Linkpost: Childhood Psychological Abuse as Harmful as Sexual or Physical Abuse

A very interesting study that proves a point I often try to make here, that the way we deal with our children can be as damaging as physically hurting them, something we often ignore in our culture. Which makes sense, since psychological abuse is basically an essential part of parenting in our culture.

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Bloodthirsty Kids

Bloodthirsty Kids

It’s been a while since I read an interview with Alan Moore (Watchmen, V for Vendetta), one of the best and most influential comics writer ever, who is known for having “extreme” opinions and for favoring anarchism. This interview was published in 1987 and is very long and very interesting. What I want to look at is something he said that keeps coming back to me ever since then:

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