Millennials, let’s be the generation that ends the “bitterly criticize the youth” cycle. When we’re old, let’s embrace and nurture them and commend them for facing challenges we might have created.
Also, let’s start doing this right now, with the people younger than us who exist right now. Teens hating on children is just as uncool as adults hating on teens.
I’m Gen-X, but as I get older this has become more and more my prayer: let me never forget what it was like to be young.,
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you’re not too sensitive. you’re not overreacting. if it hurts you, it hurts you
When I was training to be a battered women’s advocate, my supervisor said something that really blew my mind:
“You can always assume one thing about your clients; and that is that they are doing their best. Always assume everyone is doing their best. And if they’re having a day where their best just isn’t that great, or their best doesn’t look like your best, you have to be okay with that.”
Any now whenever anyone in my life, either a friend or a client, frustrates me, disappoints me, or pisses me off, I just tell myself They are doing their best. Their best isn’t that great today, but I have days where my best isn’t that great either.
You definitely should not harass someone because they have been exposed as abusive online, but you should not eagerly try to dismiss the victim as “too evil to have actually been abused” the way people are doing with Eron.
Abuse is not something that happens only to Good And Innocent Sweeties (even Stalin had abusive parents) and it is very harmful to assume that anyone you consider immoral in some way just made everything up.
There is a problem in that abusers can adapt to “always believe the victim” memes by accusing their victims of being abusive and directing online mobs against them.
So the safest response seems to be that, no matter who you chose to believe, you should not form online mobs against people.
dont say “man up” say “level up” instead because video games are cooler than gender binary
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“ If someone says, “I’m fat.” Do not fucking say, “No, you’re not! You’re gorgeous! Or, “No, you’re not! You’re super beautiful!” Cuz guess what. They are fat,and they are beautiful cuz guess what, you can be fat and beautiful! [gasp] I know! I just fucking blew your mind! I know! I know! It’s a discovery that I made last year, and I’m bringing it to 2015 cuz not enough people know you can be fat and beautiful! They are two separate things that you can be all at once. Fucking amazing. Isn’t it? Do we have any questions? No? Okay, so stop that shit 2k15!”
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D’awwww! ❤️
i don’t like kids.
in general, i suppose. i’m not very fond of little kids. i don’t want them. they give me headaches and i cannot deal with their antics.
HOWEVER
you know what i do when kids talk to me? i smile. i answer them. i tell them their scribbles look really good. i open their juice boxes for them and ask to hear more about their power rangers.
because although i may not be fond of children, i was one. i remember being a kid and how much sour adults impacted my life even today. so when a child who is screaming and crying with a runny nose walks past me, i put on my smiling face and ask them what’s wrong instead of rolling my eyes.
because that’s what you do. you tolerate children even if you tend to dislike them. because kids are so impressionable and remember everything. i cannot bring myself to enjoy being around children. but that doesn’t mean i let them know.
I never thought of it that way…
Woah.
I always get the ‘I thought you hated kids’ when people see me being nice and talking to littlies and all I respond is ‘sure, I’m not a fan of kids and I’m not really planning on having any, but I’m not a complete asshole’
Don’t be a dick to kids, it’s super uncool.
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