There’s something intensely unhealthy going on when parents discourage age-appropriate independence. A 13 year old should probably be allowed to go see a film with their friends most of the time. A 16 year old should probably be allowed to drive/ride a bus/bike to a friend’s house most of the time. An 18 year old should probably be allowed to travel overnight with their friends most of the time. A 20+ year old should be allowed to come and go as they please, with some common-sense “Let’s talk this ‘move to Finland’ plan of your over before you follow through on it” exceptions.
Parents should want their children to enjoy going out and doing things on their own and with their friends. They should be delighted that their child wants to have a life of their own. A rich, fulfilling life outside the home and distinct from parents and family is important, and parents should want their child to have that.
A Tumblr post about parents I agree with. Weird. I still don’t like it when Tumblr tells parents how to parent, but this is a good post for once.
It’s not so much about telling them how to parent as it is about telling them not to be abusive and cause trauma that will require years of therapy to undo, but thanks for your addition I guess.
I wish destructive anarchist protests would stay separate from and not try to infiltrate explicitly peaceful protests like agent provocateurs and put innocent people in more immediate danger than they signed up for.
this is…. literally victim-blaming .
The solution is to demilitarize police forces and make them stop engaging in violent tactics to break up protests, not to sequester off the black bloc so that the police can murder them all in cold blood away from the eyes of the press lmfao.
police will beat the shit out of left-wing protesters for daring to show up regardless of how peaceful or violent a large protest is and blaming the black bloc does nothing but give more credibility to the violent police forces
20 year olds calling it “the expectation of emotional labour” when a 14 year old who looks up to them tentatively asks them a question instead of finding out the answer by diligently reading an academic paper by an activist a 14 year old wouldn’t otherwise have heard of yet.
or would have had sufficient context or exposure to the style to understand
Look I know there are some cases where people are just being jerks and expecting you to do the work for them, but there are also cases where you are their access point and they don’t have the history necessary to make it on their own.
Why was Shrek’s soundtrack so incredible like who sat down and decided that a movie about an ogre would have a beautiful Rufus Wainwright ballad followed by a Smash Mouth/Eddie Murphy cover of I’m A Believer and how can I thank them
punkpixel 