Autant il faut qu'il s'occupe de son enfant parce que c'est son enfant, autant il faudra parler de ces femmes plus âgées qui vont chercher des hommes à peine majeur pour s'assurer un meal ticket. Ce sont des attitudes prédatrices.
La seule personne qui me fait de la peine dans cette histoire, c’est l’enfant.
Parce que les femmes de 30 ans qui ont des relations avec des mecs de 21 ans parce qu’ils sont en centre de formation ou qu’ils ont un avenir prometteur dans le foot ce sont des prédatrices hein
they literally don’t see little black girls as children. and if I said the adultification and sexualization of little black girls is connected to slavery…
The guy at the pet store told me they were out of goldfish and asked if I'd consider a beta fish instead.
Me: What's the difference?
Him: Goldfish are communal. Betas fight everything.
Me: I just need one fish.
Him: Then a beta's perfect.
He showed me a tiny blue fish in a cup.
Him: This one's name is Gerald.
Me: You named it?
Him: He's been here four months. No one wants him.
Me: Why not?
Him: He's aggressive. Attacked his reflection so much we had to put a barrier up.
Me: In the cup?
Him: In the tank before the cup.
The fish looked completely still.
Me: He doesn't look aggressive.
Him: He's plotting.
Me: How much?
Him: For you? Free. Please just take him.
I took Gerald home. Set up the bowl. He swam around for maybe ten seconds, saw his reflection, and immediately attacked the glass.
For three days straight.
I called the store.
Me: The fish you gave me won't stop attacking his reflection.
Employee: Is this about Gerald?
Me: Yeah.
Employee: Oh thank god he's still alive.
Me: Why wouldn't he be?
Employee: Most people return him within two days. We thought you'd done the same.
Me: Can fish get tired?
Employee: Physically or emotionally?
Me: Either.
Employee: (pause)
Employee: Put a plant in there. Gives him something else to focus on.
I bought a plant. Gerald attacked it immediately.
Then he got bored and just... stopped. Started swimming normally.
It's been three weeks. He's calm now. Doesn't even look at his reflection anymore.
I went back to the store to buy fish food.
Same employee.
Employee: How's Gerald?
Me: He's good. Mellowed out.
Employee: Really?
Me: Yeah. Totally peaceful.
Employee: Huh.
Me: What?
Employee: We had him for four months. He never stopped fighting.
Me: What changed?
Employee: (shrug)
Employee: Maybe he just needed a home.
Me: That's weirdly deep for a fish conversation.
Employee: I've been here six years. Everything's deep eventually.
I bought the food and left.
Gerald's still peaceful.
Last week I moved his bowl and he saw his reflection again for the first time in weeks.
Just stared at it.
Swam away.
I think he's retired.
Serial killers still exist. They just go after what they call the ‘less dead’. So homeless people, sex workers and Black people (especially Black women because we don’t even have to be sex workers for them to target us).
Je découvre avec effroi que certains pensent que l'Odyssée n'est pas une fiction.
Et qu'il est donc très important d'avoir un casting entièrement grec. (mais un américain blanc, ça passe..)
Et qu'on aurait pu trouver des cyclopes et des sirènes de souche.
My 13-year-old niece stopped going to basketball practice because one of the coaches kept offering to drive her home alone. Her mother thought she was being dramatic.
“He’s been coaching kids for years,” she said. “Why would he suddenly be a problem?”
My niece refused to explain. Then one Saturday, I picked her up from practice myself. The coach walked over to my car.
“You’re not her mom.”
“I’m her aunt.”
He smiled. “I usually take her home when her mom is busy.”
I looked at my niece. She immediately said, “No, you don’t.”
@Cooperstreaming It’s not just this, trafficked victims also get arrested for “solicitation” & imprisoned. Including minors. News articles post about trafficked victims rescued in a sting yet the only people who see prison are those trafficked victims who got arrested as part of their “rescue”
I will always be pissed about this case. The cops had VIDEO evidence that Chrystul's trafficker was abusing about a dozen little girls. They knew he was a trafficker. And the courts decided she had no right to kill the man who did that to her.
Fuck every last one of them.
Her name is Megan Rapinoe. The US women's team were the best football team on earth. Four World Cups. Four Olympic gold medals. The men failed to qualify for the 2018 World Cup entirely. The women were still paid significantly less. Lower salaries. Lower bonuses. Lower prize money. Same federation.
Different rules.
In 2019 Megan and her teammates sued the United States Soccer Federation for gender discrimination. The federation fought back. Argued the pay gap was justified. Argued the men generated more revenue. The women kept fighting.
In 2022 US Soccer agreed to pay both teams equally - permanently. Every female player who had been underpaid received back pay. The most successful team in American football history had to sue their own federation to be treated the same as the men who couldnt even make the tournament. They won. Every penny.
Seeing grown men and women in the comments slandering a 13 year old girl, calling her fast and saying things like the mother should’ve let him walk away is exactly why its so many pedo freaks still out and about.