I am regularly disgusted by what I see in my Facebook feed.
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Ah yes. I had to listen to an “inspirational speaker” whose main message was “exercise and just stop taking pills!!!” a few weeks ago through a work event. Yay. Lovely.
fixed it
Perfect
fuck you I’m gonna eat a mountain too
self care is washing down your meds with an entire mountain then fistfighting god in a target parking lot
Just gonna reblog this out of gratitude because I actually did forget…
Fffffffff let me get right on that.
and then reblog for the next forgetful son of a bitch
I’m so great full for everyone that is reblogging this. I totally forgot to take mine
I think that there is some sort of unspoken fairy godparent thing where you see this, realize that you forgot your meds, and rebagel it because if you forgot someone else must have. And in our turn we all take care of each other, even if we don’t know it.
“Although she was the only one home, Van Kooten said she had no regard for her safety - instead, she said she was just overwhelmed with “rage“….. ummmmm Hero!!!
Haha, badass Muslim woman. Love it!!!
This lady is so awesome. She lives with her grandma and was studying and had a towel on her head and no shoes but she chased them out of her garden, kicked one up the arse as he climbed a fence, they dropped a camera and laptop, she flagged down a passing driver to help her continue the pursuit, and it turned out he was ex-military, and they finally caught one of them in a park and pinned him as the police arrived. Now she’s going to visit the burglar in prison for the next few months to help with his rehabilitation.
So in summary:
This lady doesn’t just defend her home and loved ones, she will hunt you down, team up with other skilled individuals, get you put away, and then teach you the consequences of your actions until you’re a valuable member of society once more.
Seriously she’s a frigging superhero.
literal hero
So I’m not the only person who when confronted with obvious danger goes “WELL EXCUSE YOU”…
I’m
seeing a ton of people posting this copy-and-paste update about
boycotting the inauguration by SWITCHING YOUR TELEVISION TO A DIFFERENT
CHANNEL. It’s a nice thought and a nice gesture, but that WON’T WORK.
I’m not putting those things in all caps to yell at you, I just want to
make sure you see it.
How TV Ratings Work: Viewership is
measured through Nielsen ratings. Unless you’re a “Nielsen family,” you
don’t really count. Nielsen Family data is recorded through their
Nielsen boxes, and then that data is gathered on a value curve to represent a
larger audience.
Basically, no Nielsen box = no count.
Ratings are an estimate. It’s super archaic. But so is cable. That’s why
viewer data is ALSO gathered through internet clicks and posts,
interaction with online videos and social feeds, and streaming data.
How to REALLY Boycott the Inauguration: Avoid online content. Avoid clicking on videos, avoid linking articles
and tweets, avoid social feeds, avoid recaps. Even hate-watching a video
or posting a link to add the comment, “An oil spill in the Pacific Ocean is better
for humanity than this administration,” still counts toward viewer data.
Your hate-click is still an added view, and it doesn’t come with a
little asterisk next to it that says, “But this person loathed it and
weeps for the future.”
So changing your channel is chill, and I
recommend it! There is so much beautiful, amazing television! It’s a
Golden Age of scripted content! But for god’s sake, don’t then go and
negate your boycott by opening your Facebook and putting angry faces on a
bunch of Trump videos.
The research says the more they were spanked the more similar the effects were to abuse….probably be cause spanking your child for every thing they do wrong IS basically abuse. My mother spanked me and my siblings as a child but only when we did something that warranted it. Normally we’d just get grounded but when it came to the time when my brother in middle school tried to steal my grandmothers car in the middle of the night to be cool and well already knew why it was a terrible idea, that was a different story and he did get spanked. Spanking is not a main punishment. It is a last resort.
No no no, it was a last resort with my family and it still had that effect on me. There is NEVER a good reason to hit your child. It is the same motion as smacking a child across the face, and that is counted as abuse.
It. Is. Abuse. Period. End if sentence.
Also if your brother stole a car he should be arrested, because it’s a crime.
Okay since you’re the one who brought it, what effect exactly did it have on you? I know it’s a personal question, but you can’t use yourself as an example if you don’t explain. Also he didn’t steal the car. He tried to. He was being stupid in middle school at a sleepover at my grandmothers and thought it’d be cool to ride around in her car. He didn’t even get out of the driveway. Spanking is ya know no where near as bad as being arrested.
A MIDDLE SCHOOLER?
Middle schoolers are like, already developing complex abstract operational thought. They are fully capable of reasoning and having meaningful material consequences.
And as a punishment, your mother HIT HIM?
Yeah……that does not sound like, ya know, the ideal solution to this problem.
Okay hitting someone is not the same thing as spanking. She didn’t freaking punch him in the face. She sat him down had a conversation with him because they both knew he already knew it was something he shouldn’t have done. Then she spanked him and took him home. He was grounded for a little bit and that was the end of it. He never did it again and now much older defends spanking. There is a difference between hitting someone, abuseing someone, and spanking your child.
So it sounds like your mother had NO REASON to hit him.
Like, why physically strike anyone? Especially a young person who is CLEARLY already being receptive to correction? Like, what purpose does it serve to hit him except to hurt him on top of everything else? Why was the spanking (which, yes, is hitting/striking) needed?
No reason?! she had a conversation with him because she wanted him to know why he was in trouble and why that was a bad idea. That is NOT a punishment and grounding is not a big enough punishment for something like that. My mother cried the few times she ever had to spank us. She didn’t want to hurt us but during the times we weren’t being receptive to other punishments or those punishments didn’t match up to what we had done, she used spanking as a last resort.
I have an idea for you. NO behavior warrants a parent physically striking their child.
If your brother was already receptive and understanding the conversation, getting other punishments as well, then WHY did he need to be PHYSICALLY HURT? (hint: he didn’t)
Okay why does understanding that what he did was wrong mean he shouldn’t get punished?! If you break the law they don’t just tell you what you did was wrong and let you go. Also Grounding doesn’t not measure up to the problems that my brother could have created had he actually managed to get out of the drive way. As an example if he got grounded for breaking a vase or something I don’t know I’m just making something up and then just got grounded for the whole car thing, it’s basically like saying those to things are equal which they are not.
You said he got punished. He got grounded. Take away his phone. Computer time. Whatever.
Again, hitting someone because they messed up isn’t justice. We don’t flog felons in the street for breaking the law.
hi, i have a question about this.
so i behaved fairly well as a child but i liked to go into the woods
my parents were much like @thewolfygirl, from what i know, and used spanking as a last resort and hated the thought of resorting to it
i was spanked (once or twice) for going in to the woods.
but i never went into the woods again, i didnt fear my parents after that, and the physical pain of the spanking didn’t leave any lasting damage to me
what is damning about physical punishment that it can never even be considered?
“We as a society think of spanking and physical abuse as distinct behaviors,” said Gershoff, who previously taught at U-M. “Yet our research shows that spanking is linked with the same negative child outcomes as abuse, just to a slightly lesser degree.”
Look, maybe you, personally, were truly not impacted negatively in anyway by being spanked.
But you know, you do think it’s morally acceptable to hit kids. So maybe you. aren’t as ok as you think.
Here is a thought. When an adult, say your partner does something wrong, not illegal or bad enough to break up over but an offence that you would expect an apology or reparations for. Is it acceptable to strike them? Slap them?
Is it acceptable to strike an employee who makes a serious mistake? No?
Then why is it okay to hit a child? One who you have complete power over, who CANNOT stop you, leave, or in anyway object in an effective manner?
If you were to do so to an adult, it would undoubtably be considered wrong…. To “reinforce” a message with pain…
