“how can a horror movie be comforting” sigh……. u wouldn’t get it
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Very classy ping, thanks so much. (Sarcasm)
burning–rubber-deactivated2023:
“Fictional children can’t consent”
AS IF FICTIONAL ADULTS CAN????
Next, they’re gonna start saying you shouldn’t use dildos and vibrators, because you can’t sit your sex toys down and get permission first.
floating-goblin-deactivated2021:
the unholy trinity of piss-poor caretakers, tag yourself:
- tomboy, meaning “this child is clearly queer but let’s hope it goes away”
- sensitive, meaning “clearly neurodivergent and often distressed but let’s keep going until they grow numb”
- mature, meaning “traumatized but let’s ignore that”
- quiet, meaning “has been yelled at or ignored a few too many times and now considers all attempts at communicating with others to be pointless”
- self-sufficient, meaning “next to zero trust in parental figures’ ability in various aspects of parenting”
- lazy, meaning “depressed, but expected to preform tasks or actions without positive support or knowledge of how to do things”
Every so often (ever since I read that book about Catholic scientists) I think about the guy who discovered the cause of Down’s Syndrome and get very sad.
Jérôme Lejeune did his research because he loved children with Down’s Syndrome! He wanted to help them! Discovering the genetic cause was a huge breakthrough, and helping to develop the prenatal test was intended to give parents a chance to prepare for caring for a child with Down’s Syndrome.
And then his test was used to kill children with Down’s Syndrome.
He got the highest honor in genetics because of it, and he used his acceptance speech to tell the world’s assembled scientists that their use of his test was evil. Which made everyone mad and destroyed his chances of winning a Nobel. But he stood for life. He stood for the disabled. He stood for the children. Even at the cost of his career. Because his work intended to save the children he loved was being used to destroy them and how do you deal with that? It just breaks my heart every time I think about it.