Did anyone see the news from Vienna, where six teenagers committed long term sexual abuse of a 29 year old woman?
Teens are not children. They are not innocent. They are not only victims. They are also perpetrators. Americans putting themselves into a mindset where teenagers are mentally only little kids is so wrong on so many levels and creates a myriad of problems. Our laws need to take reality into account. Otherwise we're gonna keep seeing all sorts of bizarre injustices.
"They're diluting how atypical their sexual interest patterns are."
James Cantor, in an interview with Max Karson, explaining why pedos want to be called MAPs.
#StopTheHysteria
How the infantilization of young adults (aka teens) became so prevalent in the United States.
A confluence of events provided the factors for the paradigm shift.
In the 80s the media went wild for 2 EXTREMELY RARE cases of child abduction by a stranger. Adam Walsh and Etan Patz (a while later Jacob Wetterling). Kids were on milk cartons. TV news got much better ratings when they covered scary stories, involving blood and death. Heart-wrenching stories with adorable blond 6 year old victims sold like hotcakes. So Stranger Danger Panic emerged.
TV personalities got rich and famous by terrifying the population even more. Their shtick required that the victim be innocent and vulnerable. So they constantly used words like "defenseless victim", "impressionable minor", "naive child", and "inexperienced teen"
Big sexual abuse lawsuits against the Boy Scouts and the Catholic Church popularized the idea that child sex abuse is extremely harmful and extremely common. Neither of those things is true. Well-meaning people conflated the concepts of minor and child so they could inflate statistics. Teens can, of course, consent to sex, they've been doing it for all of human history, but admitting that would mean that you couldn't prosecute or sue for millions of $$$. So well-meaning but teen-phobic sex-phobic Puritans invented the mantra "minors can't consent". They have to repeat it constantly, because it is obviously not true.
The Stranger Danger Panic became Sex Predator Hysteria. All throughout history people in their late teens dated and sometimes married people in their early twenties. Romantic relationships between 16 year olds and 24 year olds was always common. Also completely harmless. But nobody was thinking rationally. Everybody was terrified. They had convinced themselves that such a romance would create terrible trauma. They openly called it child rape.
but something even worse was happening that they had to deal with. Many of the younger partners in these completely normal couples said openly "I consented. Everything was fine." If the fear-mongers accepted this as true their whole worldview collapses, so they expanded the concept of "grooming". Their new interpretation was that it's a kind of brainwashing. The abuser is nice to the victim, and the victim thinks he or she likes it, but total strangers know better and can see that it isn't two young adults making love but in fact child rape. This requires the "impressionable minor" or the "inexperienced teen" to be too stupid to see that he/she is being abused. To consider normal young adults aged 16 or 17 "defenseless victims" or "naive children" you need to believe that their brains are deficient. So the public was hungry for any way to argue that young adults are incapable of adult thinking. That was the fertile ground the junk fMRI studies landed in.
Then we got #MeToo. Just like Stranger Danger a few extreme cases got talked about so much that everyone thought it was everywhere. Harvey Weinstein is a totally vile piece of shit rapist. He used his power to coerce. But since Sex Predator Hysteria was well established everyone was super eager to declare that anyone who has more power than their lover is in fact raping that poor victim. It was completely ridiculous, but nobody cared. Nobody wanted to think. They wanted fear and anger. That's the nature of hysteria. and it fit beautifully into the infantilization paradigm. If you're 19, a vulnerable teen, obviously your 26 year old girlfriend has more power than you, so you cannot consent, so you are being sexually abused. and self-righteous "saviors" who have never met you or your girlfriend can feel superior and morally pure.
When I was 17 in the 1980s my boyfriend was 23. It was not a big deal. Nobody even mentioned the age gap between us. There was nothing out of the ordinary about it. By the time #MeToo came around I hadn't thought about him for decades. but when I shared the facts of our relationship on Twitter in 2020, tons of people were eager to tell me how I was an idiot who got groomed and abused. I was not a child. I was not raped. I know. I was there. but social media loves spreading the infantilization narrative. That way they can create salacious stories of sexual abuse when the true story is a rather boring "two young adults did a romance"
The Democrats Are Now The Moral Majority - in the worst possible way
One of the most fascinating things in the last few decades of U.S. politics is the total reversal of the sex-positive vs sex-negative positions of the two main parties.
In the 80s and 90s the Republicans were the party of Jerry Falwell and the Moral Majority. The sex-phobic Puritan idiots were all in the GOP.
The sex-positive enjoy life and don't suppress healthy natural desires party was the Democrats.
In the 90s the Rs tried desperately to beat Bill Clinton over the head with his sex scandals, and while some voters were disgusted by his dalliance with Lewinsky, overall he kinda made it so sex scandals don't matter.
Now as we enter 2025 the opposite is true. Seems like every R in tarnation has half a dozen sex scandals and the Dems just won't shut up about them, and those Rs just keep winning elections. Maybe establishing a new slut-shaming left-wing Moral Majority wasn't a good idea.
In the 90s the Rs talked about prudish moral rectitude non-stop, but they all had their own mistresses, and foibles even more scandalous.
Now the Ds won't stop yammering righteous indignation about how Rs are morally bankrupt because they're much too horny and pay sex-workers, and so on.
The script has flipped.
The 2024 election was very close. Several relatively small things, done differently, would have made it a Democratic victory.
Dems lost, in part, because they have become the party of hectoring prudes.
"Heather, what? are you implying that Dems have been shaming voters for being too lustful and sinful?" you ask.
Yes. and it has a lot to do with the infantilization of young adults.
The vast majority of people have romantic/sexual relationships with people close to their own age. The median partner preference for women is her own age plus ~5 years, and for men his own age minus ~5 years.
If you're a 20 year old man, looking for a partner, it's really quite likely that large numbers of women your age are going out with someone who's 25.
Naturally you'd be dating someone who is 5 years younger, that is 15, but that's now taboo.
It is so taboo in fact that none of these brand new 20 year old eligible voters will say that the stigma around and the literal criminalization of their natural desires makes them vote for the Republicans.
They'll describe it in some other way. They'll obfuscate. They'll use dumb slang that means nothing. or they'll invent some nonsense about the border or the price of eggs.
Was the 2024 election result backlash against #MeToo? In part, for sure. but it's bigger than that. #MeToo expanded and morphed into #TheHystera, a worldview that makes pretty much all sex some kind of sexual assault if not rape.
How many times has our friend, the 20 year old male newly eligible voter, heard that Matt Gaetz is a child rapist? What did Gaetz do to earn that title? He had sex with a prostitute who hadn't yet turned 18.
How many 20 year old men don't want to have sex with a 17 year old? Should they be ashamed of those desires? Should they seek professional help because they are pedos and a danger to society?
The vast majority of those men know that their desires are natural and harmless. So activist Democrats calling them rapists and perverts for finding women 3 years younger than them arousing, must be really fucking annoying.
Republicans, by boldly overlooking large quantities of sexual misconduct committed by many of their most prominent members, show horny 20 year old male voters that it's ok. The GOP understands and tolerates them.
The Dems on the other hand call them predators and try to incarcerate them.
Remember that there is zero evidence that teens having sex is harmful.
There is zero evidence that age-gap sex is harmful.
Shaming people for harmless desires is an awful thing to do.
Because of the taboo all of this remains unspoken. but most of us know it's true. and even more people would see that it's true if they calmed down and looked at it objectively for a moment.
#TheHysteria that makes people see sex predators everywhere causes Democrats' to lose elections, which results in dangerously stupid clowns controlling every branch of our government.
It's time to admit that John Walsh and Chris Hansen were wrong and did tremendous damage to our society.
It's time to embrace young adults as capable strong individuals. It's time to stop infantilizing, demeaning, and disempowering them.
Some Democrats ask "Why do young men listen to vile bat-shit crazy morons like Jordan Peterson and Andrew Tate? What can we do to offer those boys a different vision of masculinity?"
First, stop calling them boys. It's demeaning.
Second, you can't get the right answer because you're asking the wrong question.
The right question is "How have we screwed up so badly that fucking idiots like Jordan Peterson and Andrew Tate look good by comparison?"
Dear Democrats, you shamed them for having normal natural healthy sexual desires. You called them predators, pedos, rapists, wannabe rapists, and toxic.
There is a way out.
Treat young people with respect. Stop telling them their brains don't work because they're under 25.
Stop calling them children when they obviously aren't.
Stop pushing the rules of consent to absurd lengths.
Repeal the idiotic notions that sex is rape if one person has more power, one person had a few drinks, both people had a few drinks, one person is older, etc.
I've been a dedicated progressive Democrat all my life. I've seen us win. I've seen us lose. but lately we've been losing to the lowest form of pond scum imaginable, and it makes me wonder how we managed to fuck up so badly.
It's not just the one thing. Our leaders have done just about everything wrong. but the alienation of young men because #TheHysteria interprets their healthy erotic desires as evil toxic and predatory has not helped the Democratic Party with that demographic.
In short, stop being sex-phobic Puritan idiots.
Nostr is a giant pile of shit.
Everyone here is a fucking scoundrel.
Want to interact with decent people? GTF off Nostr.
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Nostr is a giant pile of shit.
Everyone here is a fucking scoundrel.
Want to interact with decent people? GTF off Nostr.
Here are a few serious questions you can ask peeps who love to say "undeveloped pre-frontal cortex" or "not fully developed until your late 20s"
#RespectYoungAdults
_"Between 1979 and 1989 use of the word 'predator' goes up 900%"
Mass hysteria gripped the USA, and never let go.
There are some things people just always believe. True or not.
If crime is rising or falling or staying the same, everyone always believes it's rising.
and they always believe the youngest generation is the worst and the most lazy, wild, undisciplined, etc.
I've been on Nostr for a year. I have posted 2,630 notes. In all that time I got maybe 30 likes.
I'm not saying Nostr is dead. but it doesn't seem like anyone here has any interest in my content. So there is no significant incentive for me to post another 2,630 notes.
If we're honest, it was probably a waste of time for me to join Nostr in the first place.
I'd reply to this tweet directly, but Elon deleted my account.
It's literally the opposite of freedom. It's totalitarian dictatorship that controls everything, even your sex life. You promoting that makes you the most vile piece of shit communist dirtbag alive 😀
I was one. I know what guys me and my friends chose 😀
It was fine. Your fucking arranged marriages crap got discarded long ago and with good reason. It fucking sucks 😀
Nothing you've posted is true.
So either you're lying or you have been thoroughly misinformed.
Yes, lots of young teens will be having pre-marital sex. That's horrible for society, moron. Why defend this kike behavior? Are you jewish?
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Nope. There's not a shred of evidence that premarital sex is bad for society 😀 😀 😀
LOL 😀
The age of first marriage is steadily rising all around the world. In the US it's now in our late 20s.
That trend is not going to change. Nobody is suddenly going to start getting married at 13 or 16 or 19 😀 😀 😀
Lots of people are going to have lots of premarital sex over the next few decades
I don't think there's anything in that video about the legal marriage age
which is a completely separate issue from the age of consent.
No. Again you are wildly misinformed.
with all due respect "father's permission" is vile crap.
statistically BY FAR the most like to abuse a young woman is her father. those guys should have zero control over anything young women do.