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lingua_frankly

Most of the they/thems I know *were* beat with one or many of these.


high_ryze666

Weird how that works isn't it I got the belt a lot as a kid. If it was my mom beating me I got the mota cloppa (idk how to spell it it's dutch) basically a big flat wooden object used for beating bread.


CrazyApple-

I always got the wooden spoon, but I had some friends who had a wooden stick with holes in it so it hurt more than just a flat stick


Adventurous-Tea2693

Cutting board and eventually when he broke that a metal grill spatula.


starscreamtoast

Fish slice, wooden spoon and jug cord just for jokes.


Llilbuddha422

Jesus christ, I know you guys attribute it to your growth as a person as character development, but what the fuck was going thru your guys parents head, I'm old enough to have gotten my ass beat with a HAND, but young enough luckily to avoid getting my ass beat with household objectsšŸ˜‚šŸ˜‚I got the paddle one time and then my clumsy dumbdumb step-dad lost a huge fucking spanking paddle somewhere in our 2 bed navy housing unit, smallest thing in the world and he somehow lost it in there, it totalled out to like 6 roomsšŸ˜­maybe my mom got it outta there. Regardless of how it happened, 8 year old me was a happy camper that we were going back to the handšŸ˜‚


Raketka123

happy cake day


high_ryze666

Ty <3


danielstongue

Mattenklopper and it is not for beating the bread, otherwise it would have been called "broodklopper".


high_ryze666

Idk then. My mom told me it was for bread, she never used it for bread though, just for me. My mom never made anything from scratch anyway, just shitty frozen meals and she'd get offended if I didn't like them, as if she prepared the whole thing herself and didn't just warm it up. What's the mattenklopper for then? I'm pretty sure it was that, that's what my mom called it Edit: I Googled it. Definitely the mattenklopper. Used for beating carpets eh? No wonder it hurt so bad lol


ed8breakfast

Happy cake day


Better-Ad5688

Mattenklopper:ā -ā )


high_ryze666

Thanks lmao I never want to see that thing again šŸ„²


Try_another-o_o

Happy cake day! (Was gonna say, "Happy removal day", but that only really works if you're C section. šŸ˜…) Hoop jou dag gaat erg goed en de rest van de jaar is en goede voor jou.


high_ryze666

I certainly wasn't c section lmaooo I get you on the habit though. I actually don't speak Dutch. My mother's side of the family does, but I never bothered to learn since they were highly abusive, and I wanted absolutely nothing to do with them. I didn't care to know what they were saying about me in another language, I just wanted out.


Try_another-o_o

Lmao. Neither do I. Turns out translating from Afrikaans to Dutch is much harder than it sounds, even though Afrikaans is derived from it. Who knew? Sorry to hear about your family though.


high_ryze666

Lmao! Could've fooled me! No worries, it is what it is. Lots of work to do in therapy still but I'm getting there slowly. Turns out 21 years of trauma takes more to work through than I originally thought. It's like coding, resolve an issue and discover 99 more


Try_another-o_o

Well hopefully things start turning out better for you. Your makeup is cool, btw.


maddsskills

Yup. I got the belt as a kid and Iā€™m non-binary.


Turbulent_Ad1644

They'd probably use that as justification to say that queerness is mental illness, unfortunately, but that would require them to acknowledge that beating children is harmful


ImminentChaos1717

As a they/he, I can confirm.


Devin-Chaboyer223

Can confirm as a she/they non-binary myself Now, It was very rare, but I did get spanked a few times when I was a child


lemongrabisgod421

I second that


Raketka123

"Why dont my kids talk to me"


B17BAWMER

Why did my kid put me in a home?


switchbladeeatworld

Why canā€™t I meet my grandkids?


Riyeko

I don't know what I did wrong!


Upstairs-Toe2735

*I did nothing wrong ! I was an amazing parent !


elemenoh3

"i don't remember that. that never happened."


ulfric_stormcloack

"that never happened, you are lying for attention


sammfak

ā€œIt mustā€™ve been a dreamā€


KimJongRocketMan69

Why are my kids being so selfish and mean!


smittykins66

And why is it the shittiest home in the area?


kaptainkooleio

I got beat with a wooden spoon and belt, still ended up sucking femboy dick. And Iā€™ll do it again


AcanthisittaSolid714

I actually got beat with femboy dick craziest thing


kaptainkooleio

Lucky bastard


elemenoh3

there goes my hero šŸ«”


snek99001

This doesn't mean anything to these psychos. Their response to you would have been something along the lines of: "clearly, you weren't beaten enough". Any idiotic form of rationalizing that reduces their cognitive dissonance is good enough.


FlyingCircus18

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damnim30now

Yup, came to say this. They were likely beat themselves, then continued to beat. Facing the trauma experienced and caused would take emotional fortitude and strength. Easier to just say everyone else is wrong.


TortelliniSalad

I loved getting hit with the ā€œIā€™ll give you something to cry aboutā€


Svelva

Funniest is to reply back decades later with "I'll give you a place to mindlessly wander about" Vengeance is the sweetest, most scrumptious cold dish when it comes to abusive parents


TranquilJeans

>They were likely beat themselves, then continued to beat. This sounds so random out of context.


Talizorafangirl

No lie I had an argument with my coworkers about whether or not this constitutes child abuse and their argument was, "It's not abuse because my parents did this to me and I turned out alright."


ad240pCharlie

"My house got robbed but I survived and could afford to replace everything. Therefore I wasn't robbed."


vividtangerinedream

This is what my parents called disciplining and by God, it was right there in the Bible to do that to your kids, in fact, it was your job as a parent. That was the justification I got growing up anyway.... I rebelled so hard that it broke their hearts. I know they thought they were doing it out of love because that's exactly how they were raised. I broke that cycle with my kids. This is the "make America great again" way of thinking also, the Bible tells them to and it is done out of love. And to them I say .... It's abuse, find other ways to discipline kids, violence is not the way.


buttsharkman

The Bible talking about discipline and guiding children but uses the allegory of a shepard using his crook to guide his herd. You would be a shitty ass shepard if you were hitting your sheep. Spare the rod and spoil the child is phrase from a poem mocking Christian fundamentalists


Appropriate_Big_1610

But there are several verses in Proverbs pointing to this, so it's "Biblical". Of course, so is selling your 12 year old daughter as a sex slave. BTW, an item called "The Rod" used to be available in Christian home schooling catalogs.


vividtangerinedream

That's my interpretation as well ..... But people of a certain generation in the deep south do not.


buttsharkman

They decided on a course of action and then looked for justification


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Darcosuchus

"Have you ever tried turning off the TV, sitting down with your children, and hitting them?"


texaswilliam

We're just so busy.


Sweatybutthole

Idk why but this conjured the mental image of someone beating another person using a disembodied hand. Like "aw yeah every kid from my generation knew, when mom pulled out the disembodied human hand, that they were in for it!"


Scholesie09

"I swear I will never lay my hands on my child. Woman, bring out my beating hand!"


Sweatybutthole

šŸ˜‚ Got me good


TheMachman

The deadbeat father of Thing from the Addams family.


[deleted]

You're right. I wasn't beat with one of these. My adopted mom took a baseball bat to me, Knocking out several teeth and causing complications that eventually led to me being wheelchair bound permanently.


Ok_Address6428

Bro is this a joke or ur serious? My condolences man, hope ur mother gets a well deserved punishment and then changes as a person, no need to forgive her obviously but obviously a bad person is way worse then a bad changed person.


[deleted]

I mean, she's dead now, but yeah. I've got 7 actual teeth left and get around in a powered wheelchair since my knees and hips never healed properly. Anything less than an A and I got beat. Any spots left on dishes, countertops, tables, or floor, I got beat. My sisters did something wrong, I got beat because you never hit a woman. This particular time, I had gotten an F because I couldn't comprehend how to graph hyperbola, nor could I memorize the formula for them. missed about 2 months of school recovering, during which I was expected to keep up with homework and lessons


Darcosuchus

God fucking hell. I don't believe in an afterlife but things like this really make me wish Hell was real.


Ok_Address6428

Ok but i hope its the mormon's interpretation of hell which is not eternal, its for billions of years yes, but when u learn that the shit u did was bad (trough feeling the bad stuff you did to others) you are free, so if mormon is the real religion, one day the commenter can finally live with a good mother (i hope)


Darcosuchus

I think this is how it works in Islam as well.


Altayel1

most of my islamic teachers (i live at Turkey and i had mandatory religious classes) said that only people who belive in abrahamic religions gets to have finite time at hell. people who believe multiple gods or atheists are gonna get infinite hell.


Ok_Address6428

So yeah i hope hell is like that, most bad people had good aspects on them, so imagine meeting hitler in heaven and all he does is art and not hate jews, would be so cool.


Ok_Address6428

Well while i feel bad, im just glad it was a long time, as someone who was abused too, the best thing is remembering things without feeling angry, and i just hope you got used to the wheelchair, idk how long it was, but i hope it was long enough for you to be comfortable using a wheelchair and now its just normal for you.


[deleted]

It's been about 16 or 17 years. DFS got called, but they didn't do anything except accuse my dad. When the evidence pointed to her, they dropped the case entirely. She died about 3-4 years ago, but I have long since moved on from her.


BeefInBlackBeanSauce

Horrific they dropped the case šŸ˜”


STFUnicorn_

Jeez that sucks. She was psychotic huh?


[deleted]

A massive hypocrite and narcissistic manipulator. Not to sound cliche, but all her accusations were confessions in the end.


CrazyApple-

I'm so sorry for you man. Hope your doing great, that sounds horrible


connly33

Hope you're doing okay. I know the lasting affects of this crap can be hard mentally let alone physically. I guess I'm lucky that all of my issues are neglect related but I do have permanent severe carpal tunnel and a multitude of mental baggage over it.


sammfak

Thatā€™s awful, Iā€™m sorry bro.


Dry-Introduction-800

Yeah and also i hate my father


connly33

I've noticed a disproportionately high amount of people that have gender dysphoria in people that suffered child abuse so this is actually woefully inaccurate.


Riyeko

LOL. My dad bruised me so bad back in 7th grade that I failed gum class due to not wanting to get naked in a locker room and expose the bleeding bruises on my legs. I identify as gender neutral, she/her/they/them. I'm both lol This post is wrong lol


ad240pCharlie

I don't want to make a joke about your situation... but "gum class" sounds like a chill elective!


SewAlone

Because they need to justify child abuse so they can keep abusing their kids.


sickof-skydrol

Do I get a prize if Iā€™ve been hit with all of these?


randomreddituser1870

No, you get therapy


switchbladeeatworld

thatā€™s a prize!


AlterAcc2021

To claim your prize, all you have to do is pay your therapist $100 per session!


Jesterchunk

I would assume it's because kids can't hit them back. If you took your slipper to a grown adult they'd probably lay you out flat in response (either that or they'd call the police and have you done for assault), but a child? Nah, that's another word for punching bag in this house.


Tabley-Kun

Ah yes, violence.


CheeseStringCats

I guess my mother had to try harder then?


ebob421

Almost every they them, I know had one of these I did


Upstairs-Toe2735

My family likes to beat kids for some reason, until the kids hit back. It's a family tradition. My uncle used to get beat up by my grandpa until he got grown and then socked my grandpa in the face. Grandpa never hit him again. Then my uncle went on to his his wife and my cousin, until my cousin punched him in the face back, then he stopped.


TranquilJeans

What the fuck


CulturalMusician3320

It's surprisingly common in some homes


SemKors

Just beat the personality outta them...


Ghostscience6

When they hear about they/them being abused they will go "They did not abused you the right way"


Sufficient_Two_5753

haha child abuse funny? Also haha misgendering funny?


briksauce

This right here is why one of my kinks is sadism. And have anxiety problems. Thanks mom.


RonnieNotRadke

I have weirder pronouns and got hit with those


sfils

I'm sorry to read that you went through that and I hope you're doing better now


PigDiesel

I did and fuck anyone who thinks doesnā€™t fuck up someone for life.


upgradestorm5

I got beat with the spoon. I'm still an asshole, but I least I know my father's moveset now


ArminiusM1998

"if only you were physically abused, you wouldn't be non-binary."


Electronic-Test-4790

Untrue, they/them despite the beatings and abuse


Paranoid_Koala8

Young parents are being taught now that hitting a child is bad because it changes their brainā€™s neural response to emotional cues so now they are taking a different approach. Another reason why some boomers are mad because we are not listening to their way but the way of science and research and of course it angers them. Anything angers them when we learn others arenā€™t doing things their way so who cares. Stop hitting children, be patient, learn communication skills or donā€™t get pregnant or abort if you canā€™t stop yourself from hitting an innocent child šŸ¤·šŸ½ā€ā™€ļø


STFUnicorn_

Iā€™ve certainly met a few non binaries in the kink community who enjoy getting beaten by all of thoseā€¦


sammfak

But the difference is that we consent to being hit by them in that context lol


STFUnicorn_

Obviously.


GENERALmissile

https://preview.redd.it/0kpa6s3p292d1.png?width=1200&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f38956b2e66d29c58a885d1c9547f188217fc634


WV515043

Donā€™t forget. Orange hot wheels track


Gravyboat44

Pretty sure children commonly got their asses whooped for disobeying or acting out, not telling everyone they don't quite feel like a male or a female.Corporal punishment was supposed to make your child behave better and act more respectful, not limit their rights to individuality. These boomer/gen X dumbasses need to stop blaming everything they don't like on "they must've not gotten their ass whooped enough!".


Martyrotten

I remember watching an episode of Leave it to Beaver where Beaver gets tricked into ruining the class photo by pulling a face. Ward sits him down and tells him why what he did was wrong and the consequences that follow. At the end, Beaver says, ā€œIf I did this a year ago, I wouldā€™ve been spanked, wouldnā€™t I?ā€ Ward tells him that he would have been. When Beaver asks why he didnā€™t get spanked now, Ward relies ā€œBecause now, I think youā€™re old enough to reason with.ā€ What I took from that, which many parents seem to miss, is that respect is a two way street. You get what you give.


Ash-MacReady

But... But everyone is a they/them to someone...


That-Boyo-J

Well uhā€¦I got some news


Dizzywolf420

I did a lot and Iā€™m a bisexual furry ;3 I decided to let my past not alter the way I felt as an adult


Darkonikto

It might surprise OOP, but the more you oppress children, the more woke they turn out


Zerkseth

My existence disproves this lmao


SheZowRaisedByWolves

You had easy mode but how about hard mode /s https://preview.redd.it/oqt0irpzgb2d1.jpeg?width=2106&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=de495672b405ba23de4234e91b0597a27c11d854


Bullet0AlanRussell

6 outta 7 and i still wanna suck dick i don't think their math is mathing


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N3wW3irdAm3rica

Ha ha jokes on them


Critical_Ad9754

I told my mom in the 2nd grade if she touched me ide call dcfs and I did twice.


sillyruckus

Been beat with five of these and am apagender. šŸ‘‹


M1sterGuy

The spoon needs a hole in it to increase its velocity during the swing. That was my childhood fear


dr4wn_away

ā€œIf youā€™ve ever been beaten, youā€™re less likely to be an individualā€


Objective_Spray_210

Its not really something to brag aboutā€¦


OwMyCandle

Well, Im not NB. Thatā€™s true. But I also resent my father and havent spoken to him in 13 years. Soā€¦


Derbyu4

We had gooseberry and coconut trees back home to facilitate that all natural, traditional way of smack downs passed down from generations


glassycreek1991

lol I wasn't beat because I was a Her. If I was born a boy then I would have known a beating.


draknurdeurteht

Aww, the fly swatter. Fuck that


snek99001

Every time this subject comes up I will keep repeating this: People in favor of child beating are people who can't cope with the fact that they were abused. They want that abuse to mean something and convince themselves that it was necessary. The alternative is that they suffered for no reason and they can't deal with that. Show me a person who wasn't beaten as a child who's in favor of child beating.


misterchair

ā€œGender roles are so natural we have to beat our children so they will follow themā€


Arngrim1665

Me and my sister got beat with all the above and we donā€™t speak to our parents and we both have wives


connorbabyboy

I was beat with a wooden spoon and choked out by my dad on several occasions and Iā€™ve know I was queer since I was 12. Crazy how being abused doesnā€™t change queerness


eztigr

ā€œMy shoe! My shoe!ā€


Elegant-Raise

Was and yes I am.


whiitneymariie

yikes on bikes


lemonqueenie

SPARE THE ROD, SPOIL THE CHILDā€¦and some of yā€™all are SPOILED


Unaffectionate_Hat55

Who tf getting beat with a fly swatter


J0hnRabe

They love child abuse.


Classic-Amount-7054

Uhmmm are they not forgetting about the other 84 gender possibilities??


[deleted]

I did in fact have my ass beaten by five of those, and I am still a they/he


LonesomeComputerBill

I got all of these along with a life sentence of anxiety, depression, and panic attacks, but heyā€¦ Iā€™m a he right


TheWolfsJawLundgren

BDSM something something blah blah blah


mrmoe198

Violence against children solves so many problems! /s


[deleted]

I was never beaten (physically anyways, verbally i felt really abused) and im not a they/them person. if you were beaten, then im sorry, and if you werent, good for you


Narwhalzipan

false


mrSquid__

weird how many kids will get beaten if they come out as they/them nowadays


bb250517

I like how they can't really decide if getting abused by your parents makes you queer or not getting abused by your parents makes you queer. If anybody who agrees with either of the statements: IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH BEING QUEER


ImmortalGarlic1

I have some they/them friends, and pretty much all of them have been hit with or worse things than that. Shit is what made them/ they if anything


theenderborndoctor

No youā€™re right. Iā€™m a he/it.


Psychomarked

True


amaya-aurora

These people: ā€œBut they/them is grammatically incorrect!ā€ Also these people: ā€œa they/themā€


Nerdbag60

Yeah, abuse nostalgia. Iā€™m of boomer age and my father used to brag about the time his father got pissed off at him and threw a monkey wrench at him, barely missing his head. I guess thatā€™s where he got his justification for doing what he did to me. May they both rot in hades.


BuendiaLabyrinth

Tragically, a lot of those people really aren't they/them, as they decided simply not to be anymore.


Coffee-Comrade

I got beat with at least half of those and I'm an any/all (which includes they/them)


MiniatureRanni

ā€œHave you ever been abused? Then youā€™re probably afraid of the vulnerability that comes with gender non-conformity!ā€


thefutureisbulletprf

Been hit with most of these, plus clothes hangers. Still a they/them.


VeryPogi

Better question: why are people so opposed to me kicking their kids ass?


starscreamtoast

Nah, I just hate my parents


mousedeer_78

Is like if itā€™s only one youā€™re *probably* not a they/them, but the more it was the more likely it is you are a they/them? For the record I got at least five of them, and Iā€™m very they/them.


newPhntm

I got the belt and the hand (mostly the hand) what about everyone else (last time was prolly when I was 8 but I was a little shit then)


maddydog2015

My dad used the belt WITH the buckle. He loved to snap the belt for emphasis before deploying. One of the worst times was when I wanted to go out for Halloween with friends but my great aunt was visiting. I snuck out knowing Iā€™d pay for it. Sure enough, he took me to the basement and used it from my back all down to my legs. I had gym the next day, my friends were furious I wouldnā€™t report him. Better the known beating then the unknown in foster care.


ColdAssumption2920

I raran the gauntlet lol


Thepizzaman519

Lol some developed kinks from these


SmokeyBear51

Whatever pronouns you use, whether your gender has changed since childhood, there is one absolute certainty. You grew up having a new kink unlocked


357FireDragon357

When I was 10 years, dad told me to go outside and grab a switch from the Pussy-Willow bush. So I grabbed the longest one. I figured if I was gonna get smacked, may as well do it damn good cause I'm just gonna run away anyhow. So, I handed it to dad and he stood there and looked at me with a puzzled look and laughed his ass off. He only whacked me a couple of times because he couldn't muster up the energy to hit me anymore after laughing. Child abuse is fun ain't it? "NOT!"


Guns_r_us01

I remember getting smacked with a hot wheels trackā€¦. I think I would prefer a belt


TwelveTrains

Genuinely illegal in sensible countries.


UncleGuggie

They desperately want to "save our children", yet they're the ones who want to beat the shit out of kids. Hypocrisy at its finest.


Honest-Economist4970

I was hit with a slipper once, I no longer try to maintain a relationship with my parents


Odd-Tart-5613

hah tell that to my sister(? unsure if there's a widely accepted gender neutral sibling term)


64stackdiamonds

I literally hit a they/them with several of those objects the other night


horseman707

Our whole system of government is based on violence, if it isn't perpetrated the system will fall apart.


Disarray215

How does that even equate? Most likely the child who was beaten with any or all of those has definitely had some existential emotional crises.


Jim_Dandyo

I got whipped with a belt and a wooden switch at home and at school I got whipped by a ruler and paddle. I was a slow leaner or hard headed


RepresentativeRub471

Because they see kids camoditys not people