the stark material realities of the privilege of simply living in the imperial core were made incredibly apparent to me when i was driving across the border from mexico. border guards took one look at me and stopped me and asked if i had an american passport. when i told them i had a british passport (i’m a naturalized citizen) they immediately let the car i was in keep going, no further questions asked
& conversely literally every time i have ever flown i have been taken aside & interrogated about my venezuelan citizenship & quite memorably once detained for hours by the TSA until my (white, american) girlfriend talked to them on the phone. like i think i have a pretty clear & unique experience of being on both sides of this to say that yes, under global imperialism, mere citizenship of an imperialist country is made a material benefit, & mere citizenship of an imperialised country is made a material detriment!
This is the bare minimum of decent human behavior for ANY gender. If you are an adult and someone who is not an adult wants to have a relationship with you, it is your duty to, at bare minimum, turn them away.
and like… having crushes on adults is a Normal Adolescent Thing, but it doesn’t mean they’re ready for–or for that matter, want–an actual relationship with said adult. it’s a goddamn developmental phase for kids working out their sexuality, and treating it as a chance to get laid is fucking monstrous.
Recommended tactics to deal with a child hitting on you:
“kiddo”
“buddy”
inform a friend to ensure you’re never left alone with them
refer to own age in conversation
“yeah, I know I look young, but you wouldn’t BELIEVE how awkward it is being mistakenly hit on by a teenager!”
upon that child turning 18:
“Happy birthday, kiddo!”
“Have you registered to vote yet?”
“Man, being a baby adult was so hard, good luck with that”
to reiterate: minors having crushes on adults is a normal part of sexual development, but adults should NOT start a relationship and they shouldn’t act as if a minor would be an equal in said relationship because they were interested
Also! This doesn’t automatically change the minute they turn 18.
Like if you’re 30-40+ that’s still fucked up
Waiting until they’re 18 only means that you’re protecting yourself from legal trouble. You’re still a predator.
no i still can’t believe that the guy who called for the fourth crusade which resulted in sacking zadar (nominally catholic city) and constantinople (nominally orthodox city) and division of byzantine empire was named literally innocent. pope innocent. i can feel the devil inside my body turning me in some kind of orthodox nationalist
a good experience more people on this website should have is confidently bringing up some leftist talking point you picked up from tumblr around family members, only for them to ask extremely basic and predictable followup questions/rebuttals that you have no response to because you just internalized the three-paragraph post with 3k notes. this only needs to happen a few times for the lesson to stick and the sooner the better
Let’s do a Wild Hunt larp where we kidnap Jeff Bezos and release him in the forest and then give all the larpers (who are amazon employees) weird masks and motorbikes painted to look like fucked up horses and wolves.
Somewhat disturbed at how fast this post started picking up notes.
don’t set out food if you don’t want us to eat
i love that i can’t write the word fuck on facebook without risking getting zucced and here I’m greeted everyday by posts like this
my only problem with this is that this sounds less like a larp and more like the actual Wild Hunt
Quality larps are as realistic as is practical.
Oh we’re going to drop the word Larp from this in less than a week.
