#abused and more

[philsmeatylegss]

Okay, idk if anyone will see this, but it’s driving me nuts how Zionists are using the situation in Syria to say “why are no pro-Palestine people talking about this? It’s because no Jews are involved.”

No, it’s because western media rarely reports on tragedies and foreign conflict that they can’t make money off of. And, more unfortunately, the media is aware that most westerners don’t care about humanitarian crises that don’t involve them (or their money).

It’s why you hear very little also about the Sudan war, Ethiopian humanitarian crises (especially with Tigrays and other territories and ethnicities), the very active military dictatorship is Burkina Faso, Haiti becoming a failed state and being abandoned by everyone, the (hopefully soon ending) war in Myanmar/Burma, the dictatorships in Eritrea, Venezuela, Belarus, Turkmenistan, and Equatorial Guinea, the civil war in the Central African Republic, protests in Georgia, the complete stripping of rights for women in Afghanistan, and the humanitarian crises (other than Sudan, DRC, and Palestine) in so many places including but not limited to South Sudan, Yemen, Ethiopia, the Rohingya, Venezuela, Central African Republic, Somalia, Afghanistan, Burkina Faso, Haiti, Lebanon, Mali, and Sahel.

It’s not an antisemitism problem. It’s a problem of westerners not giving a shit about developing countries and conflicts that involve our allies/don’t involve us. Which should make you fucking angry.

Palestine, Sudan, and DRC are the tip of a devastating iceberg that includes the current situation in Syria and thousands of other entries. It’s not a competition.

So instead of complaining about who cares about what, use your platforms to spread information about these events. Don’t complain about certain people not talking about Syria, start posting and talking about Syria.

Or will you just admit you are using humanitarian crises and the devastation of millions to further you opinion?

Hundreds of thousands of Syrians are fleeing on top of the millions of Syrian refugees who also have fled in the past years. If that bothers you, talk about them, advocate for them rather than wasting time attacking others for not caring.

Incase anyone is interested in any of the stuff I mentioned above, here’s a few sources:

Syria:

What’s happening in Syria? A simple guide

What’s happening in Syria? How an old conflict in the Middle East erupted again

What's happening in Syria? What to know about the complex, long-simmering civil war

(Video) What is happening in Syria?

Who are the rebels who have seized control of Aleppo, Syria?

Sudan:

Civil War in Sudan

Crisis in Sudan: What is happening and how to help

(Wikipedia) Sudanese civil war (2023–present)

Ethiopia:

Conflict in Ethiopia

Tigray: the war the world forgot

Crisis in Ethiopia: What you need to know and how to help

Desperation in Ethiopia as hunger crisis deepens

Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC):

Conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo

A guide to the decades-long conflict in DR Congo

The Democratic Republic of the Congo crisis, explained

Burkina Faso:

What Burkina Faso’s Tragic History Teaches Us

(Video) Burkina Faso: The World’s Most Neglected War

Once again, Burkina Faso is the world’s most neglected crisis

Haiti:

Haiti crisis: Facts, FAQs, and how to help

What’s Happening in Haiti? Explainer on Gang Violence, Hunger Crisis and Humanitarian Aid to Civilians

Myanmar/Burma:

Nine Things to Know About Myanmar’s Conflict Three Years On

Myanmar, ravaged by civil war, teeters on the edge of famine

UN accuses Myanmar's military of mass killings, torture since 2021 coup

Eritrea:

(Video) Isaias Afwerki: Dictator who has ruled Eritrea for 31 years

Eritrea: Events of 2022

Venezuela:

Venezuela: Reversing the Slide into Dictatorship

Evidence shows Venezuela’s election was stolen – but will Maduro budge?

Belarus:

After 30 years in power, 'Europe's last dictator' remains firmly in control

Why Belarus is called Europe’s last dictatorship

Turkmenistan:

Here's what it's like inside Turkmenistan, the secretive Asian dictatorship

(Video) The Weirdest Dictatorship on Earth: Turkmenistan

Equatorial Guinea:

EQUATORIAL GUINEA: ‘The government uses violence to dominate through fear’

The politics of autocratic survival in Equatorial Guinea: Co-optation, restrictive institutional rules, repression, and international projection

Central African Republic:

Conflict in the Central African Republic

(Wikipedia) Central African Republic Civil War

Georgia:

Georgia is being rocked by growing protests. Here’s what you need to know

Why protests in the country of Georgia matter

Afghanistan:

Afghanistan: Taliban rule has erased women from public life, sparked mental health crisis

Back to basics: Fighting for women’s rights under the Taliban

South Sudan:

South Sudan Refugee Crisis Explained

Instability in South Sudan

Yemen:

Yemen Crisis Explained

Yemen humanitarian crisis

The Rohingya:

Rohingya Refugee Crisis Explained

Far from the Headlines: Myanmar – The Rohingya crisis

Somalia:

Crisis in Somalia

Somalia: Climate change, conflicts and rising cost fuels humanitarian crisis

Lebanon:

What’s happening in Lebanon

Far from home: inside Lebanon’s displacement crisis

Mali:

Crisis in Mali: What you need to know and how to help

Do not ignore Mali’s multifaceted humanitarian catastrophe

The Sahel:

A call to action: The humanitarian crisis in the Sahel is worsening

Violent Extremism in the Sahel

Responding to neglected crises in the Sahel

[chloesimaginationthings]

The FNAF Vanessas meet their younger selves..

[self-loving-vampire]

Problem #1 regarding child abuse is that a lot of people seem to struggle to imagine normal, respectable-looking parents and other authority figures ever doing it despite the statistics so instead they do the stranger danger panic and completely overlook some of the greatest threats.

Problem #2 is that even when people understand, even if in an abstract way, that parents can be abusive they just... don't seem to actually register that as something that can apply to real life. It's just hypothetical to them and doesn't actually guide their ideas of how to prevent child abuse.

Problem #3 is that even after overcoming the above biases a lot of people have a very narrow image of what abusive parenting is where they imagine like... people doing violent things basically out of sadism and without provocation. They don't seem to think it's "real" abuse if the victim did something that "justifies" punitive violence, like disobeying the parents.

In fact, most people think parents have a right to do a whole lot of awful things to their children beyond just hitting them, like violating their privacy, controlling their access to information, and deciding what/when/if they eat, among other things.

[akanemnon]

I don't like this place. It's turning everyone edgy and sad.

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[teaboot]

When I was a kid, I regularly lost reading privileges for "having an attitude" and "acting out".

It wasn't as simple as being told not to read during other activities- one of the first times it happened, I remember being six years old, watching my stepfather pull fistfuls of books off my bookshelf and throw them to the floor in a heaping mess while I cried and asked him to stop.

It was weird. Every other adult I knew described me as exceptionally well-behaved, but at home, it was the opposite, and it was blamed on "learning bad habits from that shit you're reading".

Because I couldn't read at home, I spent all my free time at school in the library, reading with my friends.

When I grew up and moved away, I realized that my family life was toxic and abusive, and the "attitudes" I was being punished for were standing up for myself, standing up for my younger siblings, and resisting actual, real-life psychological abuse. Because I'd learned from what I'd read that my family wasn't normal, not like my parents said it was, and in my stories, the heroes were the people who spoke out when it was hard to.

It is insane to me that there are students right now who can't access books. It is insane that books are being outlawed. It is perverse that we are stealing away an entire generation's ability to contextualize their lives, to learn about the world around them, to develop critical thinking skills and express themselves and feel connected to the world or escape from it, whatever and whenever and however they need.

That is not how you raise a compassionate, thoughtful, powerful society.

That's how you process cattle.

It's fucking disgusting.

[ihatebrainstorm]

[It's Just a Theory!]

Just a simple theoretical discussion ^v^

Wanted to see what he would sound like with MatPat's voice then got. just a tinyyy bit carried away..........

[nightmaretour]

Okay now I've gotten myself angry again. Every time a medical professional is abusive/neglectful the overwhelming response is "Their job is so stressful and underpaid! They deal with so many rude and abusive patients, of course they're like that!!"

You know who else has stressful, underpaid jobs and deal with rude and abusive customers a lot? Retail workers. But if a retail worker started assaulting all of their customers you'd hear all about it, wouldn't you? The consequences would be enormous, and there would be an overwhelmingly negative response, even if it was exclusive to rude customers.

Now imagine this was the norm, and it was socially acceptable, encouraged even, in retail jobs to abuse and assault your customers whenever you feel like it, for any perceived sleight, just because they need to buy groceries and you have to serve them. It would be all over the news, it would be an international scandal with arrests all over the place, there would be exposés of the secret culture of abuse and assault in retail workplaces on every channel and news source with interviews with the victims. Everyone would know about it and everyone would care, because of course that's fucked up.

So why is it different when your victims are sick and rely on you to survive?

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

None of our hands are clean

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[bluegiragi]

human.

early access + nsfw on patreon

more backstory that i wrote up for patreon heh:

Simon and Tommy had a complicated relationship as brothers. 

At a young age, Simon basically wrote himself off as a lost cause, and did the best he could to make sure at least Tommy had a chance to be a functioning human being. After all, Tommy was the gentler brother, the dreamer, the one who looked like their mother (who'd walked out on them years ago to escape their father). But Tommy got bitter, got sick of the one always being protected, being babied. He lost respect for Simon, for the way he wouldn't fight back, and in a twisted way, grew closer to his father as a way to learn how to be powerful, strong. It backfired, and Tommy got wrapped up in some bad business.

Simon's kid brother died while he was deployed. He got the news in the letter, and it broke him in a big way. In the story timeline, it was years and years ago but it still hurts like hell whenever Simon thinks about him. 

[ckducky]

My Adventures With my Girlfriend-the Meme

[bunnieswithknives]

AU based off Nature except I kept thinking about it too hard. Dales not a good dad, but its such an easy problem for him to throw money at, and what do you do when a part is damaged? Well, you replace it.

Basically an AU where Dev gets to experience medical trauma and realizes much sooner how much his dad doesn't love him

[idolomantises]

I’ve said this before, but I always found stories that frame heaven as “evil” and hell as “good” (or less bad) to be genuinely boring. I like more nuanced approaches to each realm.

I understand that for a lot of people, Christianity is a religion they like to criticize and mock, but I feel like if you don’t even understand the fundamentals of the religion, why even attempt to critique it?

[yujateaandpi]

Gobbled up the Dandadan anime and manga recently and absolutely adored it all. Not only does it feature the most likable and strongly written female characters I’ve ever seen in a shonen, it discusses extremely pertinent themes about consent and bodily autonomy from a lens of female solidarity while also elevating healthy relationships with kind communicative male characters who respect boundaries. It’s wacky, fun, gorgeous, and super refreshing. 

[liketolaugh-writes]

Okay but like. Real talk. 'Their son died and they didn't even notice' sounds real bad, but can we like- Danny was still living with them. It is reasonable to assume that your kid that is still living with you is not dead. It is not like he just disappeared one day and they didn't notice.

'Their son died and they didn't notice' is a FANTASTIC line for characters to torment themselves and each other with. Danny can lay awake at night and think about it. Maddie can rip her hair out over it. Sam can throw it at them in a spiteful rage.

But like. It's definitely not an accurate summary of what happened there. And I think the author should maintain a careful awareness of that.

[crow-quet]

*You tell a joke about two kids who played in a muddy flower garden.

*...

*You tell a joke about a kid who slept in the soil.

[farancia]

1 / 2 I’m really enjoying @sillysiluriforme and co’s depiction of sentimonsters