Unpopular opinion: first time I saw the Pokemon anime, I immediately thought about dogs fights: dogs love you even if you mistreat them, and have them fight each other for no reason falls definitely into that.
When they’re wounded, you’ll take them to a
Pokemon hospitalvet. Everyone knows what happens. No question needed. The vet/cute little doctor will pretend to have sympathy but never scolds the trainer to have put the dog/Pokemon in that situation in the first place.I never figured how Pokemon trainers can send them to battles and then be horrified if they get hurt. Like the fuck you think would happen eventually??
Pokemon trainers are like those fighting dogs trainers, with nice excuses and a rosy narrative.
Nurse Joy frequently scolds people for abusing their Pokemon
Agreed. Never got into pokemon, it just…reeked of animal abuse, even when i was a kid
Ufda. You doing okay, anon?
But you really should not try to catch them all.
You sound just like that judge.
I’m pretty sure he was issuing you a gentleman’s challenge
Martial arts are quite common from like 4-5yo already
*partial Arts
ftfy
I saw some brothers play fighting who were obviously in some sort of martial arts and it was pretty brutal. It started with the older brother trying to stick some thing on the little brother then quickly escalated to flurries of kicks
Yeah I’ve seen judo competition matches between 7-10 year olds, those are brutal
Is anyone else having to chop a few bits off to make them fit in the ball?
You’re feeding them too much then
Pokemon exist, they’re called animals and we eat billions per year
Few fit in my pocket though so no, not “pocket monsters” (aka poke’mon). Hamsters, tarantula? Cows do not fit in pockets.
Pokemon aren’t really either. They average at 71 Kilos and 1.25 Meters.
And boy are they delicious
Well… They used to exist. We killed off most of the coolest Pokemon in most regions
Don’t listen to the naysayers, train those toddlers!
Did we all just forget about the daycare fight clubs that were happening all across America a few years ago?
You can absolutely throw toddlers like Pokémon if you try hard enough.
Not as frowned upon on Lemmy as one would think.
I dont even need to know the context surrounding this screenshot to know that you’re right.
You literally can’t teach a four year old to “fight back.” They’re too dumb to understand when self-defense is appropriate. Also, at that developmental stage, you’d be reinforcing some behaviors you’ll really want to avoid later.
Social media, as a whole, seems to prefer vengeance over justice (though they think they’re the same thing).
I had my kids in karate at age 4.
Maybe mine aren’t as unteachable as most, but they definitely could learn what is allowed and when in self-defense. It might on the karate school.
They sparred with tons of kids in class, and they each had to use their karate to some extent in defense of themselves or others.
The only times they would get angry and dangerous when sparring is when they were sparring each other. Anything that they would see as an accident if done by a non-relative was always seen as intentional if done by a sibling.
Only one of them ever threw the first punch. He was getting mocked by a group of kids from about 6th grade to about 11th grade. Always telling them to stop. One day in lunch at the high school he decided he had enough. He told the kid he was done putting up with it, and if he said one more thing, he was going to punch him in the face.
The kid said it, got punched, and then no one ever said anything again.
There was a school security guard that saw the whole thing. Either he decided the other kid deserved it, or he decided he didn’t want to have to deal with my son. Probably the former, but the latter isn’t outside the realm of possibility.
Same shit happened to me in sixth grade. Standing up for myself was certainly important between getting an adult involved.
I’m glad your kids were cool about it but it’s anecdotal. I have stories about kids using karate to be bullies. It doesn’t really address the idea that four year olds and their behaviors should be supervised and addressed with proper behavioral modification methods.
The karate stuff is fun for socialization and discipline not teaching toddlers to punch other toddlers to “reclaim their self esteem.”
I really hope that commenter you responded to forgot to add “/s”
I hope so, but there’s all sorts of men defending the advice of teaching little boys that they can restore their pride and self-esteem by enacting violence on others.
Yeah that’s the scary part. The excuse was “pride” for “self defense” and not safety which is telling.
What’s the solution instead of defending yourself? It seems they’ve exhausted almost all other possibilities already. You seem to think allowing the child to continue is acceptable. Which it clearly shouldn’t be.
Defending yourself isn’t violence, you are taking someone’s point and ruining it by moving the context to suit your agenda.
They have not exhausted all other possibilities already.
4-5 year olds aren’t known for their deep understanding of nuance. Teaching to meet violence with violence is not ok for this age range.
From reading the OP post they’ve done everything but getting the police involved, which clearly shouldn’t be a step for a 4 year old…… They’ve talked to the directors and teachers.
I ask again, what’s the solution?
You’d be surprised how well kids know the difference between right and wrong.
You’re not meeting violence with violence…. Using self defence is not violence, why are you continuing to go down this path? And why are you saying the self defence is violence? Who’s told you that? Because that’s bull shit. That’s reasoning people use to bully people since they “can’t” defend themselves. You’re enabling this shit if you continue to choose to think self defence is violence. It’s not.
Kids need to learn from an early age that bullying is not acceptable. Getting that lesson straight from the bullied kid is the most effective method.
In short, don’t start shit, won’t be shit.
The amount of downvotes you’re getting tho. Wtf people.
Get this man a podcast!
So, you going to post this everywhere, hm?
Why do you care?
Why do YOU care?
Because that kind of advice that is upvoted and supported outrages me. It should outrage you. Teaching boys to be violent against girls in order to restore their pride and self-esteem is the very definition of sexism and it harms boys and girls.
Teaching children to enact violence on others to make themselves feel good is horrible. It should be called out.
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4 year olds should be taught to not hit others. And especially to not hit others because it’ll restore their pride and self esteem. It’s very simple.
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OUTRAGE!?!? OH NO! NOT OUTRAGE!!!
Yeah, there should be more outrage at this type of shit.
We should call it out. Bring public shame for terrible, sexist takes back.
You think you’re embarrassing me enough to shut me up, but it won’t work.
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And you think spamming entirely unrelated posts is going to help?
It’s directly related. The meme is talking about encouraging toddlers to fight and that’s exactly what that comment was doing.
Pretty sure people have tried to tell you the difference between self-defence and violence. I don’t know what else to say here. Have fun being angry at nothing.
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I have been capturing wild children and feeding them rare candies, but they are just getting fat and sick. What level do they evolve at!? Or maybe they don’t evolve with level? Do they need an evolution stone? Or do I need to trade them with someone else for another child?
Trade them for more evolved ones.
Not a dog?
Absolutely not. Everyone understands what a dog is saying, and a dog is predictably as obedient as you raised it to be.
Not a husky.
Animals?
Yes, this body is animal. It must eat to see tomorrow, hydrate, and reproduce.
If we had the Gom Jabbar test of the Bene Geserit, how many would fail? But they only do that to Bene Geserit acolytes or students. Yes, Rabban and Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen probably never were tested.
and that they are expensive af
Imagine a Pokemon whose master fucks with it by wrongly understanding it. Like having a pet that you get to interpret however you please and if it acts out you put it back in its ball until it decides to behave.
Really? Never heard of “nap time?”
frowned upon ? why we send kids to schools then ?
To learn coop, until they receive their inheritance?
