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Which is frankly a disservice to toddlers because small children are literally sponges for knowledge and incredibly intelligent but lack the skills to convey this

Like. The jaws effect? That’s just people not knowing about sharks

People buying Dalmatians after seeing 101 Dalmatians?? That’s just people not knowing you should research dogs before buying them. Which, as someone who has gone to school for dog training, lemme tell you that just happens every day anyway regardless of the influence of fictional dogs.

I saw someone use Minecraft letting you feed parrots cookies and people doing that irl and killing their birds as evidence that fiction effects reality and bro??? That’s just evidence that those people don’t know how to use google to look up “can parrots eat cookies”????? I literally google everything I give to my pets to make sure it’s safe, that’s not fiction effecting reality that’s just you being a bad pet owner??

Also please note literally nothing referenced here is “problematic media”, I referenced a classic horror film and a childrens movie, both of which are so popular I could say those titles to anyone and they’d probably know what I was talking about.

Like maybe the solution to all these problems actually isn’t to erase problematic media from human consumption at all but to encourage people to ask questions and do their own research into things, instead of blindly following whatever they read or watch. But a lot of y’all don’t wanna do that because

A. It means people will question YOU

B. It means you might have to question yourself

C. It’s hard to strive for a better educational system and easier to blame fiction

Like, my neighbors down the street - they don’t know how to take care of their dog. I know because I have helped them catch their dog after it ran away and I was the only person who could read the dogs body language. I had a kid freaking out thinking the dog was trying to attack them, and I had to personally explain the dog was trying to play with the kid and thought this whole thing was one big game.

I don’t think my neighbors are bad people. I don’t think they don’t love their dog. They love their dog very much, that’s why they were trying to catch it, they just don’t know how to take care of it - and that’s not inherently their fault.

We’ve created a society that actively shames and belittles people for not knowing things and for asking questions. It’s seen as a sign of stupidity and lack of intelligence, when it’s actually a sign of curiosity and the desire to learn. Coincidentally, stupidity and lack of intelligence are also both seen as undesirable traits and usually associated with somebody being a bad person. My parents, whom I love dearly and who are both very well educated people, frequently react to people doing bad things in the news by calling them stupid. I can’t say I haven’t also done that.

i think not only has social media eroded ideas of privacy (”if you have nothing to hide why do you care?”), but in a much more harmful way it promotes the notion that there should be no difference between public thoughts and private behaviour. But this is totally bogus because people behave differently according to different situations. This isn’t being “fake”; it’s just being proficient at navigating social situations.

The way I behave with my friends and my family, the way I behave in private, is not for public consumption. Nor should it be. Publicness is a matter of choice, it shouldn’t be mandatory. People are not entitled to anyone’s private thoughts on anything. People have a right to decide what they wish to show in public and what they wish to hide from public view and consumption.

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Don’t get me wrong I’m sure they have their uses yeah but about 99.9% of the time I never actually see them being used correctly

Like if I had a nickel for every “TERFs, Nazis, etc” or “usual DNI criteria” I’ve seen I wouldn’t even need to work

I get wanting to make it clear that your blog isn’t a safe space for certain people and that certain people aren’t welcome but over half the time I see these blogs spouting Radfem and white nationalist rhetoric anyway so I’m pretty sure most of you are just kinda parroting things that sound like good talking points without doing any of the research

I’d also be rich if I had a nickel for every person who’s followed me while having my exact content listed in their DNI. I’d think if it’s that much of an issue you’d be scouring blogs to make sure they DONT post that content.

Or then I get DMs from people bitching me out for not reading their DNI, when I reblogged the post they’re talking about from another blog, who reblogged it from another blog, and another blog.

Like I’m sorry but you just can’t regulate the internet like that. I understand setting boundaries and wanting to make it clear that you‘re blog isn’t meant as a place for people to be hateful and bigoted - but I feel like your actions should do that on their own. Like no I don’t think any TERFs are following me, probably cause I have a bunch of posts in obvious support of trans people and actively against Radfem ideology. No I don’t think any Nazis are following me, because I’ve made it very clear what I stand for and that it does not align with their views. They’d get nothing out of being here except annoyance and anger.

DNI’s work for like, following, I GUESS??? But a lot of the people listed probably don’t give a shit anyway? This isn’t a testament to the person making the DNI but moreso to the fact that I don’t think Nazis are gonna see “Nazis dni” and go “Aw shucks guess I better leave :/“

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