Grow Up! Why does everyone hate children?
Grow Up! Why does everyone hate children?
Ageism, prejudice against children, childism. Children are socially repressed, how do we work for their liberation? And what does it mean to “grow up”?
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Suggestions for replacements for the phrase "Grow up"? Ireland has a very good one in the phrase "Cop On." Also, we want to continue to make videos without taking sponsorships. We're only able to do that because of our supporters on Patreon. If you're able to help support this work, please look us up at: https://www.patreon.com/theleftistcooks.
Grow Up is the status quo defender’s mantra
I have an almost 2 month old newborn and a 2 year old son. This video resonated with me a lot. Especially how hard infants can be, and that they absolutely do socially smile. Spend the night terrorizing me and my wife by refusing to sleep and then melt our hearts with a smile in the morning.
Another extremely important point to make here is that these boundaries – not just between adults and children but also between age groups equally arbitrarily marked as "generations" – are also harmful to any movement trying to bring about positive social change. If activism isn't intergenerational it's always going to be bound to fall apart or at least become weakened within but a few years. How many movements have had to do the same foundational work over and over again just because the old guard ran out of steam or moved on?
Race and gender matter because culture matters
Excellent video! Great shoutouts to the Travelling Community. There’s no better way to blast a settled Irish person’s claim of not-a-racist by mentioning the Travelling Community.
A lot of “grow up” is misinterpretation and punishment of human behavior=ableism
Why is Greta Thunburg on the Thumbnail lel-
I very much agree with the video, and the points themselves. I 100% believe in rights of children, and in fact I was particularly loud about it as a kid.
However, I personally have a really hard time being around younger children and babies. I am autistic and noise sensitive. Screaming from others for any reason, but particularly the higher pitched screams/scream-like noises of babies and children (even as a part of play), is incredibly overwhelming/overstimulating and has sent me into shutdowns for as long as I can remember.
With that in mind, I am uncomfortable around younger children and babies most of the time. Even with ways to dampen noise, just flat-out hearing protection, and other things that I've been trying to implement to allow me to move through the world, it's still something that I always have to brace myself for just because the noises are that overwhelming and overstimulating for me. Even with all that, I do not hate children, not in the slightest. It's not their fault that they are overstimulating to me, and it's not my place to make it their problem either.
I doubt this is really a big point, and it's not meant to discredit any part of the video. I just wanted to add a bit of my own experience.
thanks for changing my view on the world
Read Johanna hedva sick woman theory and her most recent book on how to tell when we will die talks about care a lot very good
I absolutely love this video. I was reading "Teaching to Transgress" by bell hooks at the same time and boy were those two great tastes that taste great together.
I feel like there's an interesting discussion of the many ways parent child relationships are used as metaphors and even justifications for state power. And particularly with regard to "fathers". Mothers are routinely sidelined. Why, in right wing spaces, is "nanny state" derogatory by "daddy's home" celebratory? I mean, sexism yes, but also because a parent that cares for and nurtures children is seen as in opposition to a parent that controls and ignores their children.
This is such a rich and frankly under explored topic. Thanks for making this.
Thanks!
Grow up. (didn't watch)
When he said a bunch of children being "a cacophony of chewing gum, monster energy drink & bluey referances" its not different to alot of adults 😂
all in all, the adult world is inevitability the child world as well, just repurposed to the comfort of some adults.
I loved this food for thought btw, im commenting mostly for the algorithm to pick up this channel.
some times people have said to me that i'd get along well with their kids…. and they mean it as an insult! it's the best compliment!
Great stuff as ever. Algorithmic boosting be thine.
This was very good thank you
great video. btw we always need to grow up. mentally. It doesn't matter how old you are. we always need to grow up. be more mature and forgiving, understanding. too many people never get matured mentally till they die of old age. treating childs as lesser beings….is immature behavior.
Good gods this was a fantastic one!
What i hate the most about this video is white people pretending that the pain and suffering of black children and black people applies to them white children dont go tho those things that black children go tho so why r u all acting like you can help us when you a white person will never have to fear for your childs rights
26:31 BIG MAN BLASTOISE
I honestly hope and pray that people stop having children altogether 🙏🏾
34:58 problem is "stranger danger" shifted the focus away from the higher risk space of being around men at home
34:58 problem is "stranger danger" shifted the focus away from the higher risk space of being around men at home
As a childless 40 something who has NEVER wanted kids, has little interest or experience in being around kids , but I still love the concept as a fundamental value to act "for all children, of all species, for all time" .
Hmmm… as an only child of an only child who was very sick all her life and had me when SHE was really still a child, and with both parents as teachers, other kids were the beings who took my parents energy and time from me.
Uh 🤔, I've always considered my self as an only child surrounded more by adults than kids, but from another aspect I was also in a huge family of "step kids", that I had to share my parents with. Thanks for the epiphany 😅.
i'm only six minutes in but i am already reminded of danny devito's scathing critique of that attitude when his interpretations of dahl's characters say "i'm big, you're little; i'm smart, you're dumb; i'm right, you're wrong; and there is nothing you can do about it"
Roll out the hierarchy of argument!!
I adore Emilie autumns song " fight like a girl"… some of the best lyrics!!
One line "if we have no honour then we have no shame"
https://youtu.be/dvOXuZwOEvM?si=fvKeIlzqHynJBQDk https://youtu.be/mpd9AZ6twC8?si=9_MNbCXAjNDfi49R
I think people are so mean to kids and its not nice. everybody was kids once so they shood get it but so many people think that its good to be mean to people who can't do things its not fair
You mentioned that one day you'll HAVE to send your kid to school. Quick question, does Ireland allow for homeschooling? Might I recommend homeschooling if they do? It's wonderful, freeing, and empowering for you and the kids, and you can create some of this community that you've discussed in this video. (If homeschooling is an option, and you don't want to do it, do not feel that I am judging you. You are parents and, god knows, there's a hundred million ways to do this, and none of them are obvious before you've already made decisions and I'm rambling okay love you bye.)
18:03 that timestamp 😂 I think, for many with BPD who don’t like/hate children, has to do with them not being treated well as children. I know I wasn’t treated well as a child, and I do not want a child to feel bad. Emotional maturity and so on. I love children but I don’t always like them. And even if I don’t like them, I accept them because they’re part of the world. Of course a child sometimes have to learn the hard way, but it’s not my job to be strict or teach them lessons, I just try to lead by example. I chose to be child free because I can’t control *gestures at the world*. But I CAN be a good fellow human and be nice to children. I have a soft spot for those quiet, shy ones, and those with all that extra energy they need to get out but don’t know how. I was that kid. I’m terrified of teenagers though.