To be fair, that happens with or without a screen to focus on. I was at a restaurant recently - a churrasceria, where the waiters walk around with giant skewers of meat, no less - and the parents at the next table were absorbed with talking to each other and didn’t pay the slightest attention to the children literally…

With Smell-O-Vision (tm).

Nope.

No, it is absolutely not standard, no matter how much people servers insist it is.

What fucking nonsense.

There’s an argument that people are too attached to their phones, at the expense of actually experiencing the world they’re in, but that argument applies to ALL PEOPLE, not this handful of young women who - as was pointed out already - were actually participating in a promotion by the ballpark, and it’s an argument…

Congrats on really not having any idea what the article said or is about.

Yeah, you did do precisely that. And the fact that you don’t see how these discussions could cause issues for kids who may be asexual or trans indicates you don’t know much about either thing and how different people may experience them.

Yeah, it’s always seemed disturbing but fishy to me. It’s given him an asterix, but given that only TMZ ever reported on it, and it was a single short article with no evidence of actual documents or statements from anyone, specifically Andrews, I wouldn’t be surprised if it was manufactured “news.”

Yeah, but literally no one ever reported on or mentioned any of that except for TMZ and there weren’t any follow-ups, statements from Andrews, or actual evidence of any documents. Not to make it he-said-she-said, but more TMZ-said-no-one-said, you know?

I don’t know if that’s the case. I remember there was a single article from TMZ (and no other outlets) saying she’d filed for a restraining order against him previously (though I also remember people saying that if TMZ’s timeline was accurate, Fassbender had been on the other side of the planet when she supposedly…

But the point of all this is that if it’s something you do naturally and casually from early childhood, it’s not going to be awkward because you’re used to it. I have mixed feelings on it all, myself, and think somewhere in the middle is a better approach for me, but I still get the point of it and why many people…

And also that privacy is a multi-faceted thing. Just because you’re comfortable naked (for example) doesn’t mean others are comfortable with you naked. I know it seems like a leap to some people, but I really think the bedrock of what we learn about consent comes about during these years for kids, and learning that a)…

You know, there ARE people who aren’t comfortable with basic biological facts for various reasons, and those people existed as kids. Asexuals, transgender kids, children with body dysmorphia. There’s no one-size-fits-all approach to this and it’s a little uncool to dismiss someone who DID have an experience where…

Yeah, I did too. It wasn’t caused by my parents, I really don’t think, since I remember them getting me books and being pretty open but not aggressive about it. I was also a late bloomer which gave me years of feeling PROFOUNDLY uncomfortable and overwhelmed with those sorts of things, in a way that I think gave me…

Go fuck yourself.

Fuck you some more.

Shhh, you’re distracting people from only paying lip service to mental health when they can make a tenuous connection to gun violence or pedophilia!

Fuck you.

God, fuck off.