God I really wish carrying stuffed animals around with you was socially acceptable
I don’t mean to take over a post, but I actually did a project on this for my sociology of deviance class in college!
I carried a large stuffed rabbit whenever I went in public for about a week to observe the reaction of others. The point of the project was to do something harmless yet unusual to see if the action would be considered deviant, in which case someone had to try to correct or shame the behavior.
Long story short, nobody tried to correct my behavior. I was asked about it casually, had a few lingering stares thrown my way and when I was with my boyfriend, shop employees would direct questions to him instead of me. However, nobody refused to assist me when I was alone in a store, nobody said anything about the rabbit besides “oh, thats a cute bunny!” and I attended college classes without even a teacher questioning it.
In conclusion, it is socially acceptable to carry a stuffed animal, its just not a societal norm. ^^
My friend gave me a stuffed monkey plushy when I was struggling with uni, and I took him everywhere for like four years, usually velcrod to my backpack. No one said a damn thing, except my renaissance professor who saw it one day in the hallway and cracked the fuck up because I had a literal monkey on my back and he just looked at me like, “oh god, me too”. I used to leave him on desks during classes and exams (the monkey, not my prof). It was my reminder that someone cared if I was coping. But more than that it was soothing to have something to fidget with that wasn’t a pen. I used to ping those fucking things across the room I was so agitated. Harder to hurt people with a projectile stuffed monkey.
I got what I thought was a normal screen cleaning kit for my computer while I was in college. Much to my delight, instead of a little washcloth or whatever, the kit came with a tiny stuffed pig.
So I carried this pig in my backpack all through college, periodically taking it out, spraying my screen, and using the pig to wipe it off.
Now, I kept the pig in the side pocket of my bag where he was completely visible.
Then one day in screenwriting class I pulled him out to wipe my screen.
One of the guys sitting next to me looked appalled. “You’re wiping it off with your little stuffed animal??”
I explained what the pig was.
Turns out, the guy had noticed it and just thought it was adorable I carried a stuffed animal with me every day. He’d never mentioned it before.
Honestly, people do not care, and will not say anything. No matter the reason for your little stuffed animal friend.
And if you’re still really nervous about it keep a stuffed animal keychain on your bag. I have a cute little frog that stays on my backpack so when work gets stressful I can squeeze it.
So awhile ago i had the extreme luck of seeing one of the most Epic Fights between two little kids that i had ever seen
On this day i was paid to baby sit 2 boys for the morning until their sister came in the afternoon. The oldest one was named David (4) and the youngest was named Tommy (3 ½).
Now everything was perfectly fine until it came time for me to feed them lunch…
-In The Living Room-
Me: OK kids, time for lunch.
*Both kids wobble run, and sit’s at the Kids Table*
Me: Now your parents told me that you guys like Kids Cuisine.. I didn’t even know they still made these things but ok
Me: Now from what i can see there are only 2 left. One Is thePizza with Corn and Chocolate Pudding, and the other one is Chicken Nuggets with Mac and Cheese.
Me: So who wants what?
David: MAC AND CHEESE!
Tommy: MACS AN PEAAS!
Me: Ok im just gonna assumed you meant mac and cheese Tommy. Well you both can’t have the same box and there isn’t enough to share..
Me: How about we flip a coin *Grabs a Penny of the Counter*
Me: This side means David gets Mac and Cheese *shows head* and this side means Tommy gets Mac and Cheese *shows tails*
Me: Everyone understand?
Both kids: *shakes their heads in agreement*
Me: ok *flips coin and catches it* aannnddd it’s tails. The winner is Tommy!!
David: Bu- Buut i wanted it first!
Me: Listen David, we all agreed on the rules. We can’t win them all, plus the pizza is still good
Tommy: *does a happy wiggle dance*
Me: *heats up David’s pizza first*
Me: Here you go David *puts pizza on his side of the table*
David: *sighs and pouts*
Tommy: PEESA! *does the little baby grabby thing*
David: NO! it’s mine!
Tommy: PEESA! * tries to reach over and grab it*
Me: No Tommy *moves his hand away from David’s Pizza* You get Mac and Cheese like you wanted
Me: *Puts Mac and Cheese in front of Tommy*
Tommy: *looks at Mac and Cheese*, *looks at Pizza* PEESAA!! *does grabby thing*
David: NO!
Me: Both of you calm down. David why don’t you switch yours with his. You didn’t want it in the first place..
David: NO! *take a huge and unnecessary bite out of the pizza*
Out of nowhere the whole room got super tense as Tommy stared daggers at David
Tommy:
David:
Me: *takes a few steps back*
The Pet Fish:
Tommy: *leans forward staring at David* Pee-SA!
David: *takes another enormous bite while staring at Tommy* No.
Tommy: *raises his hand up above David’s remaining pizza*
Me: *in my head* (oh shit.. it’s about to get real)
Tommy: *Staring hard into Davids eyes* Pee…SA.
Me: Come on man just share the pizza…
David: No.
Tommy: *slams his hand down as hard as his can on David’s Pizza*
*Pizza sauce Splatters On Tommy and the Table*
Me:
The Pet Fish:
Tommy: *drags the plate and pizza to his side* Pee-sa
David: *Calmly Stands Up*
At this point i realized that these kids had watched toooo much anime because David made the weirdest anime-inspired fighting stance that i had ever seen!
David:
The energy this kid was trying to manifest had me shook, but Tommy seemed unphased and unimpressed..
Me:
Tommy:
David: That was my pizza..
Tommy: My peesa
Me: OK everyone just calm dow-
Tommy: *throws a piece of the pizza at David, Hitting him in the face*
Me:
The Pet Fish:
David Calmly wiped his face off and began todo something that can only be described as a “Power Move”
David: *gets in his stance*
David: *strains as he charges up his hit*
David: *Tightly grips his fist and talks in a low and intense voice* it was my pizza..
*Older Sister walks in*
Older Sister: Hey guys i got home a lil-
David: IT WAS MY PIZZAAAAH!!!!
Immature Me:
Tommy:
Older Sister: WHAAAAAA!
The Pet Fish:
Immature Me:
Tommy gets hit so hard that he frickin spins in his chair knocking Mac and Cheese all over the place as he falls to the floor!
Older Sister: Tommy!!
Me acting like a mature adult: Tommy noooo *in slow mo*
I run over and pick up Tommy as he’s covered in pizza sauce and cheese, lookin like he just had the hardest fight of his life.
Me: Why couldn’t you guys just share…
Me holding Tommy:
Now In Reality that’s not what really happened. But in my head this is how intense and epic this whole ordeal felt lol.
Tommy was fine, he was mostly just dizzy from spinning in his chair and David didn’t get in any trouble.
Most importantly i didn’t get fired or anything and the whole family finds this story hella funny and not as a reflection of my maturity or sense of responsibility
God you can practically hear some people licking their lips at the first excuse they can find to say that “illegal immigrants broke a law by definition and are therefore ALREADY ALL KRRRRIMMMMINNNUHHHLLLSSS!!!”
They’re fucking HORNY for this pedantic bullshit maneuver yet they sure don’t characterize themselves as “criminals” if they ever got a parking ticket or downloaded an mp3.
And the simple act of entering our country does no more inherent harm than either of those things, nor has any evidence ever demonstrated that undocumented immigrants are especially likely to break any more serious laws. Just the opposite, in fact.
It’s not a human right to enter another country without the permission of its government. There’s a process for this, and excusing the people who do it illegally spits in the face of those who abided by the law.
Sometimes it helps to read the whole post before you respond to it, dude.
I put this in the tags, but fuck it, I’m putting it here, so everyone knows the law.
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