Pedocon theory proven correct yet again

  • UlyssesT [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    3 months ago

    Is this some sort of extinction burst from the same grillman creeps that got real mad when mandatory communal showering started getting phased out of public schools?

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      3 months ago

      Cons of being born at the tail end of the 20th century: Reaching adulthood just in time for the brink of WW3 and climate collapse

      Pros of being born at the tail end of the 20th century: I didn’t have to endure that particular horror

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        I was old enough to have to go through that, with grillman everywhere insisting it was a very normal rite of passage that was somehow necessary for manhood with the asshole bullies of the school relishing in the opportunity to do lowkey SV in the locker rooms and showers while the gym teachers watched.

        It was normalized, even institutionalized, kiddie creeping. What kept it going for so long was the grillman sunk-cost preoccupation of “normal” and not wanting to feel bad or ashamed for their own experiences.

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          We had some fucked up shit go down in our locker room.

          CW: CSA

          spoiler

          One kid was anally violated with a broom by like 3 bigger guys after gym. I don’t remember anything serious happening to them. This was like 2010.

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            The gym teachers would watch the locker rooms and showers… and that’s all they did. All the “horseplay” (lowkey SV, but with hooting and fratbro verbiage) and body shaming and bullying was generally allowed to happen. But watched they did. libertarian-alert

            Looking back, I’m just about 90% sure that those gym teachers saw their “watching” duties as a job perk. epsteingelion

        • Findom_DeLuise [she/her, they/them]@hexbear.net
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          I spent most of junior high as a stinky pariah on account of refusing to subject myself to showering in the school locker room. By the time I hit high school, I was able to game the class registration system such that I stacked a bunch of AP classes and even a handful of off-site college courses and got out of taking PE for two years. This meant I had to take the sophomore and junior PE classes during my senior year, though. At least by that point most of the other kids were too afraid to mess with me. I think that doing sophomore PE as a senior was the only time in my life when I’ve ever been like 3 or 4 inches taller than most of the people around me.

          The funniest part of all of that was that a bunch of the sophomores had been speculating as to why this sasquatch was in the class with them, assuming that I had flunked out twice and had to re-take it in order to graduate. It blew their minds when I explained that I’d exhausted the school district’s available coursework for computer programming, so they were paying for me to attend night classes at a local university.


          Meanwhile, me in 19XX: I LOVE PROGRAMMING! C++ IS SO AWESOME! CLASS AND INTERFACE HIERARCHICAL TYPE RELATIONSHIPS AND POLYMORPHIC METHODS ARE AMAZING PROBLEM-SOLVING TOOLS AND I CAN’T WAIT TO USE THEM IN THE REAL WORLD!!! lets-fucking-go

          Me in 2024: Please kill me. I never want to see another [VENDOR/PLATFORM NAME REDACTED] project ever again, and this makes me despise the entire tech industry at large because everyone around me who operates in a decision-making capacity – but does no actual development – insists that this is the Best Thing Ever because the Gartner Magick Heptahedron told them so. I envy the dead. yes-honey-left

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    In 2023, officials in this Hanover-area district played musical chairs with school bathrooms in a misguided attempt to appease the loudest bigots among them — ending up with five different types of bathrooms.

    Yanks just cant get enough segregation