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What’re you referencing? I have not heard of any such thing.
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Please see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31531832 also. That flamewar was particularly egregious and you were one of the worst offenders.
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I feel sorry for your kid(s), the upside is that they'll never talk to you again once they realize you're toxic.
If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
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I feel sorry for your kid(s), the upside is that they'll never talk to you again once they realize you're toxic.
Ok, you can go back to Twitter now.
I can still hear him shouting, "Shut up, Wesley!"
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What’re you referencing? I have not heard of any such thing.
He's an idiot who thinks every trans person is mentally ill or forced into early transition by their parents because there cannot possibly be any such thing as "gender dysphoria." Granted, there is a sort of gender trend/craze going on right now, but I think it's important to be compassionate to people who do suffer from gender dysphoria.
I loved watching TNG as a kid, but Wesley's scenes always made me cringe. Maybe this is why.
> I loved watching TNG as a kid, but Wesley's scenes always made me cringe. Maybe this is why. That's all on the writers. It's not like Wil was writing his own character. IIRC Wil has actually complained about how the character was written.
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There are tons of adults that are thankful their parents forced them to learn something (a second language, a musical instrument, ...). There are also tons of adults forever angry at themselves for complaining to the point their parents let them stop studying whatever "it" was. I learned Japanese as an adult. I know at least 3 Americans of Japanese descent angry at themselves for complaining to their parents to let t…
I think the answer is to let them try different things. There's going to be something that they like better than the others. If they keep begging you to stop making them do a thing, that's a clue that it's not the right one.
I don't know where to draw the line but the fact that many parents are doing both suggests they really haven't applied any actual thought to why one is okay to force and the other is not.