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THE DEATH AND LIFE OF MARSHA P. JOHNSON (2017)

History isn’t something you look back at and say it was inevitable. It happens because people make decisions that are sometimes very impulsive and of the moment, but those moments are cumulative realities. — Marsha P. Johnson

Queens started being filed out and being put into police cars, and guns had been drawn. Molotov cocktails were flying. And I’m like, “Oh my God, the revolution is here. Thank God. You’ve been treating us like shit all these years? Uh uh. Now it’s our turn.” — Sylvia Rivera

190810 Jimin’s Tweet

like this woman is 25 years old. doing that performative halfway-woke thing where you claim your intentions were “full of love” and talking about appropriation vs. appreciation is extremely empty considering the fact that she still attempts to garner pity and make herself out to be a victim by saying things like “oh i took my merch down not that anyone cared to notice” and “oh i wanted to move to japan someday but it’s all good”. what is a half apology like that even good for?

Women in Greek Tragedy

The studies done by the trained psychologists in this joke show that little kids don’t associate being hit with the thing they’ve done wrong. Very small children only understand consequences that are directly caused by the thing they did. Steal a biscuit, biscuit tastes good. Then for no reason mummy hit me. Very different to stole a biscuit, now no biscuit after dinner because I stole a biscuit.

And they also show that when a child is old enough to understand why they are being hit that non-physical punishment is equally as effective and less mentally harmful in the long run.

Do you know who benefits the most from hitting as a punishment? The parent. It gives a satisfaction rush. Parents do it because it makes them feel good.

Basically kids have two stages: too young to understand why they are being hit so physical punishment is useless for anything other than teaching a child that bigger stronger people can hit you whenever they like (Which sounds like the same lesson you would learn from abuse)

And the second stage is old enough to be reasoned with so many punishment options are available and you chose physical violence because it makes *you* feel better, which is an abusive action.

I realized how bad and wrong it was when I saw a mother hit a baby beacause they wouldn’t stop picking up stuff from the floor.

And years, many years later, I was talking with my mother and she said that she knew it was bad. But that we (my brother and I) drove them crazy and they couldn’t help it. That we acted in a certain way just to piss them off and we were asking for it. And that they were tired and desperate and it was the only option for us to shut up (and start crying). How fucked up is that? How fucked up is that you, an adult, cannot reason with yourself? When I am upset and angry at someone I never think of hitting them! Because that wouldn’t make anything better. But parents do it because they /can/, they are an authority figure and are bigger than their kids. They know their hit will be the last action. But that is not the answer. It never is.

reason behind the taegi piggyback