Reddit reviews When Women Sexually Abuse Men: The Hidden Side of Rape, Stalking, Harassment, and Sexual Assault

She lays claim to that Rene Magritte thesis on her site here. And of course, the original abstract is up online. It doesn't say anything to do with men, so it's pretty unclear to me where she gets all these credentials to practice dealing with men's issues.

She has nothing in any academic article. In fact, she's only linked in one book that's selling woefully - When Women Sexually Abuse Men: The Hidden Side of Rape, Stalking, Harassment, and Sexual Assault - but all they do is reference the "Shrink4Men" website. Which is kind of pitiful for a book that purports to be shedding light on a subject. Particularly since the article itself that they quote merely goes to a lot of long-winded defining of the issue - reiterating over and over what stalking actually is. In anything actually informative, you move past the definition pretty fucking quickly. Most of the definitions of stalking are pretty much the same too.

But the biggest things I found was that she's tried to make a bit of a name for herself all over the web in various fields - it just looks like the manosphere has paid off for her. I have her as a virtual therapist in the self help field and as a life coach for college kids - which seems to basically mean she's selling them a program to work out how to use their money.

According to zoom's cache, just a few years ago she claimed that she specializes in psychotherapy and life coaching that aims to improve the overall quality of her clients’ lives and professional and interpersonal relationships. She has recently begun consultancy work in organizational systems. Dr. Palmatier has a strong interest in the application of psychoanalytic theory to the Arts. Which is not manosphere, but why the fuck would Mister care when she's saying what they want to hear, and it's all STEM and logic!

It seems to me that like many manosphere icons, she chopped and changed until she found something lucrative. Say what you will about the manosphere, but if you tell them what they want to hear, they will cough up the dough. For poor guys, they've certainly sold the hell out of Dr. Helen Smith's book, and other pet websites all with ad revenue. Like all the PUA shit out there sells a fair amount of books - so too will this sort of thing.

The best bit about selling to them is, that the manosphere hates academic rigour - so they will actually buy a book rejected by anyone well-versed in the subject, on the basis that "feminists hate it". Even negative publicity feeds the frenzy to buy and stick it to feminists everywhere. All you basically have to do is repeat back to them that they are the victims of everyone, noble men, women are crazy bitches and it's all easy money.

Paul Elam makes a living out of this - and so do many of the writers at AVFM. I would imagine that TJ Palmatier is no different. It's a lucrative market, and you don't have to try that hard. You don't need to scrutinise your work for its veracity, and you don't need to do anything more than build a narrative around shit misters have shared with you on a website. I'd totally do it if it didn't require me to say that men are noble victims and women are crazy bitches.

None of these people are ever asked to pony up with financials, even though they ask for donations. I think - based on how much money they could quickly gather up to fund that private security for their rally - that it's probably a fair chunk of money, where advertising costs you absolutely nothing. The manosphere does it for you.