CIJS - If you're 18 years old and you're grown enough to have a jaunt back and forth across the country for a week following your favourite band on tour, you can be grown enough to find your own way home.
Mum is not coming to pick you up from Sheffield, I'm not booking you an emergency coach home because you're upset and want to be home now. You need a job to finance these excursions.
"But I have anxiety".
Kelba, Jekk jogħġbok. you do not have "anxiety" when you are riding around the Midlands alone on buses at night, you don't have it now.
Mum is not coming to pick you up from Sheffield, I'm not booking you an emergency coach home because you're upset and want to be home now. You need a job to finance these excursions.
"But I have anxiety".
Kelba, Jekk jogħġbok. you do not have "anxiety" when you are riding around the Midlands alone on buses at night, you don't have it now.
"Adulthood is like looking both ways before you cross the road, and then getting hit by an airplane" - sarcasm_only
"Ironically like the nativist far-Right, which despises multiculturalism, but benefits from its ideas of difference to scapegoat the other and to promote its own white identity politics; these postmodernists, leftists, feminists and liberals also use multiculturalism, to side with the oppressor, by demanding respect and tolerance for oppression characterised as 'difference', no matter how intolerable." - Maryam Namazie
"Ironically like the nativist far-Right, which despises multiculturalism, but benefits from its ideas of difference to scapegoat the other and to promote its own white identity politics; these postmodernists, leftists, feminists and liberals also use multiculturalism, to side with the oppressor, by demanding respect and tolerance for oppression characterised as 'difference', no matter how intolerable." - Maryam Namazie