Ask 100 women over 50 who they were dating when they were 16 or 17. Half will tell you they were in a totally boring relationship with a young man about 5 years older than them.. It was normal. It was fine. Nobody was traumatized.
Meet Generation Stay-at-Home
“It’s like you put kids on a gurney their whole childhood, move them from activity to activity, and then suddenly they’re 16 and you’re like, ‘Why aren’t you standing up and running?’” says Lenore Skenazy.
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Teens Have Always Been Capable Young Adults
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https://letgrow.org/make-your-teen-into-capable-young-adult/ link
Respect is a powerful thing.
Sadly Infantilization is too.
why?
Teens Have Always Been Capable Young Adults
https://letgrow.org/make-your-teen-into-capable-young-adult/
Respect is a powerful thing.
Sadly Infantilization is too.
when it can be solved, it should
14 year olds decide to have sex all the time whether we like it or not. It is OUR RESPONSIBILITY to honestly teach them everything they need to know to avoid unplanned pregnancy AND provide the necessary contraceptives. This is a solvable problem. Let's solve it today.
From #FreeRangeKids: It seems that there’s nothing our culture likes more than an anger, fear, and outrage sandwich, slathered with moral superiority.
Who needs parenting when we got cops?
Over 400 million people live in EU countries where the age of consent is 14, 15, or 16
so that's a whole lot of normal respect for teens' bodily autonomy.
Civilized countries don't bring the cops in to try to do their parenting for them.
Only really fucked up countries do that.
If you really want to understand the truth about teens, it's necessary to acknowledge that 'adolescence' is not a natural state. It's something modern society made up. We raised the age of social adulthood creating a gap between it and biological adulthood. That dissonance creates our well-known behavioral issues at that age. Cultures that don't infantilize their young adults don't get those problems.
see: Margaret Meade or Schlegel & Barry.
Neurological Development
So-called white matter is thought to be critical for the proper functioning of the pre-frontal cortex.
How much do you think white matter in the human brain grows between ages 16 and 26?
2% ?
22% ?
62% ?
92% ?
All my life people have been complaining about "OBJECTIFICATION!!!" or "SEXUALIZATION!!!!" and nothing has ever changed.
It's a lot of noise about nothing.
We like to look at sexy people and fantasize about them. We always have. It's our nature. It's not harmful. Those railing against it are sexphobic weirdos promoting #PuritanRevival
Super popular social media posts hint that evil forces are trying to make adult-child sex legal and common.
It's total fear-mongering bullshit.
It makes people EXTREMELY angry over something that is *never gonna happen*.
Stop the hysteria.
For centuries bigots been using "their brains are defective" to justify horrendous treatment of women, Africans, etc
They always use pseudo-science to back up their obnoxious claims
Today they use *exactly the same* shit arguments to demean and degrade young adults (aka teens)
Sometimes I think it's a lost cause.
The taboo is so strong. You get banned from social media just for telling this one simple truth.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=blb3FzhK-Cs
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Sensationalist media, Chris Hansen types who make piles of money drumming up hysterical fear, love to use words like "predator" and "prey on" because it evokes images that stick in the mind. It gets people emotional. Having a calm rational public is not profitable for them.
If you think 16-year-olds are too young to join the army that is a valid opinion.
If you claim that data from neurology proves that 16-year-olds are too young to join the army that is a stupid lie.
We have thousands of years of history of 16-year-olds fighting wars, starting families, and being adults in every way, and doing just fine. Pretending that high-tech fMRI machines have now proved they are children is utter bullshit.
Simple fact: post-pubescent humans are not children.
Should the youngest of young adults, the 14 and 15 year olds get special treatment that older adults don't get? Yes, of course.
Should we continue to use bogus science to demean and degrade older teens, and rob them of their civil rights? F**k No.
When birds fly around and can reproduce we call them adult birds. Mammals about the same. Criteria are:
size
secondary sexual characteristics
fertility
but over the last 10 or 20 years peeps have decided that none of these normal criteria apply anymore. the new idea is that brain development is the only relevant factor. and not even brain development, only one type of brain cell means anything in their model :-D
The human brain reaches maximum size around age 13.
Any objective assessment finds this fact relevant :-D
The idea that all mammals become adults through a process called puberty EXCEPT humans who have to wait over a decade post puberty for some obscure and mysterious brain cells to grow an extra 0.3% in order to become adults is completely ridiculous.
Feel free to explain how the Martian in the story asked anything but a very intelligent question 😃 😃 😃