And apparently consider grammar optional. It should be “Parents’ Divorce”.
Posted this under another comment, but realized it should go under the main post as a response, too.
IMHO it’s more accurate to say “responsible for fixing” each issue. How you were raised, how your childhood went, & how lucky you got in the gene lottery (for both physical and mental issues) plays a MUCH larger part in how you got there than this simplistic (almost judgemental) message acknowledges.
Lol, I sincerely love what it says about this website that we get wholesome and intelligent comments "Well, actually…"ing like every submission to the shitpost community. Like, we just never turn it off.
But also, yeah, the original message is super judgmental victim blamey stuff, but that just makes the “your parents’ divorce” photoshop on it perfect satire
Yeah, sorry - my brain never really shuts off, especially on social justice issues & the like. I think it’s mainly because the present is IMHO the worst America has ever been for such in my several decades of life, and it’s been extremely upsetting for me. Sorry for being a downer.
All good and totally relatable tbh
You know, I don’t have kids of my own, and this is going to sound incredibly out of touch, (cause it probably is.) But like…how are the kids doing?
In the world I inhabit, I don’t interact much with kids beyond brief interactions when they’re tagging along with their parents. I don’t really have a lot of 14-18 year olds I know that I can sit down with for a heart-to-heart conversation. By “how are they doing,” I mean, how are they handling, what are their thoughts on The Situation? The creeping fascism. The potential climate apocalypse. Ever-widening inequality and a keen awareness of just how unaffordable basic shit like home ownership now is. The worry/potential of mass AI-induced unemployment. The threat of the everpresent surveillance state. Etc.
Like, seriously, it’s hard enough to stay sane in this world as an adult. I’m more than twice the age of a high school graduate. I’m no great bastion of mental resilience myself, but I’m definitely more capable of handling things now than when I was a teenager. So if it’s hitting adults this hard, damn. How is it hitting the kids? I graduated high school in 2006. Back then, it was hard enough finding your foot as an adult and an independent human being. But then, there was still a clear and reasonable path to home ownership. Fascism wasn’t even on the radar. Neo-nazis were cringe weirdos that even the Republicans in power wanted nothing to do with. Climate change was far enough away that a reasonable and hopeful case could still be made. Rights, prosperity, and democracy as a whole were or at least seemed on the rise.
For anyone with a lot of present experience interacting with a variety of kids in that age bracket (enough to get a general sense of the common approaches/attitudes), just how are kids handling all this? Are they doing alright? I think I’m mainly thinking about 14-18, high school age. Old enough to really comprehend the magnitude of these issues, but still firmly in the vulnerability of their teenage years.
I don’t know. Maybe I’m just looking on the past with rose-tinted glasses. Maybe back then I just didn’t pay as much attention to the troubles of the day. There were plenty of civil rights abuses in the post-9/11 era, and they never really stopped. But even by objective measures like housing cost to income ratios, the cost of education, etc., it’s clear that things are going to be objectively much more difficult for the class of 2026 than the class of 2006. And I worry for them.
Meet the person responsible for your:
🪞 450 Credit Score
🪞 Social Awkwarness
🪞 Lack of talent
🪞 Poorly cooked meals
🪞 Subpar hygiene
🪞 Broke ass
I wish I was still a college RA so I could make this bulletin board.
IMHO it’s more accurate to say “responsible for fixing” each issue. How you were raised, how your childhood went, & how lucky you got in the gene lottery (for both physical and mental issues) plays a MUCH larger part in how you got there than this simplistic (almost judgemental) message acknowledges.
Sounds like you’re just a describing common problems faced by neurodivergent folks
Maybe you just need to find the right person to fix ya
Thought those were supposed to be nooses at first
Yeah, why would you ever hang those upside down unless that’s what you were going for? Or you could just cut or snap off the handles.
To have them low enough to be eye level for kids. Without snapping off the handles.
I suspect there is a hole in the base of the handle that they are hanging from but hard to tell.
Yes, that’s been the standard manner of manufacturing them for as long as I can remember (several decades at least).
Truly what children don’t experience enough of: blame!
(I get the divorce one is fake, the rest are presumably real)
You being distracted or not engaged as a child in a one-size fits all classroom is a personal failing, clearly.
A kid in my elementary school got yelled at because her stomach gurgled too loudly for the teacher and it wasn’t til years later that I was like “She lived in a trailer park, she probably didn’t have food at home” and realized how fucked up that was (to be totally fair, the teacher was kinda joking and had a reputation as the asshole teacher he really leaned into, so he yelled at kids for stupid shit all the time, but still)
The pink one hits different.
I knew it. I never trusted that bastard.
“Now, let’s get you on all the social medias!”
