““The girls are unable to say anything because they are always being policed. You can’t ask questions, you won’t get the evidence on a silver platter. But when you are going around, you hear things and see things,” Singh explains, sitting in a nondescript office, piles of cardboard files all over the floor, documenting the thousands of girls they have rescued over the years, approximately 4,000 at last count. 

“Most of the time the girls are locked up and they are only allowed out when a customer comes in. To ensure they are not interacting with the customers, the brothel keepers are always banging on the door and take away the mobiles of the customers.”

As a result of an 11-month long operation, conducted before the pandemic, Guria India were able to rescue 136 underage victims of traffickers, resulting in 61 brothels being shut down.”

"underage sex workers" i can think of a better way to phrase that

Liberals are all about believing in science until they disagree with science and then science is so mean and awful. Watch this most with how they react to literally any credible study about porn that has ever been done

You aren’t progressive until women are making progress

ever notice how womens clothes are kind of horrible compared to normal clothes

you wanted your boobs out right? that's what you wanted? you wanted your boobs out and also your entire arm and also your entire leg and also part of your stomach? you wanted it fitted to every roll you have so you have to constantly suck in your gut or focus on losing 20 pounds for the rest of your entire life right? you wanted every clothing store's women section to look like this wall-to-wall right?

Maybe this is the wrong platform to pose this question given the average tumblr user but

Is it just me or did our generation (those of is who are currently 20-30 ish) just not get the opportunity to be young in the 'standard' sense?

Like, everyone I talk to who's over 40 has all their wild stories about their teens and 20s, being young and dumb, and then I talk to my friends and coworkers and classmates, and we just... dont.

My mom tells stories of skipping school to sneak across the border and spend the day at a bar in Mexico. I was threatened with not being allowed to graduate because of senior ditch day. One of my friends had to go to his first hour class on senior ditch day because the teacher, who almost exclusively taught seniors, arranged a huge exam that day with no available makeup days, specifically to punish kids who took part in ditch day. Our wild and crazy ditch day was playing mini golf and then stopping for ice cream on our way back to one of our friends' houses to play cards against humanity.

Don't get me wrong, we had fun. But all of that, threats of not graduating, threats of failing classes over a single test, over some mini golf and ice cream?

Throughout high school and early in college, my friend group got kicked out of malls, stores, and even a parking lot just for being there wrong. Not being loud of disruptive. Not causing problems. Just being there too long, or without buying anything.

My mom graduated high school, after repeating her senior year, without a single grade above a D, and was offered a full ride scholarship to a state university to play on their women's football team. I had a 3.8 GPA, multiple extracurriculars, a summer job, and over 100 hours of volunteer work, and barely got into that same university, and then couldn't afford to go there anyway.

We've made getting into college so important and yet so difficult that kids are sacrificing their childhoods for it.

Then they become adults and it doesn't go away. Your employer/ potential employers are searching your social media and internet presence so you'd better hope no one has ever posted a picture of you at a party, or with alcohol, or wearing revealing clothes, or whatever else they've deemed unprofessional. And if you want to go out it's a 10 dollar cover and drinks are at least 8 dollars, and you need to tip if there's any kind of live entertainment, who can afford to do all that regularly?

My physical therapist, when I was 18, told me about his 21st birthday, how the last thing he remembers is people taking body shots off him. I spent my 21st birthday alone, was in bed by 10pm because I had to be at work the next morning. My boss had already told me that they knew it was my 21st, and if I called out, she'd write me up for improper use of sick leave because you're not allowed to use sick leave for a hangover. I don't know anyone whose 21st birthday was a big deal. No one went out and partied for it.

I dont really know where I'm going with all of this. I guess I just don't understand the point of it all. We spend our youth working hard to provide a future that we still can't afford. We have to be responsible and professional as teenagers. And we get nothing out of it. We can't afford life or friends or fun. At least our parents got to have fun being young and dumb, we just got groomed on kik.

So I'm not the only one noticing this. I wish I had an answer or at least something to say about it. But I dont. I'm just tired.

Original report (waybacked PDF) is from 2007. That's Gen Z kids.

When I, Gen-Xer, was about 12 - in my rural home, I had about a three-mile range. (Could've pushed it to more, but didn't want to walk that far.) In the city, it was about a mile. Not that anyone was checking; again, that was about the distance I wanted to walk, and besides, that covered all of "downtown."

My kids? Closer to that 300 yards limit at the same age. Not because I wanted to restrict them, but we live next to a freeway on-ramp and between two sets of train tracks... and there is absolutely nothing kid-friendly within a half-mile for them to visit.

I spent my 21st birthday bar-hopping. My kids spent their 21st birthdays at home with a nice meal. I don't think either of them wanted to go bar-hopping - but yeah, as a society, we've removed a LOT of teen-friendly options.

See also: End of Third Places, switch from video game arcades to home consoles (hey, then every kid has to buy their own copy--great for game-makers!), shutdown of malls or restrictions on youth at them, closure of public parks, reduced/removed after-school programs, etc. Plus the places that think it's illegal for a 12-year-old to walk to the corner store unsupervised.

I am, however, DELIGHTED to hear that the booze & other vices industries are panicking over Gen Z not going out to party. Like, you spent 30-odd years removing all the places and ways people can hang out together and have fun outside of someone's personal house, and... guess what, when people hit milestone events (graduation, milestone birthdays, job promotion, whatever), they don't immediately flock to the Party Zone that they have never been welcome at. How shocking.

It sucks that Gen Z does not get to party, does not have good celebration options. REALLY sucks that that's often because school or job has decided to tell them not to celebrate, rather than just not having places to go. I'm just not upset over party capitalism taking a hit.

It is your duty to crack a young man's inner peace by talking about the rape case against Kobe Bryant. They always go very very quiet when they hear that the case was dropped because the 19-year-old victim was stalked by Bryant's fans. She relocated in secret several times, and each time, they found her new address, hurling relentless, graphic, torturous harm and death threats at her along the way. Anyone who harbors any respect for him deserves to feel that guilt and shame.

I think it’s a little more complex but not by much. Here’s my current working theory:

So that’s my theory so far. I’m still working it out. Polite criticism welcome.

Tell me again how it’s “empowering.”

Porn is Rape Culture Propaganda.

It has nothing to to with “just” portraying sex on camera for masturbation purposes - which is already weird and paraphilic enough by itself (voyeurism / a form of dissociating from real sexuality and human contact); it’s nothing but normalizing female degradation and abuse for the sake of male sexual and emotional satisfaction and gratification. And what kind of emotions are getting affirmed and reinforced seems quite clear….(!) It’s no coincidence, that even in “mainstream-porn” almost 90% of all scenes depict some sort of (male) violence against women. I think, it’s also no coincidence at all, that the modern porn-industry suddenly popped up - at the very same time - alongside first real positive developements and achievements for women’s rights - as if it was a form of “answer” of the (still) ruling class - the men - to remind us as well as them, who had assigned which place in the social hierarchy. Sexuality has a deep impact of the human body and mind. And it can be - and is - used as a powerful tool of control and behavioral conditioning.

In my opinion, porn - as well as the whole porn-culture that comes with it - is a very strong form of social engineering and gets used quite conciously and deliberatly to further hold up the status quo - a society organized as a class based social hierarchy, with women at the bottom in general as well as in every sub-group / category. Like prisoners and wardens - just as it went down in that Stanford Experiment. I personally don’t believe, that this system - based on inequality and exploitation - would be viable for much longer, as soon as we could fully cut out the exploitation and subjugation of women. But these are just my two cents….

MaSTerpOSt.

Men being demons

can someone find the article about his arrest?

Nature does not need reminders. It needs no coercion. When men say women are naturally submissive and meant to follow their lead, it is a lie. I know because I do not want to submit. It is not in my nature to defer to men, and it isn't in yours either. If it was, men wouldn't need to constantly remind us of our place beneath them. They wouldn't have to artificially create circumstances in which women feel they have no other choice but to submit to men.

Men being demons

can someone find the article about his arrest?

Men being demons

Not to sound like a boomer here but I feel like I see so many people isolating themselves and spending HOURS and HOURS glued to social media like tiktok and just really rotting away. My friends will send me the most hyper niche TikToks like “how to align your spirit with your intentions” and I just shake them and be like “by getting off your phone and touching grass”. And I’ve done it too! Spent 8+ hours watching short clips of bullshit and ads and it’s draining and depressing. Being outside and disconnected for even short periods has been tremendously helpful for my mental health.

We were not meant to consume meaninglessly like this for hours on end day after day. We are social creatures and we need social interactions. Our brains literally degrade faster in isolation. An isolated person that is glued to their phone is the perfect consumer and it’s almost criminal at this point just how much it’s robbing us. Our social lives, our grasps to reality, our communities, and our physical and mental health.

I can tell when I'm doom scrolling, regardless of what app I'm using. When I do, I try to put my phone down and get up. Get water, a snack, just walk around in a circle. Anything to help my brain reset and think of something better to do.

A while ago I realized that part of the feeling that drives me to doom scroll is loneliness, I am craving human connection and so I pick up my phone and try to find it. These days I try to analyze the feeling and figure out why I'm feeling that way but it took YEARS of practice to be able to do this.

In the 90s, as the number of tv channels ballooned from a dozen to hundreds available, you could spend an entire evening flipping channels with your finger on the remote, changing, changing, looking for something that was actually entertaining enough to stop and watch for more than 10 seconds.

That's what you're doing when you scroll. You are searching, searching for something interesting but you're not finding it. When you scroll, it means you're bored. Stop and wait until you feel the boredom and then let it guide you to something interesting that you actually want to do.

You can't fully feel an emotion unless you've experienced the other side of the coin. You don't know joy until you've experienced loss, because that loss sharpens your appreciation for those joyful moments. You have to experience desire to feel satisfied. You have to approach boredom to seek out your interests.

If you feel trapped it's because you're in limbo. Let your poor brain take a break, let your feelings bubble up so you can find out what they are and then let them direct you into activities that make you happy.

If that's too much to get started, seek out slow media. Long form essays and audiobooks, slow paced movies from the 1940-50s. If you don't find yourself pausing to reflect on what you're feeling as you consume entertainment, then it's moving too fast for you and numbing you in the process.

There are many ways to dissociate and avoid your feelings. Phones are one of the ways.

But feelings aren’t as scary as you think and moods are temporary.

He loves club life

Having sex with someone actually is a big deal and involves a ton of vulnerability and I think it’s extremely troubling and gross and unhealthy and actually exceptionally dangerous that we pretend otherwise and encourage people to “be mature” by compartmentalizing/completely eliminating their deeper human emotions from their sexuality and that any other view is dismissed as prudish and invalid and unenlightened and childish and restrictive. I can’t think about this too much because it makes me rage but I hate how much porn and capitalism have destroyed how we understand and experience sexuality and intimate connections with one another so much.

Not to sound like a boomer here but I feel like I see so many people isolating themselves and spending HOURS and HOURS glued to social media like tiktok and just really rotting away. My friends will send me the most hyper niche TikToks like “how to align your spirit with your intentions” and I just shake them and be like “by getting off your phone and touching grass”. And I’ve done it too! Spent 8+ hours watching short clips of bullshit and ads and it’s draining and depressing. Being outside and disconnected for even short periods has been tremendously helpful for my mental health.

We were not meant to consume meaninglessly like this for hours on end day after day. We are social creatures and we need social interactions. Our brains literally degrade faster in isolation. An isolated person that is glued to their phone is the perfect consumer and it’s almost criminal at this point just how much it’s robbing us. Our social lives, our grasps to reality, our communities, and our physical and mental health.