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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
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- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
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Probably, but I think at that point they'd learned not to complain to the person holding the lead that can yank them around like a dog.
I can tell you they weren't playing with the other kids. They were the only kids at the aquarium watching their parent more than the fish.
If it's so normal, where are all the movies and TV shows that portray kids on leashes? Where are the documentaries where people are waking around with leashed kids in the background? You don't see it, because it's not normal (in the US at least) outside of some very regressive areas.
I think we need to make a distinction between places that are dangerous for kids, and places that are inconvenient for parents. You don't have to take your toddler on a cliff walk, and you don't need to leash them at the grocery store, or the bank.
I've personally only seen kids on leashes in the context I mentioned above, of a large, crowded event where a few bodies moving in the way of your kid will break line of sight entirely. Outdoor festivals, concerts, fairs, amusement parks etc. I have never seen a kid on a leash at a playground or park or bank or grocery store etc. Toddlers are small and if there's a lot of bodies around it would be VERY easy to lose sight of them. If my kid ran off and broke my line of sight of him in a crowd I absolutely would have a moment of panic. Again, I'm not going to judge other parents for finding solutions to problems that don't harm the child.
I got away from my mother at a large event, and left her panicking and organizing other parents to search for me. When they found me she spanked me and yelled at me for running off. It wasn't the first time and wouldn't be the last. Obviously hitting me was wrong, but she was terrified of what could have happened to me. If she had just used a tether it would never have happened.
Something's lack of representation in media is not exactly a reliable metric of commonality, if it was, gay people sprang into being in the late 90s.
Your gay analogy doesn't work, because a culture of persecuting and demonizing gay people for thousands of years might have something to do with their refusal to publicly out themselves.
Which only adds to their point, actually. You literally just proved that their lack of representation did not mean they didn't exist - there were other reasons.
So, if leashing kids is both common and normal/acceptable, then why the fuck are they hiding? Are you saying that the world is full of closeted child-leashers who just leash their kids in the privacy of their own homes?
Who said they're hiding? I don't see that claim anywhere. Do you have a link to someone saying they hide their leashes, please?
The point being made here is that gay people existed long before it was socially acceptable to be gay, and that the number of 'out' gay people goes up as the social acceptability goes up. This would imply that the same population percentage of people are gay, and what changes is the visibility. This is supposed to be an apology for why I don't many children on leashes.
Please read the thread and understand the context before replying.
I did read the thread. You asked why they're hiding. Who said or implied they did?
You didn't even read my last comment.
Stop making unfounded assumptions and return to reality.
Why did you ask why they're "hiding" when it was never stated or implied that they're "hiding"? Even in the "gay people" metaphor, the gay people weren't "hiding", they just didn't openly display their homosexuality. Hiding would be staying at home and never leaving, in that scenario.