree with Dr. Sax.

• The monograph states that sex is a dichotomous biological variable. Humans are either male or female. I disagree with that statement. The chromosomes that determine sex are found in both males and females. The only difference is that females only have ‘xx’ gender determining chromosome pairs and males have only ‘xy’ gender determining chromosome pairs. Both mother and father of a child contributes one-half their chromosome pairs to the child. So it is the biological father that determines the gender of a child, ‘xx’ for females and ‘xy’ for males. However, a child’s genitalia may be vague or inappropriate to the child’s genetic inheritance. One condition is called Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia or ‘CAH’. Dr. Sanghvi explains this in ‘A Map of the Child’, pages 215 -223.
   
• The National Academies monograph also states that gender is a continuous variable. Gender is socially constructed. Humans can be mostly feminine, mostly masculine, or anything in between.  Dr. Sax and I try to avoid the term ‘sex’ because it often overused and misused, so I use the term ‘gender’ to bring greater clarity. Many others have arrived at the same thought. Dr. Money’s theory remains wrong.

Gender Equity - An article appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle on Wednesday, April 27, 2005, by columnists Matier and Ross entitled ‘Center for Gender Equity makes some more equal than others’. It seems that the University of California at San Francisco Center for Gender Equity is not equitable. They called the activity ‘Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day’. However, the center’s director Ms. Amy Levine said that the event was not a career day. As reported, she said that the program is not intended to give boys and girls the same learning opportunities. The nine and ten-year-old daughters were invited to participate in 17 hands-on activities ranging from using microscopes and other medical equipment to disaster preparedness and how to use a fire extinguisher. The boys were to be indoctrinated in gender equity (worthless in the face of danger).  Where was the gender equity in this? It was certainly not impartiality. The role of a teacher is to bring out the best and finest qualities in their students so each can see beyond what they are and reach out and help others. The word I choose is insight and not dogma. The role of a teacher is to bring out the best in everyone. 

More on Gender Equity - I obtained a book a few days ago from the Vallejo Public Library titled ‘Why Boys Don’t Talk and Why It Matters‘ [sic] by Susan Morris Shaffer and Linda Perlman Gordon, ISBN 0-07-141787-7. Their book is useless because it is nothing more than their expression of radical feminist thought.

Their book claims that Ms. Shaffer is a nationally acclaimed gender equity specialist with more than thirty years of experience. A bar chart titled "Violence Is Gender Issue" appears on page 61. According to this chart, females commit approximately two to 10 percent in six different categories of violent crime: murder, physical assault, domestic violence, dating violence, rape, and child sexual abuse. This is an example of radical feminist propaganda.

The authors claim that boys learn more slowly than girls. Every person learns at their own rate. Instructors must understand this and work to bring out the best in every student. A student may seem to struggle and plod along. Then one day, that student undergoes a change called an epiphany - the sudden perception and understanding of the nature and meaning of the material and lessons.  However, Ms. Amy Levine admits that she does not intend to give boys and girls the same learning opportunities. In some educational settings, boys are indoctrinated in gender equity. When a child is exposed to this rubbish, it is no wonder why boys do not perform as well as girls and this why I support same gender education with some reservation.

Working together as equals is the essence of a free society.  Ms. Levine could have taught that every person has equal social, political, legal, and economic rights and each person has private and social obligations to others and those obligations are greater than one's own selfish interests. This advocacy comes from the realization that one's own conduct affects the lives of others.

However, Ms. Levine did reward, poor to mediocre performance while punishing better or exceptional performance. Historically, a boy’s academic performance is often downgraded by his behavior while a girl’s academic performance is often upgraded by her behavior. Many qualified young men do not enter college and complete their degree because of the misandrious and hostile atmosphere that is so evident in many schools, colleges and universities.

The Evil of Radical Feminism - Radical feminism is predicated on the dogmatic tenets of self-invented beliefs rather than the requirements of individual responsibility. Their doctrine goes forward with presentation that human rights are not important. The proponents of this false doctrine seek to transmute the notion of individual obligations and rights to the notion of collective rights without obligation.

Ancient mythology is often allegorical that has basis in historical fact. Accounts of wicked and contentious women are historical fact. Greek mythology tells of the Gorgons: Stheno, Euryale, and Medusa, the daughters of Ceto and Phorcus. The Old Testament of the Bible (King James Version) tells of contentious women in the first book of Kings, Chapter 3, verse sixteen and again twice told in Proverbs 21 verses nine and 19.

Kathleen King Goodfriend subjected a child to physical and psychological torture that nearly destroyed a family who loved their children. A more recent example is Child Sexual Abuse: Intervention and Treatment Issues by Kathleen Coulborn Faller under a grant by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services where she expounds her prejudice against a child’s father. Her work is that of her own refusal to find the truth. When Ms. Faller cannot convince a child’s mother that the child’s father raped their child, she considers the child’s mother as ‘unworkable’.

Memory - The ability to remember varies among individuals. Each of us have had instances of absent mindedness where we could not remember where we last placed an object or forgot to do something. This is a defect of attention but I am not so certain because I have unconsciously found a ‘lost’ object without effort a few days or weeks later. Looking at a ‘lost’ object and not seeing it called blocking. Memories fade over time and this is why many of us keep journals, diaries, photographs, and recordings of things and events that we would like to remember or must remember.

Insight - One day, some years ago, a friend asked me for a proof of the Pythagorean Theorem. The next day, I gave her the proof and was this: Construct a square and then construct an inner square such that each corner of the inner square coincides with a congruent point on each side of the outer square. This produces four congruent right triangles and an inner square within the outer square. All we had to do was exclude those four congruent right triangles.

The hypotenuse of each of the four congruent right triangles forms a side of the inner square and they are identified by the letter ‘c’. The base of each of the triangles is identified by the letter ‘b’ and the remaining sides are identified by the letter ‘a’.

• The area of the outer square is (a+b)² = a² + 2ab + b².
• The area of the inner square is c².
• The area of a right triangle is ab/2.
• The total area of all four triangles is 4(ab/2) and simply 2ab.
• Subtracting the four triangles gives c² = a² + b².

My proof was original and was my own. However, I could not believe that was the first one to discover it. Many years later, I found it was Bhaskara’s proof 12^th century [CE], that I had never seen before. This phenomenon is called insight, the realization of simplicity. The Greeks were not the first to understand, ‘that in a right-angled triangle, the square of the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the squares on the other two sides’. The unique form of this proof called ‘hsuan-thu’ and that proof is said in the ancient Chinese text ‘Chou pei Suan Ching’ that could be more than three thousand years old.

The ancient Egyptians probably knew about it because they did and had to resurvey crop land after each flooding of the Nile river. The Egyptians also built pyramids. The ancient Chinese knew this because they also surveyed land and built structures. Nearly every literate civilization probably understood the principle through the study of geometry and numbers. They may have used an iterative method to solve the square root problem. Please see ‘Mathematics: From the Birth of Numbers’ by Jan Gullberg (IBSN 0-393-04002-X) page 436. I did see ancient Chinese and Mongolian symbols in their glyphs and their text.

Blocking - Sometimes, I have trouble recalling a person’s name so when it does occur, I try to recall the name by scanning the alphabet. I spoke to several others about this problem and they related that they have had similar difficulty. Last Saturday (May 28, 2005) a friend and I were discussing the work of Mel Brooks, specifically ‘Young Frankenstein’. Both of us could not remember the name of a good comedic actor. I left to purchase some items at a nearby store and the name came to me. Hurried back and said ‘Wilder’ and my friend completed the name, ‘Gene Wilder’. Daniel L. Shacter describes this phenomenon as ‘blocking’.

Recovered Memories - There is no such thing as recovered memories. Sometime in the 1980s, I first heard about recovered memories. Recovered memories are to false psychology as cold fusion is to nuclear physics. Recovered memories are a product of certain psychotherapists who use memory altering or hypnotic drugs, hypnosis, guided imagery, and suggestion to obtain a desired result. These techniques are similar to those that were used by the selfish and the authoritarian who could not find their own being, given of their own.

So it is possible to implant false memories in some people because suggestibility varies from person to person. However, memories can be distorted by coercion, physical or mental abuse, emotional stress, and memory altering drugs. Memory is also subject to other factors both in children and adults.

Mistaken Memory - Sometimes we correctly remember but associate that memory to the wrong person or source. Worse yet, is remembering the right person but attributing the wrong memory, this is called misattribution. This is why I insist on a proper list of questions before acting as a witness, proponent, or adversary. That is why I oppose the doctrine of ‘yes’ or ‘no’ answers and insist on complete sentences that express the truth. Please see ‘The Seven Sins of Memory’ by Daniel L. Schacter (ISBN 0-618-04019-6) on about false confessions and false memories.

Psychological Projection - This is the misattribution of blame that is rooted in guilt or anxiety. It is the false attribution of one’s own ideas, feelings, attitudes, or conduct to another person. This externalization can be unconscious or deliberate. For an example, Lillian abused Mary but Lillian claims that Mary abused her. This phenomenon, psychological projection, is called malicious (deliberate) misattribution.

Frequently in abusive relationships, the abusive party will make a false allegation of battery or child abuse (especially Child Sexual Abuse) to remove the non abusive party from their residence. As a result, the innocent party loses a home and most or all of his or her separate and marital property while the abuser enjoys a tax-free gain. Males are predominately innocent victims of false allegations of rape and other abuses.

Social Alienation Syndrome - Parental Alienation Syndrome (PAS) is characterized by parental animosity directed against the other parent. When such enmity becomes public, then it is Social Alienation Syndrome (SAS). When I consider the damage that the Violence Against Woman Act has caused, I feel very alienated. My country is telling me that the plight of abused men does not matter.

Edward S. Nunes