I don't think we can fully grasp the problems our young children are facing unless we're willing to look at ALL the material they're consuming, including the stuff that doesn't appear to have anything to do with politics.

Let's take a quick, tip-of-the-iceberg stroll through Gen Alpha's popular content landscape. 🧵
Anyone who's paying attention can see that something has gone badly awry with Gen Alpha's socialization, behavior, and mentation.

To my surprise, when I started looking into this, I found a bunch of Gen Z "influencers" sounding the alarm.

Parents are largely oblivious (or don't care), but Gen Z knows that small children are consuming deeply weird and frightening content.

This bonkers academic paper argues for the destigmatization of mental illness among early childhood educators.

The authors critique “sanist norms” such as emotional regulation and professionalism.

“Mad Studies” is yet another sickly fruit on the vine that is Queer Theory.

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Here they denigrate (“critique”) traditional motherhood while asserting that “madness” should be an “embedded everyday component” of early childhood education.

Here’s yet another vile academic paper discussing RSE (Relationship and Sexuality Education) and its “possibilities.”

Here AGAIN we come across the desperate insistence that childhood innocence is a myth, and that children ought to know and “participate” more at an earlier age. They want to “challenge the restrictive and harmful constructions of children as innocent.”

The author also criticizes the “overemphasis” on “risk-safety” and notions of “readiness,” and expresses concerns about the “policing” of “sexual agency.”

⚠️ NORMALIZATION OF PEDOPHILIA:

Read it for yourself. Minnesota is trying to REMOVE the portion of the bill (the strikethrough text) that discounts pedophilia as a sexual orientation.

In other words, they’re implicitly AFFIRMING pedophilia as a legitimate sexual orientation.

https://twitter.com/megbasham/status/1651249882168979457

All that heavy lifting on the part of the lunatic academic Queer Theorists is really paying dividends.

Caffeine withdrawal update in case anyone is interested: I’m 3 days cold turkey. Headache is gone. Lower energy overall, but fewer peaks and valleys. Enjoying comfortable power naps. Less stressed. Feel like my blood pressure might be a bit low. Enjoying food a lot. After a year+ of helping to care for my ailing mom on top of my own kids, plus my family being sick all winter, I’ve been pretty severely burned out. I do feel that stopping the coffee is helping with that already, and I recommend it to anyone in similar straits.

This article appeared in a journal called Medical Humanities, under the umbrella of the BMJ.

Organ transplantation happens in “queercrip spacetime,” organ donation is tied to capitalist exploitation, and apocalypses are about “the potential to imagine other futures.” 🤔 Wait, it gets weirder:

The author, a sr. lecturer at U of Strathclyde, has a “strong interest in monsters” in addition to her preoccupation with organ transplantation, and is a founding member of “the Monster Network.”

TMN tweeted this about “rethinking” transplantation.