Jeremy Bearimy, Baby

adults love seeing a small child or teenager who is so visibly anxious and uncertain of themselves and quiet so they can tell them "HEY!! 👹 YOU BETTER GET SOME CONFIDENCE RIGHT NOW! 🗣 AND SPEAK UP! 🤬 YEAH YOU! 👊 SHY KID 💥 EVERYONE LOOK AT THIS SHY KID 👈 WHO I'M GOING TO FIX 🙏 WITH THE POWER OF LOUD !!! 😤 YOU'D BEST BELIEVE IT! 😱 NOW SHOUT, SHY KID!!! 🤯 SHOUT AT ME!!! 👽 HUUAAHH&HHH 🗯 NOW TEAR ASUNDER THE HUSK OF YOUR FORMER SELF ☠️ YEAH RIGHT NOW 👇 WHY DON'T YOU FEEL CONFIDENT 💣 I AM GIVING YOU THE CURE" and the shy kid has to pretend like this isn't the millionth time they've had this exact conversation

may be a hot take but i think the fact minors can access 18+ content by just clicking a button that says 'yes im totally over 18 trust me' is like. totally fine tbh. its a non-issue. i dont care if curious teenagers are looking at porn. they've been doing that for as long as porn has existed. id rather teens explore their sexuality through images on the internet than rush into real life experiences when they're not ready for it yknow. the UK is trying to put stricter age verification in place (which in turn is becoming an online privacy nightmare) and like. for what. who is it helping. why is this a problem.

One day, people will realise prohibition doesn't work, it just makes people develop new skills to get around it.

One day, people will also learn that giving kids the tools to know what to do when they encounter something that makes them uncomfortable or that they don't understand is far more important and effective than trying to prevent them from seeing those things at all. Education above prohibition.

I think we need to kill the sentiment that people lose their right to personhood once they do something bad enough

school uniform codes extending to what colours you’re allowed to dye your hair, and what piercings you can have and stuff is so crazy. you HAVE to go to school and you’re not even allowed to have pink hair or pierce your nose about it????

“oh it’s to prepare you for the workplace” okay. i don’t think any workplace should be dictating what you can and can’t do with your body either and i think it’s strange to decide to teach children that their body is not their own

monsters inc? I think you'll find every corporation is monstrous

I think this is an overly reductive class analysis of Scooby Doo. Scooby Doo villains aren't proletariat; their schemes require far too much money and time for anyone who makes money off of labor. In addition, their goal is usually a position based around extraction: owner of a theme park, operator of a uranium mine, etc. As for the gang, their parents are obviously bourgeois, but as children, they don't have control over those resources, or even particularly regular access to them. They live in a van rather than their own houses. Norville Rogers III, who comes from the richest family, is constantly hungry, and constantly reliant on others to provide for this basic need. Scooby Doo isn't the bourgeois fighting the proletariat; it is an internal struggle between different factions of the bourgeois. The Scooby Doo villains are the nouveau riche, social climbers fighting to establish themselves and willing to play upon the fears and taboos of their betters to do it. The gang represents the next generation of the already established bourgeois, who wish to maintain a status quo that promises only that it may have space for them. There is no hero in Scooby Doo, only the cold reality of a fracturing class system.

and honestly it's just fucking insane that every time we try to talk about harm to children in particular we have to talk circles around the fact that these things are very, very overwhelmingly done by parents/family members/teachers/religious leaders/known and trusted adults in a position of power over a child, to the extent that many people's suggested solution to child abuse is "give the people most likely to abuse a child EVEN MORE strangling legal and material power over the kid"

you're not supposed to actually address who is abusing children and what can be done to give those children recourse and the ability to leave abusive situations because nobody actually gives a shit about child abuse beyond the familial property rights violation it represents to them and the cudgel against minorities which it can be turned into

Glassblowers and hat makers are so funny bc they're so obviously insanely skilled in these difficult crafts and 9 times out of 10 they're using that skill to make the tackiest shit you've ever seen

Men who talk shit about gold diggers underestimate the grit it takes to put up with an insufferable man, even when money is involved. We should be thanking them for their service like they are veterans.

it’s not my business what people joke about in private but if you are going to joke about lobotomy i think you owe yourself the 22 minutes it takes to listen to howard dully’s 2005 npr report on the transorbital lobotomy he was subjected to at the age of twelve. it’s a hard listen, but it’s a hard subject. like i said, it’s not my business, but it’s always good to know what exactly you’re joking about.