Shoutout To The Most Unhelpful Reminder Ive Ever Put Into My Phone

May 2021

you don't "hate kids," you hate being forced into a caretaking role.

you don't "hate kids," you hate censorship passed off as family values.

you don't "hate kids," you hate the constrictiveness of the nuclear family.

you don't "hate kids," you're just not used to occupying fully age diverse spaces so you're not used to the noise or the many different kinds of needs.

you don't "hate kids," most public spaces just aren't built for kids, and so the few kids you see are always uncomfortable and distressed.

you don't "hate kids," you hate the intense social rules assigned to kids and anyone who interacts with kids.

You don't "hate kids," you hate how society reproduces its most restrictive elements and how kids are powerless to resist it.

Studying at the university library early in the morning. 🌅☁️☀️📚

𝐄𝐦𝐛𝐫𝐨𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐲/ 𝐐𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠

Northern Cardinal (Cardinalis cardinalis) snagging some peanut pieces.

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For me this isn't even about empathy or sympathy (though there's value in those as well), it is just straight-up a human rights thing. Once you have decided that there is *any* category of human that can be treated as less-than-human you've said that humanity is conditional, and so are the rights that come with it. You've already lost, you've granted the fascists their point because *you agree with them* that some people don't deserve to be treated like humans.