i cant stop thinking of the gif of the kiwi jumping around its so funny the way that thing moves like gravity doesn’t care about it it just prances wildly and freely it falls over but it doesn’t care it just keeps moving and having fun and just keeps hopping and the party never stops it’s legitimately one of my favorite pieces of media on the internet the joy it brings me is unbridled
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To expand on the crumbling of the patriarchal edifice of the family.
If society agrees that children can know themselves, and have a right to self determination…. Everything else that Conservatives argue they have a right to exert over children crumbles. As just two examples….
ALL corporal punishment rightfully becomes recognised for the assault it is.
Failure to appropriately consider the wishes of children in medical care and provide information in an age appropriate way is recognised as child abuse and malpractice.
Children are entire people, they deserve all of the rights, privileges and protections afforded to adults.
*holds up a finger*
Let’s talk about “appropriately consider,” and “provide information in an age-apropriate way.”
Most adults, most parents, especially recent empty-nesters, are going to have some grievous misconceptions about how children think.
The first thing they’ll say in response is, “what if they need vaccinations? I should just let them say no? What if they have cancer and refuse medical treatment?”
People who are authoritarian parents raise children who think things are wrong because mommy and daddy said. They will do the forbidden thing as soon as their parents’ backs are turned because they were never given a rational reason not to. This doubly so with authoritarian helicopter parents, whose kids run the risk of alcohol poisoning once they get off to school, because they were only taught “no,” and never taught a reason.
Even their religion fails to explain why murder is wrong in terms of its impact of the victim’s family and community. It’s just because God said. And there is exactly one punishment for every crime, which is damnation. Christianity is very bad at teaching ethics and morality, and that’s the religion of the dominant culture.
It becomes appropriate to teach “natural consequences” starting at age 3 or so, and if you start that early, you can expect a child to have mastered the ability to consider information about natural consequences and to make rational choices as of around age 8. Source: I was trained as a teacher, taught ages Pre-K - Grade 8, and have taken explicit coursework in developmental psychology.
But we do not do that. We shelter children from the fact that reality has real consequences, like death and disease, even until the ages of 13. I was once told by a parent that no 13 year old should have to think about death or disease.
And so, as a consequence, when kids get very sick, with something life threatening, it’s the first time they’ve ever even considered something like that happening to them, they freak out, and have a lot of catching up to do.
“These shots might hurt a little bit, for just a second, but they protect us from diseases that can kill us” IS something you can and should say to a four year old. Along with, “I love you and don’t want you get very sick or die. That would make me very sad.” And you can be certain that if you explain that, and your kid understands it, they are unlikely to refuse.
But parents don’t want to say that because the idea scares them, and they think it is somehow better or kinder for a child to be blindsided by the reality of death. I didn’t make it to 18 before a loved one died. I didn’t make it to 10 before I lost a beloved pet.
I didn’t make it to 8 before I had my first major depressive episode and started having obsessive ideas of death. And I didn’t have the language I needed to tell my parents that I was suicidal. I could have understood, but no one wanted to sully my virgin ears by explaining.
And likewise, kids WILL understand, “some people will not want to be friends with you, or they may even want to hurt your body, if you start living as a girl right now.” A four year old can understand that. I promise you. If they can understand the consequences of talking to strangers, if they can understand about getting sick, if they can understand that they can make and lose friends, they have all they need in order to make decisions about socially transitioning.
Moreover, they can try it out without any medical interventions. And so it’s reversible.
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tesla is not really a car or spaceship company. thats all smoke and mirrors. elon musk is actually 1 inch tall and is being projected to look larger. teslas real invention is the technology that makes him appear to be the size of a fully grown man when hes just an inch tall.
if we get enough people to say this he WILL try to disprove it instead of just ignoring it and i think that would destroy the last of his credibility. anyone still holding out on twitter please spread this theory
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you're the only other person who pointed out that that bell curve on the horse race poll is probs cause of your thumb position on a phone and i need u to kno that it's me and u against the world 😔😔😔
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some of the people who call themselves “trans allies” on this website could do with reading that article about not coming out the closet before they speak on the topic of trans women & gender in general
I don’t use this but might be for someone out there who does, check it out?
Here’s a pretty comprehensive write-up:
reblog to save a life
Want more info? Here ya go:
ALSO:
“The idea of two sexes is simplistic. Biologists now think there is a wider spectrum than that.”
As a biologist I am reblogging this so hard.
Biological sex is not and has never been a binary. The complexity of the natural world cannot be contained in neat little societal boxes. Stop using science to justify your bigotry.
twitter’s dead, have this picture of Elon he blocks people over
to be fair the only non-disappointing face reveal i can remember is charlie cr1tikal
finding out some faceless gamer dude with a monotone voice looked like THIS was the single most memorable part of 2015 for me
Green Heron. Great Blue Heron. Little Blue Heron. Black-Crowned Night Heron.
all photos by me.
entranced recently not by “i can fix him” or “i can make him worse” but the “something deeply wrong with him and i want to be around as like a spectator when the car crash inevitably happens” dynamic
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Hope people who know nothing about death note understand the human boy is the deeply unhinged one in this duo.
