RMH
Fai_Ryy
"I'm Dorothy Gale from Kansas"
oozey mess
Sweet Seals For You, Always
noise dept.
No title available
let's talk about Bridgerton tea, my ask is open
Monterey Bay Aquarium
Cosmic Funnies
Love Begins
Aqua Utopia｜海の底で記憶を紡ぐ
if i look back, i am lost
⁂
❣ Chile in a Photography ❣
Stranger Things
h
Peter Solarz
TVSTRANGERTHINGS
Xuebing Du
seen from Costa Rica
seen from Costa Rica
seen from United States
seen from Malaysia
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from India
seen from Canada
seen from Australia
seen from Argentina
seen from United States
@nonneurotypicalnonconformist
Shout out to all the little plants growing in the pavement cracks
I love you, little plants
You make everything look better
Especially abandoned places
You’re doing a very important job
Have a nice day
fighting against industrial capital
Judge Slaps Mom With 2-Year Spanking Ban
Should parents spank their children? A judge’s ban opens up the discussion from Yahoo! Shine:
Absolutely not.
When is spanking considered physical abuse? A Virginia judge has ruled that Felisha Kimble-Tanks, an Annandale dentist, crossed the line when she left bruises on her 6-year-old daughter’s thigh after disciplining her with a belt. The mom is now banned from spanking for two years.
This is absolutely child abuse, and should not be tolerated. Why the monster still has any access to that poor child is incomprehensible to me.
The girl’s father, from whom Kimble-Tanks is separated, discovered the bruises in January and filed a complaint with the Stafford County Sheriff’s Office. According to the Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star, he also said that despite the incident, she was a good mother. Defense lawyer Mark Murphy pointed out to Yahoo! Shine that the father made no move to get physical custody of the girl even though it would have been within his rights. He also noted that “the department of social services took no steps to remove the girl from her mother’s home.”
No. One who beats their child with a belt at all, much less hard enough to leave bruises is not a “good mother.” DSS failed by not taking any steps to have the child removed from the custody of the abuser.
Related: The Real Reason Moms Fail to Breastfeed
Prosecutor Tara Mooney initially charged Kimble-Tanks with child cruelty, a felony. On Wednesday, the prosecution reached a deal with Murphy to reduce the charges to a misdemeanor, which will be dropped in two years if she refrains from any type of corporal punishment. Murphy told Shine, “When she was disciplining the child that day, she was categorically not engaging in child abuse … and had no intention of bruising her.”
The prosecution should have taken no such deal. This is a clear-cut case of abuse, as are all cases of parents physically assaulting their children. She wasn’t “disciplining” her child. She was assaulting the child, which is a crime. That is very definitely abuse, and whether or not she had any “intention of bruising” the child is irrelevant. Intent is not magic. If I unintentionally run over a pedestrian, that doesn’t absolve me of responsibility.
According to Mooney, Kimble-Tanks “crossed the line.” She told the Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star, “Leaving bruises on a child that young is abuse,” not appropriate discipline. Murphy disagreed and said he had been ready to go to trial if the charges hadn’t been reduced and eventually dropped. “This is a woman who has never been in trouble before and I’m certain will not be in trouble over the next two years,” he told the Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star. According to the paper, Kimble-Tanks had been punishing her daughter because of misbehavior at school.
This entire deal is wildly inappropriate. The woman was beating her child. That is child abuse, and I will never understand why child abusers are allowed to just go about their lives as though what they’ve done isn’t terrible, inexcusable, and unforgivable.
Read on to learn more about the spanking debatehttp://bit.ly/1avLIv6
BRUISES on the THIGH from a BELT can we pause and think about how unbelievably goddamn painful that must have been? Look, I get hit with a wide variety of things for fun and as an adult I would struggle to tolerate that level of consensual beating.
honduran white tent bats roosting under a heliconia leaf, which they sever down the length of its midrib to create a ‘tent’ that provides a waterproof shelter and protection from potential predators.
photos by (click pic) konrad wothe, kenji nishida, jenny theobald and tobias gerlach, leyo, outofsomewhere, wanja krah, alex figueroa, matt brady, and michael and patricia fogden
Fight the Vacuumarchy!
—
Confused Cats Against Feminism is a project of We Hunted the Mammoth:The New Misogyny, tracked and mocked.
me: *sees a bug in my house*
me: alright little homie its ok we all make mistakes, you do you, just keep a respectful distance
bug: *flies at my face*
me: first of all how dare you
Statistically, a woman is more likely to be hurt by a man than she is to ever be eaten by a shark, hit by a car, be attacked by a bear, crash in a plane, or be bitten by a spider. When a woman expresses fear of any of these events, she is still seen as a rational person. When I tell people that I am afraid of swimming in the ocean because I’m afraid of sharks, they accept it almost without question. But, when I tell people that I’m afraid of men, that men scare me more than sharks and spiders and freak plane accidents all combined, I immediately lose their respect. I am considered elitist. I am considered sub-human.
A Benediction For My Daughter (via rococoswagbitch)
i want a dw cast coup. overthrow your shitty misogynistic queerphobic douchebag of a showrunner. instate explicit representation and plots that make one whit of sense. do you hear the time lords sing
Lizard Greets Man like a Dog! - Video
OH GOOD YOU'RE HERE MOISTURIZE ME
that’s it that’s the whole argument.
That’s literally the best way i’ve ever seen to describe it.
I WAS JUST AT WAL-MART AND THEN
Little boy: Mommy, why is Wonder Woman not wearing any pants?
The Mom: Because Wonder Woman has amazing thighs and she could crush men with them if they insult her.
Little Boy: I wanna be Wonder Woman.
The Mom: Don't we all.
nothing fucking new or anything, but sometimes i think about the people who hold up stuff like echolalia and parallel play as a prime examples of nonsensical and antisocial behaviour and just, like, is it even possible for you to be paying less attention. could you really, if tried with all your might, misconstrue it any more than that.
THAT IS SUCH A SMART JOKE, WHAT THE HELL
what, what? this is so random, ha.
You know, I was thinking today that I'm not even 100% sure my shrink "believes" I'm autistic. When we first discussed my self-diagnosis, she mentioned that I'm not what she associates, in her experience, with autism, but that of course there's a spectrum.
Ever since then, the only things she says about it are to mention that I obviously realized important things about myself, that I make much more sense to myself now, that I'm noticeably more relaxed. If she disagrees with me about my diagnosis, that doesn't MATTER to her. It matters to her that I'm functioning like a million times better. There's literally no reason ever to be an asshole and openly disagree with someone about their autism diagnosis, whether self- or otherwise. You have to actually go out of your way to do that assjackal shit on purpose. Because it doesn't MATTER whether you agree.
Things most people apparently do not do: idly play back a minor conversation from a day or two ago and pop their heads out of the kitchen to continue the conversation from its leaving point.
Most adult children of toxic parents grow up feeling tremendous confusion about what love means and how it’s supposed to feel. Their parents did extremely unloving things to them in the name of love. They came to understand love as something chaotic, dramatic, confusing, and often painful—something they had to give up their own dreams and desires for. Obviously, that’s not what love is all about.Loving behavior doesn’t grind you down, keep you off balance, or create feelings of self-hatred. Love doesn’t hurt, it feels good. Loving behavior nourishes your emotional well-being. When someone is being loving to you, you feel accepted, cared for, valued, and respected. Genuine love creates feelings of warmth, pleasure, safety, stability, and inner peace.
Susan Forward, Toxic Parents, p381
(via mxnotmrdarcy)
This also applies to survivors of abusive relationships.
(via rapeculturerealities)
I’m a gentle fragile forest creature so don’t ever yell at me you fucking fuck or I’ll eat you.
People often ask “Oh, but why would you want to get an autism diagnosis in adulthood?” with the implication being “Oh, but if you made it to adulthood without getting diagnosed, you must be so ~*~high-functioning~*~ that you don’t even need accommodations, services, supports or therapy that’s geared towards your actual neurological condition, so *obviously* you don’t need to be diagnosed.” Ugh.
Stop assuming that if someone made it to adulthood without being diagnosed that they’re not and never have been obviously autistic. I may not have received my autism diagnosis until my late 20s, but multiple people have assumed I was autistic since I was a toddler. Stop assuming that if an autistic adult seems “normal” and successful and appears to be coping very well that they’re doing okay on the inside and that they don’t need a diagnosis. There are plenty of autistic people who look like they’re doing just fine who are almost on the brink of collapse. And, anyway, some people might just want to find out whether they’re autistic in order to understand themselves better. That’s a perfectly valid reason.
