This is Bagel. He has traveled far and wide, experienced many different cultures, seen all kinds of sights, and most importantly, figured out his best angles. 13/10
We only talked about Furukawa Yuki’s queer roles as main character, but I will recommend to watch Kamisama no Ekohiiki, one of the best queer Jdrama out there and he played the role of a god that watch over them.
The audacity of these Casetify ads telling me to buy a sling to carry my phone hands free. Bitch I live in the Philippines, my phone would be stolen within 5 minutes if I did that.
I didn't have a proper cellphone until I was in college. Trust me your kids will be fine with a cheap phone. If they really want the latest model make them earn it, so they know the value of things.
My daughter (4th grade) says to me,
"But dad, out of 60 kids I'm one of only 3 in my grade WITHOUT a phone!"
Me: "I'm glad to know there's 2 other sets of great, intentional parents besides your mom & I!!"
My daughter: uhhhh dad......
HOLD THE LINE PARENTS.
Kids don't need access to EVERYTHING in the world so young.
Loving your kids isn't GIVING THEM EVERYTHING THEY WANT.
Loving your kids is teaching them:
•DISCIPLINE.
•DELAYING GRATIFICATION.
•SETTING HEALTHY BOUNDARIES.
It is absurd so many CHILDREN have phones.
Most adults can't use them responsibly.
You're setting your child up for failure handing them unrestricted access to everything so young.
Kailan ba ako magkaka work na hindi pang barako yung damitan?? (site architect) I wanna wear cute office clothes without worrying about my pants being a tripping hazard hahaha
Win Gatchalian voted YES to:
- TRAIN Law
- extensions of Duterte's Martial Law
- Anti-Terror Law
- Maharlika Fund
- requesting ICC for house arrest of Duterte
- oust De Lima & halt the drug war probe
- abstained on the burial of Marcos Sr. in LNMB
All of which Risa voted NO to.
The romanticization of downies is very weird to me.
“Oh they’re so happy!” Yeah because they have an IQ of 34.
People see little clips of the higher-functioning minority being cute online and then feel entitled to massively underestimate the amount of mental, social, financial, and medical resources it takes to raise them.
This isn’t helped by the fact that the parents of profoundly disabled kids often try and offset the (very valid) guilt, disappointment, and burnout they feel by frantically pretending like their lives are great because farming praise for being “good people” and righteously dunking on parents who don’t want that for themselves are the only coping mechanisms they have.
A profoundly disabled child is not a houseplant or kitten, and it isn’t a responsibility that ever ends. The vast majority of downies are not capable of obtaining even a mild degree of independence.
You will be taking care of them until the day you die (and spend the last moments of your life worrying about who will take care of them when you’re gone).
Imagine being 80 years old and still having to heat up nuggets for your 45 year old child, remind them to wash, tell them when to go to bed, etc…
Imagine not being able to do literally anything without having to consider whether or not your downie labubu can join.
Imagine never having grandchildren, or never being able to see your child go to college or get married. Fundamental experiences many look forward to, gone.
It’s not like the cute little clips in the vast majority of cases.
And this is all especially true if you have a male downie because once they hit puberty and adulthood, you now have all of the urges of a horny man trapped in the mind and body of someone with a no impulse control and superhuman retard strength.
It’s all fun and games until your 300 pound adult son who has the intellectual capacity of a turnip whips his junk out in a Walmart and starts rubbing it on the My Little Pony display (I witnessed this once, absolutely horrifying scenes).
All I’m saying is… If you want to be a downie parent - awesome. I wish you the best. I am sure there are plenty of profoundly disabled kids waiting to be adopted and you can put your money where your mouth is anytime.
But I do not blame anyone who does not want that life for themselves and, crucially, recognizes they would not be good parents in that situation.
At the very least, I respect the fact that they’re being honest, which seems to be something most people can’t do when it comes to the disabled.