InMyDefenseImLiterally Purrodivergent AndA Meownor

church, extracurriculars, summer camps, school classes, their biological family's houses. notably, these are the places that child abuse is enabled by the child's inability to just fucking leave if they need to. they can't walk out of church if their youth pastor touches them inappropriately; they'll get punished for leaving. if they walk out of their house because their dad hits them, the cops pick them up and give them right back to their dad.

children need the legal autonomy to leave abusive situations in order to even begin to usefully materially address child abuse.

Like, ok, police wont force them to go back to abusive situations, im with you there, what is step two?

Theoretically, it would be nicer if we had e.g. a children's shelter in every city where any minor could go and have a very small private room they could stay in and not have to go home and eat shitty oatmeal, all no-questions-asked, until and unless they were willing to go home or get put into foster care or whatever.

Children are not so stupid they're incapable of experiencing something bad and then evaluating the situation they're in. If they're so privileged and just angry, they're not so stupid they can't go to the cops or even just return home if they've run away. If they genuinely believe that being on the streets - and, you know, presumably experiencing the horrors you're going on about - is better than going back to their parents or the foster system . . . well, I'm inclined to think there's a good reason for that. It might be because sometimes the streets are the better option.

Only that... it is not completely different.

If you argue that a teenager starting puberty cannot know what their gender is, then you argue that a cis teenager starting puberty cannot know what their gender is either. If you assume one can know and the other cannot, then your problem is clearly just that you are transphobic and have internalized this idea of "social contagion" which has been put out in the world by people actively faking science. Social contagion is not a thing.

If you talk about how taking hormones during puberty to have the right puberty is "irreversible", you have to acknowledge that not taking HRT during puberty is also irreversible. Why is it that you consider one of those irreversible things bad and the other not?

Also, what do you think about intersex children having things done? Which might also include them taking hormones during puberty. You know, spoken as a former intersex child who was forced to take HRT during puberty to force me to develop a physical gender presentation that I did not actually want.

But let's even keep out the entire problem of intersex kids being forced or coerced into therapy. Let's focus on an intersex kid who actually is certain about their gender, this gender also aligns with what was (forcefully) put into their data, but now they hit puberty and their body does not produce enough of the sex hormone they need and possibly too much of the sex hormone they do not want. Do you think they should be allowed to access HRT during puberty?

Only that... it is not completely different.

If you argue that a teenager starting puberty cannot know what their gender is, then you argue that a cis teenager starting puberty cannot know what their gender is either. If you assume one can know and the other cannot, then your problem is clearly just that you are transphobic and have internalized this idea of "social contagion" which has been put out in the world by people actively faking science. Social contagion is not a thing.

If you talk about how taking hormones during puberty to have the right puberty is "irreversible", you have to acknowledge that not taking HRT during puberty is also irreversible. Why is it that you consider one of those irreversible things bad and the other not?

Also, what do you think about intersex children having things done? Which might also include them taking hormones during puberty. You know, spoken as a former intersex child who was forced to take HRT during puberty to force me to develop a physical gender presentation that I did not actually want.

But let's even keep out the entire problem of intersex kids being forced or coerced into therapy. Let's focus on an intersex kid who actually is certain about their gender, this gender also aligns with what was (forcefully) put into their data, but now they hit puberty and their body does not produce enough of the sex hormone they need and possibly too much of the sex hormone they do not want. Do you think they should be allowed to access HRT during puberty?

Only that... it is not completely different.

If you argue that a teenager starting puberty cannot know what their gender is, then you argue that a cis teenager starting puberty cannot know what their gender is either. If you assume one can know and the other cannot, then your problem is clearly just that you are transphobic and have internalized this idea of "social contagion" which has been put out in the world by people actively faking science. Social contagion is not a thing.

If you talk about how taking hormones during puberty to have the right puberty is "irreversible", you have to acknowledge that not taking HRT during puberty is also irreversible. Why is it that you consider one of those irreversible things bad and the other not?

Also, what do you think about intersex children having things done? Which might also include them taking hormones during puberty. You know, spoken as a former intersex child who was forced to take HRT during puberty to force me to develop a physical gender presentation that I did not actually want.

But let's even keep out the entire problem of intersex kids being forced or coerced into therapy. Let's focus on an intersex kid who actually is certain about their gender, this gender also aligns with what was (forcefully) put into their data, but now they hit puberty and their body does not produce enough of the sex hormone they need and possibly too much of the sex hormone they do not want. Do you think they should be allowed to access HRT during puberty?

Taking meds is an admission that you have an illness/disability. Most wellness & self-optimization products/treatments, however, are marketed with vague promises that make it easier to avoid having to do that.

yes pushing people away and being rude is like, a very normal defense mechanism but actively abusing and sexually harassing them is not. not normal. like she consistently took it a step further every day. who told you that.

Like it's bad when a "tattoo is undulating" (as opposed to... "drawn in a wave like pattern on the skin"?), or when hair is "wet wheat from a late Summer field" (as opposed to "sort of brownish light yellow that dries lighter, but is not actual wheat stalks growing on someone's head but kind of reminiscent of the color and texture"?), or when when ice cream tastes like midnight at the fair" (as opposed to "ice cream flavour bringing back memories of undefined ice cream flavours that are individually popular but always tied to a memory of late evening at the fair ground and probably smelling vaguely like popcorn and sugar"?).

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Making fun of a group of people that are privileged over you is one thing, but wishing non-cartoonish violence and death on them ("they should fall off a cliff" vs. "they should be wiped out"), wishing sexual violence on them, dehumanising them, claiming that they're less capable of creating art or living meaningful lives, saying that their relationships are inherently shallow and fake - these things are fucked up. I understand venting and saying extreme things when in pain, but when you find yourself regularly posting about wanting certain people tortured and killed, you need to examine that.