Stop asking little girls if they have boyfriends
Stop referring to the boys that little girls are friends with as their “little boyfriends”
Stop telling little girls they’re going to have boyfriends or be “boy crazy”
Stop raising children on heteronormativity and let them be children
Additionally: 1. It’s not funny 2. It’s not cute 3. You are embarrassing them 4. You are completely disregarding them when they tell you “no” and you insist
Stop doing the same to little boys too.
They are not “a little lady’s man.”
Don’t excuse him picking on a girl as him having a crush. Correct the behavior and stop treating it like it’s cute and normal.
Also stop insisting little boys have crushes on significantly older women. It’s gross.
Just let kids be kids.
Its not “men and women just cant be friends” its “you fourced romantic implications on children and made them uncomfortable/embarassed, socially conditioning them to not platonically interact with the opposite sex”
I feel like an aspect of Phineas and Ferb that goes completely underappreciated is that not once but TWICE per episode the writers were able to link the story lines of two brothers building crazy and impossible things with their friends and an evil scientist who poorly tries to take over of the world and also battles a platypus AND somehow make it that whatever malfunctioning device the scientist made completely removed the proof anything had happened with them. Like… that’s astounding
What’s more astounding is the fact that they managed to, somehow, make it weirder and weirder without losing face. Like. I wonder how they explained these scenarios to the animators with a straight face. “Yeah, so we’re gonna have the platypus get in a swordfight with the evil scientist. Yeah, have the Duel of the Fates playing in the background. Yeah, it’s gonna be Brutworst and Hot dog as swords”
Phineas and Ferb is really unappreciated just because “the plot is always the same, that’s a lame excuse for not having enough ideas”. Like no, not at all. This is exactly what makes the show so good: the ability to make every episode special by changing the usual pattern just a little. It’s always a little changing: using Perry’s point of view , make the episode go on backwards, making Linda (the mom) become the Candace of the situation by trying to get her husband’s attention, make Perry and Candace switching bodies…
It’s a little change of the pattern, but it’s enough, because the plot is NOT the pattern: the plot develops around the pattern like it’s some kind of environment or scenery.
And the best part is that the characters themselves know about it: Candace knows she will never bust them, Linda knows that her daughter will never give up, the boys know that their invections will just disappear.
Y’all are forgetting the FRIKKIN MUSIC
THERE’S 104 DAYS OF SUMMER VACATION-
OF SUMMER VACATION
AND SCHOOL COMES AROUND JUST TO END IIIITT
I fucking loved this show and especially the music.
Twitter made the Jewish lady that posted this delete it for “threatening violence.”
Her followers spent the rest of the day tweeting this. Trolls couldn’t keep up.
Coming from someone who studies the Holocaust and the history surrounding it, It is important to remember that Nazis were human, not monsters.
It’s important because if we dehumanize them we create a level of separation between us and them. It’s important because if we create that level of removal, we start ignoring the subtle signs of antisemitism because “Oh, well they’re just a normal human, not a monster, i’m sure it’ll be alright.” It’s important because when we create that level of removal, they come back in waves. It’s important because when you create that level of separation, you get the problems that we have now.
There is a very simple set of brain equations involved when we dehumanize the enemy, and it goes something like this:
“Nazis are monsters” “I would not be friends with a monster”
The CORRECT conclusion is “I cannot be friends with Nazis”
BUT PEOPLE KEEP BELIEVING THE COROLLARY “None of my friends are Nazis” “…even that one guy who keeps posting ‘ironic’ Pepe memes, who never really grew out of his 4Chan /pol/ phase, and who keeps trying to have really intense conversations with me about ‘globalists’. But he’s my friend! I’ve known him forever! He doesn’t REALLY believe any of that stuff. He’s just kind of an asshole, and we love him anyway.”
This is a very bad corollary. It is an extraordinarily dangerous corollary. When we sincerely believe that we would not be friends with bad people, we ignore the signs that our friends are bad people.
(Friendly note: you can replace “Nazi” above with “sexual predator” or “racist” or “abuser”. Same hat, pretty much. There are very real reasons not to dehumanize the enemy, and they have nothing to do with the enemy’s right to humanity, and everything to do with the enemy’s ability to sneak past our lines wearing a nice-person mask.)
I’m reblogging this to my main blog because it is extremely fucking important.
Condition your teacher to get the fuck out of the class
Think about this in the context of performing feminity. So many women deny that they have been influenced to shave, wear makeup, wear heels, etc and claim they do it for themselves. But when you are receiving compliments and are getting treated better when you do those things, you are definitely being influenced.
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