Worst of Social Justice

[Thejebusfire]

Kids being assholes is totally rape culture now.

[shykid]

Oh FFS. Invading people's personal space is wack, and people who do it need a cluebatting. It is not, however, "rape." Rapists need a lot more than a good cluebatting.

[chitoryu12]

Also, they're in second grade. Kids that age always act like assholes! They don't have a full, firm grasp on social rules and appropriate behavior by that time.

[SpaceProg]

Little kids are always grabby.  Hell, I remember when I was in kindergarten and the other early grades, and hell... personal space was a foreign concept. 

[The Right Honourable Mlle Antéchrist]

Boys tease girls, girls tease boys. It's not "patriarchy", it's kids not understanding boundaries.

[Katsuro]

How can it be "rape culture" when kids that age don't even have a sexuality?

Or was it just me who didn't have much resembling a sexuality until puberty?  As far as I remember I was as close to asexual until then as made no difference.

[The Right Honourable Mlle Antéchrist]

Or was it just me who didn't have much resembling a sexuality until puberty?

The exact age where sexuality first develops depends on the kid, but it's safe to say that you're not going to find anything resembling adult sexuality among 7-year-olds. Some kids might experiment with masturbation, playing "doctor" and the like, but it tends to stem more from curiosity or "if I do this, it feels good" rather than a sex drive. Young children exhibiting explicitly sexual behavior, particularly if it's predatory, is generally regarded as an indicator of sexual abuse in the child's history.

A child jumping up and scaring a girl or ruffling her hair is neither sexual nor "entitlement to her body". Children do these kinds of things because they have yet to learn the social skills needed to express themselves and respect personal space. It has dick all to do with "patriarchy" and everything to do with kids being kids.

[Katsuro]

Or was it just me who didn't have much resembling a sexuality until puberty?

A child jumping up and scaring a girl or ruffling her hair is neither sexual nor "entitlement to her body". Children do these kinds of things because they have yet to learn the social skills needed to express themselves and respect personal space. It has dick all to do with "patriarchy" and everything to do with kids being kids.

And if I remeber kids from my own youth correctly, boys do the same sorts of things to other boys too, they don't do it exclusivley to girls.  In fact they probably do it even more to other boys.

[RavynousHunter]

Children in general are little assholes, but for fuck's sake, they're not all burgeoning rapists.  One or two in a million, maybe, but being a douche does not a rapist make.  All rapists are douchebags, but not all douchebags are rapists.

[Sleepy]

We've seen cases where children as young as 5 or 6 were listed as sex offenders for doing stupid shit like that. I wonder what ends up happening to them.

[syaoranvee]

Just found InternetAristocrat's videos on "tumblrisms" last night. I love these things.

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hR8ADuqrGx8" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hR8ADuqrGx8</a>

[Søren]

So i made this analogy

You have two crazies on top of the table arguing about which of their hair colors is more oppressing. Another chewing on the orderlies leg claiming that hes a wolfkin. A few more in the corner screaming at their mlp and homestuck headmates to stop trying to seduce them. A dude pointing a spork at the lunch lady while yelling shes a death eater and that he is really harry potter. And a girl in the corner crying because the mashed potato on her face is triggering. All the while the men in white suits are trying to calm everybody down while the entire institution yells about their white privilege.


And the rage generated on tumblr is amazing. I have over 60 notes of equal AWESOME and BAAAAAW

[Captain Jack Harkness]

So i made this analogy

You have two crazies on top of the table arguing about which of their hair colors is more oppressing. Another chewing on the orderlies leg claiming that hes a wolfkin. A few more in the corner screaming at their mlp and homestuck headmates to stop trying to seduce them. A dude pointing a spork at the lunch lady while yelling shes a death eater and that he is really harry potter. And a girl in the corner crying because the mashed potato on her face is triggering. All the while the men in white suits are trying to calm everybody down while the entire institution yells about their white privilege.


And the rage generated on tumblr is amazing. I have over 60 notes of equal AWESOME and BAAAAAW

And of course the men in the white suits won't all be white.  Just the fact that they're wearing white suits makes them "white identifying" and therefore bad and evil.

[Patches]

Just found InternetAristocrat's videos on "tumblrisms" last night. I love these things.

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hR8ADuqrGx8" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hR8ADuqrGx8</a>

Man, I showed the site mentioned in that video to my friend, who's currently getting a Masters in Social Work, and she could barely control her rage:

This is just....offensive.  And dangerous.  And about as legal as a person going around insisting they're a trained medical doctor.  Like this really....really isn't okay.  For fucks sake...how privilaged do you have to be that you have to invent your own problems to fight and pretend to advocate for, when there are still starving people on the street?  People freezing to death in this weather because all of the shelters have filled up.  I really can't understand how anyone can justify this. I really can't.

Yes, these people want and need attention, for one reason or another. But that's hardly the motivation they...it is why they're doing what they're doing, but it isn't why they -think- they're doing what they're doing.  I don't know.  I can't, this just makes me actually want to get a stupid tumblr, just to start a war I can't possibly win.  But everything about that page offends me.  Down to her having the gall to insist that she's anything like a therapist because she thinks she's naturally endowed with a level of empathy.

[Commissar Kaz]

Just found InternetAristocrat's videos on "tumblrisms" last night. I love these things.

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hR8ADuqrGx8" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hR8ADuqrGx8</a>

I've always wondered if these kind of people, the headmates and otherkins and the like, actually believe in the waste that they spew, or know that their just doing it to be a speshul snowflake. I'd like to see how they'd cope with actual schizophrenia.