OnlyFans getting more and more specific in it’s diversity, I guess I’m here for it.

If you don’t want to do something, don’t make excuses. You are setting yourself up for problems, being taken advantage of, and making enemies out of your friends.

I know socializing is getting harder and harder, so use this as a newbie-zone, level-1 exercise in having a little self-worth. Just say “No I don’t want to go, it’s not something I’m interested in.”

And learn to just let that sit out there. If you have people who are going to interrogate you and try to push you into doing something you clearly said you don’t want to do, they’re not being friends, they’re trying to use you for something.

Now all that said, don’t be anti-social. If there’s no reason not to go, if you just aren’t feeling it, get off your ass and go. Stop making up excuses for why you’re avoiding other people, you are getting stuck in a cycle of avoiding human interaction, becoming depressed as a result, which makes you want to avoid human interaction. Sometimes you have to force it back on track. Put effort in and life will pay off more. Stop sitting and ruminating, your brain will become your own worst enemy.

We have plenty of “nice” cartoons, my point though is that after a certain age, a child should have a solid understanding of some mature concepts like mortality, because if you’re going into your pre-teens and still can’t watch certain scenes in kid’s media, you’re going to have a very hard time with an array of things as life rapidly comes at you.

I disagree that this is an actual problem, we have so few sources anymore that show any kind of reality that kids can connect with.

It’s worse than ever. It’s a world of AI slop that is often far more disturbing, youtube kid’s channels that are completely lacking in value or education. Life lessons are avoided like the plague in media and in families now. Parents avoid “hard topics” with their kids at a level that has left an entire generation of adults unable to function under any level of pressure, or unable to do basic things like count change and make eye contact.

Will seeing Bambi’s parents die help with that? Not directly, but there is a type of psychological “grounding” that can come from careful exposure to distressing topics as a child.

Life is horrible, but avoiding it makes the problems worse. Avoiding something distressing because you can’t take negative emotions is a valid choice but it doesn’t make you stronger. Your mental capacity, your emotions and your perceptions are all muscles that wither and die without exercise.

If we taught our children that bad things happen but it’s okay and we can recover, maybe there would be less fear and scared adults who cling to violence as a means to feel in control.

I just don’t like the idea of sanitizing and shaving every hard corner off a world that desperately needs people with mental and emotional strength like never before.