a day late to my 6 years on t anniversary ✨🏳️‍⚧️ a short comic about looking back

The crew are in town!

I've had a feeling for a while now that people are ruder now than they were before the pandemic. I did some googling and turns out I'm not crazy or alone in thinking people have gotten ruder and more aggressive over the past few years. The articles chalks it up to stress from the pandemic and the economy and other global situations, but I think it's deeper and more complicated than that. I don't think stress is a valid excuse to be rude to strangers who don't deserve it, even when I'm really upset or stressed out I don't use a random service industry employee, or any random undeserving stranger, as my punching bag because that's deplorable behavior.

I think one of if not the biggest contribution to the rise of rudeness comes down to people spending years inside getting little to no in person socialization and spending massive amounts of time online, and social rules online tend to be different than social rules in person. Online it tends to be more normal and acceptable to be aggressive and hostile to strangers, usually because there's not the same consequences (it's hard to punch someone through a computer screen) and also it's easier to not feel guilty about bad behavior when someone is just words and pictures on a screen, it tends to make the hostility and aggression spilled on others not feel as "real" or "bad" as treating someone like that in person. (and I'm not saying this is okay, I really think as a society we should address and work on the ease and acceptance of being a total raging sack of shit to strangers online) But I think if people spend years spending massive amounts of time online and little to no time actually in person with other people, it's going to affect their sense of how it's acceptable to behave and treat other people as they adopt the social norms of the internet.

I do like the point this article makes that rudeness and aggression are contagious. It is a social contagion, the more you're rude and aggressive to others the more tense and upset they'll feel and start behaving rudely and aggressively too. The good news is, kindness and courtesy are also contagious.

Let's chat: why yall like det???!

“Children don’t need to earn their humanity. Children aren’t humans in training, they are humans right now. They’re not waiting to live their life, this is part of their life in this moment. Society treats children as though they’re preparing for a time where they’re allowed respect – and not before then. Until that time it’s acceptable to treat them as sub-human under the guise of parenting and education. For many, parenting is synonymous with punishment and learning is synonymous with schooling which are both so far off the mark. This all comes down to childism and it is so deeply sewn into the fabric our society. So much so that talking about it creates such cognitive dissonance that I know I’ll get defensive, even angry comments sharing these thoughts. People who genuinely respectfully parent and speak up for the injustices towards kids are so often ridiculed. Like I’ve said in the past, I don’t want to be viewed as a ‘good parent’ by a society that thinks so little of children.”

— How Many Well Intentioned People Dehumanise Children | Racheous

283,000 likes………giant meteor strike the earth rn holy shit. oh my god.

"maybe it's not your pussy" is such a funny phrase and also correct. People wonder why chores are so hard and it's like, friends we used to have a whole intergenerational team on this and now Grandma is locked in a beige box. Cooking is hard.

i don't see enough appreciation for closeted lesbians. i'm thinking of lesbians who can't dress they way the want, or style their hair how they wish. i'm thinking about the lesbians who entertain coversations about relationships with men, or dodge questions about their dating life from family members. i'm thinking about the lesbians who have to keep their relationships secret. i'm thinking about lesbians who don't really understand lesbian terminology and have no one to ask. i'm thinking about the lesbians who are just coming to understand their sexuality and are scared, confused, and worried. i'm thinking about the lesbians who can't consume lgbt media and have very little positive representation, if any. i'm thinking about the lesbians who have never met anyone else like them before. i'm thinking about trans lesbians who are consistently misgendered. i'm thinking about the lesbians who are only out to a close circle of friends. i'm thinking of lesbians who are closeted because they're dependent on others for housing, food, medication, clothing, etc.

to ALL closeted lesbians, i see you and i hold a very special place for you in my heart. protecting your safety does not make you any less valid as a lesbian. your safety and your survival always come first.

It's not "everyone" acting like it's normal. The majority of people know something's wrong they just don't have the tools to fix it. Maybe a plurality don't know that the problem is capitalism, they blame it on something else, but they're still aware there's a problem. "Everyone" is just too exhausted from working 4 jobs, 50 hours a week to scream into the void in their spare time.

ALT

guess I gotta pull out this bad boy again huh

Love his nipples

"Ew that thing is so ugl-"

NO! FRILLED SHARK BEAM ATTACK!