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The Spanking Debate is Over – Quillette

curlicuecal:

the-real-seebs:

Long story short: The science is solid enough that at this point it is completely reasonable to state unequivocally that spanking is a bad idea. It does not produce good outcomes, it does produce bad outcomes. It produces antisocial behavior and slows development. It is bad. It should stop. We are out of good excuses for believing otherwise.

So it’s weird. I’m so culturally immersed in and normalized to the concept of spanking that it doesn’t strike me as strange, or even as a particular warning sign of abusive parents in and of itself.

And yet, when I step back to really ponder what it consists of, “using violence on this small person in our power will work out well for them” is like.

A WILD concept.

Why does that seem normal to so many of us? How does it not trigger massive cognitive dissonance?

The Spanking Debate is Over – Quillette

hunter-the-odd:

vastderp:

adorably-confused-fallen-angel:

sparklesmccheesy:

ittygittydiddynator:

iheichouguys:

lifehackable:

This is potentially life saving information everyone should know.

No you guys this post helped me find my cat. He was missing for almost a month and I’ve had him for over 12 years. After seeing this I put his favorite blanket he always slept on outside hoping he would smell mine or his scent and he was back the next fucking day asleep on it.

When my cat got out, we called and called for him, and then, later that night, I remembered similar advice to this, and so put his little scratching pad, which he adores, on the front porch. Not even half an hour later, I heard a thump, opened the door, and there was his big butt, meowing at me.

Important and vital

I don’t care that I reblogged this today I’m reblogging it again

awwwww babies ;_; i hope everyone’s pets come home safe.

I thought this was well known…

cannibalcoalition:

Was chatting with my co-workers in the breakroom today about stuff and I mentioned the one time that I got fired for being gay. 

“What? They can’t do that, can they? Really?”

“They can. I mean, they shouldn’t- but they can. I came out to a co-worker and then the next day I was booted.”

“If they’d done that to me, I would have just stolen something out of spite. Like… a stapler or something,” says the janitor. 

“Well… I was working for the zoo.”

She paused for a moment and her eyes glossed over. “I woulda stolen so many tigers.”

star-sapphics:

star-sapphics:

BBC Sherlock is the best adaption of Sherlock Holmes because it succeeded in making me despise the character of Sherlock Holmes for the rest of my life (and eternity) and made me never want to touch the stories ever again and that’s what Arthur Conan Doyle would have truly wanted.

I stg at this very moment Arthur Conan Doyle’s ghost is probably floating in front of Steven Moffat’s bed violently sobbing in gratitude and mumbling things like ‘you did it. You finally did it. They all hate Sherlock Holmes. Thank you’