Alayna Cathleen is my name.
I am who I am; a little strange and proud of it.
I'm a natural redhead and blessed to be one.
I intensely love nature and am very receptive to it.
I like to dance, sing, learn and create.
Basically, I use tumblr to post my pictures, as well as anything else that tickles my fancy. My pictures, as well as poetry and the like, can be found on my other blog runswithsunrays.tumblr.com
The nuclear family is probably the greatest enabler of child abuse, ever.
Putting two people in complete control of another person (who is particularly vulnerable and has few legal rights) and then having no oversight for the whole arrangement is the absolute worst idea.
Families are garbage.
Hahaha wtf
I wouldn’t even know where to start with this. omg.
OP, what would you propose as an alternative to families?
communal child raising
less isolated familial structures in general
children being made aware of how they should and shouldn’t be treated
Some form of child protection services that don’t just believe the parents and assume a child is lying when they report abuse
more legal and counselling services made available to children
I don’t get people that are like “lol, what? that’s so weird, lets laugh at the very notion that traditional families are abusive”.
communal child raising is the traditional family. 70-100 years ago 4 generations lived together in the same house, having 4 grandparents, 6 aunts and 15 cousins around every day was normal.
Things that should be mentioned:
- These communities are not necessarily connected by an biological ties. In a lot of these multigenerational ‘families’, including people in the family who are not relatives or married into the family is totally normal. This has always created a lot more space to support people without families, support people who do now want to partner up and to create communities in which couples who can not have children (like some queer couples but not all & other couples too) can be a part of child raising.
- Having a lot more young people around often means young people learn from each other. In many cultures young people form a non-hierarchial group that learns together and can do a great deal without adult supervision.
The nuclear family doesn’t just facilitate abuse, it facilitates hierarchy. It’s a training school for obedience to authority.
Now, which system would push such a training school strongly so it could get docile obedient citizens? Which system whould push the nuclear family.
I’m not saying it’s capitalism but it’s capitalism.
And then there’s the fact that the 2 parent, nuclear family can be most easily pushed into the pattern where one adult works an extremely exhausting job many hours a day that leaves that adult hardly capable of doing anything else, while the other adult takes on all the other things that adult would otherwise have done: care for children, clean the living space, prepare food, prepare clean clothing, etc. for free. What we know as traditional gender roles.
This way capitalism gets one intensely loyal worker who feels ‘responsible’ for ‘supporting a family’ while all the work to keep that worker going is done for free by an unpaid worker in the home.
And, you know, communities need a lot less stuff. A community of 50 can do just fine with one or two hammers. 25 nuclear families need 25 hammers. The nuclear family demands a huge amount of commodity purchasing.
How many ways can you reshuffle the rainbow? Three, as a matter of fact,
if modern color theory is to be believed: Pantone numbers for print
designers and brand managers; hex, RGB, and CMYK values for web
designers; and CIELAB and CIECAM02 color models for the scientific
community. But while the science of color models is largely settled, all
that rigorous theory still doesn’t quite squeeze out the sense of
fallible humanity underpinning the history of the color wheel.
U.S. Navy desecrates Kumeyaay nation graves, burial ground as construction of ‘training site’ goes ahead, sing to comfort their ancestors
They are digging up our ancestors beyond that fence. We will most likely be shot if we climb that fence. So we sing to our ancestors to let them know we feel their pain… they can beat us down but we will not break. Kumeyaay Nation.
As construction on an illegitimate U.S. Navy ‘training site’ goes ahead, a protest unfolds in San Diego, California. During previous excavation of the site, a 7,000 year old body was found in a traditional burial ground for the Kemeyaay Nation.
The U,S. Navy, originally planning to build a training site there, rescinded their plans when when the body was disturbed and uncovered. They have gone back on their word and are moving forward with their plan to further desecrate the sacred ground.
The Kumeyaay Nation have only asked them to move further west, so that they might not disturb these graves, but their pleas have gone ignored. NAGPRA, or the Native American Graves Protection and Repatration Act, and its provisions appear to not apply. Ethics do not concern occupiers.
There no laws that govern the US military. The NAVY can do whatever they want apparently.
Stunning Paintings on Fallen Tree Logs Portray Their Scenic Origin
Artist Alison Moritsugu composes stunning paintings of mother nature’s scenic landscape on logs, which reflect the place of origin of each tree. The realistic and romantic portrayal of each image is beautifully juxtaposed with the rustic canvas. To maintain the integrity of her work, Moritsugu solely uses tree logs which have fallen naturally due to a violent storm or from others who cut them down and plan to chip them away. The artist also uses endangered species to add significance and an environmental conscious dialogue to the value of her work.
