[ SECRET POST #6496 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6496 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


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04. [SPOILERS for Puella Magi Madoka Magica]




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06. [WARNING for discussion of rape, abuse, etc]




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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Commenters in this thread seem to take the secret verbatim, whereas I took it to be frustrated hyperbole. I would never throw my work laptop out of the window, but dear god, the amount of times I have told it that I will do it if it doesn't stop pissing me off is probably approaching triple digits.

If the worst OP does is play Animal Crossing when they have a tough day at work I really wouldn't start pearl clutching.

[(Anonymous)]

I think even if it is hyoerbole, if you regulalry get so angry/frustrated that you need calm down time after work, you should find another job but especially one not working with kids.

[(Anonymous)]

"I sometimes think" does not imply regularity to me.

OP didn't even say "Sometimes Animal Crossing is the only reason", but "I sometimes think".

There's nothing in the secret about being angry, either. Frustration I get, otherwise OP wouldn't unwind by playing a children's video game, but given the tone of the secret anger just seems like a leap to me.

[(Anonymous)]

We could also discuss the rest of the sentence where they say it's the only thing keeping them from violence but that's not the point. I'm a teacher too. I get exactly what they're feeling and I know what can be said in the teachers' room with people who will understand what we really mean and what we don't. This, here, is poorly phrased.

[(Anonymous)]

Ayrt

I disagree. The you can't just ignore the first part of the sentence when that part changes the meaning.

If you only cite *it's the only thing keeping them from violence* it sounds as if it is a fact. It sounds as if OP regularly wants to smack children and that it is an actual urge. "I sometimes think that" invalidates this interpretation. If OP has to think about it, then it's unlikely to be an actual urge they consciously feel, as that would render having to think about it pointless. "Sometimes" makes it clear that it's a rare occurrence rather than anything they feel on the regular.

OP made a hyperbolic joke. It didn't land for some people, obviously, but some of the comments are way over the top. And quite honestly, acting as if only teachers could understand what OP really meant and is also a bit silly. Plenty of people got it.

[(Anonymous)]

That doesn't change the implication that violence is something they think about, which is what can be problematic when you read it. Sometimes or often doesn't matter to me here. And I didn't mean to imply at all that only teachers would get it. I meant to imply that there are things you can say to strangers and things you can't precisely because, as you said, the joke won't be understood the same way. And to some, it won't even sound like a joke at all. I agree that some comments are way over the top but I still think OP should have thought better about how to phrase their secret or whom to tell it to.

[(Anonymous)]

If OP really works with children, they know that even joking about hurting them is grounds for losing their job and having all their credentials revoked. Yeah it’s anonymous but the instinct is still to tone that shit down because it’s so drummed in. So either they’re a piece of shit who hates kids, they’re lying about their work, or they don’t care about joking about hurting children because they don’t care that it’s proven to enable abusers remain undetected.

[(Anonymous)]

Uh, you're projecting quite a bit here. Nothing in the secret supports anything you just said and the escalation in your comment, like calling them a piece of shit or accusing them of lying, is completely over the top for what this is.

You're acting as though they go around joking about child violence irl at work or with their friends when there is zero evidence for that.

[(Anonymous)]

You’re acting like including it in the secret isn’t an act they performed.

[(Anonymous)]

Can you elaborate? I don't understand what you mean by that.

[(Anonymous)]

What makes it different to me is that the number of people who have actually thrown their laptop out the window in a fit of rage is very low despite it being a pretty normal thing to say and imagine. The number of people who work with children and wind up getting violent with them isn't nearly as low. I wouldn't think someone who imagines hitting a child would definitely do it; there are probably many who don't, but admitting to thinking it when there are also many who do would make me not want to take the chance of putting them in charge of kids.