:possum: Ibly 🏳️‍⚧️ :therian: on Nostr: absolutely despise how american society has been slowly shifting towards permanent ...
absolutely despise how american society has been slowly shifting towards permanent child house arrest
boomers and gen x has been taught about “””stranger danger”””, when fun fact, child kidnappings are extremely rare! the biggest danger is cars! this creates a feedback loop of “oh it’s too dangerous for my kid to walk to school, gotta drive them”, thus adding more traffic and causing the issue to get worse! on top of that necessitating schools to be built near roads that accept large traffic, which aren’t designed for pedestrians most of the time.
on top of that, there’s many things that are straight-up illegal in america, that further facilitate this shit. like, here’s a fun fact, you can get CPS called on you if you do the following (these are events that actually happened):
let your kid go to the park alone
let your kid play in a mcdonald’s while you’re at work across the street
…fucking let your kid play in the backyard while you’re supervising from inside.
this country basically requires you to be a helicopter parent, which is the worst kind of parent. because if you aren’t, you get arrested, and custody gets taken from you of your child, for “failing to be a good parent”. oh but don’t worry, if you’re abusive to your child, that’s just fine! physically lashing out at your child is fine, letting them socialize with other kids alone is where we have a problem!
like fucking GOD i’m extremely jealous of european and asian countries for having walkable spaces, bikeable spaces even, and not having laws that basically says “if your child walks outside for 0.005 seconds unsupervised we will kill you instantly”
all because politicians have brains made of sludge, and they accept any amount of money to irreparably damage the futures of children. but don’t worry, they care about the children, that’s why they’re passing laws that… restrict children’s access to life-saving HRT. oh and they’re passing laws that ban porn too! don’t worry they’ll still get to view horrifically violent media.
i mean fucking god i’m so socially stunted, most of it is to blame for how society treats autism, but another good chunk of it is that i just couldn’t socialize. couldn’t go out. i even specifically asked my parents multiple times to let me walk to school, but every time they told me “it’s too dangerous”.
all of this shit makes me severely question the judgement of someone who goes “i want to move to america and raise kids there” when they currently live in europe, like why the FUCK would you do that? why would anyone willingly move to this country? “land of the free” doesn’t apply if you’re under 18.
boomers and gen x has been taught about “””stranger danger”””, when fun fact, child kidnappings are extremely rare! the biggest danger is cars! this creates a feedback loop of “oh it’s too dangerous for my kid to walk to school, gotta drive them”, thus adding more traffic and causing the issue to get worse! on top of that necessitating schools to be built near roads that accept large traffic, which aren’t designed for pedestrians most of the time.
on top of that, there’s many things that are straight-up illegal in america, that further facilitate this shit. like, here’s a fun fact, you can get CPS called on you if you do the following (these are events that actually happened):
let your kid go to the park alone
let your kid play in a mcdonald’s while you’re at work across the street
…fucking let your kid play in the backyard while you’re supervising from inside.
this country basically requires you to be a helicopter parent, which is the worst kind of parent. because if you aren’t, you get arrested, and custody gets taken from you of your child, for “failing to be a good parent”. oh but don’t worry, if you’re abusive to your child, that’s just fine! physically lashing out at your child is fine, letting them socialize with other kids alone is where we have a problem!
like fucking GOD i’m extremely jealous of european and asian countries for having walkable spaces, bikeable spaces even, and not having laws that basically says “if your child walks outside for 0.005 seconds unsupervised we will kill you instantly”
all because politicians have brains made of sludge, and they accept any amount of money to irreparably damage the futures of children. but don’t worry, they care about the children, that’s why they’re passing laws that… restrict children’s access to life-saving HRT. oh and they’re passing laws that ban porn too! don’t worry they’ll still get to view horrifically violent media.
i mean fucking god i’m so socially stunted, most of it is to blame for how society treats autism, but another good chunk of it is that i just couldn’t socialize. couldn’t go out. i even specifically asked my parents multiple times to let me walk to school, but every time they told me “it’s too dangerous”.
all of this shit makes me severely question the judgement of someone who goes “i want to move to america and raise kids there” when they currently live in europe, like why the FUCK would you do that? why would anyone willingly move to this country? “land of the free” doesn’t apply if you’re under 18.