Endless Stair

Women make up almost half the work force but do a severe majority of childcare and housework such as cooking and cleaning.

i think “video games aren’t really the violent child-corrupting threat some parents worry they are” and “certain circles of gamer culture are incredibly toxic and can lead people down dangerous/hateful ideological rabbit holes” are ideas that can absolutely coexist

Artificial violence is not actually a corrupting influence but hanging out with assholes sure is.

also, I think we could probably recognize that like… there is a difference between a game where you beat up a half demon alien cyborg or whatever, and a game partially funded by the US military that glorifies hyper-realistic military operations in a “middle east” coded setting, where everyone with brown skin is an enemy that needs to be gunned down. Like, those things are different.

for literal decades, US schools have policed the clothing of young girls and the clothing and hair of black students so meticulously it’s straight up harassment, but now that they’re being asked to enforce a mask mandate in schools, which, btw, is a million times simpler and easier to enforce than these absurd dress codes, they “can’t control students in that way” because they “value student’s bodily autonomy” stfu and tell us with your whole chest that you’re scared of the rich white soccer mom PTA head cutting funding and you don’t think women & black students deserve bodily autonomy.

discourse damaged zoomers will be like “stop fetishizing [xyz]” and xyz will be a literal sex act

discourse damaged zoomers will have “BLM✊🏼” in bio but harass black women over stupid fandom bullshit

discourse damaged zoomers will see a white woman married to a Vietnamese man wearing an áo dài for lunar new year and tell her shes appropriating his culture

this is all discourse ive seen on tiktok

“tumblr was just as bad!!!” yes there was stupid discourse on tumblr. however, tiktok allegedly has 1 billion users. tumblr, in 2018, had about 32 million active users. tumblr peaked in 2014 with 100 million users. even if we assume that tiktok is lying, more people, especially young people, have access to smartphones now! Therr are way more tiktok users than there ever was on tumblr. the pile ons and callouts and harassment i see on tiktok is a lot worse than what i witnessed on tumblr. this is a concerning trend we wouldn’t completely write off because “tumblr was just as bad” or “leave minors alone!”

TikTok seems like a real breeding ground for cyberbullying too with how easily identifiable users are. Not a lot of people even show their faces on tumblr.

during winter we mainly keep it mown down as nothing grows and the frosts get quite bad, but its spring now so we will be resowing and prepping it for summer soon!