05/23/2025
There’s a trend I find deeply disturbing: serious, adult stories told by AI babies — trauma turned into a punchline, abuse wrapped in cuteness, injustice made “adorable.” It may seem harmless or even funny, but it’s not.
🧸 Infantilizing real narratives doesn’t heal them — it hides them.
🎭 It dulls our empathy. It rewrites pain as parody.
🧼 It sanitizes discomfort so we can scroll without feeling too much.
Real pain is being softened, filtered, and dressed in diapers so it’s easier for others to digest — and dismiss.
We are being taught to laugh at what should stop us in our tracks.
We are being desensitized, one reel at a time.
📉 What happens when pain no longer registers as pain?
When real issues or abuse sounds like a bedtime story, when dysfunction is served with giggles, we risk:
Minimizing the depth of real experiences
Teaching victims that their pain needs to be palatable to be believed
Creating emotional numbness for the sake of “engagement”
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And this goes deeper…
In relationships, this same mindset plays out in another disturbing way: infantilizing women.
When men treat their partners like delicate little girls — not full, equal adults — it’s not care, it’s control in disguise.
🎭 Infantilization says:
“Let me handle that, you’re too emotional.”
“You’re too cute when you try to be serious.”
“You don’t really understand how things work.”
It creates power imbalances that look like love but feel like dismissal.
It erodes trust, silences voices, and reinforces control disguised as protection.
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But, I’m not a baby.
My story — your story — deserves to be heard in a voice that doesn’t need to be softened to be believed.
Let’s stop wrapping wounds in cuteness.
Let’s stop making oppression “aesthetic.”
Let’s stop teaching the world to laugh at what should make us pause.
Let’s speak plainly — and let that be enough.
It’s not funny. It’s not harmless.
It’s dangerous.