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wait, you mean that by spending decades joking about how schools are disease vectors because children are just naturally disgusting, adults were ignoring a structural problem they had created? how surprising and not at all precedented
What difficult days my children are going through. We are so tired of this life. Displacement is a terrible thing. Can you imagine carrying all your belongings on your shoulders and walking for several kilometers, while your children carry their bags on their small shoulders. They are unable to walk, exhausted from hunger. They walk with their small feet and stop crying for moments. “Mama, I can’t walk. I’m dying from exhaustion and hunger. I can’t.” These are the words my children said while they were displaced on the broken roads, their feet sinking in the sand at times and in the sewage water at other times. Please help my children with whatever you can. Your donation will save their lives. I trust in your generosity and kindness, so be of help and support to us. I love you all.
Hello everyone, I've made this campaign on behalf of my friend Hashem and his family. Below is his story, thank you for thinking of them!
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thinking about the time some terf dipshit on twitter said "you weirdos will be saying TREES are a social construct next" and I got nerdsniped and waded in like "trees ARE a social construct. there is no fundamental binary characteristic that separates trees from other plants" and well, I'll spare you the details but the conversation ended with the dipshit yelling "PALM TREES HAVE WOOD" which is hilarious because "wood" actually does have a pretty unambiguous, binary definition and palms in fact do not qualify
a handful of terfs are being super weird in the notes and some of them are providing absolute gems like this
like this is actually such an incredible insight into the terf belief that every interaction has to be morally delineated based on definitions and classes and not actions. the reason cutting down your neighbour's tree is a crime isn't because it's a tree you fucking grenade brain. it's because you destroyed someone else's shit. that's the bad part. who the fuck cares if it's a tree.
I don't think I can fully explain this without going completely insane, but this exactly parallel to the mental framework that terfs apply to sex crimes. everything is about whether or not you had a penis at the time of the incident and not about what you did
My friend Sama was killed on January 9th during protests against the Islamic Republic.
she was a really kind soul and a good friend for everyone around her.
she loved drawing so i thought i’d share some of her works with you. I want everyone to see how talented she was.
Generational toxic masculinity.
Friendly reminder that the intro to Lion King….the non english bits leading up to the “circle of life” is not random yelling in *Africa voice* it is an actual language, Zulu, spoken by 10 million people, it is the most widely spoken language (out of 11) in the country of South Africa (1 out of the 54 countries in the continent of Africa, the continent home to somewhere between 1500-2000 languages and around 3000 distinct ethnic groups)
this isn’t to say that you have to friggin learn the language to sing along with a disney film, it just means that you should be mindful, respectful, appreciative and respectful. don’t be yelling out whatever noise comes in to your head when you hear it
Ok but someone knows what does this say?
The lyrics before the english comes in…in “circle of life”
Nants ingonyama bagithi baba [Here comes a lion, Father] Sithi uhm ingonyama [Oh yes, it’s a lion] Nants ingonyama bagithi baba [Here comes a lion, Father] Sithi uhm ingonyama [Oh yes, it’s a lion] Ingonyama [It’s a lion] Siyo Nqoba [We’re going to conquer] Ingonyama Ingonyama nengw’ enamabala [A lion and a leopard come to this open place] (repeats) [queue English lyrics]
I would like to further add that language has there own cultural nuances so something that can sound extremely meaningful in one languages may not sound as majestic when translated to another (I know this as someone who has an understanding of 5 languages and speaks 3 of them fluently) so if you are thinking “oh it ain’t that deep they are just yelling: the lion is coming!” dial it back
Worth noting that “lion” and especially the word Ingonyama is a very respectful word to talk about a Zulu king, especially in praise. It’s so heavily associated with royalty in isiZulu that a different word is used for an animal lion - Ibhubesi. This isn’t just announcing the arrival of an animal, it’s celebrating the arrival (or coronation?) of the king
/\ Whoop, I didn’t know this
This is so informative thank you so much
Lemme tell you, I was not dividing those syllables into words in the right places AT ALL
I would also like to state that the song “The Lion Sleeps Tonight” is an extremely washed out version of the original song “Mbube” by Solomon Linda, a South African musician. It was appropriated by the west and he never received credit or money for what became an extremely famous song. His family eventually received a small sum from Disney for the song but again, not much considering the history of the song. There is a documentary about it right now on netflix.
full article here
This is one of my most favourite posts I’ve made but I hate all of the typos on my part….but I’m grateful it landed with people
Learned something new 👍👍👍 today
And The Lion King is the only Disney film officially dubbed in Zulu! https://disneyinternationaldubbings.weebly.com/the-lion-king–zulu-cast.html
Even if you get past the argument that they want to "protect their kids' innocence", adults get so smug about their kids not knowing things, they love to laugh at their "ignorance" and gloat about how cute and funny they are. "From the mouths of babes", they say.
Even a parent who carefully educates their kid on what a "kink" is is a "bad parent"? It's backwards how you can only "mom shame" if a kid knows something "inappropriate" and not if their parent hits them. I know it's more complex than "someone does something weird and it makes a person feel romantic" and it'll be a weird conversation but a parent can explain that definition to their kid in an informative manner without it being a bad thing. It's just like how people don't want kids knowing where babies come from
Things people label as abuse when it's done to a partner that parents somehow get away with
Hitting/spanking. Abusive/toxic when it's a partner but fair discipline when it's a child.
No privacy (no privacy = going through their phone, tracking their location, attending therapy appointments, etc.). Abusive/toxic when it's a partner but good parenting when it's a teenager.
Emotional neglect. Abusive/toxic when it's a partner but "not the parents' fault" when it's a child.
Overworking them. Abusive/toxic when it's a partner but earning their keep when it's a child.
Doing things to purposely make them cry. Abusive/toxic when it's a partner but hilarious when it's a kid.
Breaking their stuff/deleting video game progress. Abusive/toxic when it's a partner but fair discipline when it's a child.
Forcing affection when they don't want to. Abusive/toxic when it's a partner but teaching them good manners when it's a child.
Locking them in a room that they can't escape. Abusive/toxic when it's a partner but "they've got to learn one way or another" if it's a child.
Expecting them to suppress their emotions. Abusive/toxic if it's a partner but teaching them to be mature if it's a child.
Getting angry when they ask a question/challenge your logic/need clarification. Abusive/toxic if it's a partner but teaching them to not talk back if it's a child.
Not letting them eat anything unless it's what you put in front of them (that includes not letting them get anything for themselves). Abusive/toxic when it's a partner but teaching them to be grateful if it's a child.
If you've ever labeled any of these things as abuse when an adult opens up about their experiences but will defend parents who do the same thing, you need to reevaluate yourself.
DNI: Narcissistic/Borderline/Anti-social/Histrionic abuse believers.
It's important to emphasize too not only that the difference is unfair to young people, but also that it is backwards. You can do many or even all of these things to your partner and NOT BE THE ABUSER. If they have immense power over you and you use violence to resist them, emotional violence, physical violence, etc. you are NOT the abuser, and a big component of anti-survivorship is pretending you would've sympathized with the survivor instead of viciously mobbing them and slandering them had they only magically fought the abuse completely peacefully.
Between an adult and a child, there is a clear power dynamic that marks out one as the abuser over the other. But between two adult partners, who has control over who depends on more than specific tactics each of them deploy.
That's what you took from this post? That abuse done to another adult is more serious and complex than abuse done to a child? Huh. You could easily have left it at the first paragraph.
if i may say, it's fucking insane that so many people lie to children as a matter of course. the idea of santa is like this massive cutural institution built and enforced by a massive number of people via elaborate displays at home and mall santas and teacher, to lie to children. i don't care if its for joy or merryment or your forsaken pratchettesque 'humans need to believe in something' argument, i think it's bullshit. stop lying to children and treat them like human beings
Real talk the reason so many self-righteous adults make such a stink about Caillou is because as toddlers their parents, by doing anything from isolating them to beating them senseless, taught them that having Big Feelings (a.k.a. "throwing tantrums") was shameful shitty behavior and immediately made you a "bad kid" and a "brat" and thus you get grown adults soapboxing about how a (cartoon) four year-old needs physical abuse and emotional neglect "discipline".
If a kid or younger person ever comes up to you complaining about some hardship they face like hard times at school or abusive teachers or a brutal study schedule and you go and react with "you will miss this though :) in a few years it'll be worse. you should enjoy this while it lasts!" then I'm beating you to death with hammers btw.
Content Warnings
Age ratings are bullshit stereotypes.
I've known this since I was a tween, when everyone kept pressuring me to watch sexual content and read horrible novels when I could NOT have made it any clearer that I hated it.
I'm asexual and a HSP. Yet for most of my teen years, the world kept trying to shove horrifying content down my throat. Everyone called me "immature" or "prudish" for avoiding it, as if discomfort somehow made me defective. And I can't tell you how many times I went into a movie or book expecting a fun story, only to be blindsided by some horrible character death or miserable ending that left me traumatized for days, sometimes weeks.
I know I can't be the only one who spent years wishing we could get a warning on what we're walking into before we open a book or press play on a movie.
Here's the truth: Age ≠ readiness.
Age ratings are based on averages, assumptions, and outdated stereotypes about what humans can handle. And they fail spectacularly for NDs, trauma survivors, highly sensitive people, or anyone who doesn't fit the imaginary "statistical norm."
Why Age Ratings Don't Work
Every human being is different. Humans all have different growth rates, different sensitivity levels, different preferences, different tolerances, and different triggers.
Age ratings pretend none of that exists. They assume:
All 12-year-olds are the same.
All 15-year-olds are the same.
All 18-year-olds become "adults" on a schedule
Content affects everyone in the same way
Certain contents are objectively milder or worse than others
It's nonsense. Utter nonsense. It's a one-size-fits-none system.
I wasn't ready for sexual content until I was 21. Hazbin Hotel is one of my favourite shows, but Little Shop of Horrors still traumatizes me to this day. Some content I came around to with age, and some will never be tolerable for me—for reasons that have nothing to do with age.
People's sensitivities don't follow a linear age curve.
Some people are fine with gore but can't handle emotional cruelty.
Some can handle non-sexual violence but are overwhelmed by sexual content.
Some can handle intense action but can't handle unhappy endings.
Some can handle adult themes but not horror imagery.
Autistic people, especially, tend to be extremely precise about what they can and can't watch—not based on age, but based on content type.
The Alternative: Content Warnings
Media and stories should rate their content with CONTENT WARNINGS, not age labels. Archive of our Own already does this, and it's a stupendously effective system.
U and PG can stay, because they already work. But ditch all the nonsense age ratings. Instead, movies should be labeled with content warnings, and a list of what they contain:
Major character death
Graphic violence
Sexual content
Gun usage
Horror scenes
Gore
Bereavment themes
Drugs
Blood extraction
Unhappy ending
Addiction
Rape
Body horror
Intense emotional scenes
Domestic violence
And so on.
Then the viewer chooses a movie to watch or a book to read based on:
What tags they are OK with
What tags are hard limits
What tags require mood/preparation
This is a system that respects human variation.
AGE has nothing to do with it.
In Conclusion:
I'm DONE with all these ageist constructs dominating our world. I've been done with them since I was a tween. And I'm DONE with all these one-size-fits-all constructs just as much.
And as someone who loves stories more than anything—I refuse to accept a world where people feel unsafe and afraid to search for content they love. Including myself.
Stories should be a source of comfort, joy, wonder, excitement, adventure—not a minefield we tiptoe through hoping we don't encounter something that scars us for weeks.
Lately I keep thinking about environmental campaigns since roughly my childhood had to play up rainforests as these bright, shiny, heavenly fairy-tale utopias in order to get people to care about them. But in older media they're like dark, terrifying, brutal primordial deathworlds, the "SAVAGE UNTAMED JUNGLE!!!!" to the point that we still call the same exact thing a "jungle" in media if it's supposed to be more dangerous and exciting, even though there's really no technical distinction there. The reality though is that both are simultaneously true. I keep going on this rant lately but everything scary, painful, disturbing or dangerous about nature IS beautiful and wonderful and awesome!!! It fucking sucks that the majority of people only want to care about nature if they can comfortably hike it in their jorts and their crocs and only care about animal species if they're pretty to look at, useful or cuddle-able. "Rainforests" are absolutely kickass brutal primordial deathworlds. They're beautiful and precious and fantastic but they are also places where leeches will rain down on you from the trees until all your clothes are bloodstained and stinging ants the size of your thumb will make you feel like you're burning to death with a sting and one scratch from that adorable little monkey can torture you to death with sepsis. You'd never even guess, from how rainforests are portrayed on TV, that the thick canopy means they're actually dark as shit 24/7.
We get told piranhas actually aren't scary and that's true! The dreaded candiru is also so unlikely to attack humans we still don't know for sure if it really happens! But you don't hear about the Amazonian catfish, the size of a piranha, and incidentally also sometimes called a "candiru catfish," that convergently evolved with a cookie cutter shark and comes out at night to bite big round scoops of flesh from unsuspecting thighs:
I would love to meet all of these terrible awful things and I want them all to thrive forever and ever. Please love nasty things. We are nasty things. We're the nasty things planet and it rocks.
I wouldn't describe any of these dangerous "brutal" things found in nature as "beautiful" or "lovely" but I would just say those are the ugly and dangerous but "cool" and interesting parts of nature. I wouldn't be caught dead in a rainforest with those "terrible awful things" (or technically maybe I would lol) but it's interesting and captivating to hear about at least.
remembering the bleak state of politics regarding children in wider society that when people say "you were mistreated by your parents as a child" 90% of the time its supposed to be an insult towards your character and not an appeal of sympathy
I know this is about adultism but I'm also reminded that when people say "you need professional help" 90% of the time its supposed to be an insult towards your character and not an appeal of sympathy
"we want to protect the kids!!"
— in a way that will also protect them from their parents & guardians right?
"what"
— if a parent or guardian wanted to abuse their child, would what you're trying to do make it harder for them?
"..."
— *pulls out a chart that shows 76% of abused children were victimized by a parent or legal guardian* will what you're advocating for make it easier for the majority child abusers, which is overwhelmingly parents & guardians, to get away with abuse?
"idk what this has to do with anything we just want to restrict children's freedoms more & give parents more control over them. you know. to protect them from adults who want to abuse them"
Every. Single. Time.
Your shitty mother isn’t a narcissist. Your toxic ex isnt a psycho. You were not a victim of “bpd abuse”. Your abuser was not sociopathic and did not have antisocial personality disorder/was not antisocial. People with harmful and illogical opinions such as government leaders aren’t delusional.
Start finding vocabulary that isn’t ableist here are some examples of more accurate and less harmful descriptions.
“My mother is conceited and self centered, which impacts me negatively still and led to abuse”
“My ex is violent and seems out of control a lot, and they’ve traumatized me through their abusive behavior”
“My abuser [describe their actions without mentioning their bpd bc its not what fucking makes some one abusive . that would be like saying “my abuser had depression….I am a victim of depressed abuse and distrust those with depression now because they’re abusive” ]
“My abuser didn’t have any sympathy or compassion for others and objectified me.”
“My abuser lashed out at others and was always very cold and distant to me.”
“They’re willfully ignorant and hiding behind their privilege.”
May I clarify that some people have been abused by people who have psychological disorders and that if that’s you this post doesn’t apply to you. My mom has CPTSD and she traumatized my brother and I through abuse because of her responses to things that triggered her CPTSD before she got therapy (which she only started after my brother and I were both 18). If the person who hurt you Does Not Actually Have a Disorder you Should Not Use Ableist Terms and that is final, but if they do have a disorder and you, the reader, see this feel insecure while reading this just remember that you are not the target audience of this post (but like still be sure you’re not being ableist when you talk about your experiences).
mousefangs actually you are because theres a word for it Emotional Abuse it does not change bc of the mental state of the abuser
mousefangs So yes it is for them too, sorry to break it to you
mousefangs also its extremely hard to diagnose someone with NPD for yourself?? please do more reasearch before you claim these things
Hey, I’m not trying to fight here jsyk. You’re right, it being called “emotional abuse” doesn’t change based on the mental state of the abuser. I didn’t say that, and if it sounded like I did then I guess I should work on my wording. But I didn’t say anything about NPD, and I don’t mean anything like “oh I think they have it” I mean “they have been actually diagnosed.” I’m sorry if I worded my point poorly, my point was more “You’re allowed to acknowledge the fact that the person who abused you has a disorder without that being ableist. Don’t say that all people who have a disorder are abusers, obviously, because that’s a Bad and Ableist thing to do.” But I am allowed to acknowledge that if my mom hadn’t been traumatized as a child and also not put into therapy that I probably wouldn’t have also been traumatized. That’s not me saying “people with CPTSD related to abuse all become abusers” that’s me saying “my mom abused me but is now going to therapy and actually trying to get better.”
