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On the subject about parents needing to control their child's reading and invade their privacy in order to "protect" them from "inappropriate material:

Until I was in....college? At least? The vast, vast majority of the books I read were either a) assigned by my school or b) (the vast majority of my reading) provided to me by my mother.

My mom is a librarian. She filled our rooms with books, picked especially for us. She pointed out books on the shelves in our home library (separate from our bedroom shelves) that she thought we would like. She bought us books for birthdays, Christmas, and just stacks of recommendations. She once paid me $10 to read one of the Cirque Du Freak books because she said I needed "to be exposed to bad literature."

She respected my privacy in room, didn't go through my belongings. She explicitly pointed out to us that she wouldn't know if we took a particular book of the shelf, as long as we returned it, if we didn't want her to know we were reading it. She purposely brought us books that she didn't care for herself, because she thought we might find them valuable or enjoyable.

And if we wanted to read something she thought might upset or disturb us, she would explain why. She wouldn't stop us from reading it - just ask us to check in with her, to talk through it.

And so when I read something that upset or disturbed me, I would go to her. She would listen and talk through it with me.

If she said she didn't think I would like something, or that a book might disturb me, or that she thought I should wait until I was older, I listened to her.

She didn't need restrictions or control to protect me. Because she proved I could trust her.

Controlling kids is never about "protecting" them. It's just about control.

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need two vampire ladies to have an indirect kiss using me

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Sorry we really went from free the nipple, take back the night, slut walks, and ending gender/sex segregation in sports being fucking milquetoast feminism 101 concepts to fucking girl dinner and "I just worry about fairness if we let trans girls play against cis ones" and "it was right of that woman to call the cops on a black man for existing near here in public during the day time because men are all violent monsters" and "radical feminism isn't transphobic we just need to kill all men including trans ones those oppressive traitors" and I will legit never be able to be normal about it. What the FUCK happened. I'd say I wonder what the feminists of my youth would say about this but I'm one and lemme tell ya I want to throw up. Go fucking read bell hooks or do something else useful please because all of this learned helplessness, gender essentialism, and transphobia dressed up as feminism is actively holding us back.

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SHAWNN!!!! I'm figuring out how to draw the man 😈

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tom felton saying he’s “not attuned” to JKR’s politics (despite the fact that she’s made it her entire personality) fucking loser.

we love you daniel, rupert, and emma!!!

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What if you were watching porn that seemed totally normal and then at the end it hit you with this

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Just to clarify, there's a bill that would STOP credit card companies from controlling who's allowed to spend money on porn or "risque" (read: queer) content. If you don't think big business should be able to tell you what to spend your own damn money on, call your senators and reps to let them know! It's the Fair Access to Banking Act, H.R.987 in the House, S.410 in the Senate.

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whats ur role in the tumblr community how do you contribute

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one of my favourite things about psych as a sherlock holmes variant is that it nails the freak4freak dynamic of the original, specifically gus being the watson to seeming like the normal, well-measured counterpart to shawn's insanity until he's spotted 3 meters away doing the same thing if not worse

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perfect new meme template just dropped

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the freaking recurring tears for fears guy cameo on psych is the goofiest thing on earth. he's so plot irrelevant every time he shows up. he's just there. and he's not even playing a character. everyone's like "whoa curt smith from tears for fears!?" and then he sings a little and acts mildly befuddled. and I support it a hundred and eighty percent because you know what? I don't know the guy, but I can tell you without a doubt that if I was curt smith that is exactly what I would do with my time.

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HRT doesnt make you immediately pass, but that's actually nice because you can start it before even coming out. The effects on your body make daily life so much easier, you feel more at home in your own skin. Even if I dont pass my body, sexuality, and sense of self have changed for the better. I wake up feeling like I'm not trapped in a foreign form. There is still time‼️‼️‼️

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told my mom my cat had a cold and she asked the most important question

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“no one’s ever mad at me unless they tell me so” is the best assumption i’ve ever made