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Cake day: November 6th, 2023

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  • It’s sexualized, but not sexual. Like beauty pageants.

    Usually when kids do a sexualized thing, it’s “supposed” to be cute and not sexual. “Haha, kids doing the adult things! Adorable.” Or if it takes skill, “wow, so great for a kid. She’ll be ready when she tries out as an adult”.

    But then the creeps come along and sexualize the kids doing a “cute” thing.

    And it happens every time. By now, it should be expected; surprising to no one.

    It doesn’t mean we have to stop those things, unless we decide that we don’t want adult cheerleaders or adult beauty pageants. I’m okay with that personally, but I get that it’s an important cultural thing for a lot of people.

    If we want these things for adults, then we need to let children do them, because cheerleading (in particular) is a sport, and the best adults are often the ones who practiced as children. Same as with sports.

    I don’t know how we keep those cultural activities and also stop the sexualization. Banning certain outfits or articles of clothing to certain age groups or during certain activities feels wrong, but not quite as wrong as condoning pedophilia…which is what a lot of children’s beauty pageants and cheerleading clearly ends up being, even if unintentionally.



  • Then you’re doubling your flushes for your poops. I’m sure there’s some formula for this that could be worked out, lol

    Reason number 3 is that something dropped in the toilet is less unpleasant to retrieve from a flushed toilet. Forgot that one earlier.

    As well, it might be creating a smell that you’ve gone nose-blind to. Like a person’s own BO. Others can smell it long before the “owner” can.

    Flushing after every use also creates a habit so that one never forgets to flush after using someone else’s toilet or a public one.