Corvid Supremacy

i Hate how entitled adults can feel over a child’s hair!

it started when i was young myself, i wanted a mohawk, but my dad didn’t approve of that look on a “girl”, and insisted i’d regret such a bold cut. at 16 i was finally given full autonomy over my own head.

but then i have a son and everyone around us is trying to keep his hair short. when we finally moved out just me my partner and him, i told him he doesn’t need to get any haircuts he doesn’t want.

so he starts growing it out, it’s still short but coming on mid-length. his teacher makes a point to tell me it’s getting long as if i don’t have eyes. i hear her walking out with him one day talking to him about haircuts, as if to coax him into one. eventually i get child services called on me for ‘forcing a transgender lifestyle’ over what i can only assume is from a combination of me drawing cute ponies on his valentine box and letting him go to school in a ponytail.

he kept it short for awhile after but told me he wanted to grow it out again, so i let him of course. he comes home one day after getting a haircut at his grandpa’s and tells me he didn’t Want the haircut.

i ask why he got it then and learned he was bribed with a promise of a surprise IF he cut his hair.

but This One Lady from church decided that leaving my hair messy and curly was child abuse and threatened to call social services on my family every damn time she saw me until one day she was the designated kid watcher and ho boy my momma tells me i came out with tears in my eyes and greasy slicked down hair and that’s where she ends the story because i think my mother beat her ass but yeah.

Fast forward to like… A month ago. I go in for a haircut before my final year of college, it’s really REALLY hot and I can’t drive and will be walking everywhere, so I wanted to get a short haircut, and, if I dared, an undercut.

When I asked for one and the stylist said yes the entire time I was just full of anxiety about what my extended family would think, and because I was so scared of being ostracized again I ended up with an undercut so small that it was completely unnoticeable unless I like, wore a ponytail, and it’s already grown out.

I’m 20 years old, turning 21 this year, in college.

Let that sink in.

-🥺🥺🥺

-hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

-*incomprehensible list of emojis*

-SKSDJFHIWUEHFIUWHEIUHDSIUDHFIUSDHFUODH SHUT UPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP

-I would die for you

-*sends picture of rock* it’s you

-bitch I’ll fight you

-hey do you wanna feel REALLY gay? *sends picture of hot person*

-*sends gif of two animals hugging* it’s us

-*sends gif of two animals fighting* it’s us

Choke. Just think about it, seriously. Think about what choking is and imagine speaking while it’s happening. That would fuckin’ hurt, man.

Hiss. Look, it’s just not possible, okay? No matter how “evil” you want your character to seem.

Snarl. Animals snarls. The Beast from Beauty and the Beast snarls. The Hulk snarls. You know who doesn’t snarl? PEOPLE WHEN THEY’RE SPEAKING.

Shriek. Come on, 99% of the time, “shriek” is not the word you want.Let’s face it: if you put an exclamation point at the end of the sentence, your reader gets the picture. Don’t bring to mind banshees and screaming toddlers.

Hiss is a low, threatening whisper. Raw, guttural, vicious. It is NOT a literal hiss like an animal, it is a tone of voice that serves the same function. Someone will hiss that they’re going to cut your throat- a message from one person to the other.

Snarl is the same kind of thing. Not literal, it’s a tone of voice that serves the same function. It’s raw and gutteral like a hiss, but more savage than vicious. It’s loud, it’s showy, it’s intimidating. It’s very alpha male, big man, look at how fucking dangerous I am. I’ll take ALL of you on. Even if they’re snarling at one person in particular, nobody better back them up or they’re gonna get fucked up too.

Shriek. Come on, seriously? We’ve all heard people shriek either in fear or outrage. High pitched, loud, out of control, feminine. Men can shriek, but it’s funny and emasculating. Think angry italian women throwing pots and pans or ladies on tables who just saw a mouse.

…I’m not usually one for praying but uh… Gd… Please give me some FUCKING STRENGTH HERE.

No, you could NOT call two ADULTS with a ten year age gap pedos what the FUCK is WRONG with you fuckers???

Let’s be very, very clear. Pedophilia, as defined as a mental disorder (a paraphilia, according to the DSM, and while I have a lot of issues with the DSM, y’all seem to latch onto definitions pretty hard without knowing jack shit about them so, source, I have six years of fucking education and two degrees in mental health under my belt) is an adult (16 or older) who is sexually attracted to PREPUBESCENT CHILDREN.

PRE. PUBESCENT. CHILDREN.

Not someone with an “uwu icky age gap”. Not a short person dating a tall person. Not someone who is neurotypical dating a neurodivergent person (also ew fuck off with your abelism on that one). Not two adults engaging in ANY KIND of consensual role play.

It is an adult. Who is sexually interested. In actual. Living. Real-life. Prepubescent children. That means someone who has not gone through puberty.

“You could call two adults with a ten year age gap pedos” NO YOU FUCKING CANNOT. Because those are ADULTS. IDGAF how big that gap is. You cannot. Call two fully grown adults- whether they have a 2 year, 5 year, 10 year, fucking FIFTY year age gap. Pedos. Because neither of them is being attracted to a PRE PUBESCENT CHILD. They are ADULTS.

Y’all. This kind of bullshit is fucking DANGEROUS. This is EXACTLY the reason that we have seen so many people in certain online spaces- people who like to label things that are not pedophilia as “pedo shit”- turn out to actually be fucking sexual predators. Because when you water down the term pedophilia to “something that seems icky that I don’t like” or anything that isn’t actually fucking pedophilia, you end up using it as some kind of weird “look how good and woke I am” signal. You create an environment where those people over there are pedos because we say so because LOOK, adults with an age gap, that’s PEDO SHIT and I don’t support that so I am a SAFE person.

This shit. Isn’t fucking okay. And it is driving me CRAZY how folks have decided that things like two fucking grown ass adults having a consensual relationship is FUCKING PEDOPHILIA because oh, one of them is 20 and one of them is 30. Or one of them is 24 and one of them is 35. Or, fuck, I’ve even seen people say that literal fucking teenagers having crushes on their PEERS, people two or three years older or younger than them, people who GO TO SCHOOL WITH THEM. Is pedophilia.

I am BEGGING y’all to actually learn what is and isn’t pedophilia.