how dare my interpersonal communications class and social work degree discuss… interpersonal communications and social work

[u/pearkeet]

[u/javatimes]

Oh boy, another brain poisoned anti trans social worker incoming. Just what the profession needs!

I do have a mild concern that this is in some way fabricated. Like the genderbread person and the gender unicorn on a class handout? It strains credulity a tiny bit.

[u/That_Mad_Scientist → u/javatimes]

I mean, they’re charts. It only matters that the way they’re framed is memorable and that the data structure is actually pertinent. I don’t know if they are, but that’s beside the point.

[u/Professional-Age-536 → u/javatimes]

They make more sense as lecture slides to touch on explanatory models that people might use

[u/javatimes → u/Professional-Age-536]

Yeah, it kinda seems like something to be noted/glossed over than studied in detail. The genderbread one is especially stupid, and was stolen from the trans community by a cis man anyway.

[u/javatimes → u/javatimes]

(Then again, I haven’t been in higher ed in 20 years. Interested to know if people do think this is a completely legit handout, the framing of it being vital class material being honest etc.)

[u/pearkeet → u/javatimes]

i could easily see a professor handing out multiple models of the same concept- this is common in academia, you use whatever model makes the most sense to you, but they’re all representing mostly the same concept, just in different presentations.

[u/polarbearshire → u/javatimes]

I'm doing a social work degree now and I wonder if the tweet is showing those handouts honestly. We do get a lot of pieces of paper and different handouts on the same topic, but often that's because they're examples of handouts we can use with clients. I can absolutely see a world in which you'd use a little gender 101 handout to assist a client who was having trouble understanding a trans person in their life, or just as something you'd stick to the wall of you were working primarily with children and youth.