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little-grey-dowitcher

So many people never learned to live with harmless discomfort at any point in their lives and holy fuck does it show

little-grey-dowitcher

“But I wanna know!” You’re gonna have to learn to be ok with not knowing some things, especially when those things involve personal details about strangers that they’re not comfortable sharing.

“But it’s confusing!” If you take the time to educate yourself it’ll no longer be confusing. Otherwise you’re just gonna have to learn to be ok with being confused.

“But it’s weird!” You probably do weird things all the time. Everyone does weird things sometimes. Life goes on.

“But it scares me!” Is it hurting you? No? You’ll be fine. Being scared and being harmed are not always the same thing. Learn to tell the difference and then act accordingly.

“But I want it!” And I want a million dollars. You can’t always get what you want.

breelandwalker

Addendum:

"But it makes me uncomfortable!" The world is an uncomfortable place and complete strangers are not required to fix that for you. Learning to endure harmless discomfort is a life skill for existing in public.

"But I don't like it!" There's plenty of things in the world and not all of them are fun or enjoyable or For You. This applies to everyone and we all have to deal with that in a mature fashion.

"But I want to do the thing!" You can't always do what you want. Most people learn this in preschool. Wanting something does not entitle you to be inconsiderate to the people around you.

transhuman-priestess

the way teenagers are treated these days is wild. when i was a teenager we were all watching porn, jerking off, and going to horror movies with 3000 gallons of blood. Nowadays they make kids get a permission slip to watch anything darker than Barney the Dinosaur. Insane.

transhuman-priestess

Every year we infantilize teenagers more and more and act surprised when they grow up to be terrified, angry, emotionally stunted adults.

genderkoolaid

& then for some reason people fixate more on "ugh these teenagers just want to be treated like babies!!! teenagers are to blame for the rise in puritanism!!!!!" than how this is a very obvious example of ageism and the increased control over a socially vulnerable and exploited group

absolxguardian

I think a commonly overlooked part of this coddling is that it teaches kids and teenagers to be afraid of things they don't need to be afraid of, which is exactly how they end up as "puriteens". I remember as a child being terrified to change the channel on the tv because I had ended up with the impression that seeing even seconds of an R rated movie or tv show would give me nightmares. And then as a tween every time I saw swearing I felt sick to my stomach because I had been taught such a thing is bad and harmful. I think I would have suffered less if I hadn't been raised with everyone around me acting like mature media was so bad. By the time I was a teenager I had figured out this was bunk, but understandably a lot of people don't. By making this whole system worse and stronger you have teens who have been told that seeing explicit or dark media Will Harm Them, and so they act in ways that would be appropriate if it really was the info-hazard it's implied to be.

headspace-hotel

^^ never heard anybody specifically talk about this but yeah. parents acting like sexual or any "dark" content in a story or show was going to put bad things in my head that were going to be there permanently just gave me a deeply distressing sort of contamination anxiety

batmanisagatewaydrug

my notifications are once again devolving into a spirited debate about the ethics of actions that could potentially make someone uncomfortable, and at risk of sounding like someone about to get a lot of irate anons I think we're frankly giving way too to much moral weight to hypothetical discomfort

batmanisagatewaydrug

the thing about discomfort is that it's an extremely nebulous category that can be triggered by virtually anything and that's far too broad a category to have any inherent moral quality to it. like. my mom was mad uncomfortable when I stopped shaving. that didn't mean I was doing violence against my mom it just meant she needed to get over herself. many such cases it must be said.

batmanisagatewaydrug

there's not a single example I could give that's better than this

prettycottonmouthlamia

See we all warned you when they went after "weird porn" that the beast doesn't stop hungering but somehow nobody listened

prettycottonmouthlamia

DDLC is not like my favorite game of all time but the fact that Google thinks its too dangerous to keep up after ten years is insane. Horror is typically the next to be sanitized because moral panics about horror are incredibly common.

prettycottonmouthlamia

You cannot establish a world with justice or equality in it by asking for everything that makes you uncomfortable to be censored and removes from the public. This is what practically every content ban within the last five or so years has been. "This makes me uncomfortable, it should be gone".

It's very white suburbanite behavior

fyerspoststorage

A vote for any censorship is a vote for all censorship.

They will never stop taking, because the people who want these removals most believe that they need to be careful what they see because just seeing things is equivalent to doing the thing, which they are conditioned to believe is shameful. That means they see something they feel the shouldn't, think about what they saw, feel as ashamed of it as if they'd done it themselves, then pray to God and Heaven for their wicked souls to be cleansed. That's why they consider these things stumbling blocks placed in their path by Satan, and why they so staunchly fight to have them removed. They believe they're clearing the way to Heaven not just for themselves but for all others, and because for them Heaven is real and the alternative is eternal damnation and torture in Hell, they believe this is unequivocally the right thing to do.

This starts early! Usually kids get taught God is always watching so you have to be good even if no one is looking because if you're not <i>God will know</i>. Oh and of course God knows the contents of your heart as well, so you have to be good even in your mind (this is where that TikTok Puritanism comes from; deconstructionists who haven't made it far enough in their journey to realize they gave religious guilt a secular coat of paint). We're reminded as children by the song Be Careful Little Eyes What You See. It's a pretty simple song, it repeats the line a few times and the chorus such as it is goes "For the Father up above / Is looking down with love / so be careful little eyes what you see" and then does this with ears and hearing and heart and feeling or mind and thinking.

If you've cottoned on to the fact that this means you have zero privacy even in your own mind, congratulations! That's what's supposed to happen.

Now that you've been primed they tell you stumbling blocks are everywhere and it's your duty to help your community and keep them from stumbling, and not to become a stumbling block (if you're a woman or a child, because men can't be stumbling blocks, they can only stumble) so naturally you must seek out these stumbling blocks on the road to Heaven and remove them. It's your duty and you obligation, and any resistance must be met with determination and faith that God will prevail.

That's why they don't want to see queer people, that's why they don't think porn is acceptable, that's why they don't want anything that could be a stumbling block set in front of them and why they think you're insane for trying to stop them because as far as they know they are <i>saving you</i>.

maculategiraffe

the thing is that every time they invent a new thing that everybody has to be able to do to get along in society, that also involves making some people disabled who weren't before, because they can't do the thing. and they never could do the thing, but it didn't used to be a disability.

driving a car. making a phone call. navigating the internet. getting a mortgage. you know? they keep adding new things that everybody has to be able to do or else there's something wrong with you. well maybe there's something wrong with driving a car. maybe it's a hideous activity. did they ever think of that

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yourtongzhihazel

France: hundreds of years with baguette -- DID NOT INVENT BANH MI

Vietnam: less than 100 years with baguette -- INVENTED BANH MI

ANOTHER WIN FOR VIETNAM‼️‼️‼️‼️

🇻🇳🇻🇳🇻🇳🇻🇳🇻🇳🇻🇳🇻🇳🇻🇳🇻🇳🇻🇳

#food #first time i've actually reblogged something this year. that's the power of banh mi.

lifeafterpsychiatry

In my opinion it's a lot more healthy to be able to own that you dislike someone for petty reasons than to do all kinds of mental gymnastics to make everyone you don't really vibe with out to be a bad person actually

madamecricket

mangoes are just tropical peaches.

and peaches are just temperate mangoes.

ever stop to think about that?

#peaches #mangoes #peaches and mangoes #food

xiaohongshu-for-you

This song fucking rules. Mongolian women are so cool.

puraiuddo

From what I've gathered, the artist is

吴兰兰 Wulanlan

The original video is here on douyin (chinese TikTok, created by the same company)

lovethedanielhd

More Guinevere food designs! The concept of the waffles sounded so freaking cursed but at the same time it feels like could be part of the show so I just couldn’t ignore it 🥀

madamecricket

Ooh, like Park Planet's equivalent of the Mickey Mouse pancakes at Disneyland!

#kog #knights of guinevere