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Dr. Kate Balestrieri @drkatebalestrieri.bsky.social · Jul 12

Progressives & Conservatives:
Would you date/have sex/partner with someone with opposite political views?

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Dr. Kate Balestrieri @drkatebalestrieri.bsky.social · May 24

Propaganda I’m not falling for as a clinical and forensic psychologist, and sex therapist:
• monogamy is best
• men have higher desire
• casual sex is bad
• sex is a relational duty
• “good” people don’t like “dirty” sex
• all kink comes from trauma
• a person’s value changes by their # of partners

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Dr. Kate Balestrieri @drkatebalestrieri.bsky.social · Apr 15

Make no mistake, the women who were sent to space today were not a demonstration of female empowerment. That was a demonstration of male power (wealth and virility) in the same way a pimp leverages women’s sexuality to prove his dominance. They were props, not promises. #blueorigin

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Dr. Kate Balestrieri @drkatebalestrieri.bsky.social · Mar 23

Can you spot the problematic perspective(s) inherent in his post?

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Dr. Kate Balestrieri @drkatebalestrieri.bsky.social · Feb 10

Wonder if their timing has anything with being kicked out of the pentagon news room?

Dr. Kate Balestrieri @drkatebalestrieri.bsky.social · Feb 8

Sexism is a tool of fascism. It teaches compliance and obedience to everyone, of all genders, at the identity level, and primes the human mind to defer to an authority instead of their own truth.

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Dr. Kate Balestrieri @drkatebalestrieri.bsky.social · Feb 3

Seeing how EM is acting in public makes me so worried about any woman or child who has ever lived with him in private.

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Dr. Kate Balestrieri @drkatebalestrieri.bsky.social · Jan 31

DEI > DJT

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Dr. Kate Balestrieri @drkatebalestrieri.bsky.social · Jan 30

Emotional and relational maturity (i.e.: regulated nervous systems and empathy) are true benchmarks of effective leadership. Without both, all that is left is the tyranny of being subjected to someone else’s psychodramas and trauma re-enactments.

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Dr. Kate Balestrieri @drkatebalestrieri.bsky.social · Jan 25

Helping out a student at Maastricht University with a research study. take this survey now: maastrichtuniversity.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

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Dr. Kate Balestrieri @drkatebalestrieri.bsky.social · Jan 25

If the Republican Party wants “more babies,” why is just watching and listening to them the most effective form of birth control?

(For legal purposes, this is a joke. Please use contraception to prevent pregnancy).

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Dr. Kate Balestrieri @drkatebalestrieri.bsky.social · Jan 22

If sex and gender were indeed binary, there wouldn’t need to be laws to enforce it.

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Dr. Kate Balestrieri @drkatebalestrieri.bsky.social · Jan 21

Friendly reminder that enforcing a gender binary is one the key steps in installing fascism.

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Dr. Kate Balestrieri @drkatebalestrieri.bsky.social · Jan 8

The fires in LA are not a punishment from a deity.
LGBTQIA+ folks are not mentally ill.
Women are not household appliances.

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Dr. Kate Balestrieri @drkatebalestrieri.bsky.social · Jan 2

Modern men,
To be a better ally to women, here are few things you can do:
1) Read feminist writings and listen to feminist podcasts
2) Pay for women’s labor, emotional + physical.
3) Learn to regulate your emotions + your nervous system.
4) Talk with other men about it all and call out misogyny.

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Dr. Kate Balestrieri @drkatebalestrieri.bsky.social · Jan 1

Here are my 2025 Predictions:
- Unprecedented number of heterosexual divorces
- Birth rate will drop
- Sex toy sales will ⬆️
- Digital sexual experiences will ⬆️
- Kink/BDSM and non-monogamy practices will ⬆️ to subvert conservatism
- Analog hobbies will ⬆️
- Sex experts will be heavily censored online

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Dr. Kate Balestrieri @drkatebalestrieri.bsky.social · Dec 23

“Sex with a minor” = rape of a child

I wish MSM would stop minimizing this behavior.

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Dr. Kate Balestrieri @drkatebalestrieri.bsky.social · Dec 13

The person of the year ought to be Gisele Pelicot and every other SA survivor.

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Dr. Kate Balestrieri @drkatebalestrieri.bsky.social · Dec 4

You’re allowed to feel frustrated if the current political climate is wreaking havoc on your sex life.

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Dr. Kate Balestrieri @drkatebalestrieri.bsky.social · Dec 2

There is no such thing as “withholding” sex. No one is entitled to sex with another person. If they are not having sex, there is no desire. Instead ask, what happened that there is no longer desire? Repair or address that. That can help partners move back into a place where desire lives again.

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Dr. Kate Balestrieri @drkatebalestrieri.bsky.social · Nov 29

Please stop saying things like “masculine energy” and “feminine energy.”

It’s re-packaged patriarchal propaganda funneled through pseudo spirituality.

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Dr. Kate Balestrieri @drkatebalestrieri.bsky.social · Nov 27

A common theme I hear from women I work with is that men do not want an experience WITH them, they want an experience OF them.

Read that again.

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Dr. Kate Balestrieri @drkatebalestrieri.bsky.social · Nov 26

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Dr. Kate Balestrieri @drkatebalestrieri.bsky.social · Nov 25

Told my husband we didn’t need couples therapy, and everything was fine in our relationship because I was happy with how things are in the relationship. #womeninmalefields

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Dr. Kate Balestrieri @drkatebalestrieri.bsky.social · Nov 24

Men with unresolved trauma cling to patriarchal power with greater fervor, to combat the feelings of vulnerability that occurred during the original trauma, and the feelings of powerlessness that arise during emotional states (that they beleive they should not feel) they cannot control or regulate.

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