I Cant Believe Connie Is A Filthy Homestuck

Beetles 🪲🐞

Was compelled to make this during a conversation about commonly disliked bugs

In the club straight up ruminating it and by it I mean… my obsessions

They don’t tell you this but in the United States there is an extremely low chance to encounter a vehicle shaped like a hotdog

"I'm going to teach my sons to respect women."

A lot of women say this in response to all the sexism they see and experience. But it only works if you teach him to question all sources of power. If you're a single issue feminist and you want your son to question his privilege as a male but uphold your privilege as an adult, you'll fail miserably and it will be your own fault.

If you spend his entire childhood demanding that he obey all adults no matter how abusive and you call that "respect", then when he's a teenager and you teach him to "respect" women, he'll think women are just one more group of people who he has to submit to, and he'll easily fall for propaganda that feminism is a female supremacist movement. If you call him "disrespectful" when he says or does something sexist and you've also called him "disrespectful" for backtalk, eye rolling, muttering, or breathing loudly, he'll think you're just being an unreasonable authority figure once again. If you spank him and try to teach him that domestic violence is wrong, he'll see you as a blatantly obvious hypocrite.

Single issue activism is useless, and your child will see right through it. You can't just add "women" to the list of people your child must respect on command. If you want to prevent your child from becoming a bigot, you have to teach him to recognize bigotry in all forms, including when it's coming from you. You have to teach him to recognize that the way children are treated is bigotry. You also have to teach him to recognize ableism, racism, classism, and other ways that you may be privileged.

Patricia A. Bender, Geometry 300, (oxidized gelatin silver cliche-verre print with colored pencil), 2020, Unique [Laurence Miller Gallery, New York, NY. © Patricia A. Bender]

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today's bug thing is this knit moth!