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he/him, bylines NBC Think, Atlantic, WaPo, Pitchfork, Guardian, Foreign Policy. Wrote Wonder Woman: Bondage and Feminism for Rutgers UP.

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    1. Noah Berlatsky‏Verified account @nberlat Jan 3

      the guy on here who wouldn't help his kid get lunch for six hours because he was working on a puzzle is a good example of how parents have tyrannical power which they can abuse in large ways or small.1

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    2. Noah Berlatsky‏Verified account @nberlat Jan 3

      the guy is saying his daughter is fine, and that he was just trying to teach her a lesson about self reliance or some such. she's 9. 2

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    3. Noah Berlatsky‏Verified account @nberlat Jan 3

      I'm sure she is fine. but he has the ability to just not feed her for as long as he wants. he decided to exercise that ability for hours, basically just for the hell of it. there are no consequences for that. his daughter has no ability to object.

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      Noah Berlatsky‏Verified account @nberlat Jan 3

      people are upset at this one guy, but they were also upset at me for saying that parents have tyrannical power. why? well, people are willing to label certain folks as bad parents, but are *much* less comfortable acknowledging this is a systemic issue.

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        2. Noah Berlatsky‏Verified account @nberlat Jan 3

          but parents can just be assholes to their kids in lots of ways, and again the kids have basically no recourse. any parent could do what this guy did.

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        3. Noah Berlatsky‏Verified account @nberlat Jan 3

          or parents can strike their kids to teach them a lesson. or throw them out of the house.

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        4. Noah Berlatsky‏Verified account @nberlat Jan 3

          it's not immediately obvious how you deal with that or mitigate it. but you certainly aren't going to mitigate it if you don't admit it's a problem.

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        5. Noah Berlatsky‏Verified account @nberlat Jan 3

          people are calling this child abuse, which seems excessive probably—but the thing is there's a huge range of things you can do to torment children that don't rise to what we generally consider child abuse.

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        6. Noah Berlatsky‏Verified account @nberlat Jan 3

          and those things and the justification for them are also how child abuse is justified.

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        7. Noah Berlatsky‏Verified account @nberlat Jan 3

          like, this guy is saying, "i'm just doing normal stuff to teach my kid a lesson!" and yeah, normal stuff that parents do to teach their kids lessons is often really unreasonable and cruel if you think about it for a minute.

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        1. 2 meter cables only‏ @notkavi Jan 3
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          Honestly I think a large part of the negative reaction was just that parenting is put on a weirdly high pedastal in a modern social context. Like "concerned parents" get so much free reign to say absolutely nonsensical stuff

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        1. Dan Pemič‏ @Capiltalism Jan 3
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          i believe wholeheartedly this is correct and wish more people realized this. on the other hand, so many of your takes on other subjects have been so blitheringly stupid that i'm reluctant to agree with you too much about it.

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        2. Claire Hartnell‏ @ClaireJHartnell Jan 3
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          Bessel Van der Kolk says (from memory) approx 25% of kids in the US have received some form of abuse. He says it’s a hidden epidemic. I don’t advocate the Govt. interfering in people’s home lives but we should really try and teach that this authoritarian bullshit is harmful.

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