Need a source, need a source, need a source, I wanna read this!
Oh my god.
… Well we’re boned.
Source: New York Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/10/garden/when-children-see-internet-pornography.html
wait what?
how? huh?..
i doubt that this 6 year old just stumbled on a porno if she was looking for mlp stuff.
i mean come on. unless she explicitely put “porno” in the search bar or was looking for it on the porno version of youtube then i can see it happening.
but just looking around normal videos?
so going by occams razor
A: mother decides to go on rampage
B: mother gets ticked off by some brony (possibly by watching a video that does not have all the facts on us)
C: mother then INTENTIONALLY says that her daughter found this video.
so i dont care what anyone says. unless she provides a accurate instruction to show how you can “find” this video on hub.com or youtube. or google videos or any other web page that a actual child would be searching on..
i declare it false
I was curious about this point, so I went to Google Images and searched simply the phrase “Princess Celestia,” and saw how long I could scroll before seeing pornographic content.
Page 3.
Google has settings that can filter out that sort of thing—safe search. I believe it defaults to the “moderate” setting, if I remember correctly. Does that influence your results any?
Yes, mine was on “moderate,” the default. I just went in and changed it to “strict” (the highest setting), and good news! This time it wasn’t until Page 5 that I found an image of Discord violently raping Celestia as she cries and bleeds everywhere. Sorry for not screencapping that one.
Nevermind safe search, or site-based age restrictions. If you’re worried about your kids seeing this, maybe…
- Browse with them?
- Get an internet filter?
- Set whitelist sites before hand and use the strictest security?
As the parent of two — 5 and 2 — this crap irritates the hell out of me. If you don’t know there’s porn on the internet, you’re dumb. If you plan on letting your kid use the computer unsupervised, and don’t take precautions beforehand, you’re really dumb.
Also, y’know, one thing that I’ve always wondered about this sort of thing.
Do children literally explode when they see naughty images? Because from the amount of weird panic you get from parents, you’d think there were some sort of actual bad things happening to these children.
Am I just clueless? Is there something actually bad happening? I suspect being asked what something naughty /is/ by your kid is embarrassing, but that doesn’t justify the amount of wailing and gnashing of teeth I hear. Really, I have no idea. Someone enlighten please.
(Source: bronysay)
by Mia McKenzie
President Obama just “endorsed” gay marriage. And guess what? I barely give a damn.
I mean, don’t get me wrong, it’s okay. It’s fine. There’s nothing inherently wrong with it. Saying that gay people who want to get married to each other should be able to do so is basically a…
This post displays the same kind of frightening confusion I’ve come to expect from people involved in the movement that in theory is supposed to stand up for my rights.
I don’t have too much to say, but in case you want the maximum tl;dr version: Good philosophy makes bad politics.
I agree with every one of the aims of that article—these are all issues we should face as a nation, much more directly and soberly than we have been. The problem is that /I/ think that. I’m a gay PhD student living in California, for fuck’s sake. Of course I think that.
If the point of your advocacy is to shout that we should get all these things, that’s great, I agree. That’s not Barack Obama’s job. He’s not the President of Utopia, he’s President of the United States. His job is to create what justice he can. Sometimes he fails—quite miserably, in fact. The worst of the militaristic, capitalistic, authoritarian tendencies of the last presidency are alive and well, and that should indeed give us all pause.
But that doesn’t make small successes, small victories on any front, any less valuable. They’re the most valuable thing there is, for they’re the root of most change—and because they make positive impact on people’s lives. Real people, not imaginary philosophical people.
So, can we lay off the relentless criticism on the left whenever anything GOOD happens? Barack Obama has to govern a nation full of people who don’t think like us, don’t value what we value. They’re wrong, but that doesn’t mean they can be ignored.
Those who have sweeping ambitions for social change don’t seem to have noticed that real change isn’t achieved by ignoring people who disagree, or by relentlessly criticizing those who don’t agree enough. I repeat, there are real people who need help, whose rights are trampled daily—if your contention is that we should rescue all of them at once, show me a realizable plan for doing so.
Theorizing, and laying scorn onto those who engage in the practical politics of changing our world for the better, displays an indifference to actually improving the lives of those underprivileged.
Hi, guys. I recently lost my job and need some money to support myself and Kat! As such I am offering SUPER CHEAP COMMISSIONS.
I’ll consider most fandoms if you give me a good reference, but I’m familiar with the following: Homestuck (duh), Princess Tutu, Madoka, Simoun, MLP, Adventure Time,…
So there is like, maybe one person who knows me and not her, but seriously, y’all should help out. I am.
Artblock tonight, so sketching to work through it.
1) Priest and P-21 from Project Horizons (because these two are an adorable couple, and I can’t wait for their reunion in a future chapter, because P-21 is gonna jump all over that)
2) Sketches of the protagonist of FoE: Wings You’ve Earned. His name is Buck, but his nickname is “Tripod”, because he’s missing a a foreleg. Which means trying to figure out how posing would compensate for that.
Apparently it was a night of only boy ponies…
Oh, you. Yay boy ponies! :D
So, uh, my crushing anxiety and depressive episodes correlate basically perfectly with acute sleep deficit.
I’m not sure whether the obviousness of this is dwarfed by its importance or vice versa.
- your dick is gonna have its own RSS feed
- We are like eukaryotic bacteria: a new culture
- okay need a gay house meeting
there is a dispute on facebook - yeah but i like it more than the other hagiographed boring midcentury fantasy-writing white man’s work [referring to Lewis, Tolkien]
- also I feel The Problem With Susan is an appropriately immature response to Lewis’ WHORE GIRL SEXUALITY ICKY thing
- [individual] can kiss my pasty ass, except for how kissing privileges are reserved for people I like
- I WILL LIGHT HIM ON FIRE AND USE HIM AS A TORCH IN THE DARKNESS [on Christopher Paolini]
She looks like a flower, but she stings like a bee, like every girl in history, She bangs! She bangs! An old Ricky Martin song, She Bangs, tells of the power that women have. In Lizzie Borden’s case however, she chops.
oh hello friend!
Before you enlarge the pic this looks like a cat in a gimp mask.
(Source: fuckyeahhairlesscats)
YOU’RE SORRY I’M UPSET? YOU’RE SORRY I’M UPSET? HERE’S A CRAZY THOUGHT: WHY DON’T YOU TRY BEING SORRY THAT YOU’RE AN INSENSITIVE SHITHEAD WHO DOESN’T THINK BEFORE HE OPENS HIS MOUTH? WHY DON’T YOU TRY BEING SORRY YOU DON’T KNOW HOW TO BE TACTFUL, OR TENDER, EVER? HOW ABOUT YOU JUST APOLOGIZE FOR BEING A COMPLETE DICK 85% OF THE TIME, TO EVERYONE, BECAUSE YOU’RE AN EMOTIONALLY STUNTED MAN-CHILD CAREENING THROUGH LIFE LIKE A PSYCHIC WRECKING BALL, SOMEHOW DELUDED INTO THINKING YOUR BULLSHIT IS ‘CHARMING’ OR ‘FUNNY’? THOSE ARE A FEW THINGS YOU MIGHT WANT TO TRY BEING SORRY ABOUT BEFORE YOU APOLOGIZE FOR MY COMPLETELY JUSTIFIED REACTIONS TO YOUR BEHAVIOR, ASSHOLE.
JUST GO AWAY BEFORE I ‘OVERREACT’ TO WHATEVER GARBAGE IS ABOUT TO COME OUT OF YOUR MOUTH.
Totally not reminiscent of my thoughts on anyone in particular. :|
