They need to add a backdoor

Yeah, Cartoon Network was able to air episodes of Genosians being burned alive by clone flamethrowers during normal hours. They don’t count as people.

Having your entire worldview shattered can be pretty emotional

Maybe your parents should have leashed you, maybe you’d wander off the fucking topic less.

HOW is giving your toddler exercise when they’d otherwise be out in the stroller wrong? They’re not embarrassed by it. They often enjoy it. Where is the harm? This is you PROJECTING your own stupidly conceived feelings into someone else who isn’t feeling those things.

You still can’t grasp your video thing isn’t indictive of literally anything. You looking at videos of shit where the topic wouldn’t be occurring will obviously show that thing not occurring. How fucking dense are you that you think this proves Jack shit? Common also doesn’t mean literally everyone is doing it.

Prove it

I specified TODDLER. You keep only saying kid. There’s a difference. I know you know that. But your are determined to have a completely different conversation than I am here

I didn’t say you had to do anything special. That’s my point. It’s really fucking easy to find videos that are completely off topic from the conversation.

You can find one video of people not doing one specific things, really easily. I’m not sure what you thought this proved.

I was always, and still, only talking about toddlers. Are there 3+ toddlers in a crowded public space in that video?

I do not believe for a second that a 12 year old would sit there allowing themselves to be leashed. Some 12 year olds are basically full grown adult sized people.

I’m talking about toddlers. I’ve said that multiple times. You keep imagining dumb shit that is not happening. So you’re right, the vast majority of non toddler children are not on leashes. Congrats. What a fucking stupid conversation this was. No one said otherwise. You invented a thing that wasn’t happening to be angry at.

Traveling across the US doesn’t mean you went to places where small kids congregated. It’s also more common NOW than it was back then.

Why are you acting like people are leashing 8-10 year olds. You use them when the kids are 1-3 so they’re not stuck in their stroller the whole time you’re at some public place (which is probably what your parents did with you). It really sounds like you think parents are tying their kid to a post, instead of having a connection on their wrist. Your arguments come across as if you have zero idea what we’re talking about and only had a visceral overreaction to just hearing this concept for the first time.

The kids often enjoy it, too. They think they’re the ones leading their parents.

try to find video of a place where more than 3 are leashed in the background of a news report or puff piece.

What a stupidly arbitrary and specific demand for proof.

Just because YOU weren’t didn’t mean it isn’t common. Your parents did it the hard way. For no reason.

I was leashed as a toddler in the early 90s. I am not ashamed of that.

You don’t leash kids at parties, that’s an enclosed private space with little risk of them running off, what a weird pointless anecdote. You apparently being sheltered isn’t a good argument.

Sounds like you weren’t going to places where very young children were in attendance. You use them in busy public places that require movement. Like a zoo. You see them all the time at places like that. It’s better than a stroller and you don’t have to worry about a half second of taking your eyes off the kids, they’re jetting into the crowd. Even more useful if you have multiples.

I was a leash kid in the early 90s. I do not feel dehumanized knowing that was the case, like some of these childless reactionaries in the comments are claiming.

Wrong, it’s perfectly normal.

From the sounds of things, you are not a parent trying to comment on things you know nothing about. The leash actually gives toddlers freedom they wouldn’t otherwise have. It lets them walk around, with some constraints, instead of being stuck riding in a stroller all the time. Kids at that age will jet off real quick. You take your eyes off then for a second and they’re gone.

No it’s not?

They make leashes specifically for toddlers. They’re pretty common.

Most office workers are categorized as computer work, which was lobbied to be exempt from paid overtime laws.

I never said it did. First past the post is what allowed that to happen.

Yeah, obscenely gerrymandered Republican supermajority in the state legislature really sucks.

Perfect, I need to move a button on my jacket.

The magas only gained their stranglehold on the party, despite being a minority, due to the neocons splitting their primary ballots.

Ohio is trying to ban it this year.

Until the third one, where it was a bit of an about face in cheering on the Gotham police