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we're not kids anymore.

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if corporate has rolled back storebought pride, homemade is fine.
finishing something you worked really hard for feels like nothing
you ever mess something up and go "this is it, this is my final mistake. they're going to take me away and that's it, it'll all be over. this is my complete worst mistake and this is it for me"
theyre saying i might have anxiety
See I appreciate the sentiment when people say "no culture is a monolith" but the problem with saying that is that people take it to mean "You see this country actually has exactly Two types of people: the evil homophobic orcs that you believe all Orientals to be, and people who have the exact same politics and sensibilities as you, western liberal" and not that like there are, for example, gay and trans people in the global south who are sincerely patriotic, love their own culture and people, and want to fight to change their cultures for the better on their own terms without imitating the imperial core.
again and again and again and again
Installation art haters don't know how to sit in an uncomfortable room that makes you feel something you've never felt before
i have adhd, ive already against my will immersed myself in every possible form of discomfort just to get a little smackerel of stimulation, come back when it makes me feel something good ive never felt before.
i have adhd and your mom's giving me a little smackerel of stimulation on my cock to make me feel something good ive never felt before
[looking at people younger than me] you have your whole life ahead of you [looking at people older than me] you have your whole life ahead of you [looking at myself] its over
okay, i am deeply sorry, i know a lot of you on this website are not a big fan of kids and children in general but PRETTY PLEASE can we just NOT normalize the “i don’t like/i hate children but i don’t wanna hurt them”? because, that’s not fucking possible, okay? that’s two views you can NOT simultaneously hold.
because, let’s talk for real, the problem isn’t just direct violence — it’s the dehumanization of children, which feeds prejudice against childhood, childism, and adultism. this logic IS NOT neutral, and it’s one of the most sophisticated ways prejudice gets perpetuated.
“not liking/hating children” reinforces the idea that they’re annoying, dramatic, inconvenient... less human — and therefore easier to discard, silence, or sacrifice for adult comfort.
elisabeth young-bruehl defines childism as prejudice against children as a social group, comparable to racism, sexism, and homophobia. it functions like any other -ism: an ideology that legitimizes treating a group as property, as inferior, or as available for exploitation. she also shows that childism isn’t limited to extreme cases of violence — it shows up in a whole range of practices that aren’t in children’s best interest: neglect, underfunding of schools, the abusive use of medication on children…
saying “i don’t like/i hate children” isn’t an innocent preference or just a phrase — it’s literally the biased expression of a worldview that dehumanizes and diminishes this group. that’s exactly what childism is.
young-bruehl emphasizes that adults who practice childism “all rely upon a societal prejudice against children to justify themselves and legitimate their behavior.” [p.1] a lot of people may not consciously “hate” children or raise a hand to hit them — but the prejudice allows them to tolerate structures that harm children on a massive scale (child poverty, incarceration, violence, abuse, exploitation, neglect, etc.).
rebecca adami uses the concept of childism to analyze adult resistance to actually implementing children’s rights: prejudice against children gets translated into laws, policies, and practices that deny basic freedoms and normalize their subordination. just like a racist can say “i don’t want to see black people getting hurt” while supporting policies that harm them — an adult who “hates children” is, in practice, feeding the cultural climate that makes violence against children thinkable, justifiable, or dismissed.
adami also shows that childism helps us understand how children are exposed to “prejudices, negative attitudes and discriminatory structures in society” — and how this connects to the weak implementation of the un convention on the rights of the child.
the old idea that “children are just mini adults” has been challenged by childhood sociology, and children are now recognized as rights-bearing subjects who deserve to be heard and respected in their choices.
claiming it’s “fine to dislike and/or hate children” means refusing them that status — putting them back in the position of nuisance, of “noisy things,” of objects. which is exactly what critical theory identifies as the core of adultism and childism.
madeline lane-mckinley argues we live in a world that is “deeply against children,” where they’re treated as extensions of the family, the state, or capital — not as autonomous people. she also talks about “adult supremacy” and proposes a politics of solidarity with children, understanding them as comrades in the fight for a better future.
lane-mckinley also points out that the figure of the child has historically been weaponized in service of white supremacy, empire, and political projects that decide which children deserve protection — and which ones can be abandoned to poverty, war, forced migration.
in other words, discourses of hatred and contempt for children participate in the symbolic economy that makes some children’s lives more exposed to violence.
and finally — in ethical and political terms, there is no way to separate “hating” (or “disliking”) children from passive participation in structures that authorize harm against them.
the only position that’s coherent with children’s rights and with critiques of childism is to let go of that hatred and commit to recognition, listening, and active solidarity.
so yeah. there’s no neutral ground here.
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-having a job
-not having a job
-applying for jobs
-the job market
-the concept of working my whole life
folks makin those PSA posts against shipping real life celebrities treat rpf like it kills them and im like if pete wentz gets distressed when i post about him getting blasted in the ass he can go look at his bank account to feel better
#stop creating hot people out of pixels#go to your local shitty theme park and develop lustful feelings for the guy who yanks your seatbelt to make sure you’re not yeeted sldkfjlsjf why is that so real??? ?is that a universal experience or something bc the TENSION is REAL and delicious and ive never thought about it before
Listen not to be crude but that seatbelt yank is tied directly to the clit I don’t know how or why but it is and it feels like falling in love
Other examples of your local hot people you can lust after in your head no harm no foul without causing the heat death of the universe to arrive early:
- nursing home attendant with eyebrow piercing
- guy who comes over halfway through the cashier scanning your groceries to finish bagging them and then hefts them into your cart and leaves before you are done cashing out without a backwards glance
- hyper-capable women running counter food service establishments that serve soft serve ice cream
So, just in case you think this was hyperbole, I was at my local dirtbag theme part today and had this interaction with the seatbelt yanker:
Him, as he’s yanking my seatbelt: are you scared? You look scared.
Me: oh no, i’ve ridden this ride before
Him, devilish smile: Not while I’m driving it.
Me, internally: FUCK it strikes again!
For consideration, the receptionist who runs the building like the marines and is just a little mean to you. Then gives you a genuine compliment before disappearing?
Extremelyyyyy valid. They are impatient with you about how you keep incorrectly filling out the Very Important Form. Then they look at you and say “you have the most beautiful skin” and then just return to work.
employee at the incongruously bougie porridge shop in the grimy shopping area under the train station who hears your request to add chocolate chips and says "go wild, why not" and doesn't charge you for them
"you're an awesome dick to watch- i mean dude to cock- i mean dude to gawk- i mean dude to watch."
Is "Mary Sue" Still a Valid Criticism? (pt. 6)
pt. 1 | pt. 2 | pt. 3 | pt. 4 | pt. 5 | pt. 7
The backlash against calling characters "Mary Sue" is valid — the term is often sexist, racist, and simply unfounded. However. I do think that there's a gem in that dumpster, and that "this character is so perfect it becomes a major flaw in the story" can still be a meaningful criticism.
Argument 6: "Mary Sue" is worth trotting out as a criticism because there's something deeply troubling in the characteristics that tend to be held up as perfect. Personally, I'm all for using "bland," "basic," "boring," etc. to describe skinny white heroes with blue eyes, perfect skin, book smarts, rizz, flawless health, physical strength, past troubles that make them punch walls but never do anything unsexy like cry or wet the bed, and infinite sex appeal.
Like, Alexandria's Genesis is so damn funny because it's such a boiling-down of the dumbfuck qualities we're taught to consider "perfect." Only point it doesn't hit is the way that cleverness tends to get valued over kindness in fiction, because there's no need to be kind if Mary Sue is the only real character and because our society privileges the fuck out of (what it considers) intelligence.
Example of this problem*: Vladimir Tod by Z Brewer. The main character is downright mean to his classmates on several occasions in a way the story doesn't question — because it's clever meanness, and it's funny meanness, and anyway that guy who Vlad turned into the pariah of their entire grade by leaking his secrets probably had it coming.
Counter-example: Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney. Similar protagonist in a similar story starts out feeling justified doing mean and clever things because he also feels like an outcast... but he's wrong. And he spends the whole first book learning how wrong he is, and trying to learn to be a better person afterward.
Tl;dr: funny how it's the markers of whiteness and related privileges that always get held up as sources of beauty and goodness and awe. And I don't mean "ha-ha" funny.
*I constrain my examples to white male protagonists that someone else has called "Mary Sue" first, as part of my argument that it's not all sexism.
i feel like those posts thatre like “REAL gay people don’t talk about yaoi discourse they go to gay clubs and do ket” are crazy like i understand they’re critiquing a hyper specific genre of online queer but babe they can do both… i know people who are ravers and are always on shrooms and read mcr rpf like i feel like we draw a big line between the online queer community and the in person one but that girls at gay bars have tumblr accounts it’s really not that seperate
Normal groceries like milk or bread or whatever running out is whatever. Just anotha day. But when stuff like salt or cooking oil or rice runs out it feels like You’re supposed to be here for me and you’re leaving. You’re just like everyone else
so truly genuinely we need to get more funding towards freaks and perverts to make weird horny movies and tv and art i would rather watch someone’s barely disguised fetish with an interesting point of view than another soulless corporate shell with boring beautiful actors and nothing to say
shipping a consensual, safe & sane pairing all the while i'm shaking my head in disapproval so the audience knows i still love wildly toxic abusive fictional dynamics