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Old Mar 22, 2014, 04:40 PM
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Originally Posted by hamster-bamster View Post
You can be wrapped in a potato sack yet exude femininity, so it is most likely the thoughts you have and the unconscious body language those thoughts and feelings and fears create that are pushing people away, and not the lack of specially designed clothing.

Being over 6 feet tall used to be hard for women, but nowadays with tall fashion models, men are much more used to tall women. If you are so tall, being overweight should not look so overweight on you - your height makes it forgiving. Undoubtedly, it is still easier to be shorter or same height as most men are (I am 5'4'' and yes, it is a very convenient height) because your height might be intimidating to some men, but, again, with the advent of fashion models, height is no longer that much of a concern.

Your strong suit is your musical ability, and you need to capitalize on it. Women who exude femininity carry their bodies with grace (that is what makes it possible to attract high quality male attention being in a dirty potato sack, though nothing is wrong with dressing nicely if you feel comfortable in your clothing - if you do not feel comfortable in the clothing that you consider "sexual", you will look completely ridiculous/clumsy in it, so it is better not even to try, but if you know you will feel comfortable and move comfortably, go ahead and buy nicer clothes). For you, the obvious choice is to take dance classes, because your sense of rhytm and musical ability will enable you to succeed. Dancing will lead to ease of movement, grace, etc. It does not always help, but if you have at least some ability, dance practice will increase it greatly. If there is no ability to be graceful, dancing does not help (I have seen it happen), but if there is at least a bit of innate ability, dancing would quadruple it. Since you are a musician, most likely you have dancing ability at least to a modest degree, and dancing is what the doctor has ordered for you.

I do not remember if you once asked about being sexually preoccupied. Let me search my inbox. Yes:

"This discharge form said "are you sexually preoccupied". I don't think I'm addicted to sex seeing as I'm a virgin and I masturbate probably 4 to 6 times a week. But I do think/talk about sex a lot and I do probably view myself as a solely sexual object that no one wants."
http://forums.psychcentral.com/sexua...eoccupied.html

So you definitely are sexually preoccupied, and you have an incredibly twisted mind. Incredibly. Your therapist seems to be doing nothing to help you untwist it. Your choice of words is telling. when you described your clothing, the fitting term would have been "unisex". You used "asexual". I have never seen that term even applied to clothes! So, yes, preoccupied. You also used the term "my rapist". It is the weirdest word usage I have heard. Not even going into the fact that you have not been raped lately so all of it is just some useless hypothesizing, but "my" is usually used positively - "my friends", "my music", "my clothes", "my pets", etc. If somebody were to rape me, I would refer to him as the person who raped me, and not "my rapist" because I do not enter into relationships with rapists. Actually, several weeks ago my car was broken into at night, with lots of damage (close to $2K because I had lots of clothes in the salon that I planned to return to Macy's next day - I have learned my lesson and would never leave anything in the car overnight again). I would not call the guys who broke in "my burglars", because I cap the damage at close to 2K. If I start calling them "my burglars", then I would be entering into a relationship with them, suffering further damage. I think close to 2K is plentifully enough and do not want to suffer more damage. That you have these relationships with hypothetical rapists going on in your mind is just incredibly twisted.

These are just two examples of your language use that is REALLY WEIRD. I mean - OK, if not "unisex" clothing, then "baggy", "loose", "bulky" - some physical description, but nothing with the word "sex" in it (in the word "unisex", "sex" means gender and not "sex"). Maybe even "masculine", but no, not "asexual". Never heard of "asexual clothing".

Since the therapy seems to be completely useless, I would drop the therapist and spend time and money on dance classes. Since you are a musician in college, you probably have plentiful access to high quality dance instructors. Utilize them! They are there to help you succeed. Drama (acting) might be another good idea. I have not personally taken either, and would love to if provided a chance, but I cannot carry a tune myself .

If you continue with the therapist, the therapist needs to help you to become more straightforward. I realize that what you are posting only provides a glimpse into your thought content, but even that glimpse shows a very twisted, unnecassirily complicated picture. Say, viewing yourself as a sexual object that nobody wants... very twisted and complicated beyond belief.

I also cannot comprehend how you have lived till age 20 without only negative interactions with men. How about boys at school? Or did you go to an all-girls school, K-12? Did you have any male teachers (I know in some schools all the teachers are female)? Do you have a mix of female and male teachers now that you are at college? One would think so. So why do you not count those men?
HA dANCING. I THINK I WOuLD RATHER EAT MY OWN FECES. HAHAHAHA I don’t think that would even be legal. All joking aside, I hate exercising. I hate wearing clothes that dancers wear. I am horribly awkward with my body. I don’t have any ability to dance at all. Just because I can clap my hands to the correct beat that doesn’t make me able to do anything physical like dancing.

My mind is sexually twisted because of the way I use my words? I knew that picking the word asexual was improper because asexual is a legitimate sexuality. It would be like saying I was wearing very bisexual clothes. It doesn’t make sense. I meant to say lacking sexual appeal and that now seems even more offensive because asexual people don’t lack sexual appeal.

“My rapist” vs “the man who raped me”. I have to have a relationship with the man who raped me. It’s not a far stretch to go from “my father” to “my rapist” because the man who raped me was not just a man. It’s not a relationship I have going on in my head. It’s a twisted reality where I face having him in my life still and having to pretend like nothing happened. It’s also a game of semantics. Whether or not it is a really important game of semantics is debatable but I remember we had a disagreement over the words “fellatio” vs “blowjob”. You said you would be offended to say that you give your partner a “blowjob” because it isn’t a job. To me, the word “fellatio” sounds ridiculous and “blowjob” also sounds weird. I’d prefer to be more crass and say “I sucked his penis” than either.

So how is my thinking incredibly twisted? Viewing myself as a sexual object that no one wants?

I’m not very far into my progress with therapy yet. There is a lot of stuff to address and how to address them is somewhat unclear. I like having someone to talk to.

Yes, I have had positive experiences with men. All of my trumpet teachers are men. I went to public school. I had male teachers. I have a brother. He is 8 years younger than me. It just is supremely different being around male classmates and male teachers than it is to have a positive father figure in my life. I never had any male give me direction for how to approach men or how to value myself or telling me that I’m worth something regardless of what other men say. The only “fatherly advice” I can think of from my actual father was “when I was a kid, I grew up to realize that even though my father hit me harder [than my mom], he had the bigger heart”. So worse physical abuse = love per dad. My mother was very overbearing and completely dominated the household.

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Originally Posted by hamster-bamster View Post
Oh, I thought that a music school with fewer than 1000 people is considered big. But if it is not, maybe you need to make friends with the guys over at the school of Engineering...
Well, a music school with fewer than 1000 is a good size. A college with fewer than 1000 people (bother undergrad and grad school) is very VERY tiny. We aren’t affiliated with any larger college, but I could try to meet someone at MIT haha