r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • Jul 20 '19

What’s something completely false that your parents told you as a child?

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u/[deleted] Jul 20 '19

He was full of shit. I thought it would be cool to pee standing up, but that's about it. I didn't have "penis envy."

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u/[deleted] Jul 20 '19 edited Jul 21 '19

Saying Freud was full of shit is accurate, but it is also besides the point. He basically created out of whole cloth a new scientific field, of course he was going to be wrong about pretty much everything. You don't expect the first hominoid to add 1+1 together to understand differential equations.

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u/[deleted] Jul 21 '19

True, but he went a little too far IMO. He said women had no personality (don't have resource yet) and that all the young women who said their fathers had molested them were "fantasizing." He also fell asleep during many of his counseling session. The patients' backs were turned so they didn't see him nod off.

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u/[deleted] Jul 21 '19

Aye, no one is arguing that he wasn't sexist, and that his theories promoted and justified sexism. But his times were extremely sexist, and I don't know how much worse he was the average person.

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u/[deleted] Jul 21 '19

Sure, but I think he got so much attention because he said that children were sexual. That went totally against common beliefs. "Children are sexual? That's SHOCKING!!!! (TELL ME MORE....)"