This statement is taken so lightly. For one women don’t believe they can be abusive and the view of society on men prohibits the fact that a woman could successfully mentally, physically and emotionally abuse a man.
I went through all the notes. And a lot of y’all faves don’t even like or reblog things like this
^^^ because they’re the women that this post is about.
This is very important
A lot of men are emotionally and mentally abused by women under the guise of “if you love me then you’ll accept me as I am” and “you’re not man enough to handle a strong woman like me”. A lot of men put up with emotional and mental abuse from women simply because they believe it’s a measurement of their manhood how much they can endure and there are women who know that. They manipulate the emotional and mental playing fields to entice conflict so they can be the victim and cause the man to break down and be easily used and treated how she sees fit….
It’s a very dangerous thing, mental and emotional abuse because it’s so easily masked behind other things
Faaacts 🗣
I was literally just talking with a dude today, a professional who came out to inspect for termites, who let me know he’s going through a divorce. He chose to leave. He said his wife pressured him into quitting his job, controlled the finances and tried to prevent him from taking any of the money he earned when he left, hated his family and friends and tried to cut him off from seeing them, and pulled a bunch of manipulative shit to try and stop him from leaving and keep him home, without a social life.
He was the type of person who’d say ‘fuck this’ and get out of that relationship. But not everybody is that time. Some are more vulnerable than others. Men can be manipulated, bullied, coerced, and abused.
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THIS IS THE MOST USEFUL THING SOMEONE HAS EVER COMMENTED ON ONE OF MY POSTS THANK YOU
THANK YOU AND REBLOG FOR EVERYONE
this would have saved my life when I was living with my dad, reblog to save a life
I have observed multiple mutuals here under the age of 18 who are not allowed by their parents to cut/dye/bleach their hair or have piercings. Once upon a time I wasn’t allowed either, and I remember I never really understood why.
Whenever I asked “why not”, my mother would always reply “wait until you’re 18.”, which isn’t really an answer so I asked again; why not?
To which she finally replied (after an unnecessary hissyfit), “because you might regret it.”
Now I had my answer but the thing is, I didn’t see any problem with that. But to avoid any more hilariously aggressive confrontations- I waited. I turned 18 and I pierced my eyebrow, cut my hair short and dyed my hair bright red. And then green. And then pink. And then blue then green and turquoise and purple and orange and pink and then blue. I pierced my tongue and lips and belly button and everything was so fun and exciting because I was finally allowed to do what I was denied as a child.
But then my mother started crying, the poor soul didn’t know what to do. She questioned her parenting and blamed me for her depression and so on and so forth and I was still so damn confused about what the problem was! I had no problem getting a job, and when I joined the army I removed the piercings and temporarily dyed my hair a normal brown again like the responsible adult I was. When I went back to work/school I kept putting fun colors in my hair again and put the piercings back. I encountered exactly zero problems in my adulting, but still my mother was upset!
One day she explained to me that I was now too old to be doing this; she was afraid other parents would blame her for bad parenting and she believed that I should know better now that I was an adult.
Now…THIS IS A LITTLE WEIRD TO ME.
Because basically, my mother didn’t want me to dye my hair as a child in fear of me regretting it, and then as an adult I should magically know that i will regret it without having tried it and also I should be aware of the prejudice of other parents (which I never encountered) — which isn’t only extremely backwards logic but it also means in this case she’d rather seem like a good parent to other parents than to be a good parent for her child.
My mother knows better now; she has tattoos and bleached hair and doesn’t care but if her children and friends hadn’t normalized being a little different for her then she never would’ve changed her thinking.
Let kids put fun colors in their hair. Don’t make such a big deal out of such little things.
Hair grow out. Dye fades. Piercings heal up. Clothes wear out. Let your kid do what they want.
do you ever feel victimized by fanfic authors when you make them fanart and then they give YOU compliments and you try to give THEM compliments and its a vicious cycle??? ♥♥ ft. @nicolareed
Okay no. This shit is so fucking satisfying. I can not tell you the joy it brings me when an underage kid tries to buy GTA and when I tell them they need a parent, they go get said parent, and then I say “hey, this game is rated M for these reasons” AND THE PARENTS GET SO APPALLED AND SAY “NO WAY YOU ARE NOT GETTING THAT GAME.” And the look of hatred the kids give me is so raw and pure it gives me fucking life. Damn I miss GameStop.
Keeping online matches safe from annoying 13 year olds.
OKAY FRIENDS SINCE YOU LIKE HEARING ABOUT 13 YEAR OLDS GETTING OWNED LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT ONE OF MY GREATEST ACHIEVEMENTS SO FAR AS AN EMPLOYEE OF GAMESTOP.
It was spring 2014, early in the week. Pretty sure it was a Tuesday, but it’s been awhile. It was so dead in our store, I hadn’t seen anyone in over 40 minutes. Eventually, in comes this mom and we start chatting. She said she was here to buy her son a game he wanted, Grand Theft Auto 5, and could I help her find it?
Now, I’m sure many of you are aware how awful Grand Theft Auto 5 is in terms of violence, gore, and sexism. But in case you don’t, the Grand Theft Auto series has always been one of the most violent series that you can buy in stores. The very first GTA was banned in Brazil and condemned in several countries, GTA 5 has a graphic torture scene that is player initiated. GTA: San Andreas had the Hot Coffee scandal which happened in 2004 when modders found unused code in the game for a sex minigame that was player controlled. And that’s only the beginning of the controversies surrounding the GTA series (click here to read more! XXXXXXX )
Anyways, back to me and the Mom. Who will now be referred to as Mom because she is that awesome. Since I was behind the counter I pulled a copy of GTA 5 from backstock and started ringing her up while making polite chitchat, the usual cashier stuff. But everything changed when I asked for her ID because of the M rating. At first Mom replied, “Oh sure thing let me grab it.” And started digging in her purse. But then what I said registered with her and she paused and looked at me.
“M rating? What does that mean?”
“Oh GTA 5 is rated M for violence, gore, bad language, and other stuff”. I won’t bore you with the whole spiel I go into when I’m asked about the M rating but basically I just explain why the game is rated M, what the M rating means, and that they can go on ESRB.org to see why it got that rating.
So I tell Mom about the website and she whips out her cell phone and gets on the site and starts reading. And she got MAD. She starts telling me about how her son knows she doesn’t like this sort of game and how he is going to be in so much trouble because he knows better than to ask for this sort of thing as she doesn’t tolerate this in her house. And he is so grounded for thinking he could get away with this. Then, Mom looked me in the eye and asked me to look up several other games for her to see if he’d done this with any other games.
“Yea sure thing, which games would you like me to look up?”
“Bioshock 2.”
“I can already tell you without looking that Bioshock 2 is rated M.”
“MY CHILD IS SO GROUNDED FOR THE REST OF THE YEAR. What about the first Bioshock?”
“Yep, that’s also rated M.”
“OH MY GOSH, what about Gears of War?”
“That entire series is rated M.”
To spare y’all from another 10 rounds of that, basically take every popular M rated title from the last 5 years and insert them in the above dialogue.
Eventually, Mom says “Oh my gosh, you must think me a horrible parent. I can’t believe I let him have those games.”
“Ma’am, I don’t think that at all. The fact that you’re concerned about this tells me that you are a good parent. And just so you know instead of throwing out those games you’re more than welcome to trade them in here and get some store credit or cash back for them.”
“Really? I’ll have to do that, I don’t want him playing those games anymore.”
“Yea, we also take gaming consoles, iphones, and tablets too!”
“Oh that’s wonderful! Thank you for being so patient with me and telling me all about this. I’m going home and to go through his gaming collection right now!”
And off she went, leaving me bored till I finally got to leave for the night.
BUT THAT’S NOT THE END. THIS IS WHEN SHIT GETSAWESOME.
The next day I’m working again, bored out of my goddamn mind. There’s only so many times you can alphabetize the store before going insane. As I’m looking out the window I see a car pull up and Mom hops out and then pulls out two huge duffel bags and walks in.
“Hey welcome back to Gamestop! What can I help you with!”
“Oh I’m so glad you’re here! So last night I went through my son’s game collection and most of them are rated M! So I decided to teach him a lesson about why you don’t lie to your mother. Seeing as I bought him these consoles and most of the games were bought with my money, his game consoles and games actually belong to me. Therefore, I would like to trade in all this.“ And proceeds to pull out his XBox 360, PS3, and every game he had for both consoles (over 50!) as well all the extra controllers and headsets he had.
“Are you sure?”
“Absolutely.“ I will never forget her smile when she said this nor the look in her eye. This is not a woman to be crossed.
So I traded everything in and she got back over $300 in store credit for everything. And with it she bought a Wii, a couple extra controllers, and a couple games rated E. Then she looked me in the eye and asked if we had any extra boxes laying around for the XBox One and if so could she have one?
“Are you going to put the Wii in it and give it to him?“
“Yes. Along with a note saying that this is what happens when you abuse the trust of your mother. I’m going to make sure this never happens again.“ It is at this point that Mom ascended to God Tier status with all Gamestop employees falling to their knees for a chance to bask in her glory.
I got her an XBox One box and sent her on her way after asking her to take the survey on the receipt.
“Oh of course dear, you’ve been such a big help. Let me write down your name so I don’t forget it.”
“Of course! I’m Lexi, but if your son asks my name is Deegan.“ (Deegan was my store’s manager at the time.
And then she left, leaving me with the best trade numbers of the month and the greatest story I’ll likely ever be apart of at GameStop. Mom, I never got your name, but you are my personal Gamestop Hero.
No. Absolutely not. This is an awful post.
For the sake of brevity, I’m not going to go into the fact that the message here is “I enjoy watching young children get stressed and sad and disappointed when something they were promised is angrily taken away from them.”
I’m going to focus on “Mom” because she sounds like an awful, awful person.
1. She acts like her son has tricked her.
No. He’s asked her to buy this game. He clearly knows she is aware of this game and his game stations. He’s not hiding their existence from her. He likely doesn’t think she has anything against them if she so willingly buys them. This is the mom being a shit parent and acting like SHE is the victim when someone tells her to pay attention to what SHE HAS BEEN BUYING FOR HER SON.
2. She doesn’t TALK to her son about it.
You wanna know how to make your kid never trust you? Go into their room while they’re not home, rip their possessions out of the wall, throw them away forever, and then PUNISH your kid for possessing games YOU bought for them. Disgusting. Revolting. Sub-human.
3. She claims it’s “her money.”
Fuck that. Fuck that so hard. The kid is 13. Everything he owns is likely bought with “her money.” His clothes and his food and his toys and his school supplies, because he is a CHILD and she is his MOTHER. Just because some item was bought on her dime does NOT make it hers. It’s called providing for your fucking child. Anyone who would RECLAIM their child’s possessions under this excuse is a manipulative shit-stick who should never have had children to start.
4. Again, she does not once DISCUSS IT WITH HER SON.
My parents banned me and my brothers from certain tv shows when we were younger, but they always had the decency to WATCH AN EPISODE with us so they could judge for themselves if the show was a problem. You know what the proper thing to do is? “Hey Son, I heard today that maybe these games are not suitable for a boy your age. I’m going to sit with you and watch them so I can decide for myself if these are okay, rather than taking the word of a stranger.” In all likelihood the kid has games that are FINE. Madden! NBA 2k14! Fifa!
5. She does not consider repercussions.
Every 13 year old boy plays these games. A lot of them play with their friends online. (Online socialization? Those millennials!!) She could have just taken a huge chunk out of the boy’s social life by ELIMINATING THE X-BOX ALL TOGETHER WITH NO DISCUSSION AND NO UNDERSTANDING AND NO COMPROMISES.
“Hey Tim, wanna play Call of Duty with me and Alexander at 4?” “Man, I can’t. My mom doesn’t want me playing Call of Duty. Can we do Madden NFL 15 over live?” “Yeah sure okay.” NOPE. NOT AN OPTION. BECAUSE HIS MOM SOLD THE X BOX. Rather than limiting the sorts of games he can play, his mom trashed everything. What a shitty, awful, disgusting thing to do to your young child.
6. ABUSIVE AS FUCK VICTIM COMPLEX
Oh poor mom! Her son TRICKED HER! A full grown woman! He tricked her into buying him games that she never gave TWO FUCKS to investigate beforehand. He knows she “doesn’t like that stuff.” Let’s get REVENGE on a fucking CHILD without talking to him because this 13 year old TRICKED HER!
7. ABUSIVE AS FUCK MANIPULATION
You’ve trashed your son’s entire game collection. You ate the money buying selfish shit for yourself. Let’s put a cherry on top and FOOL HIM into believing you got him a PRESENT. So he can be HAPPY and EXCITED right before you reveal you’ve LIQUIDATED his possessions and plan on GROUNDING HIM forever. Fuck this woman. Fuck her cocky self-righteous attitude. She’s scum.
Are some of the games too intense for her kid? Maybe. Should she investigate and make sure her kid isn’t exposing himself to harmful stuff? Yeah! Is this the way to do it? Fuck. NO.
My heart goes out to this poor kid. Fuck her. Fuck “Mom.” Don’t celebrate parents being irresponsible, impulsive shitfucks to their kids.
TL:DR This woman is an awful, manipulative fuck and the moral of the story here is “Fuck young children I like watching them suffer.”
I refused to reblog this until someone addressed the issue. My parents used very similar manipulation and abuse tactics over a lot of issues and it did not sit well with me. Do us all a favor, if you thing “Mom” is parenting right, don’t have kids. I am serious. This kind of behavior isn’t funny.
To the person who broke the issue down and explained calmly, thank you. You are a blessing.
why do you people find it so funny to make fun of/hurt children what the fucks wrong with you
So, to summarize, stopping parents from buying M-rated games for their kids? Good.
Taking away all of the games you already bought for your kids, without discussing it with them first, and acting like you’re the victim just because you never bothered to look into the ratings system for yourself? VERY BAD.
And why don’t parents just take responsibility for the fact that they were not actively monitoring what they are buying for their child???
And for what reason would you actively mention everything in a rated M game just so the parent gets pissed off and doesn’t buy it– not to bring attention to the parent that they are buying a rated M game– but to spite the 13 year old?
It’s one thing to be like ‘Hey, this game is rated M” because parents should be aware of what they are buying, it’s another to do it just for the kicks of seeing a kid get yelled at.
I disagree completely.
The kid knew. He knew that she didn’t like this stuff, he knew there were rules. Trust is a two-way street. If this was the case of a well behaved child wanting a couple of M rated games, that’s one thing. But he lied. He tricked her. He intentionally didn’t go with her because he knew they wouldn’t question an adult buying it.
He deserved every moment. Maybe he’ll learn a lesson.
Also? Cutting off social interaction by taking a game console?
Yeah, you can make friends through games, but you don’t use that as your primary means of communication. Discord exists. XBox live isn’t just on the XBox.
In short, if you think this is abuse, you have no idea how good you have it. I would have killed for one game console and a handful of games when I was a kid, much less two and a huge collection.
Video Games Are Not A Right
No, video games aren’t a right and if she wanted to punish her child, she could have.
However, instead of talking to her son she decided to sell all of his games and then buy a wii, disguise it as an xbox, and hten basically watch his happiness from the percieved notion he was getting a present to a way of punishing him for “tricking” her when in reality, she should have been proactive in making sure she knew what she was buying.
Yeah trust is a two way street but unless he was actually lying (such as saying he was gunna buy game x and instead bought game y) or hiding the title of the games from her or deliberately misleading her, then it isn’t a “trick” to ask your parents to buy you something. He probably didn’t go with her because he could have been at school or could have just been elsewhere. Kids don’t have to tag along with their parents everywhere.
It ain’t like she just couldn’t afford it. And ust like he “betrayed” her trust, she betrayed his by basically taking everything she had previously allowed him to have and selling it without telling him or discussing it with him first. Taking your child’s things or things you bought for them and selling it without ther permission isn’t much different than running them over with a lawnmower or outright destroying them.
She’s punishing her kid for being a lack of a parent. I highly doubt he hid the games under his bed or something or obtained them without her permission. She just didn’t give enoguh of a fuck to check beforehand.
I got my PS4 when I was 14 years old. My parents actually sat down with me and looked at the games available. They watched the trailers and videos of people playing those games to see if they were suited for me. If they honestly thought those games were bad for me they would have told me and they would have bought me something else for Christmas.
They did what every parent should do. They searched for information and made a decision based on their research. What the mom did in that story was wrong. She is the one who was irresponsible. She never checked if the games were appropriate for her child and she played the victim.
I was going to rage if no one addressed the abusive parenting in this. Thank god I wasn’t disappointed.
Remember, Debbie Reynolds was so much more than just Carrie’s mom. She was a beautiful, amazing, wickedly funny woman in her own right. She loved her daughter and she made her daughter who she was, but it is a disservice to her memory to shrink her down to just being Carrie’s mom.
Also, because it needs to be said, Debbie was a huge supporter of the mentally ill. She helped found The Thalians, a mental health charity in 1955 and served as chairwoman for the organization for fifty-six years. She was an amazing woman and will be missed.
AND she is the top witch bitch from Halloween Town and needs her good name spread during HER holiday.
Every year, multiple times a year, they convince ppl to fork out thousands of dollars and….literally nothing changes. There’s no doubt in my mind they’re pocketing most of this money lol
Yep
That’s what’s so wild to me. They’ve made exactly 0 changes other than adding the ‘Exclude’ tags and that def doesn’t take 130k.
You know if any of you actually bothered to click the link it’ll take you to their budget update and break down exactly what the spend the money on, over 70% of which is spent on server expenses, monitoring tools and system licences.
They also spent a good amount of the rest of the 30% budget on significant server overhaul costs.
AO3 is literally a service you get for free and the audacity you’d have to not bother reading the very open budget plan they have, but to then bitch and whine about people donating to keep the site running is wild.
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