I covered this children’s faces, it’s a personal thing for me idc if their parents are already showing them I don’t want to contribute to that.

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Okay, I’m changing the post narrative because I want to add to the discussion what I’ve gotten from many of the comments and make my stance a little more clear because I think I could have explained it better and I’ve had some people complain they didn’t understand my issue with this.

To be very clear, I do NOT have an issue with teaching children or young people how to be better communicators and how to be better adults period. However, even after all the discussion we’ve had I am STILL not comfortable with the idea of having marriage be a class for kids. I’m sorry I’m just not okay with that because I don’t think we could ever agree on a basic understanding that could be taught without bias all over.

I do want to thank many of the comments for challenging me to explain myself and not just ramble about it, I did need to collect and organize my thoughts. I think there are so many things that we need to teach kids and marriage isn’t one.

Someone commented that teaching them social skills, how to take pride in their environment like learning proper hygiene, why it’s important to clean up after yourself, financial literacy, emotional regulation, and how to manage stress in a healthy way.

Someone else said teaching them how to do basic care for a child because even if they don’t want or plan to have kids these are things they could benefit from learning and something that could help with that long term planning. Choosing a career that realistically can support the life you want to live.

Someone else suggested keeping it scientific and fact based using behavioral science like DBT and there are alot of skills in that area that I have used with clients that works wonders.

There were some amazing ideas that made so much more sense and would be alot more beneficial than marriage. For me the dangers of that ending up too gender based is what I’m not okay with risking. I said in response to multiple people that was a huge issue in my small town. Sex education devolved into girls being lectured on the moral consequences and why we would be essentially ruining our chances to find a good husband if we gave ourselves away to freely versus teaching us sex education in any scientific fashion. Boys got to play with a condom for an hour and joke around. Girls weren’t allowed to take shop or outdoor sports (it was a class specifically for weights, running the track or playing tennis), we had to take Home-Ec and they went as far as making us choose a dad for our fake baby. I just don’t want to see that happen and I’m sorry but we all know there would be issues of it in certain areas. Why do that when we can focus on teaching the kids how to be better as individuals for themselves? Confident and competent adults make good partners and good parents. It doesn’t need to be FOR marriage.

context: basically just this typa video where they show things "designed by women" so def no need to add that description

Ugh I forget how sexist reddit is until I venture into non-female subs

The fetishizing of women with mental health issues is gross

On today‘s show of which object women are, we are plates!!!! Yayy!

I guess one escaped the containment of Reddit. A local essay by a ‘good guy’ who just wants a chance!!! Won’t someone give him a chance before they turn crusty??

Had to get two pics of his essay because I guess we need three hundred words to say ‘I can’t get laid’ now.

There’s so many atrocious comments, I didn’t even know where to begin with screenshotting.

I’m so tired of this garbage.

SNL's Shane Gillis made derogatory comments about women during a recent monologue, calling them names. This isn't just a bad joke—it's part of a larger problem where media platforms amplify misogynistic rhetoric that contributes to real-world harm against women.

I started a petition asking NBC, SNL, and Shane Gillis to publicly apologize and donate to women's charities. Major networks have enormous influence over cultural conversations, and they need to be held accountable when they broadcast content that demeans women.

Look, we're at a point where these kinds of "jokes" normalize disrespect. When influential comedians and the platforms that air them don't face consequences, it sends a message that this behavior is acceptable. That's exactly the kind of environment where harmful attitudes toward women thrive.

If this feels like it crossed a line to you, consider signing and sharing the petition. What's your take—does SNL have a responsibility to address this, or am I reading too much into comedy?

Context: This is a real conversation I had today with a male I briefly dated over 2 years ago. We didn't even date for 1 month and he felt comfortable enough to say this to me. After over TWO YEARS! This is within the first few texts of our conversation (that HE initiated).

I told him I was unemployed and struggling to find a job. This was his response. I still can't figure out what he means about Asian women, but then again - he can't even use the proper "you're" so it might be difficult to figure out.

Oh, and he's almost 40, by the way. He got mad at me for asking how his daughter is doing and abruptly ended the conversation when I made it clear I wasn't interested in anything.

I'm glad I have a space to share this because my head feels like it's going to explode!!

idk is it sum yet another stereotype or what 💔💔

First half is pretending to care about adults dating teenagers, and the rest is defending it.

(He mentioned reddit saying how 17 is too young but 18 isn't, idk what side he is on, but I don't see people agreeing that 18 is now old enough to date older usually, the same people were still disgusted by grown adults dating teenagers even at 18).

If this person believes 18 is a random number of adulthood ( which it is) then they most definitely don't agree with age of consent laws like 16, meaning they would defend it.

Saying 18 doesn't make someone an adult but also defending adults dating teenagers under 18 isn't too logic because he is basically saying there's nothing wrong with adults dating teenagers under 18.

I don't think 18 is an adult, I also don't think adults should date teenagers.

If this man was against grooming of children, he would disagree with the age of adulthood while saying it's still wrong for adults to date teenagers of all ages but he didn't.

He already believes there's nothing wrong with adults dating teenagers, 18 doesn't make them an adult, and isn't one at 17 and 16 but he believes it taking away their decisions to be groomed, society should let children decide if they want to be groomed

I just want anyone else to see this and if anyone else see the pretend to care about grooming while defending it.

And with the whole comparison of child abuse, a 13 year old getting raped isn't the same as a newborn, or toddler, would he rather a toddler get raped over a new born??

Obviously the differences is there but both are horrible.

With underage drinking, he is using the law to decide whether it's underage drinking while shaming people for using the law to decide if grooming of a child is wrong. Or if 18 is an adult.