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This monologue lists terrible shit that previous generations caused, then flips on a dime and declares that the one generation not responsible for any of it, is BY FAR THE WORST GENERATION EVER.
That's how deep our culture's reflexive "blame youth for everything" bias runs.
It's very fucked up.
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How much would you bet that there is no "trafficking" ring at all? What are the odds that there aren't even any children in this story? How likely is it that there were some cops on-line pretending to be teenagers, tricking some lonely men into typing "Yeah, I'd like to see your nude selfies."?
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The idea that a 18 year old can handle decisions like joining the army or starting a family,
but can't be allowed to do dangerous things like drink a beer or have sex with a MILF
is stupid beyond belief.
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A: 16 year olds can't consent, so it's rape.
B: I had sex when I was 16 and it wasn't rape.
A: Yeah, there are Romeo and Juliet laws.
B: So 16 year olds can consent.
A: Oh, fuck.
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this is a real serial rapist, violent offender, and danger to society.
sadly the dominant narratives of the last 10 years conflate truly evil fuckers like Andrew Tate, with regular harmless folks who have a sex partner a few years older or younger than them.
https://www.nydailynews.com/2025/03/26/andrew-tate-girlfriend-bri-stern-sexual-assault/
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So this guy hired sex workers. Some of whom were under 18. Nowhere do we find info about their precise ages. The prostitutes were not identified or interviewed. They did not testify or give depositions. It's literally impossible to judge if any harm was done to anyone. But sex-phobic hysteria demands that we scream about the bogey man, the all pervasive but undefined, undefinable, and essentially meaningless term "trafficking"
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Some people will tell you that teens are too stupid to choose their own girlfriend or boyfriend.
Don't believe them.
#Teens #Teenagers #Infantilization #Discrimination #StopTheHysteria #RespectYoungAdults
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The Ancient Greeks ate apples, and why that matters
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Our society utterly fails to prepare girls for becoming women. We are in deep denial. We don't talk about these things. Then everyone feels incredible shame about normal healthy development. It's pure dysfunction. How can we be so fucking bad at this?
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"power dynamics" is 100% bullshit and getting all neurotic about it has made the youngs miserable AF.
They're lonelier and having less sex than any previous generation.
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a 20-year-old can't be a stripper in Texas because she is "underage"
but if you wanna drive a car in Texas at 16 you're not underage
we ought to stop pretending the term "underage" actually means something
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There has been a huge shift in the way we talk about, and probably think about sex.
We should consider the ramifications of this change. We should consciously decide if the new way of thinking is better or worse.
#sex #sexual #sexualize #sexualization
https://youtu.be/r7_TnfDlJVU
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Brain study is a cute hobby, but it's about as useful as collecting stamps. We have written records of thousands of years of young adults aged 14-18 doing just fine anytime they were given the chance.
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Sex crime can't possibly happen if we just make sure than nobody ever thinks of teenagers as men and women.
They have boobs and beards and hips and deep voices, but they're children. Sure.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdhDI8TZAb8&feature=youtu.be
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A Very Brief History
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Listen to victims.
Most people know the story of Polanski's crime. So they can just skip the first 15 minutes.
The last 20 minutes however are really important unfiltered views of the victim. It's a perspective rarely heard and extremely important.
#StopTheHysteria #RespectYoungAdults #Polanski #RomanPolanski #marker
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I understand the Dems' desire to sling mud at this guy.
He's probably a dirtbag. Most politicians are.
but EVEN SO we need to be honest with ourselves.
Teenagers are not children. The woman here is 16-years-old. Young women are not harmed by having sex. but worse than that, nobody even had sex. It is completely absurd to believe that saying "Hey, wanna have sex?" is a heinous crime.
We have to stop this hyperbolic fear-mongering bullshit.
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If it's lawnmowers, guns, or microwave ovens people who get them need to learn to use them safely.
It's no different with bodies that can get pregnant or catch STDs.
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When I was 17 my boyfriend was 23.
So assholes like Phil Mitchell think they have the right to tell me I am a victim of child rape.
Well, Phil, fuck off.
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So if someone asks, or you're about to ask "Are you okay with X or Y?"
figure out if the question means
"do you think X is gross?"
or "do you think X is harmful?"
is the question about the emotional or about the rational?
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minor =/= child
puberty ends your childhood between 9 and 13 years of age.
laws decide when you stop being a minor.
There is no relationship between these two things.
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When I was 17 my boyfriend was 23 and everything was fine.
It is shocking AF that today he could, in some states, get prison time for making love to me.
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Portugal and Germany set their age of consent at 14.
Young adults 14+ have their bodily autonomy respected there.
When consenting adults, 16 years old, living in Chicago, become sex offenders because of terrible laws something is very wrong
https://rumble.com/v1mvh8r-so-badly-misconstrued-the-age-of-consent.html
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"It has normalized the idea that young men and women are still children in need of constant handholding."
Today's infantilization of teenagers is a radical and very abnormal change in our society.
https://www.nysun.com/article/step-back-parents-your-college-student-can-handle-laundry-101
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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"
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If we were to stipulate the absurd notion that under 25s cannot make rational decisions because the all-important pre-frontal cortex is not "fully developed"...
...how should that impact our society?
What changes should we make? What age limits should we reset to make sure that these irrational young adults are not doing jobs they can't handle?
Should we take the right to vote away from under 25s? Should we ban them from the military? Should we stop them from operating motor vehicles? Should we consider them working full-time child labor? Should we put their sex partners in prison because, if under 25s are children then clearly they can't consent to sex, right?
I'm asking a serious question. What is the value of the "under 25s can't make rational decisions" conclusion that you've made? How should society act on that info, if in fact you really believe it?
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If "our brains are still developing into our mid-20s" is important information, how come it has never been applied, to anyone, for anything, anywhere on the planet?
Aside from dissing young people on social media this information is completely useless.
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We have a system that doesn't actually prepare children for real life, but one that artificially extends their childhood in order to avoid all possible "harm".
It's a disaster.
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When blind faith in false beliefs makes you see things that aren't there
https://tube.xy-space.de/w/qj2WXzuLJRNqwQ2uFRHdC2
#RespectYoungAdults #Neurology #teens #teenagers #rights #respect #YoungAdults #puberty #adolescence #Puritan #SexPhobic #Tradition #SexPhobia #StopTheHysteria #StopTheHate #brains #BrainDevelopment #SexualDevelopment #Evolution #Logic #Maladaptive #deficient #BodilyAutonomy #Agency #DeficientBrains #Undeveloped #FrontalLobe #PrefrontalCortex #Biology #Discrimination
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When blind faith in false beliefs makes you see things that aren't there
https://tube.xy-space.de/w/qj2WXzuLJRNqwQ2uFRHdC2
#RespectYoungAdults #Neurology #teens #teenagers #rights #respect #YoungAdults #puberty #adolescence #Puritan #SexPhobic #Tradition #SexPhobia #StopTheHysteria #StopTheHate #brains #BrainDevelopment #SexualDevelopment #Evolution #Logic #Maladaptive #deficient #BodilyAutonomy #Agency #DeficientBrains #Undeveloped #FrontalLobe #PrefrontalCortex #Biology #Discrimination
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When blind faith in false beliefs makes you see things that aren't there
https://tube.xy-space.de/w/qj2WXzuLJRNqwQ2uFRHdC2
#RespectYoungAdults #Neurology #teens #teenagers #rights #respect #YoungAdults #puberty #adolescence #Puritan #SexPhobic #Tradition #SexPhobia #StopTheHysteria #StopTheHate #brains #BrainDevelopment #SexualDevelopment #Evolution #Logic #Maladaptive #deficient #BodilyAutonomy #Agency #DeficientBrains #Undeveloped #FrontalLobe #PrefrontalCortex #Biology #Discrimination
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When blind faith in false beliefs makes you see things that aren't there
https://tube.xy-space.de/w/qj2WXzuLJRNqwQ2uFRHdC2
#RespectYoungAdults #Neurology #teens #teenagers #rights #respect #YoungAdults #puberty #adolescence #Puritan #SexPhobic #Tradition #SexPhobia #StopTheHysteria #StopTheHate #brains #BrainDevelopment #SexualDevelopment #Evolution #Logic #Maladaptive #deficient #BodilyAutonomy #Agency #DeficientBrains #Undeveloped #FrontalLobe #PrefrontalCortex #Biology #Discrimination
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When blind faith in false beliefs makes you see things that aren't there
https://tube.xy-space.de/w/qj2WXzuLJRNqwQ2uFRHdC2
#RespectYoungAdults #Neurology #teens #teenagers #rights #respect #YoungAdults #puberty #adolescence #Puritan #SexPhobic #Tradition #SexPhobia #StopTheHysteria #StopTheHate #brains #BrainDevelopment #SexualDevelopment #Evolution #Logic #Maladaptive #deficient #BodilyAutonomy #Agency #DeficientBrains #Undeveloped #FrontalLobe #PrefrontalCortex #Biology #Discrimination