Instead of making fun of people who do things at an older age that are normally done younger ( like getting their diploma or GED, learning to drive, even learning to read ) how about you:
Every time I make a post about why you shouldn’t donate to the Starvation Army, some fuckin hero always comes out of the fuckin woodwork to make noise about, “Well sweaty maybe the Salvation Army isn’t perfect but at least they’re doing something!”
No. Listen.
The reason you shouldn’t donate to the Starvation Army is because they are literally not helping. They do the opposite of help. That organization is an active source of harm.
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 literally just got an ad on YouTube telling me about how feminism isn’t real and I’m about to consume an entire city block in rage
If you see PragerU ads, block them as inappropriate – they do not cite facts, they are pushing an extremely conservative agenda, and they are spreading misinformation.
let autistic people infodump about their special interests without laughing at them or telling them they’re annoying. that kinda shit is what wrecks someone’s self-esteem and makes it even harder for them to form relationships bc everyone has told them they’re annoying and that their interests are stupid. don’t do it
forgot to add: this goes for ppl w adhd / add that have hyperfixations as well
Besides: If you just chill for a bit and listen, you might actually learn something interesting.
Despite what you may think of yourself, you do not, actually, know it all.
And if you can’t listen due to time constraints or just aren’t up to you, you can politely say something like “Hey, it sounds like you’re excited about this and want to talk, but I can’t right now. Maybe another time?” That way you’re not shutting them down in a way that makes them feel bad because you’re acknowledging how they feel about it while explaining why you can’t listen right that moment.
Today I learned that Van Halen have that rider in their contract about “a bowl of M&Ms with all the brown ones removed” in order to know at a glance if the promoter read the entire contract. And the reason they do THAT is because they once had a stage collapse because a promoter hadn’t read the proper way to set up all the specific technical stuff.
So if the band goes in the dressing room or catering and sees brown M&Ms, they know they have to double-check the stage setup for safety.
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