So apparently today the thing that has me screaming is living in a society built on hurting kids.
Not just child sexual abuse.
Every kind of harm & exploitation.
Why am I not having kids? Well, one reason is that I feel like there are plenty of kids in the world *already* for me to worry about, & there will always be more.
Maybe this is part of what upsets the right wing folks when childless people are concerned about the welfare of kids.
You're not supposed to worry about "other people's kids" (otherwise known as human beings with their own rights).
At BEST you're only supposed to worry about your kids, but even then, you're supposed to worry about competing for things, not their fucking well-being as individuals.
You're not supposed to look at a child & see a person. You're supposed to see *property*.
@artemis there was a reddit post awhile back from a 17-year-old who was upset she'd been woken up early & informed she'd be leaving for her grandmother's house for the weekend with no prior notice
the amount of "well in one year you will stop being property but for now you have to do literally everything your mom says so shut up and lump it" was HORRIFYING
she wasn't even asking for agency! just minimum basic consideration of her personhood!
Artemis
Jenni Polodna