Some evangelical pastors who regularly deliver sermons in support of school prayer have recently added a new twist — preaching that Christian traditions are needed in classrooms to stop children from identifying as transgender.
Or, in other words, without cult brainwashing, people might enjoy more freedom to be themselves.
Maybe they can explain why someone like me attended Christian schools, was very devout, and eventually transitioned. Funny thing is, if they’d been less transphobic I might’ve not questioned my faith and left Christianity.
I do have to wonder how these figures compare to older generations and to what extent underreporting due to stigmas around mental health could be corrected for between generations.
(I hope this already comes across, but I absolutely don’t mean to diminish the severity of the mental health problems faced by Gen Z or anyone else.)
I, for one, did not take your comment in a bad light. I’m in my late 40s, and most of my peers that I’m comfortable with have anxiety or some other mental health issue, myself included. I’m not sure what generation classification I fall into, but it really doesn’t matter; it’s not a generation specific problem. I guess I don’t really have a point here. Maybe that it’s a problem of the times rather than DOB. Or I’d guess 15% of people don’t report.
You know a substantial number of Zoomers are not teenagers and haven’t been for many years yeah?
I’m not sure why it has to be a controversial take that the first generation to grow up with unfettered internet access and subsequently the most awareness of any and every global crisis, has a disproportionately large number of people with anxiety disorders. It’s not like it’s all or nothing either, you can have mild-moderate anxiety and still have a diagnosable disorder
Younger folks in there late 20s older ones early 40s?
Meaning that the older half of the generation didn’t have internet access at all hours of the day during their childhood since home computers were a rarity until the mid nineties and those were generally shared with the whole family. Vs. Personal devices with internet access (first smartphones, Gen 1 Ipods, cheaper and more common home computers) which Gen Z children en mass have had since the early 2000s, which is when the oldest Gen Z’ers were 5-6.
There is Grey area in the few years where the generations changed and it’s basically indistinguishable but don’t even try to make the argument that someone born in 1986 had the same childhood as someone born in 2000
Yeah, both my boomer parents 100% have anxiety with periods of uncontrollable panic attacks, but they refuse to acknowledge this is the case. There is definitely a stigma when talking about mental health for their generation.
I really hate the idea of parents. Like two people raise you and are responsible for you? Reading Brave New World as a kid, it took me until the very end to understand it as dystopian. I thought the idea of your parents being barely a part of the equation, just absent minded and high all the time? Great. Trusting school to raise you entirely using weird subliminal studying methods was actually an improvement. It is dystopian, but yeah I basically think this idea of an atomic family unit to be the most bizarre and selfish, anti-social bullshit. My parents didn’t let me know my relatives, were able to choose who I was friends with, where I was able to go. And all the while I’m reliant on them to not be kidnapped or hate crimed and to support my goals rather than force me to sit at home. The abuse just continues on and on. I will never be okay, I can only hope to make some cool art before I die. But that start of life decides for you whether you will be important or not.
I can only hope to make some cool art before I die
That, friend, is more than most people could hope to dream of. And I don’t mean that in the “poor kid in Rwanda” way. Let the wound do the talking there’s medicine there, not just for you.
It’s terribly lonely, isn’t it? And so hard to explain to other people.
I remember when I was allowed to go to school (kindergarten). I was so excited to finally have friends and thought everyone was automatically my friend. That’s how it worked on TV, all the kids were friends with each other on the tv shows. Turns out that’s not how it works, and everyone had friends already from preschool. I was a permanent outsider from that point on, bullied. Struggled to make friends. When I finally did, we moved.
Nobody cared if I was lonely, only if my grades were good (and they were perfect), and the floors were mopped and the knickknacks were dusted weekly. Anything less was an hour long screaming session.
Nobody understands why I don’t want children. How do you raise children without a family?
Childhood is basically an Achilles heel for every single libertarian concept, and one which authoritarians exploit every single time. Until every single human is born with complete knowledge and faculty, this weakness will always prevent full individualistic freedom.
That’s the point, they’re making fun of all the news sources that can’t be arsed to give actual measures.
“The forest fire is as big as one million football fields!” means fuck all, but saying “Equivalent to a square 75km by 75km.” that’s a measure that actually means something.
What’s really going to fuck with you is that the fire is mostly confined to the boundaries, so a fire would be better measured by units of length. It’s not like you have 75 square kilometers simultaneously on fire, you’ve got 75 square kilometers burned, as in past tense, and some amount of the outline of that is currently on fire.
Picked a weird senator to protest. Reminds me of when those vegan protestors jumped him. He’s probably the only senator that would side with them, yet they protested him. Such weird behavior.
In an outdoor on-the-spot interview someone asked him how XAEwhatever was (saying it how Musk pronounced it in an interview) and Musk was confused for a few seconds like “huh… what…?.. OH YOU MEAN MY KID HAHA! Yeah he’s fine.”
So he was just trolling and getting his kicks while everyone took him serious.
It’s to stop crackheads from naming their children names that will be detrimental to them throughout their life. Like naming them shitbag or sandals. No one would call their kids names like this you say? There’s a reason they had to invent this law SMH
This is a great example of the price of freedom. Poor shitbags has to live a shitty life just because a deranged parent felt like being edgy and pushing the free speech laws to their limits.
Some State Naming regulations
Arkansas: Apostrophes, hyphens, and spaces are allowed as long as they are not consecutive.
California: Derogatory or obscene names, pictographs and non-English characters are banned.
Florida: Parents need to sign an agreement to establish a child’s first name or else a court will select one.
Georgia: Symbols, including accents, are prohibited.
Illinois: No restrictions. Numbers and special characters are allowed.
Michigan: Only English characters allowed.
Mississippi: The child takes on the father’s surname automatically when parents are married. A different name can be requested if preferred.
New Jersey: Obscene names, numbers, and symbols are forbidden.
New York: First and middle names have a maximum length of 30 characters each, last names cannot exceed 40 characters. Numbers and symbols are forbidden.
North Carolina: Accent marks, hyphens, and tildes (ñ) are allowed.
Ohio: Hyphens, apostrophes, and spaces are allowed. Numbers are prohibited.
Texas: First, middle and last name cannot exceed 100 characters. Only English characters allowed. Numbers and diacritical marks are forbidden.
Virginia: Numbers, symbols and other special characters such as umlauts and tildes are banned.
examples of illegal names in the United States:
Jesus Christ.
Harry 3.
Hitler.
Nutella.
Ирина.
Nelly’s.
Chloé.
F!nn.
Aña.
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