my policy for “they’re just doing it for attention” has always been and always will be “then someone needs to pay attention to them”
I’ve always thought this
Let me tell you about the time I worked as a computer teacher for a small private school. My first day went well, but in the staff room that day I was told I was lucky that this one kid was out sick. No one could control him.
Next week, he was in. It took me 10 minutes to determine that I was dealing with a 10 year old kid who was incredibly intelligent, more than a little bored, and loved being the center of attention.
He was also black. I say this because I think that a intelligent, somewhat bored, attention-seeking white kid might have been treated differently.
So, day one I made him sit by himself where no one could see him to stop him from taking over the class (which he was clearly used to doing).
Day two: I paid close attention to when he finished (not surprising, he was first and did everything correctly). I immediately told him he was helping me, and paired him with a struggling student.
My hunch was right; he made a excellent teacher. He thrived on having this other kid’s attention. He wasn’t bored. He was one of my best students.
He was a bright kid. And he needed people to pay attention to him and would settle for any kind of attention he could get. But when he was able to channel that positively, he was a great student and a really helpful classmate.
some teenaged girls finding a skeleton sexy is the end of the world but shit like monmusu is mainstream. nobody ever made jokes about how the droves of dudes wanting to fuck gardevoire ruined the year 2002 or how guys will make gross porn of everything vaguely feminine looking but as soon as it’s girls that are into something a bit weird it’s the fucking end of the world
Girls: “Guzma’s kinda cute”
Fuckheads: “Ugh, great, thanks for Ruining Everything. This is going to be the next ONCELER isn’t it. UGH.”
Fuckheads: [Draw porn of Tsareena literally an hour after her reveal]
Fuckheads: “Yeah nothing wrong with that. Nothing at all. Nope.”
yo this is what i’ve been SAYING
Literally every time a big game, movie or show (or even meme) becomes popular there is a whole community of dudes who just ride on its coattails by sexualising the female characters in it (or making something from it into a woman, then sexualising it). Every time. And it always works! There’s always some bottom feeder who’s like “yeah i am ready as hell to exchange currency for this”
I’ve seen guys make mad bank off of drawing nothing but porn of cartoon horses. I’ve seen a guy draw an anthro version of a ball pit with its vag out. I’ve seen a guy exclaim that as soon as he discovered the beeping orb robot from star wars used she/her pronouns they “knew they had to give it a vag”. It happens every fucking time but somehow nobody seems to find it as predictable and skeevy as I do
And yet every time girls (usually teen ones) go gaga for a male character it’s “cringey” and “weird”. Fuck off
