Kids can handle much more than most adults give them credit for. If someone’s concerned about their kids misunderstanding something, maybe… yah know… watch it with them?

0% support to authoritarian-wannabe parents who try to control their kids’ access to information.

One whose name can never be mentioned on Reddit. 😁

Metric. I’ve had my phone set up to display the temperature in Celsius for the last ~8 years so that I can get a sense of it without doing math all the time.

Generations that will grow up with morning-after pills will be fucked

I mean…

and its child products

Don’t get the “president” and his cronies too excited, now…

Corporal Punishment Sucks.

Definitely. It’s why I only milk bulls.

My head hurts.

If there’s a legitimate health and safety concern, I’m not saying a parent can’t say no, but a parent telling a kid their expression has to be limited by their parents’ own biases is too far. So… no playing tag on the freeway, but a parent shouldn’t be able to tell a kid to expeess themselves in ways they don’t want to or follow a religion they don’t want to follow.

In the US when I was growing up, some kids got kicked out of their homes for being queer or for not being “Christian” enough. This is what comes to mind.

Agreed.

Everyone (including kids and teens) should have full bodily autonomy. This includes how they express gender. Parents should not be allowed to circumcise/mutilate their kids’ genitals for reasons that aren’t medically necessary, nor should they be allowed to lay their hands on their kids in a violent way (and yes, that includes “only” spanking). Parents who hit/spank their kids should be charged with assault and child abuse.

Kids and teens having basic rights might not be controversial here, but in the rural area that I’m from, it certainly is.

This backpack (CW: Blood) belonged to an elementary school kid who was killed yesterday after the U.S. and Israel targeted her school.

Take a look at the picture, and tell us all again how it’s a good thing.

I’m sure as soon as that toddler goes into a fire, the orange will just disappear into the orange, and that will be that.

At least, one can hope.

accident

Maybe? Hopefully? I’m really, really hating that I have to question this. >.<

The ages are no one’s business unless the people he’s flirting with are under 18.

Just going from the behaviour, though? Still super creepy.

Oh no! Anyway…

How to say you’re from Vermont without saying you’re from Vermont. 😁

She’s a moog pioneer. And she collaborated with Al in '88.

A lot of people don’t know that Al was on a Brian Wilson track in the early 1990s, “Let’s Stick Together” (it later became “The Waltz”).

His stuff from the mid '70s is rough, but it’s still pretty funny.

There have only been 4 artists to have a Top 40 single in each of the last 4 decades ('80s, '90s, '00s, and '10s).

• Michael Jackson
• Madonna
• Weird Al Yankovic
• U2

(In that order.)