seems to me like a lot of "my kids will never be online" types would be better served by not making their child& #39;s lives so miserable and controlled that they& #39;re desperate to run off with the first weirdo who claims to provide them an out https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🤷" title="Person shrugging" aria-label="Emoji: Person shrugging">

my parents came as close to this approach as they could, only lying about needing it for homework let me watch the Internet& #39;s healthiest era https://twitter.com/GlitchesBrew/status/1300221891647397890?s=20

it">https://twitter.com/GlitchesB... only made me wish death upon them, and now you& #39;re all stuck with me

please don& #39;t talk about how you plan to commit child abuse in such smug tones

some of us had to live through what you& #39;re gonna do to live out your power fantasy

sometimes abuse isn& #39;t touching your kid, it& #39;s making constant jokes about how you hope they live in their basement and interfering with every interest, internship, online friendship and LDR they ever had until they& #39;re out of credentials and have had no social experience at 27

using your child for emotional closeness, treating them like a possession, can be asexual and nonviolent, can look like you& #39;re giving them opportunities as you force them to take the ones that traumatize them

it& #39;s still abuse