Ferran Eros

can i stare at u like this

been sort of obsessively combing through articles and websites and resources about top surgery and recovery more and more as I gear up to My Big Day and while I hate to report I may have gotten through most of the scientifically rigorous and reputable sites I am at least, now, stumbling over some of the funnier AI generated slop images i've ever seen in my quest for Patient Information

no, the reason it's bad is that social media is a huge part of how people communicate with friends and family, express their ideas and beliefs, form and sustain community, develop individual and group identities, and participate in democratic society, and children have the right to do all of those things because they are human beings.

This kind of rhetoric frustrates me to no end. Laws banning "minors" from social media are bad because young people should be more free, not face state hypersurveillance or ever more extreme parental regulation of their lives. The idea that these laws are bad because of how the affect adults betrays a view of young people as less than human, as less than deserving of freedoms, and of their oppression as morally justified.