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It is so fucking sinister that the only form of child abuse that society really cares about is sexual in nature. parents are free to control everything about their child's movement, presentation, eating, faith traditions, information exposure, socialization, and can restrict all of these things to an extreme degree as a form of punishment or in order to shape the child into whatever they want that child to be. and that's all considered completely normal, the parent's right! people don't even see the fact that a parent has the power to control so much about a child's life for damn near 20 years to be a problem. The only time they become concerned about child abuse is when the prospect of an outside stranger behaving in a sexual way toward a child is raised. and yeah a lot of really horrific sexual abuses are enacted unto children, but that's because they have zero control over their own lives and bodies in any other way as well. It is all about power and control. and typically the ones who are abusing children the most frequently are the ones who have the most control over them, the parents.

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(cw: sexual assault) the pedophile -as it is understood outside of academic circles- is a mythical creature. the idea that a complete stranger who kidnaps and sexually assaults kids is their biggest threat is absolutely insane; not one case of CSA (child sexual assault) in a hundred looks like that. CSA is committed almost uniformly by adults in a preestablished position of authority (such as family, family friends, clergy, or teachers) and in a way that a victim who doesn't know what sexual assault looks like will be left unsure what happened to them. without knowing concretely how sex and sexuality works, would you be able to tell the difference between molestation and the various other forms of unwanted physical touch and abuse kids are regularly subjected to? would it even seem that different? but parenthood and the submission of youth to adults as institutions are threatened by the reality of CSA. adults need to justify their ownership of children through an imagined outside threat constantly held at bay through their diligence. the truth - that putting yourself in such a position of authority over children directly enables abuse (including sexual abuse) - is thrown aside.

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YOU IDIOT ! ! !

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Laura Makabresku - The Birth Of Evil

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episode fourteen, "lonely souls," twin peaks / "the long bright dark," true detective

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I think they should all go in the tomb with him and let it get sealed off

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“he owns all things," 

"doesn’t he?” “He’s invented” “all the shapes” “I’m afraid he’s” “invented mine,” “my very own” “body’ ” (“she was hysterical”) “‘Did he invent me?”

— Alice Notley, from The Descent of Alette

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A collection of bull men from the past few days

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“What does the god of your childhood look like? A soft apparition pigeoned in the attic, a wound eating you one year at a time?”

— blud, ‘outhouse’ by Rachel McKibbens

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I am a primitive, amoebic organism and I work at the shit factory. I eat, breathe and dance feces - such is my joy and sustenance, such is my labor.

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Susan Sontag, As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh

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shadow of a doubt (1943)

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Pride & Prejudice (2005) dir. Joe Wright

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Sun bleached <3