‘Adultism’ is the latest form of hate, or privilege, or whatever…
Parents know what’s best for their children? At the risk of tossing tons of other scenarios aside, we LGBTQIA+ kids have heard that last one plenty while trying to grow up while out. Parents say we’re not bi. Or queer. Or a boy. Or non-binary.
They give us labels at birth and expect us to adhere to them. And when we don’t? Certainly it’s because our parents simply know us better than we know ourselves.
It couldn’t possibly be that parents are — gasp! — people who are ultimately a different being than their children.
But what of my suggested inability to provide parental advice when I’m not a parent myself? Okay, I give you that one. But the thing is that article wasn’t on parental advice.
It was an article on children’s basic human rights, which we tend to so grossly overlook.
How did that point so quickly get turned right back around to focus on the parents instead of the children?
Because adultism. . . .
OMG. Does anyone think that #Save our girls was the epitome of Progressive social justice in the “children’s basic human rights” cacophony of feel good, foot stomping righteousness?
Does anyone know of a government children’s basic human rights child “protection” intervention service that didn’t go well for the child?
And, how about that Shari’a? Are children’s basic human rights social justice warriors ready to gird their loins and take on ISIS?
When a two year old grabs another two year old’s teddy bear, where do you call for children’s basic human rights intervention.
Hells bells we all know that adultism is running rampant in every nook, cranny, hamlet, village, town and high-rise condo.
Lets focus on the children, shall we? Lets start at the beginning. The child’s life begins at conception. Can we all agree on that? So, if we agree, then a child’s basic human rights would include not having adultism suck its body into shreds within the womb for light and transient reasons.
Oh, forget it. I just can’t grasp the magnitude of overlooking children’s basic human rights in the upper stratosphere of parents giving labels to their kids at birth and expecting the kids to adhere to the label.
Would it be possible, in a sane world, for a child to mature to adulthood and then take on the total responsibility for his own life and how he lives it? Or is it necessary to stay burdened and shrouded forever because your parents didn’t do what you would have done if you had been the adult in your own maturation cycle?
What a life of luxury some get to lead. They look around at the world and this is the most important moral and ethical challenge they can find to get their bowels in an uproar.
Yeah, as if children could simply be left out in a field somewhere and grow up better. You know, like Mowgli did.
Or those kids in Lord of the Flies.
Ah, the eternal cry of the stealth totalitarian: “For the children!”
“For the children!” The rallying cry of men about to cross the invisible free trade line in front of little girls bathrooms.
This political distraction is one of the reasons I’ve always drawn the existential-line at gay-lesbian-bisexual in defining common communal-interests.
The interests of the cross-dressers, the hermaphrodites, the gender-reassigned, and the confused and the rest-of-the-alphabet crowd DON’T run parallel with those of the GLB community, nor it’s fundamental interests or political agenda.
They are a separate constituency and “Other” — not “Us”. One has to draw a line somewhere at the madness.
This the same group of people who say 18-21 are too immature to have a beer, too immature to buy tobacco products and too immature to get the own health insurance (up to age 26, what a joke). But a 10 year old is mature enough to start hormone therapy that will change their bodies forever. This is the newest form of Munchausen by proxy syndrome.
Liberal parental unit 1 : “My son is gay, isn’t that wonderful?”
Liberal parental unit 2 : “My non-binary child unit is undergoing hormone therapy to become the other”
Liberal parental unit 2 : “You are so brave and courageous.. want to come to my next gathering and share your bravery with all the others. They will simply adore you. Don’t worry it is adults only, you can leave the child unit at home.”
Life was much simpler when you could just send your 12-yo boy off to the coal mine to to work as a breaker-boy, or indenture them into an 7-yr apprenticeship, or send them to sea as a cabin-boy. And marry-off (sell) your daughter at 14, or send her to work to the spinning mills or to work as a house-maid.
The liberals continue to mis-read their Dickens…and their Austen. Instead they have sappy, uplifting musicals to explain how wonderful it all was.
Basic human rights of children : ban abortion