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fairweathermyth

Words of Wisdom with Alexis Rose

thefinalpaperheart

I fucking love this little bit jenny does about football sdkjfhkdsjhfks

defjamvendetta

rainnecassidy

This is such a good article though

The argument Pinto makes is that the story and the doll normalize 24-hour surveillance in the mind of a child, which makes them susceptible to more passively accept police-state surveillance as adults.

“I don’t think the elf is a conspiracy and I realize we’re talking about a toy,” Pinto told The Post. “It sounds humorous, but we argue that if a kid is okay with this bureaucratic elf spying on them in their home, it normalizes the idea of surveillance and in the future restrictions on our privacy might be more easily accepted.”

It’s based in a theory that was developed by Jeremy Bentham and popularized by Michel Foucault in which students, prisoners, factory workers and others were thought to function better (for whatever value of better) in a system called a panopticon, in which an individual is potentially under surveillance 24-hours a day, but never actually KNOWS whether or not he or she is being surveilled.

Pinto said she’s not the first person to be troubled by Elf on the Shelf’s surveilling. She’s said parents routinely contact her to say they changed the rules of the game after it made their families uneasy. And many kids, she said, often intuitively feel like spying and being a tattletale is wrong.

“A mom e-mailed me and told me that the first day they read the elf book and put the elf out, her daughter woke up crying because she was being watched by the elf,” Pinto recounted. “They changed the game so it wouldn’t scare the child.”

In addition to the problem of normalizing surveillance in the mind of a child, this also forces the child into a situation where they never feel like they are free to simply be themselves; they are forced to be “on their best behavior” at all times, unable to relax and make mistakes and do the job of growing up and being a child, because they never know if the elf is spying on them, ready and waiting to report back to Santa Claus that they’ve been bad.

Here is a link to the paper that the article is talking about

mhalachai

My co-worker got Elf on the Shelf for her four-year-old daughter last year, and was so freaked out by her daughter’s sudden and complete change in behaviour (uncharacteristically worried and anxious, while trying to be on her ‘best’ behaviour that she never kept up for family or at school) that she stuffed Elf in the garbage after a week, telling the daughter that the Elf had to go back to the North Pole to help Santa with Christmas.

Also read the paper linked above, it’s a good one.

drst

I hate this entire concept so much.

kelssiel

the creators of this monstrosity are exactly what you would expect

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thebiscuiteternal

This creepy bastard is making a popularity revival this year and I don’t think it’s coincidental.

unclefather

straightboyfriend

mike’s hard bubble tea

emeraldfoxface

It’s just marbles

horrorgay

The only realistic gay/straight interaction

chrissongzzz

milky-katzchen

They tried it

shining-wizard

Don’t think that my boy Andy doesn’t know that neither

itscalledfashionlookitup

*flirting* so what fruit do you have in your town

retrogamingblog

Legend of Zelda Drawings by Willowstration

space-ace-in-the-space-race

We call musicals unrealistic because people randomly burst into song but I’ve been home alone for like 3 days and I start singing about what I’m doing every 5 minutes

tacomel420

singing in musicals: *perfect harmonies* we’re all in this together!

singing to myself: *one note only* heating up some soup! heating up some soup! ya put it in the microwave and watch it spin around!

thebeanestbad

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deeperwells

a-mischief-mannaged-star

Felt like that when I found out

alphashrooms-deactivated2021022

While verifying this I found out that Chelsea Peretti’s brother, Jonah Peretti, is the CEO of Buzzfeed

raviposting

Okay apparently he also is a cofounder of The Huffington Post and created the concept of reblogging/retweeting which is really not where I saw this post going

thedisneysoldier

striders

how fucked up is it that the universe is infinite like it doesn’t have.. an end or a shape or borders or anything it just.. Goes. that’s so fucked up I’m going to scream

biglawbear

Here's the thing about shows like South Park and Family Guy that make their money off of being edgy and offensive. They fundamentally reduce their viewers' capacity for empathy. If I found a joke funny, and you found it offensive, you're just too sensitive. This is directly related to the ride of the alt right and the election of trump. In this essay I will

oceanfoxo

OP WHERE'S THE FUCKING ESSAY

biglawbear

So instead of writing the essay this is exactly what I'm talking about. This shit reduces your capacity for empathy. If you can't understand why people are hurt by a simple joke, nay, think that's the whole point... How the hell are you supposed to feel for someone when they come to you complaining of ACTUAL oppression? It's the foot in the door phenomenon. A little oppression isn't too bad, cuz it's funny, right? It hardens your heart against others

Somebody actually wrote this essay already. It's a Twitter thread about how the alt right recruits teenage boys by getting them to post slightly offensive memes... And then when they get called out and don't understand why the alt right channels their anger at feminists and women and people of color and liberals. According to this thread, boys are being "set up"