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Sep 25Liked by Kate E. Deeming

“devoid of any child development markers, it presents a model of psychological infiltration and abuse. And ultimately it breaks children.”

The art, literature, tv programs, and curricular content produced in 2024 — all of it is “curiously devoid of any child development markers.” Because western culture is no longer interested in raising healthy, stable children. It’s not about the kids anymore. It’s all about promoting agendas. No one seems to give a fig if anything benefits kids or not.

Excellent stack.

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Yes this is the problem. We need to call as many sensible people as we can back to core purpose. Society ultimately will suffer. It is deeply frustrating.

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Sep 29Liked by Kate E. Deeming

Excellent piece, thank you

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Now that is image outside the Glasgow gallery is what I would call misogynistic!

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Absolutely

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Yes it’s odd isn’t it 🫣

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Thank you 🙏

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What really bothers me is that this mimics other art protests that are generally referring to protests about the rape of women. They did this after Ukraine was invaded and it was documented that Russian soldiers were raping women. Although I know where you are coming from with the kids, I can't stand that they have co-opted the visualizations of war rape protests to protests dairy farms. You can milk cows humanely; rape is never humane.

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Yes I understand that. I suppose for me the issue is that we have eroded the space between adult and child. There is a community space near me that held a family fun day and one of project partners was ‘Freedom from Torture’ - a worthy organisation for sure - however I wasn’t about to explain to my nine year old what that meant. So we didn’t go. The preservation of innocence is important. Once it’s gone it’s gone.

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Oct 1Liked by Kate E. Deeming

I agree. I am not sure where the rape protests were held. Honestly, animals organizations also love to use nudes women somehow or another. What message does this give to girls?

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