In Illinois two consenting 16 year olds who have sex are each committing the rape of the other. That's the law.
It's fun to say "rape is rape" but there are lots of cases when it really isn't,
and we need to face that fact so we can fix really fucked up laws.
"sexualization" is 100% bullshit
The entire concept is crap. Like totally absurd.
Mandrills have colorful noses. We have beards and boobs. Exactly the same function. We are sexual. We have sexual bodies with sexual body parts.
Everyone here is operating under the assumption that
sexual = bad
Unquestioned.
This is the weird silent #PuritanRevival
Female Teenagers Are Women
Stop Infantilizing Young Women Aged 14-20
This is how we know "prey on" is bullshit
What happens when narratives collide?
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Part of the fear mongering bullshit about pedophilia is the common belief that pedos can't control their urges and simply must rape everyone they're attracted to. There is zero evidence to support that nonsense.
that's not childhood
no one is a child at 14
Segregation has stiffened a lot.
Teens and 20 somethings used to mix in social situations all the time. They knew each other. They dated each other. (I know, I was there, in the 80s)
None of that is true anymore.
Young adults have been artificially separated into two groups alien to each other.
30 year olds talk about 20 year olds as if they are a different species, and they are literally disgusted by the idea of kissing someone that young.
Hostile tribes have been created.
If your society has trained 16 year olds to be vulnerable to abuse,
then your society has to radically change the way it raises its sons and daughters.
16 year olds are not vulnerable by nature. Bad upbringing causes that.
The underlying belief here is that 17-year-olds are children, and simultaneously so stupid that they will be damaged by being allowed to socialize with people who are older than them.
#Disgusting #Bigotry #Unscientific #Infantilization #discrimination #ageist #Hysteria
The entire concept of grooming is fear-mongering bullshit.
No one has magic brainwashing powers just because their older than the person they're chatting with.
One of these women is 27, so it is totally ok for you to see her boobs.
But another is only 16, so you must pretend that she looks like she's 8. Never acknowledge that a 16 year old might have a nice figure. That would mean you're sexualizing her. 😀
Joseph Bronski's excellent 2021 book "An Empirical Introduction to Youth" points out that 50 years ago Tanner showed most young people finishing puberty at 14 or 15 years of age
Tanner was METICULOUS as hell
Tanner links:
https://sci-hub.se/10.1136/adc.44.235.291
&
https://sci-hub.se/10.1136/adc.45.239.13
This would seem to indicate that we've seen a MASSIVE increase in slut-shaming over the last 20 years.
That coincides with the dramatic and unexplained decrease in the amount of sex young people are having.
#slutshaming #slutty #sex #teensex #sexpositive #asexual #NeoPuritanism
This is the new ideology.
All sex is rape and all romance is grooming.
Abuse is everywhere and everything.
Always be afraid, and remember power causes abuse, if you're younger you're less powerful and will get abused.
The drinking age in the US is insane and obscene.
Insanity and obscenity should never be the standard by which other things are judged.
No one wants to fuck fish. Fish are not sexy.
But if fish were not sexual they could not reproduce and would go extinct.
RadFems conflate feeling sexy with being sexual, which means they produce all sorts of completely ridiculous rhetoric :-D
#Sexualize #Sexualization
Heather, why?
My issues are with a change in American culture. The problem has spilled over a bit into other countries but on the whole Europe is a great example of how to not fuck things up the way the US did.
My core idea and the reason I do all this is contained in this 4-minute video =>
https://peertube.su/w/pZKq64udYboprfYSdL8vRr
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WTF is wrong with people?!?!
"OMG!!! A person under 30 who is actually human!!! Can you believe it?!?! She does, like, normal human stuff!!! At her age!!!"
So disgusting, demeaning, insulting and fucking infuriating.
The importance of the prefrontal cortex is WILDLY exaggerated in pop culture.
