#SPNFamily #BeyondTheGates Raging Liberal
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We need to change the conversation from "How do women protect themselves?" to "HOW DO WE RAISE MEN WHO WON'T ABUSE WOMEN?" #NoMore
How quickly Twitter switched from "celebrate the blue wave!" to "my son can't read because there are too many diverse books and schools are assigning romantic fantasies."
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This is why there is such a lack of empathy in this country. If you're teaching your children that they can only identify with people who look just like them you're failing your kids. Girls and Black kids have been reading "white boy" books for generations, and we kept reading.
I will save a disagreement over the possibility of finding content in a larger public library. I have no doubt that it is much easier to find content suitable for boys in that environment but let's take another example.
My family, which happens to have two young boys, will go on vacations and we stop in small independent bookstores all the time. I'm talking about the bookstore on Mackinac Island or the bookstore in downtown Petoskey. We will peruse the shelves of the youth section, looking for something that intrigues my sons. We will leave the store empty-handed because in those stores there is nothing outside of Chronicles of Narnia, Harry Potter, or some other "classic" we already read that is of interest to them.
In my experience in these settings, the ratio of female to male protagonists is much higher than 2:1, female to male, maybe closer to 5:1, if not, in some stores, 10:1. It is a special tragedy to go to bookstores and leave empty-handed because nothing on the shelves appeals to your son.
Again this is a real experience that I have had many times, looking for new reading material for my kids. I've basically given up. We don't go to bookstores anymore. I buy middle grade fiction from indie authors that I encounter and I do this because those are the books that my kids are interested in and that engage them.
Of course when we go to the public library, we are generally able to have much better success finding a book to take home. We often take home several books. If we go to used book sales, we can often find many books to take home. A lot of the books we end up taking home are nonfiction books about electricity or history or different things like that. We have a lot easier of a time finding books in those genres that appeal to my sons.
To go to Walmart: nothing. I literally took my son to Meijer a few months back to help me with the art style and an illustrations for an upcoming middle grade fantasy book I'm working on for his demographic. I asked him to tell me of the books on the shelf that are targeted his age group. What covers did he find interesting? He walked up and down the aisle. I pulled several books that I myself thought might appeal to him and he liked none of them. He picked two books that he thought had covers that might appeal to him. Both Percy Jackson and that was it.
None of the other books in the middle grade section of the entire store, appealed to a 9-year-old boy. How does he not conclude from that experience that a reading is not for him?
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‼️The accusations of fraud are looming in NC:‼️
* Every single election in North Carolina is controlled by Republicans. Every one.
* All 100 county election boards have 3–2 Republican majorities and Republican chairs. The state board has a 3-2 Republican majority.
#ncpol
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Republican kids going to bed tonight knowing they’re gonna wake up trans tomorrow
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the mandatory sex change surgeries begin TONIGHT. all republican voters, please report to your local abortion clinic voluntarily or a bisexual MS-13 member will be sent to your home. somehow, pansexual orgies and shariah law are simultaneously in effect as of this moment
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I’m making one final plea. If you’re a Democrat who has yet to vote, please understand how critically important your vote is. Even if the lines are long, be strong. You truly will make a difference. We’re on the brink of victory and need you to help us get there. 🙏💪
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you guys seem to forget.. conservatives don't like early voting and they sure as hell hate mail-in ballots. They're all showing up tomorrow.
So blue voters, don't you fucking dare celebrate early. Y'all better show up if you didn't vote early.
Also applies if you're an independent or a Republican who realizes that these gas prices wouldn't be what they are if the current people weren't in power, vote! #ncpol
Please, please, if you’re a Democrat who hasn’t voted and is thinking of staying home on Tuesday because you think we have enough votes, we don’t ! Your vote is so critical, do whatever you can to get out and vote. Every last one of us are needed 🙏🙏
Please pass this on.
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The red pill/manosphere cult is ruining men. Pay attention to what he’s saying because he’s 💯 correct.
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Patrick Stewart, who died today at 86, became Professor X and Captain Picard. As a boy, he watched his father beat his mother, and heard the doctors who came to help tell her it was her own fault.
In the video below, a woman thanks him for helping her survive her own abuse, and his answer brings the whole room to its feet.
He grew up in a poor mill town in England. His father came home from World War II a different man and turned his violence on Patrick's mother.
Every time the doctors and ambulance men came, they told her she must have provoked him, that it takes two to make an argument.
Decades later, Stewart learned from his father's war records that he had been suffering from severe shell shock that was never treated.
So he spent the rest of his life working for two charities: one for abused women, in his mother's name, and one for traumatized soldiers, in his father's.
He could have spent his life hating his father. Instead, he spent it helping others. Is that the kind of legacy that matters more than fame?