it is not "misguided". it is not "sometimes necessary." it is not "the best they could do with the information they had."
it is cruel to hit children.
even if they did "turn out fine" (which they don't.)
it is cruel to hit children.
to hit a child as "discipline" is to inflict pain on a human being who is much smaller than you, cannot defend themself, and is dependent on you for their survival, simply for the act of displeasing you and not following your orders. most people would find this morally horrifying if it was done to an animal.
it is cruel to hit children.
it teaches nothing except that pleasing you is more important than their well-being, and that violence against less powerful people is an acceptable response to things not going your way.
One of the things i've learn recently by observing people is that the biggest lesson a kid learns from being beaten as a kid IS that you treat bad vulnerable people, that means that when their parents are elderly lots of sons and daughters do treat badly their parents because they literally dont know how to treat people that is actually vulnerable and less capable of defend themselves.
By beating kids We are teaching them that only equals deserve resepct
it is not "misguided". it is not "sometimes necessary." it is not "the best they could do with the information they had."
it is cruel to hit children.
even if they did "turn out fine" (which they don't.)
it is cruel to hit children.
to hit a child as "discipline" is to inflict pain on a human being who is much smaller than you, cannot defend themself, and is dependent on you for their survival, simply for the act of displeasing you and not following your orders. most people would find this morally horrifying if it was done to an animal.
it is cruel to hit children.
it teaches nothing except that pleasing you is more important than their well-being, and that violence against less powerful people is an acceptable response to things not going your way.
This is not a new thought on my physical disability situation.
But my body being like this right now is because of my heavy training in childhood.
This is going to be a long one so, more under the cut.
CW: for brief mentions of anorexia and the Eteri expiration date
I will start by explaining a couple of examples of this with the team Tutberidze.
The team Tutberidze is managerd by Eteri Tutberidze and is mostly known for her olimpic winners, all being trained through their early teen years until they're able to finally get to the olímpics.
Issue is, the way she trains them, notably to do quads, is via starving them (they're not allowed to drink any water or eat anything on competition days as Alina has mentioned before), the main way you can do quads is if you weigh very little.
So she focuses on that, low body weight, and forgoes a lot of strength training that is not needed for that technique. Now, in the early teens everything is okay, issue comes at 16-17.
Yulia Lipnitwkaya, in 2014, was the first in this long line of hers. She did great in her individual olimpic category and went home with gold through the team event.
When she went back to Russia her body started crumbling down, all her skills slowly diminished, her technique became poorer and failed most jumps.
At 19 she retired from competitive skating.
Then there's Evgenia Medvedveva, she went undefeated for two years after junior categories had been fully won. She then went to the olimpics.
She was 17-18 when she went to the olímpics with her teammate Alina Zagitova (being 15 and much less injured). Six months before the olimpics Evgenia fractured her foot, which she still skated on during europeans being beaten by her teammate Alina.
She went to the olímpics still, both skated great, Alina won by 1.31 points and for the first time Evgenia cried in a competition. After 11 years of training under Eteri she went to another team in Canada.
Alina slowly lost her skills at 16 and by 17 announced she was going to take a pause in competitive figure skating. At 19 she left competitive and was hospitalized for three months to battle her anorexia.
Eteri has never been able to train boys into the Olympics (in single category) as far as i know, this plus how all this athletes slowly crumbled down physically after a certain age has created the term "the Eteri Expiration Date" which is 17 years old.
My specific case was similar, artistic/sincronised swimming, competitive training that favored girls of 11-15 and while we trained our strength and all, it was favored to be on that skinny side, not fit, low body weight focus.
My chronic pain started at 15 with my articulations then moved to my back with the scoliosis at 16. By 17 I stopped going to training for personal reasons.
At 18-19 I was also battling with anorexia and semi successfully got out of it on my own, to this day I still have to battle with that way of thinking.
I recently had the chance to talk with one of my old teammates, she basically told me our trainer ignored questions about me when they asked why I wasn't there anymore.
Most importantly, I asked her about the physical side, if she remembered it being LIKE THAT, now, she doesn't have any physical disabilities, but she did leave at 15 a year later (she was younger than me) and did agree that the training was brutal, bruises were common nearly every week, and that our trainer was probably thinking Olympics when training us. Plus, she also went through ED issues.
I'm not sure if this is a few isolated cases or this is a genuine phenomenon at this point, I always second guess myself, so.
If you have had this experience, know someone, have any more info on this, etc. Please comment it.
I won't make a paper or anything but putting a name to it, or maybe there already is one, would help.
If nothing comes of this at least I put it out there, this is half a vent half that reaching out thing honestly.
hello neurodiverse tumblr i need recommendations for sites that sell fidget/stim toys since the site i used to use closed for business (RIP office playground)
i have ADHD but i'm putting this post in the autism tag too in case any of y'all might have some suggestions
So, there's apparently research coming out now about microplastics being found in people's bloodstreams and the possible negative effects of that and I feel the need to get out ahead of the wave of corporate sponsored "be sure to recycle your bottles!" or "ban glitter!" campaigns and remind everyone:
It's fishing nets. It's fishing nets. It is overwhelming fishing nets It always has been fishing nets. Unless regulations are changed, it will continue to be fishing nets.
The plastic in the ocean in largely discarded nets from industrial fishing. The microplastics are the result of these nets breaking down. The "trash islands" are also, you guessed it. Mostly fishing nets and other discarded fishing industry equipment.
Do not allow them to continue to twist the story. Do not come after disabled people who require single use plastics. Do not come after people using glitter in art projects and makeup. These things make up a negligible amount of the issue compared to corporate waste, specifically in the fishing industry. Do not let them shift the blame to the individual so they can continue to destroy the planet and our bodies without regulation.
I've never been more ashamed of being Russian than today. I wish I could do more. I feel like I've allowed this to happen. This is so fucking horrific. I'll be going to protests. I hate myself knowing that my insufficient action may have contributed to this.
I can't give you resources or links, but REMEMBER TO SUPPORT UKRAINE. Spread the word of Ukrainian mass media, DO NOT TRUST RUSSIA. DO NOT SUPPORT RUSSIA.
This is a conquest war lead by a mentally deranged individual. It should have never have happened.
It is actually even funnier when you read the full name of Olive. She is OLIVE OYL. felt like the whole Popeye series was made around convincing people of having good diets.
discoholicmusic
kianamaiart
tangentwithtanner
stormborns
annaxmalina
baratheonpilled
ellievsbear
