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@sticky943
whenever i get hate asks that are like "this aint oppression this just shows kids are so fucking dumb youre not oppressed youre just stupid" yeah okay babe.
it's giving my dad "trans people aren't oppressed theyre just freaks of nature who don't deserve rights" like alright pookie whatever. do you want qtips for those ears or..? oh you're good? alright monarch pop off
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If you think like that, please don’t ever have children.
Listen, my parents installed a lock on my door so I could lock everyone out of my room if I wanted to at sometime around 8 years old. They had a key of course for safety but they’ve never had to use it and they’ve never used it when they didn’t have to.
I was allowed full access to any books, movies, and internet I wanted fully informed about our family beliefs and practices but I was given no supervision once I reached about 13 because my parents trusted me to stick to the rules or not as I felt and come to them if there was anything that I had questions about.
As long as I said where I was going, who I was with, and when I was going to be back and then phone if anything changed I was allowed to do pretty much as I pleased from 13 onward.
I moved back in with my parents after university and the first conversation we had was my dad telling me that if I felt like they were treating me like a child to please tell them because they had no intention of doing so.
I still live with them and I’m comfortable here as an adult. When I eventually move out again, which I feel no rush to do because I feel respected and given more than enough elbow room, I will probably talk to them often if not everyday. Because they’ve always respected my privacy and my autonomy both physically and emotionally. If you want an independent and fictional child trusting them and giving them their space will do you many more favours than not.
meanwhile, my parents…
password protected my computer so i had to get permission every time i wanted to use it
put a passcode lock on our pantry so we couldn’t eat without permission
regularly checked our internet browsing history
shut off the internet at regular intervals, including when i needed it for university homework
did monthly checks of our bank statements and would confiscate money if they didn’t approve of our activities
in response, i went behind their backs and opened a new bank account, got a secret job, bought my own groceries, and used the wifi from the school across the street. they didn’t succeed in disciplining me. all they did was force me to distance myself from them.
your children are not your property. they are human beings, and they deserve basic human rights.
kids are not your chance to make the abuse you suffered “worth it” by getting to finally be the rule-maker
Strict parents make sneaky kids
@this-is-adultism
This is adultism.
"Can't pour from an empty cup", but it's about your parents trying to teach you to respect them when they've never respected a single thing in their entire lives.
That explains the boomers
"Can't pour from an empty cup", but it's about your parents trying to teach you to respect them when they've never respected a single thing in their entire lives.
Learning from child themed media that respect is a two-day street and you should treat others the way you want to be treated and then your parent tells you do shut the fuck up "because they said so" and you realize at a very small age that there are rules for children and rules for adults and the entire world is built on unequal ground.
The price and cost of loyalty is loyalty, and the price and cost of respect is respect. If someone wants your respect but you won't have theirs, you're getting ripped off.
As children, we were taught how the world should be. As we grew, we realized how the world actually was. It is our job to take every step we can to make it work the way we were taught.
"Can't pour from an empty cup", but it's about your parents trying to teach you to respect them when they've never respected a single thing in their entire lives.
Learning from child themed media that respect is a two-day street and you should treat others the way you want to be treated and then your parent tells you do shut the fuck up "because they said so" and you realize at a very small age that there are rules for children and rules for adults and the entire world is built on unequal ground.
The price and cost of loyalty is loyalty, and the price and cost of respect is respect. If someone wants your respect but you won't have theirs, you're getting ripped off.
I will never shut up about how children are an oppressed group of people.
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"Can't pour from an empty cup", but it's about your parents trying to teach you to respect them when they've never respected a single thing in their entire lives.
Learning from child themed media that respect is a two-day street and you should treat others the way you want to be treated and then your parent tells you do shut the fuck up "because they said so" and you realize at a very small age that there are rules for children and rules for adults and the entire world is built on unequal ground.
I noticed this distinct difference in how the meaning of the word “respect” was defined and used at a very young age as well.
To me, as a child, respect meant: “please treat me like a person/a human being.”
However, to most adults respect meant: “treat me like an absolute authority.”
What was confusing is that many of those adults were the ones teaching me that respect, to me, should mean: “treat others like people, the way you want to be treated”, but to those same adults that definition seemed to be one they thought themselves as being exempt from! It didn’t apply to them! And when I tried to apply it to them I’d be scolded, verbally berated for it, as though I was supposed to just understand that there was a difference! That there were rules that didn’t apply to them!
So, I concluded, that when adults said: “respect is not given, it is earned.” What they meant was: “personhood is earned, humanity is earned. You earn it by treating me like an authority figure. If you don’t then I will refuse to treat you like a person.” And it baffled me as to why seemingly no one thought that this was an incredibly fucked up and unfair way to treat a child!
I was expected to just Understand this on a subconscious level, to not only tolerate it but accept it without question. And especially without getting upset. However, as a child I also had a very, very small number of adults (and an older brother and sister) who DID unconditionally treat me like a person, so I knew that not only was this rule not universal, but that it didn’t even have to fucking exist at all!
It was a choice! And the majority of adults in my life chose to be unfair to me on purpose for no good, discernible reason! And it’s just… how is a little kid supposed to not be incredibly angry about this? I and my peers were expected to endure unfairness and mistreatment from toddlerhood, and never, ever express anger, frustration, sadness or even bewilderment about it! I wasn’t even allowed to ask “but why?” To try and understand it, that was misinterpreted as a challenge that adults immediately became defensive about.
And I reflect on this now at age 25, think back on how angry I was as a little girl, as a tween and teen girl, and how much I was demonised for it, especially when I hit puberty! And I seethe at how adults treated me, and how my own peers continue to perpetuate this utter bullshit, and how sometimes I feel as though it’s just getting worse!
"Can't pour from an empty cup", but it's about your parents trying to teach you to respect them when they've never respected a single thing in their entire lives.
Learning from child themed media that respect is a two-day street and you should treat others the way you want to be treated and then your parent tells you do shut the fuck up "because they said so" and you realize at a very small age that there are rules for children and rules for adults and the entire world is built on unequal ground.
you will respect me, i will not respect you. -> you will respect me as an authority, i will not respect you as a human being.
they say respect and mean authority, while also saying respect and meaning basic human decency.
"Respect is a two way street."
"If you don't respect me as an authority, I won't respect you as a person."
"You have to respect me, I don't have to respect you."
"You have to see me as an authority figure, I don't have to see you as human."
"Can't pour from an empty cup", but it's about your parents trying to teach you to respect them when they've never respected a single thing in their entire lives.
They love to come it with “im your parent you have to respect me” and when i turn around and demand the same respect its always “respect is to be earned type bullshit”
They haven’t earned my respect, and i dont think they ever will
"Can't pour from an empty cup", but it's about your parents trying to teach you to respect them when they've never respected a single thing in their entire lives.
Learning from child themed media that respect is a two-day street and you should treat others the way you want to be treated and then your parent tells you do shut the fuck up "because they said so" and you realize at a very small age that there are rules for children and rules for adults and the entire world is built on unequal ground.
My mother used to tell me to treat others the way I wanted to be treated, and then she would tell me that I'm worthless and hit me with her shoe (not always a flipflop, I wish)
"Can't pour from an empty cup", but it's about your parents trying to teach you to respect them when they've never respected a single thing in their entire lives.
Learning from child themed media that respect is a two-day street and you should treat others the way you want to be treated and then your parent tells you do shut the fuck up "because they said so" and you realize at a very small age that there are rules for children and rules for adults and the entire world is built on unequal ground.
The price and cost of loyalty is loyalty, and the price and cost of respect is respect. If someone wants your respect but you won't have theirs, you're getting ripped off.
Fun secondary version:
If parents follow the unwritten rule of "leaders can blame underlings for failure", your children learn not just that you don't respect them.
They learn it's a bad idea to TRUST you.
Can't pour from an empty cup, because you emptied it...
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"Can't pour from an empty cup", but it's about your parents trying to teach you to respect them when they've never respected a single thing in their entire lives.
Learning from child themed media that respect is a two-day street and you should treat others the way you want to be treated and then your parent tells you do shut the fuck up "because they said so" and you realize at a very small age that there are rules for children and rules for adults and the entire world is built on unequal ground.
My mom disapproved of me watching Matilda because "the children are disrespectful to the adults" so I would watch it at my grandparents' house. (No, she did not seem to get the theme of the story.)
"Can't pour from an empty cup", but it's about your parents trying to teach you to respect them when they've never respected a single thing in their entire lives.
Learning from child themed media that respect is a two-day street and you should treat others the way you want to be treated and then your parent tells you do shut the fuck up "because they said so" and you realize at a very small age that there are rules for children and rules for adults and the entire world is built on unequal ground.
Sometimes I think about how the media when I was a kid was all about how adults didn't understand anything about how the world works. There was just a handful of kids saving the world while the adults tried to make them do chores, or locked the kids in their rooms.
And now my generation is making media for their children that's about how adults and kids are both people and respect goes both ways, and frequently, the adult needs to apologize to the kid.
Something something, create the world you want to live in.
"Can't pour from an empty cup", but it's about your parents trying to teach you to respect them when they've never respected a single thing in their entire lives.
Learning from child themed media that respect is a two-day street and you should treat others the way you want to be treated and then your parent tells you do shut the fuck up "because they said so" and you realize at a very small age that there are rules for children and rules for adults and the entire world is built on unequal ground.
You start by learning there are rules for children and rules for adults and then grow up to learn there are rules for everyone else and no rules for them specifically
"Can't pour from an empty cup", but it's about your parents trying to teach you to respect them when they've never respected a single thing in their entire lives.
Learning from child themed media that respect is a two-day street and you should treat others the way you want to be treated and then your parent tells you do shut the fuck up "because they said so" and you realize at a very small age that there are rules for children and rules for adults and the entire world is built on unequal ground.
The price and cost of loyalty is loyalty, and the price and cost of respect is respect. If someone wants your respect but you won't have theirs, you're getting ripped off.
I still remember being told as a CHILD that I had to be the bigger person when dealing with the unfairness, that was thrust upon me, by the disrespect of adults. And it just...really telling that even now as an adult, that's still what's expected. Be the "bigger" person, just let it go, it's easier to have you endure the disrespect then it is have the other person change.
"Can't pour from an empty cup", but it's about your parents trying to teach you to respect them when they've never respected a single thing in their entire lives.
Learning from child themed media that respect is a two-day street and you should treat others the way you want to be treated and then your parent tells you do shut the fuck up "because they said so" and you realize at a very small age that there are rules for children and rules for adults and the entire world is built on unequal ground.
The price and cost of loyalty is loyalty, and the price and cost of respect is respect. If someone wants your respect but you won't have theirs, you're getting ripped off.
There’s something primal, I think, in the human *demand* that things be fair in some way or another-even the manifestly unfair, such as a parent saying ‘because I said so’. I have that conclusion (hardly a unique one) because so, so many people are exposed to that and come to believe it down to their *bones*-that it’s just a facet of reality. Life is unfair, and when you look at it that way, it’s not quite so bad that my parents treated me badly, because that’s the human condition.
For some, that’s a more comforting thought than ‘maybe my parents screwed up and were bad in this respect’. They recoil from that like a vampire from sunlight.
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"Can't pour from an empty cup", but it's about your parents trying to teach you to respect them when they've never respected a single thing in their entire lives.
Learning from child themed media that respect is a two-day street and you should treat others the way you want to be treated and then your parent tells you do shut the fuck up "because they said so" and you realize at a very small age that there are rules for children and rules for adults and the entire world is built on unequal ground.
I know that's supposed to be two-way street, but I do like the concept of teaching that respect has to be earned over a period of time, the least of which should be two days.
"Can't pour from an empty cup", but it's about your parents trying to teach you to respect them when they've never respected a single thing in their entire lives.
Learning from child themed media that respect is a two-day street and you should treat others the way you want to be treated and then your parent tells you do shut the fuck up "because they said so" and you realize at a very small age that there are rules for children and rules for adults and the entire world is built on unequal ground.
Realizing that everyone except your parents are cool if you treat them how you want to be treated until you get into the working world and then realizing that the only reason money exists is because so many people are like your parents and want a legal reason to force you to shut the fuck up because they said so
