Today the Department of Unexpected Interspecies Friendship is going hiking gorgeous Colorado landscapes with Henry the dog and Baloo the cat. Both adopted from animals shelters, they live with humans, Cynthia Bennett and her boyfriend, who are avid hikers. Even as a 14-week-old puppy, Henry immediately wanted to join in on their hikes.
“I think we only had him for three days when we took him on our first hike, which was to Garden of the Gods in Colorado Springs,” Bennett said. “He found the steepest, tallest rock around, and he ran up to the top of it to look over the edge.”
Baloo joined the family just a few months ago and immediately bonded with Henry.
The moment Baloo met Henry, he loved him — he wanted to play with Henry and snuggle with him. Not only that, but Baloo refused to be left behind when Henry went out for a hike.“If I touch Henry’s leash, [Baloo] will start screaming at the door,” Bennett said. “He’s very vocal.”
Since Baloo was so eager to go outside with Henry, Bennett set about harness training him, but Baloo immediately took to being outdoors and on a leash and now he goes anywhere Henry goes. All their adventures are shared.
“He’s definitely not the kind of cat we can leave home alone on the weekend anymore,” she added. “I think he thinks he’s more a dog than anything.”
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Ya MCM said ew when you told him you were on your period.
He’s 27.
That shit is forever nasty lol
How
Bruh like what are you supposed to do with it? Play in it? Come on now
Ya MCM thinks periods are nasty because he can’t play in it. He was born in 1986.
periods arent nasty but woman arent supposed to have them its actually poor diet that causes them look it up just a fun fact
Ya MCM thinks periods are a result of a poor diet. He’s over 18.
This nigga thinks periods are like optional. And was confident enough to try to tell a woman with a vagina that that was a fact. The internet is wild bruh.
W i l d. and he deadass.
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I’m so glad I had comprehensive health classes in school. I couldn’t imagine being that dense
Actually, he’s not wrong. For Black women, a period is called such because it should LITERALLY appear to be a drop of blood, hence a PERIOD. Heavy blood flow is caused from hemorrhaging in the system, which isn’t natural. That’s why it hurts, as I would imagine. It really does involve diet.
Ya MCM thinks black women menstruate in a different way than other women.
I am literally going to end my life. It’s called a period as in period of time. A period of time I wish your mothers had not missed
i am genuinely having an out of body experience
Sometimes I see this post and think to myself it can’t be real, but yes there are thousands and thousands of people in the world who genuinely believe woman shouldn’t get periods it’s our “diet” this is a thing.
Just want to remind everyone that homeboy up there believes that because another man told him so, thus it must be true.
it’s actually called a menstrual cycle so the period = drop of blood is a REACH my guy
How are some men so fucking stupid
God this post pisses me off lol
This shits hilarious lmfaoooo
Blows my mind each time i see it. Wild
Looool such idiots
Reminder that men trying to convince women they shouldn’t be bleeding bc of their “diet” are playing up eating disorder culture.
@igoteliminated seriously thought period meant… a dot… not a period of time? Where the hell are they getting this shit? Ovulation and the shedding of the uterus lining is very much something the human female body is supposed to do. If it’s not doing it you probably are underweight or have a serious medical problem.
If you don’t know the difference between the dot called a period at the end of a sentence and a period of time you have more serious issues than your failure to understand the human reproductive system.
When people get pregnant, they will give up smoking, give up alcohol, give up coffee and soda, give up fondue and raw cheese, give up cold cuts and sushi, all because they have heard somewhere, from someone, that these things can be bad for the baby. They don’t know the research, haven’t looked at the studies, can’t talk about sample sizes and control groups. But their dedication to their future child’s safety is so strong, their caution is so overpowering, that they give up these things just in case.
So it baffles me when those same people will insist on spanking their kids.
People are so invested in this ability to hit their kids without judgement or consequence, that it absolutely confounds me.
the problem is all you retards think punishing your children in any form is abuse and all of these studies do the same.which makes them useless
Lmao best believe I’m smacking tf out my kids if I catch them doing drugs or anything illegal for that matter
Even though all research and experts in the field say that physical discipline does more harm than good and fails to address the source of misbehavior?
Yeah. Guaranteed ass-whooping if they do anything illegal.
Kinda sounds like you just want to beat your kids, not actually help them be functional, well adjusted adults. Maybe don’t physically assault your children.
Punishing your kids doesn’t equal assaulting them.
But then again what can you expect from a blog like this
Punishing your kid by “smacking the fuck out of” them and giving them an “ass-whooping” is assaulting them. Please learn more about non-abusive parenting methods before you decide to become a parent.
Spanking your kids isn’t abusive though? I was abused as a kid. (Not by my parents). I was also punished with spankings, time outs, whatever else. There’s a complete difference between the two. Literally anyone I have ever met that was spanked as a child has turned out fine? A simple smack to the ass or a slap on the hand isn’t going to kill your child.
You’re still hurting a minor, possibly making them more inclined to do illegal things to go against you. You are inflicting pain on your own child. It’s despicable and it does not help. There are other ways.
Some abuse is worse than other, but intentionally hurting your child is still abuse. It does not equal rape, for example. But then again stealing a bottle of nail polish is theft, just like stealing all the money in the cash register is theft, even though the two differ in value.
It’s literally not abuse though and it pisses me off when people try to compare it to actual abuse. One tap to your child’s butt is not abuse. People seem to think that they’re hitting their child with a fucking fist or someshit. You don’t even tap them hard enough to make them cry jfc
Just because in your own personal opinion it is not abuse does not negate all the research behind it lmfaoooooo how conceited do you have to be that you’d ignore countless evidence and studies just because of how you feel.
it’s wild that slapping (or worse) to your kids is debatable about whether it’s abuse or not but y’all can understand clear as day if you’re in a relationship or if a random person starts hitting the shit out of you that it’s abuse. it’s literally the same thing so it doesn’t make sense where this is confusing or a debate.
yall swear spanking is equivalent to whipping a slave or some shit, and thats not what is being done.
Please read the links
If some guy was like, “It’s not like I abuse my wife. I just give her a swat on the butt sometimes when she backtalks me or does something I think is dangerous”, I think almost no one on Tumblr would be arguing that that’s okay.
Behavior doesn’t need to be full-on Mommie Dearest abusive to be bad and something you shouldn’t do. No one claims that a mom who doesn’t enforce that her kids wear seat belts is a child abuser, but no one thinks it’s okay to let your kid not wear seat belts, either.
when are we gonna stop using the word “abusive” as a synonym for “just being an asshole”
hate 2 break this 2 yall but the world isnt split up into nice people and abusers. being cruel or manipulative in the absence of an observable pattern of behavior and an established power dynamic isnt abuse. sometimes people are just shitty
This is true – but also, a lot of abusers use this kind of discourse to defend actual abuse (”I know I groped her without her consent and called her a whore and told her she was worthless without me, but those were isolated incidents! We can get past those!”), and as such, I am rather wary of contextless posts decrying a culture where people are supposedly being accused of abuse when they are not, in fact, abusive. In the world we actually live in, it is far more common for people who come forward with stories of abuse being slandered as oversensitive and judgmental. We certainly don’t live in a world where people treat accusations of abuse too seriously or with too much faith.
This. I’m getting really sick of seeing the original post being circulated because, sure, sometimes people are just shitty, but one of the factors that abuse victims/survivors have a problem with is whether or not the abuse happened or whether or not it was *really* abuse, and believe me, in the beginning, stuff like this was horribly invalidating. You really, *really* need context to separate abuse v. shitty people and I don’t see that in the original post.
Coming at this from a slightly different angle, there is no special monstrous category of Abusers™ who can be readily distinguished from Just Plain Assholes at a glance.
There’s a continuum of treating other people disrespectfully, with degrees of power to do serious damage with that shitty behavior. None of it is right. None of it is inevitable. It all hurts people.
And just because an asshole isn’t in a position of power to establish abusive patterns of behavior over one person? That doesn’t mean they’re not doing so wherever they can get away with it. We already know they’re treating people like shit; that’s not even in question.
I am very suspicious of efforts to draw sharp divisions there, including for some of the reasons already brought up.
It is also very similar to some of the very unhelpful framing around sexually predatory behavior which has been getting more attention again lately, with Real Rapists™ as this category somehow separate from “just” people engaging in terrible behavior.
Doesn’t help anyone who is not treating other people that way, and it gives them cover.
Part of what makes the idea of micro-cheating harmful is that it presumes that any interest in another person is inherently bad. But the fact of the matter is that everyone gets crushes. Everyone finds themselves infatuated with another person or finds themselves having sweaty thoughts about somebody – regardless of their relationship status. It’s part of the human condition; no one person can be all things to us. We are all going to be interested in other people and no amount of monitoring is going to change that. Monogamy just means that we choose not to sleep with other people, not that we don’t want to.
And that’s fine. But trying to safeguard the primacy of your relationship by watching for signs of “micro-cheating” just creates a system of confirmation bias; you’ll find reasons to be suspicious because you’re expecting to see them. It discourages trust between partners and actively damages the relationship. Relationships aren’t depositions. You aren’t obligated to account for every thought, every action and every line of text, just because you’re dating someone. Putting a ring on it doesn’t mean that you no longer have an expectation of privacy. You always have the right to your own life and your own secrets.
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