I don’t know what’s funnier, Anna’s low energy, low impact, sluggish ‘exercise’ or her cooking in the sun wearing her usual over-applied foundation and lipstick lmao. I’m actually shocked that she looks visibly sweaty, while wearing a hat AND sunglasses and has put on or kept on so much makeup. The irony of using Botox as an anti ageing tool, while also doing something so bad for your skin haha. It feels so rank when you’re sweating in the sun in a full face of makeup! Nothing nicer than a makeup free face and a good quality sunscreen - it’s always when I feel the prettiest and foundation under the sun just feels dirty and like my pores are suffocating.
this Emily TikTok is so obviously Emilia, and with Jonathan having recently mentioned Emilia wanting a personal account, it’s pretty obvious he was testing the waters or prepping a narrative about how much SHE wanted one (therefore, because she wants one, he HAD to let her have one as she was leading the decision and consented by asking)
I just had a realisation a moment ago that these two people, are parents who have used cold showers as punishment on three of their children (going off the actual evidence we have). I was helping a family member with their new puppy and considered that people punish puppies in such ridiculous ways. That the puppy has absolutely no way of understanding.
Then I thought oh yeah, people like these do that with their children, when they’re toddlers and are only partially verbal. Like these two adults, who sell us their instagrams all focused on loving and accepting your children, focused on how supportive they are as parents - would literally take their toddler, put them in a cold shower, restrain them so they couldn’t get out, and force them to stand or sit in the freezing water while they cried and begged to get out.
no matter the excuse anyone could use, I just can’t understand it. Losing your patience and snapping, or shouting, swearing when your child has been a complete little shit and you’re burnt out and in the moment you just snap. I can understand how that happens. I can understand how afterwards you’d probably feel terrible and you’d say sorry to your kid for shouting or swearing. I can understand following up on the child’s possible naughtiness with an appropriate punishment - taking a privilege away, or giving them an assignment to teach them about appropriate behaviour.
but to take the child and then subject it to prolonged physical discomfort and emotional distress, to be able to not care that the child will not learn anything from the punishment but also that it’ll be frightened and feel unsafe. I just can’t understand it. All I can think is that you’d have to be really fucking angry at that child, and that being so cruel to it must feel satisfying in some way.
Mental.