@Eimi_LTY @DrJessTaylor Amy, pretty much, half a billion Europeans accept 15 year olds as young adults. That must concern you a lot. Why don't you talk to some of them? Why don't you find out how they manage to not infantilize 16 and 17 year olds, some of whom have full thick beards?
There are, of course, some late bloomers, but many 15 year olds have finished puberty and are therefore, by definition, adults.
Amy is living in a delusion. https://t.co/6PhHS6H1Je
@Eimi_LTY @DrJessTaylor for 1000s of years Jews welcomed 13 year olds as adults in their community. so 14 and 15 year olds got married and started families. I don't think we should do that here now, but ffs let's acknowledge that puberty changes children into adults. Basic biology.
@Eimi_LTY @DrJessTaylor the EU has 500 million people and nowhere in any of those great civilized nations with a great standard of living is the age of consent higher than 16.
Historically that was the norm in the US too. It still is in many US states.
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@Eimi_LTY @DrJessTaylor In Germany the age of consent is 14 years old.
So that's 80 million Germans who have no problem with the things I'm tweeting.
If you have evidence that the German laws cause harm, then present it. We will go to Berlin and make them change their laws.
@Eimi_LTY @DrJessTaylor In France the age of consent is 15 years old.
There are fewer of them. 50 million I think. Honestly, those people have a much better handle on the situation than a Twitter rando named Amy.
but again... If you have evidence that these laws cause harm,...
Replying to https://twitter.com/undefined/status/1352337750490546176:
@Eimi_LTY @DrJessTaylor In Germany the age of consent is 14 years old.
So that's 80 million Germans who have no problem with the things I'm tweeting.
If you have evidence that the German laws cause harm, then present it. We will go to Berlin and make them change their laws.
Replying to https://twitter.com/undefined/status/1352337022988464131:
@Eimi_LTY @DrJessTaylor a lot of not nice things happened to me as a child and as a young adult.
and your vile accusations are straw men. I posted to you the smart way to defend against grooming. I have never defended any predators. Do better.
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@Eimi_LTY @DrJessTaylor One of those actresses was 16 at the time. Another was 27. So ask 100 adult men which one he thinks is sexy and if he chooses wrong, according to your bullshit, he is a pedophile.
@Eimi_LTY @DrJessTaylor The way to prevent harmful grooming is to empower young people. That is the opposite of infantilizing them. We can protect them by acknowledging that they are young adults with rights and responsibilities.
Replying to https://twitter.com/GamerAce3/status/1347595160658604034:
@GamerAce3 When I lived in Europe I met a couple who started dating when she was 16 and he was 30. Lotsa people said she was too young for him or whatever. In that country it was perfectly legal. They are still together today. They have 3 kids.
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@GamerAce3 @Eimi_LTY
Really Amy,
If you can present to me solid evidence that a romantic sexual relationship like the one above is inherently harmful, then I'll be on your side. I will immediately start to support prohibitions on teen sex or whatever. But no such evidence exists.
Replying to https://twitter.com/undefined/status/1352325869180694531:
@Eimi_LTY @DrJessTaylor Isn't that a good reason to be honest with our 15-18 year old young women? Shouldn't we tell them the truth, that they have adult bodies, which are attractive to the vast majority of men on the planet?
@Eimi_LTY @DrJessTaylor I think I was really lucky. My family didn't infantilize me. My grandmother told me straight out what to expect before I was even old enough to understand. And when my body started to change and men started to notice me, I thought "aha. this is what grandma was talking about"
Replying to https://twitter.com/undefined/status/1352325869180694531:
@Eimi_LTY @DrJessTaylor Isn't that a good reason to be honest with our 15-18 year old young women? Shouldn't we tell them the truth, that they have adult bodies, which are attractive to the vast majority of men on the planet?
Replying to https://twitter.com/undefined/status/1352324964607791106:
@Eimi_LTY @DrJessTaylor One of those actresses was 16 at the time. Another was 27. So ask 100 adult men which one he thinks is sexy and if he chooses wrong, according to your bullshit, he is a pedophile.
"Power imbalance" sounds so logical until you start to think it through. Then it all just immediate falls apart. After about 2 seconds of scrutiny it becomes a ridiculous mess.
@TylorJean1 a few more examples of how "power dynamics" arguments are obscenely stupid.
Replying to https://twitter.com/undefined/status/1352309761996447746:
@Eimi_LTY @DrJessTaylor Nonsense. Those are adult women in those photos.
@Eimi_LTY @DrJessTaylor and what do you mean by "young girls"?
female humans are girls from birth until they finish puberty apx 14 years of age. Logically an old girl is 13, so a young girl must be 5 years old.
Who when and where is displaying "sexy" images of 5 year olds? Tell me, I'll call the FBI.
Replying to https://twitter.com/undefined/status/1352310261139599361:
@Eimi_LTY @DrJessTaylor Sorry. So you believe that the existence of photos of sexy adult women dressed in school uniforms is harmful.
Have you got a shred of evidence to support your absurd notion?
Replying to https://twitter.com/undefined/status/1352309761996447746:
@Eimi_LTY @DrJessTaylor Nonsense. Those are adult women in those photos.
@Eimi_LTY @DrJessTaylor This was normal TV in the 1990s. I think these women were chosen because they looked pretty hot. Do you disagree?
@Eimi_LTY @DrJessTaylor Amy, seriously, if you have a problem with "an adult man finding a teenage girl sexually attractive." then please show these pics to 100 adult men and ask them if the women shown are sexually attractive or not, ok? 
@Eimi_LTY @DrJessTaylor The problem with outlawing age gap relationships is that no one has ever shown any evidence that they are harmful.
If you have such evidence then present it.