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12!Arthur when he learns about the Vritra: I have to remain calm and collected and have a reasonable strategy, these are literal psuedo-gods and I understand even as a quadra-elemental I will have to train harder than anyone ever to even have a chance at defeating them
17!Arthur seeing a Vritra at 3 in the morning: YO CHUCKLEFUCK GET READY TO THROW DOWN
Why we don’t like it when children hit us back
To all the children who have ever been told to “respect” someone that hated them.
March 21, 2023
Even those of us that are disturbed by the thought of how widespread corporal punishment still is in all ranks of society are uncomfortable at the idea of a child defending themself using violence against their oppressors and abusers. A child who hits back proves that the adults “were right all along,” that their violence was justified. Even as they would cheer an adult victim for defending themself fiercely.
Even those “child rights advocates” imagine the right child victim as one who takes it without ever stopping to love “its” owners. Tear-stained and afraid, the child is too innocent to be hit in a guilt-free manner. No one likes to imagine the Brat as Victim—the child who does, according to adultist logic, deserve being hit, because they follow their desires, because they walk the world with their head high, because they talk back, because they are loud, because they are unapologetically here, and resistant to being cast in the role of guest of a world that is just not made for them.
If we are against corporal punishment, the brat is our gotcha, the proof that it is actually not that much of an injustice. The brat unsettles us, so much that the “bad seed” is a stock character in horror, a genre that is much permeated by the adult gaze (defined as “the way children are viewed, represented and portrayed by adults; and finally society’s conception of children and the way this is perpetuated within institutions, and inherent in all interactions with children”), where the adult fear for the subversion of the structures that keep children under control is very much represented.
It might be very well true that the Brat has something unnatural and sinister about them in this world, as they are at constant war with everything that has ever been created, since everything that has been created has been built with the purpose of subjugating them. This is why it feels unnatural to watch a child hitting back instead of cowering. We feel like it’s not right. We feel like history is staring back at us, and all the horror we felt at any rebel and wayward child who has ever lived, we are feeling right now for that reject of the construct of “childhood innocence.” The child who hits back is at such clash with our construction of childhood because we defined violence in all of its forms as the province of the adult, especially the adult in authority.
The adult has an explicit sanction by the state to do violence to the child, while the child has both a social and legal prohibition to even think of defending themself with their fists. Legislation such as “parent-child tort immunity” makes this clear. The adult’s designed place is as the one who hits, and has a right and even an encouragement to do so, the one who acts, as the person. The child’s designed place is as the one who gets hit, and has an obligation to accept that, as the one who suffers acts, as the object. When a child forcibly breaks out of their place, they are reversing the supposed “natural order” in a radical way.
This is why, for the youth liberationist, there should be nothing more beautiful to witness that the child who snaps. We have an unique horror for parricide, and a terrible indifference at the 450 children murdered every year by their parents in just the USA, without even mentioning all the indirect suicides caused by parental abuse. As a Psychology Today article about so-called “parricide” puts it:
Unlike adults who kill their parents, teenagers become parricide offenders when conditions in the home are intolerable but their alternatives are limited. Unlike adults, kids cannot simply leave. The law has made it a crime for young people to run away. Juveniles who commit parricide usually do consider running away, but many do not know any place where they can seek refuge. Those who do run are generally picked up and returned home, or go back on their own: Surviving on the streets is hardly a realistic alternative for youths with meager financial resources, limited education, and few skills.
By far, the severely abused child is the most frequently encountered type of offender. According to Paul Mones, a Los Angeles attorney who specializes in defending adolescent parricide offenders, more than 90 percent have been abused by their parents. In-depth portraits of such youths have frequently shown that they killed because they could no longer tolerate conditions at home. These children were psychologically abused by one or both parents and often suffered physical, sexual, and verbal abuse as well—and witnessed it given to others in the household. They did not typically have histories of severe mental illness or of serious and extensive delinquent behavior. They were not criminally sophisticated. For them, the killings represented an act of desperation—the only way out of a family situation they could no longer endure.
- Heide, Why Kids Kill Parents, 1992.
Despite these being the most frequent conditions of “parricide,” it still brings unique disgust to think about it for most people. The sympathy extended to murdering parents is never extended even to the most desperate child, who chose to kill to not be killed. They chose to stop enduring silently, and that was their greatest crime; that is the crime of the child who hits back. Hell, children aren’t even supposed to talk back. They are not supposed to be anything but grateful for the miserable pieces of space that adults carve out in a world hostile to children for them to live following adult rules. It isn’t rare for children to notice the adult monopoly on violence and force when they interact with figures like teachers, and the way they use words like “respect.” In fact, this social dynamic has been noticed quite often:
Sometimes people use “respect” to mean “treating someone like a person” and sometimes they use “respect” to mean “treating someone like an authority” and sometimes people who are used to being treated like an authority say “if you won’t respect me I won’t respect you” and they mean “if you won’t treat me like an authority I won’t treat you like a person” and they think they’re being fair but they aren’t, and it’s not okay.
(https://soycrates.tumblr.com/post/115633137923/stimmyabby-sometimes-people-use-respect-to-mean)
But it has received almost no condemnation in the public eye. No voices have raised to contrast the adult monopoly on violence towards child bodies and child minds. No voices have raised to praise the child who hits back. Because they do deserve praise. Because the child who sets their foot down and says this belongs to me, even when it’s something like their own body that they are claiming, is committing one of the most serious crimes against adult society, who wants them dispossessed.
Sources:
“The Adult Gaze: a tool of control and oppression,” https://livingwithoutschool.com/2021/07/29/the-adult-gaze-a-tool-of-control-and-oppression
“Filicide,” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filicide
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If you’re an American when you walk in the bathroom, and an American when you walk out of the bathroom, what are you while you’re in the bathroom?
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European.
(By the way Jeff I promise this joke is a lot funnier if you read it out loud.)
Solid!
if european solid i think you need to go to the doctor
Can't go to the doctor. I'm American
Then go back into the bathroom
@givrally European yourself?
yeah yeah toxic masculinity and shit, but only a yanqui who has never experienced any kind of hardship and is completely desideologized would ever think "haha war sounds fun". Of course he doesn't mind it, war is something that happens Abroad, in Poor Countries, he might go for an Adventure for a while and then enjoy his mythologized 50s prosperity. He won't be a Chinese fighting against the Japanese and the civil war, he won't live in Europe as wars and genocide are at the order of the day, he won't experience the pain of rebuilding the USSR after every single family lost someone to war, he most certainly won't be a slave of the colonial empires, he won't live in a third world country during the 60s or 70s as the US finances murderous coups, and he won't have to live as a minority in the United States, of course. War is just an adventure to prove how manly he is.
tener la panza llena, al pedo, y sin ideología, que combinación más fiera
the fun thing is that ww1 was filled with this type of guy who were all about the romance of warfare.
they got turned into queso mar del plata because they charged with sabers and shit into enemy infantry with machine guns
WW1 had many moments like that. The European empires had used their machine guns against their colonial subjects all over the world and thought of war as an adventure, something glorious (after all, they always won) and isn't so dashing and exciting, like the ancient spartans and shit?
Then they got shredded in a couple seconds by machine guns, and those who didn't experienced lived through the closest thing to hell a person in the 1900s could imagine, but hey, doesn't it sound like a fun adventure?
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Clearly their opposition to capitalism is not from being indoctrinated by their professors.
got called an antisemite for supporting palestine today, it’s honestly disgusting how people can guiltrip you for not supporting a genocide
absolutely miserable experience that Some Fucking Guy would set up shop yelling at students here on campus with one of those big signs listing all the people that are going to hell, like homosexuals and "darwinists" and "dirty dancers". completely humiliating that he would point at students and scream wild assumptions about their orientation, their std status, the appearance of their genitalia, etc. BUT. it's incredibly heartwarming that it only took one or two outbursts for a HUGE crowd of students to gather around in solidarity with each other, laugh at him, play music over him, and wave a huge pride flag AND a jolly roger flag over his head while several women started making out with each other. and as i was walking away to get a bite to eat with my friends, we passed by even more people asking us "is that asshole still out there yammering? i wanna give him a piece of my mind!" THAT'S what it's all about. no matter how much hate and anger there is in this world, there's always going to be kind, warm, helpful people who outnumber it, and who may just need a little encouragement to plant their feet and reach out to each other in the face of the blistering hatred.
Have we considered what it means that Laois is so good at killing monsters, the one thing he loves, and so bad at fighting humans, the thing he feels most distance from. And inverse Kabru is terrible at killing monsters, the one thing he wants to destroy, but so good at killing humans he would have killed Falin 6 different times when he tried to kill her if her anatomy had been more human, despite his love for and drive to protect humanity? Have we considered what it means to be able to kill that which you love but not that you hate? Has anyone fucking considered the imposter syndrome that has to come from only being good at killing that which you love most??? The fear of not being able to protect yourself from the thing you most think is a threat simply because you cannot find a way to understand it enough to take it's life?
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I was waiting for the night bus at 1am the other night, eating fries, when a dude, high as fuck, tried to harass me. It took several “I don’t want to talk to you, please go away” for him to finally move, but I think it helped that another man was giving him the death stare and clicking his tongue at him. He then checked I was okay and whether I knew the guy or not. Good dude.
Shout out also the man who silently switched places with me on another night bus to be a buffer between me and a guy who had threatened me. Thank you
Men: this here? This here is what you need to be doing as allies. The men who harass and insult women are not likely to take our complaints about it seriously. But you, another man, they will listen to.
I was pumping gas at like 10 PM one night, and these bunch of drunk guys came walking up to the gas station, and one of them yelled over to me if I wanted to see his dick. His friend says to him, “You don’t have anything she wants to see.” and apologized. It was pretty awesome.
this is all we want from men. to recognize the wrongs done by other men, and acknowledge it. not give us shitass defense like, “not all men do that”
this is proper chivalry
We know not all men are like that! Now please help deal with the ones who are!
We know not all men
are like that! Now please help deal
with the ones who are!
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
An easy rule for DMs to remember: If you don't want your players to adopt random NPCs and animals, don't feature any NPCs or animals. Based on a submission from @windmorrow Want me to doodle your D&D party? Commissions are open! Currently $20/character. Visit my page or send an e-mail to yourdndstories @ gmail, subject 'Doodles', for more information.
Pig: "Yeah, I don't know why I'm here, I just want to be hanging out in some mud an-" Adventurers: "YOU WILL JOIN US!" Pig: "...sorry?"
I hope they give Gloria lots of mud to play in while they're out adventuring.
I run a horror campaign and so far various groups have adopted an arm-sized maggot, a living doll stitched out of human body parts that is paralysed and can only move its eyes that always look terrified and crying, a tiny scientist who lives in an interdimensional birdcage, a giant living intestine, an electric squid with uncountable fractal glowing tentacles, and a stool that just seems like a normal stool except that it's always at human body temperature. Various groups have started worshipping a kindly neighbour who peeled her skin off and ate her husband and turned into a dragon, Eldritch Prison Guard Scooby Doo, or their ISP provider. Recently I sent one group into a house made of flesh and as soon as they realised the 'carpet' was dog fur on living dog skin they spent thirty actual real life minutes just petting it.
I made the rest of the webcomic:
Joking aside, the Millennium Falcon is not the space fantasy equivalent of a busted-ass old panel van.
The Millennium Falcon is the space fantasy equivalent of a busted-ass old panel van that's inexplicably been hot-rodded to have a top speed of 300 miles per hour, which is substantially funnier.
in fics where luke gets plopped into the prequels i want every jedi within ten metres of him to think hes the weirdest jedi theyve ever seen. he has negative lightsaber form. he doesnt know what a kata is. he handstands when he meditates. his solution to sith is to try and have a chat. hes a political radical who keeps suggesting revolution. you ask him what the jedi code is and he says "kindness and compassion and helping those in need :) ". you ask how he used the force like that and he says some shit about how you are a luminous being limited only by your mind. the councils authority is just a suggestion. he is somehow the new favourite of both qui gon and yoda
