The recurring theme of this era: Trump can do whatever he wants. Musk and other billionaires can do whatever they want. Israel can do whatever it wants.
But if you're a college freshman who goes to an anti-genocide rally, you can end up expelled and in jail. Even deported, depending on who you are.
Great system.
Young women and queer people are being systematically infantilized and stripped of autonomy by older, white, conservative people who have already stolen the opportunity to own homes, start families, and all the other traditional markers of adulthood.
But they're happy to put little kids to work in factories.
The explicit message being handed down by the powerful is none of us have value except to produce more (white) children and profit for our incompetent, aging overlords.
Well obviously! Women need to be coddled because they could never do REAL work, but Men should be men and it's best to start em young!
I started working my dad's farm at the age of 3. I was too small to drive the tractor so he made me plow fields with a Little Tykes bulldozer.
And if he caught me slacking you'd best believe I'd regret it. You know, because of the implications.
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Nowhere Girl
Nagaram