Ramblings of a Crazed Raver

When I was a kid, “barbie.com” looked like this

But now, if you type “Barbie.com” you’re taken immediately to Mattel’s online shop, surrounded by nothing but “shop now” links and toy collections.

Disney channel’s website is now “Disneynow.com” which still has games and shows appropriate for kids, but is aimed towards a younger audience as it combines Disney Jr and Disney Channel properties, and the look of the entire site is very juvenile and not very appealing to kids in the tween and young teen demographics.

Nick.com has been similarly streamlined and is focused primarily on streaming its shows, and the only games still left are 10 apps that can’t be played on browser.

Kid-friendly sites like icarly.com, Poptropica, Club Penguin, Neopets, Webkinz etc used to be insanely relevant and popular spaces built for kids and tweens.

Now, kids are being funneled into less moderated, more exploitative, and more public spaces like Roblox (its dangerous and exploitative nature exposed in these videos from People Make Games: (x) (x)), Fortnite (known for its gambling and microtransaction issues), and social media sites like TikTok, YouTube, and Twitter.

My elementary aged cousins spend their time on Roblox, YouTube, and some less than reputable game sites that are full of ads and stolen/reposted/reskinned games. My sister was on Musically/Tiktok and Twitter in middle school. They don’t have the same options for having fun online that I did when I was a kid, especially not when they get too old for nickjr and disneynow.

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Ugh...grrrr

I mean we KNEW this day was coming ever since this Commanders wife was rushed inelegantly into SCOTUS a position she has no business being in

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“Baby flamingo practicing standing on one leg”

What year is it??

While this was the start of the politically organized religious far right, Weyrich was smart enough to know that they needed another issue to mobilize conservative voters on a larger scale.

In the late 70s, there was a lot of hostility to women’s rights among conservatives, as well as a lot of change. The ERA was being ratified by states, colleges were going coed, and women were even legally allowed to get credit without a man co-signing for the first time. After Roe v Wade, there was a spike in the recorded number of abortions (as anyone would expect because they weren’t recorded when illegal), and this made conservative audiences a prime target for a new political propaganda.

Politicians teamed with (primarily conservative segregationist) pastors all across the country with graphic videos about the sin of abortion, and the epidemic of wicked women killing unborn babies. Never mind that just a few years earlier almost all of these congregations didn’t even consider abortion a sin, just something that those “foreign” Catholics opposed. This was a major campaign, and was purely political. Its purpose was to get Jimmy Carter out of office and replace him with a Republican.