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this post was submitted on 17 May 2025
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Even as a kid I found that (or talk about that) creepy af.
how is a kid doing it creepy? kids just mimic what they see. they don't know what it even means, they'll be an alien cat in 5 minutes, who cares? let them enjoy playing pretend.
I'm not saying I'm against it, just that it bothered me.
An alien cat is something alien & undefined, pretending to get married with a dreamy adult guy and have lots of kids seemed ... a bit much.
At any rate I believe playing does clear things up and pre-prepares you for future decision-making about that, that's prob why play behavior evolved.
Dear journal, today I received yet another shock to my sensibilities as I beheld a sight that was as ghastly as it was queer; made all the more troubling by the bucolic setting in which it appeared. I found that my child had drawn a cat that was not a cat. The unnameable thing had all the features of a feline and yet it was not of this world. I can scarcely describe the effect that viewing such an image has on the human mind, and to spare anyone who might read this journal in the future I will not attempt to do so.
The cat reading that diary at 3am (just before the zoomies):
It's heteronormativity, that's why it's creepy imo. An alien cat is creative and spontaneous, playing marriage is following the script that society expects us to.
It's not bad on the kids part, ofc, but as a former little girl married to a woman, I'm sad that I had to face a lot of deep seated feelings that I was somehow 'doing marriage wrong'. It would be great if kids just...got to figure themselves out.
Addendum - it's also weird to have little kids fantasizing about marriage, or their perfect adult spouse, could not agree more. Stop projecting onto kids.
Yes.
Heteronormies that sparkle under the gentle light of gas lamps and that will defend that as the only acceptable default even at the cost of their own little lives (but at least they prevented the total & sudden collapse of society!), just like the little soldiers they aren't.