its me. im the april fool.

“If you aren’t a parent, you can’t criticize other people’s parenting” is not an argument. It’s a tactic used to enable abuse. People who are not parents are perfectly capable of seeing what child abuse looks like.

This was the best possible improvement for this post

Whoever decided that 2019 was going to be the year of posting Golden Girls bits is a hero

Lock your doors

my cat, for no goddamn reason at all except that he’s a cat and he can do whatever the fuck he wants: what if i just run at this wall, do a sick kickflip, scare myself with the sound it makes, and then proceed to run over your sleeping body? would that be fucked up or what

stop telling people to respect all opinions 

because guess what:

if your opinion dehumanizes people, if it’s sexist or racist or ableist or transphobic or homophobic, then it does not deserve respect and neither do you

i’ll be over here pretending I didn’t just see this

I mean… expectations were already low enough for the live-action Aladdin but…

jesus christ

get a load of this Avatar reject

also re: teens sitting around with their tablets and smartphones

like, if a kid can access the internet (with some privacy still) while also sitting in the same room as their parents, honestly that’s better and more social than what I did as a teenager, which was hole up in my room at my desktop computer that I couldn’t move anywhere else in the house

mostly what I see from the teens in my family is they will sit and scroll through their phone, but if something interesting starts happening, or a new person enters the room, or they see something cool they want to share, they look up and interact again, because they’re sitting right there with everyone else.

that is waaaay more social than 2002 me, hunched over my desktop for hours and only seeing my mom in passing when I went to microwave a burrito at 1am. way, way more social.

My whole family does this now. We’re all in the same room, but each on a phone, tablet, or laptop. Certain poop heads will shake their heads at how technology is dividing us.

But

Like

What do they think families have done for since ever? Talk constantly while playing educational board games every evening? No.

They’d each be reading, or sewing, or writing letters or some shit, and mostly sat quietly near each other but not bothering each other.

yes this

It reminds me of the whole “omg people on trains used to TALK to each other” argument. No, they didn’t. They read the newspaper or stared straight ahead avoiding eye contact.

People have been finding reasons not to talk to each other for centuries.