Radqueer friendly instance :3
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alrighty, now that i'm slowly getting less busy i'm open to freelance dev/sysadmin work again lol, help me save so i can be together with my pedophile bf uwu
CWs are pretty much entirely subjective so if you want me to CW something comment under this post (which will be pinned), i will likely not CW much if it's not specifically requested
lol you know what's funny? since i've always done hrt unofficially i didn't even notice that apparently it became even harder to do officially here (though realistically it doesn't change much, since the main difference is that now it's entirely impossible <18 and before it already required enough bureaucracy to be de facto impossible, which is why i've always done it unofficially), always remember that the fearmongering about self medication (when it comes to basically anything) is just that, fearmongering
No one is born a doctor, there is no special "doctor gene", there's nothing stopping you from learning everything your doctor knows, especially if you're willing to pirate textbooks
"Teenage brain and adolescent risk-taking theories seem to have been developed with a disregard for alternative explanations. “Brain research needs to be pulled alongside other established cognitive and sociological research, rather than common prejudice,” Sercombe (in press) contends. Risk outcomes must be assessed not as absolutes but in the context of risk exposure—that is, the social factors governing teens’ and adults’ risk opportunities. Yet when behavior contexts are incorporated into the analysis, the entire “adolescent risk taking” construct becomes shaky indeed. Researchers who assert unique adolescent risk, whether blaming it on biology, peer pressure, developmental singularities, or some combination have failed to control even for the most rudimentary socioeconomic conditions."
even if talking about actual abuse (rather than what people usually mean by the term), "CSA" is at best a useless term (there is no reason to specify the age of who it happened to, it's just as bad against adults)
Reminder that if you complain about contact discourse, rather than the fact some people are bigots that need to be corrected (which then leads to discourse), or that some people don't have sufficiently nuanced takes, etc, you are part of the problem
Other venues for the victimological researcher are issues based on our Western antisexual tradition and its problematization of the body, pleasure, and eroticism (Malón, 2004; Money, 1985b; Underwager & Wakefield, 1993). But these also are obviously extrinsic to a child’s experiences, only coming into play when they are culturally imposed and enforced. This, then, leads to the conclusion that if these victimological and cultural artifacts were absent, the problems with consensual child/adult sex would cease to exist.
A lot of people seem to fall for the same mistake when reading papers: exclusively using them as citations
In reality, they should be used for actual research, you should read one in the context of your existing understanding of the subject, then update your understanding in whatever ways it warrants, and try to connect it with other sources to form a fuller picture
Maybe two have conflicting results, and then a third shines light on methodological differences between them that explain the different results, which may (or not) mean one is more applicable than the other
There are no shortcuts to proper research lol, you have to actually know what you're talking about, not just look at people and say "X says Y"
honestly i'm kinda surprised every single person that submitted a request read the rules lol (well, one didn't include what they had to, but they messaged me elsewhere to clarify they just forgot lol)
@vantakurer@gimmeloli.cc@zoocat@feral.bond that link is way too funny lol, i went through over half of the links looking for at least one that was a scholarly source, and not even a single one was (and at that point i stopped checking since including that many non scholarly sources, including one from the sun of all things (in case you're not aware, it's infamous for spreading misinformation), shows an extreme lack of integrity)
kittyy.mom has now been launched! an instance that won't be filled with mindless gooners, but that still accepts being horny in moderation
key features include: 1. not causing any issues to tor users, due to not relying on cloudflare 2. not engaging in security theater, instead, it acknowledges that pedi is inherently not private (even though some other instances like to pretend that isn't the case) and that users must not post anything that they wouldn't want to be a public record (since that's what all instances are)
what it's currently missing: custom emojis, feel free to send suggestions for ones you would like me to add custom art, feel free to contribute something if you wish, though i am unable to pay for commissions
make sure to read the rules very carefully before submitting a registration request
i'm still gauging whether this vps is tier is enough or i'll need to upgrade it, so there's a chance of significant performance issues in the near future depending on how many users join, but if it happens it will be rectified soon after (by upgrading the vps)
@sofia (1/2) I'm reminded of something in my notes that might recontextualize this a little, or offer a wider arena for thinking about it. Working off of some screenshots I took at the time... in the chapter "On Being Invisible and Wanting to be Visible: Anthropology and the Child Labour Debate" in The Invisiblity of Children (eds. Fontaine & Rydstrøm 1998), Olga Niewenhuys argues child labor, as something separate from the various kinds of work children still engage in, was invented in the early 1800s largely as a justification for British colonialism.
Based in a belief that exploitation could only occur within something like a market, other kinds of work (typically those aimed at maintaining social life, institutions and processes of production rather than producing commodities or making money) were deligitimized, ignored or reinterpreted as natural parts of life, like socialization processes in the quote above. These distinctions eventually made child labor small enough to get rid of without jeopardizing society, thereby proving how civilized its abolishers were and granting them a moral prerogative to intervene in "less civilized" countries that didn't contort themselves through the same distinctions.
This continues through to today, where "the child labour debate revives the old myth of the protection of childhood as the enviable privilege of 'developed' societies, and ... its representations of children as pitiful objects of compassion distances the working child in the South from the ideal of the innocent, protected childhood that only modern society would be able to realize." Yet of course, just like abolishing official rules can leave unspoken rules still in place, nowadays "employment is not the ubiquitous way the children of the poor are exploited, their work being constrained by hierarchies based on kinship, age and gender and typically flexible, informal and personalised in character."
@sofia (2/2) Niewenhuys goes into some depth how anthropologists then and now have been more or less coerced to go along with this, and how those who try not to are left without great options, extending into other areas anthropology tries to address: "there seems to be no way for anthropology to posit itself as an alternative to the hegemonic dualism of children's work as either 'good' (because a useful adaptive strategy of the excluded from the world market) or 'bad' (because a threat to the domination of this same market by a few). Both debates about human rights and democracy in the South and the globalisation of the western conception of the child have created a favourable climate for Northern childhood expertise (legal, psychological, pedagogical and medical) and are likely to further undermine the credibility of what anthropology has to say. Current research and debates on children's sexual exploitation, on adolescent motherhood, on genital mutilations, on 'the best interests of the child', on school wastage and educational policy, etc. are based on the unidimensional and stereotyped representation of childhood popular in the North. Far from bringing the childhoods that exist in the South on an equal plane with the one believed to exist in the North, an illusion is created that there is but one desirable form of childhood in the world. As no longer children's work but children's labour resonates in discourses on childhood in the South, a distance on a unilinear pattern of development is affirmed, and overlain with an element of rhetoric."
And personally I just think this goes hard as a conclusion: "Contrasing the ideal of 'the child', evocative of innocent and fanciful play, with 'labour', implying suffering and drudgery, conjures the image of the poor as accomplices in an assault, represented by child labour, on what is believed to be the most precious good of humanity: the sanctity of childhood. The families of the poor are turned into sites besieged by the evils of poverty, ignorance and disease. From the depths of misery, the children of the poor are made to look at the state, and increasingly at supra-national rescue agencies, as the benign knights on whose compassion and magnanimity their accession to the paraphernalia of a proper childhood would ultimately depend. It is however still up to anthropology to uncover why the good and the bad are faces of the same coin, why remaining invisible may or not be the best option, whether wanting to become visibly exploited, as in attempts at unionising the working children, is a way out of the oblivion in which development thinking may wish the children of the excluded to remain."
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