#agism

[theamphibianmen]

"it's not that I hate kids it's just that I don't think they should be allowed in most places!!" Imagine saying that about any other group of people.

Imagine if someone said "it's not that I hate disabled people it's just that I don't think they should be allowed in most places!"

That sounds horrible, doesn't it? So why is it ok to say that about children?

[juice-wings]

I love my older alter human friends and moots, but sometimes yall get on my last fucking nerve.

This happens with most adults, but it’s PARTICULARLY annoying with otherkins.

There is this sense that somebody is completely unaware of, and blind to their identity until they are 18. Once you’re a legal adult, you are granted the ultimate knowledge of your identity and alterhumanity. But until your 18th birthday, you couldn’t possibly know what you’re talking about.

I cannot count the amount of times I’ve been told “your too young to be a zooanthrope” or that my delusions (which have been recorded by my healthcare professionals as psychotic symptoms) are simply an over active imagination.

Perfect strangers on the internet who took one look at my blog and decided to write me off because I’m 17.

Hell, I’ve even gotten this from other older zooanthropes saying that I’m “too young to know” or that “my delusions wouldn’t start that young” and I must be faking it all for internet clout.

Idk this is kinda just an angry rant because this pisses me tf off.

[proship-confessional]

im proship myself but for some reason alot of people in this community cant defend themselves without being ageist

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[demi-raven]

"Ugh stop being such a baby" is a terrible and damaging thing to say to a person.

It insinuates two things:

it is a bad thing to be a small child.

it is a bad thing to do the things that small children do, the things that are human nature; to feel your feelings, to attempt to communicate your feelings and needs and boundaries with others, to learn, to be curious, to ask questions, to trust, to rely on others, to show affection, to be truly honest, to be vulnerable.

Neither of those points are true.

[antlerqueen404]

Old people go to the movie theater with the sole intention of seeing how quickly they can ruin the staffs day

[martianmeerkat]

Strength does not invalidate victimhood.

Ive seen a lot of discourse, mainly in fandoms and character interpretations, but I've noticed how much that discourse effects people in their actual lives as well and how people treat each other based on that. So I feel the need to specifcally address this.

Whether you are currently a victim or have been a victim in the past, it does not mean you are incapable of being strong.

Just because you are strong does not make you incapable of being or having been a victim.

Strength and victimhood are not mutually exclusive, and moments of weakness can and will happen to anyone and everyone regardless of their strength. Physically, mentally, emotionally, spiritually, or what have you. Strength is not what protects you from being a victim, it is what empowers you to keep going in spite of being a victim.

A victim of what? Well, that's open to interpretation. What am I specifically referencing with this? Nothing in particular other than distress at seeing people harm each other even when they agree with each other.

This is not exclusive to any one kind of person, this is not specifc to any race, gender, assigned sex at birth, age, religion, sexual orientation, intellectual level, disability, economic status, or any other kind of determining factor where people have been targeted and treated as other or lesser.

Your strength does not invalidate your moments of weakness. Nor do your moments of weakness invalidate your strength.

[sickofthis666]

Some coworkers had a The Youth NowadaysTM convo earlier today (somehow I've noticed that any group of 30 to 70+yo left together will eventually shift their topic conversation to that, without any fear of being contradicted bc there is no youth here to defend themselves 🙃). That convo is always stupid bc, while the youth isnt exempt of criticism,

1. the Youth Nowadays complain literally dates back to THOUSAND OF YEARS BC. Those people's parents complained about The Youth when themselves were young, and their parents' parents did when their parents were young, etc.

2. Generalisation about a group is always wrong.

3. Their argument are usually wrong, for instance: "they have everything". We don't have full employment like boomers had in the 70s-80s. We have to deal with climate change. Etc.

But the worst part was that they talked about Only Fans 💀 Which ofc implied to look down on teenage girls as a group bonding activity. The women — mothers, most of them— talk about how they would rip a new one to their daughter if it was theirs who did it. One man joked about it in a way that make you wonder if he doesn't use OF as a consumer. Not one of them mention how predatory the system is. A 36yo male coworker mentions how obvsly girls throw themselves at it bc its tons of easy money, AS IF THE OVERWHELMING MAJORITY OF OF girls and women didnt make PEANUTS while the website and its whole system profits massively to its male creators, and he talks about it with such disdain AS IF SELLNG YOUR BODY WAS WORSE than, oh idk, drug dealing and gang related activities?? Because it's the SAME logic. Boys and men going for lots of easy money. Some coming from poor backgrounds and trying to provide for their families, not only spouses and kids, but siblings, parents, etc.

[sarcsticfangirl]

One of the things I really love about Daniel’s late turning is that while vampirism cures diseases, it does not change the way a person looks and it certainly doesn’t deage them. Age here isn’t treated like a condition to be rid of, like something dirty and undesirable. To eternally young vampires, age and a life well lived are everything. Especially when I compare this to vampire works like twilight (not hating, I understand the uniquely Mormon beauty standard context there for sure), it is so refreshing and heartwarming to see. And how much the vast majority of this fandom has embraced Old Man Daniel and sexualised him just as much as the younger stars on this show. That’s it for my mini anti ageism soapbox thank you for tuning in