Recent studies
have also shown that corporal punishment is associated with increased
aggression and makes it more likely that children will be defiant in the
future. Spanking alone is associated with outcomes similar to those of
children who experience physical abuse, the new academy statement says.
There are potential ramifications to the brain as well: A 2009 study
of 23 young adults who had repeated exposure to harsh corporal
punishment found reduced gray matter volume in an area of the prefrontal
cortex that is believed to play a crucial role in social cognition.
Those exposed to harsh punishment also had a lower performance I.Q. than
that of a control group.
It’s called the foot-in-the-door method. First, you propose something that is slightly outside of allowable norms: denying gay people wedding cakes on grounds of “religious freedom”. Then, you slowly ramp up how extreme your demands are, coercing the other side to giving a tiny bit of ground each time, until you’ve shifted the entire fucking playing field. Conservatives are also very fond of the door-to-face method, which is demanding something completely outlandish that you know will be refused, and then asking for something less ridiculous by way of compromise, again resulting in a gradual shift in norms until views that were once considered moderate or reasonable become unthinkably liberal by destroying people’s sense of standards. The combination of these methods is called the “foot-in-the-face” method, which sums up where this whole thing is headed quite nicely.
Before their eventual team-up with Scooby and the gang, bright and optimistic Daphne and whip-smart and analytical Velma are both mystery-solving teens who are best friends but have only met online – until now.
“We don’t all have the luxury of deciding when and where we want to care about something” still gives me chills why did cassian go in on Jeanie like that.
[As much as I love DS9, I always thought season 7 had some major problems. Firstly, the space magic that had been on the backburner for the whole series just went nuts with the pagh wraiths, Sisko suddenly being half-prophet, and that book. Dukat’s arc that season never fit well with his character to me since he was an entirely different kind of evil up until that point. Then Odo going back to the founders was sending him back to a people who had done nothing but try to manipulate him by killing his friends so he’d join them and who disapproved of the way he lived his life. It’s a good thing that’s balanced out by how great the rest of the season is.]
L.J.'s Obsessions 