Wild_Heather 

Fighting Bigotry - Other sites I'm on: linksta.cc/@Heather_860

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People need to realize that no healthy relationship can exist without mutual respect, and mutual respect is incompatible with "I believe you are pretty much a wild animal because your brain doesn't work."

The age of consent has nothing to do with children. It's all about criminalizing the sex lives of teenagers.

Power

Money, beauty, talent, self-confidence, belonging to a social network that includes powerful people. There are tons and tons of things that give folks more or less power. Age is one of the least relevant of them.

Before feminism this was literally impossible. Feminism has brought us so much freedom and joy. Things like stress, fear, and loneliness affect all of us sometimes. Those are totally unrelated issues.

Respect

Teenagers work full time jobs. Teenagers serve in the military. Teenagers provide child care to working mothers. Teenagers go to college. Teenagers do tons of charity work. Teenagers do everything that laws allow them to and they do it well. Stop infantilizing young adults.

Honesty

Men are sexually attracted to young women. Maybe you can get a social movement big and angry enough to force them to hide that fact, but the fact itself will not change. Personally I think forcing those thoughts and feelings underground will do more harm than good.

Projecting our preferences is dumb

"Normal people are attracted to people who are roughly age appropriate" is true for many, probably most women. We tend to like our own age +5.

Men, however, are most often attracted to puberty +5 and that does not change. Men don't start looking at different porn as they grow older. Senior citizens and teens watch the same erotic vids.

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incongruent

The root cause is the infantilization of the young. When I was 12 everybody thought I was "not quite an adult" Now people say that about 18 year olds. We have literally millions of people living in adult bodies being treated like small children.

"Gender Ideology" is exactly the same as Anita Bryant's "Gay Agenda" was in the 1970s. Total fear-mongering bullshit designed to get ordinary people to hate those who the freakish trads want them to hate.

It's up to rational people everywhere to force politicians to respect science and make laws that reflect reality and not bizarre hysterical fears.

Keep calm and...

Whatever various societies decide is optimal (it changes by time and place) some people always choose partners who are thought to be unsuitable for them. There's zero reason to freak out about a few peeps being in less traditional relationships.

Ronald Reagan controlled enough nuclear weapons...

...to destroy all life on earth. His wife, Nancy, organized Christmas decorations. Galaxy-sized power imbalance. There's no way she could consent. Every time they made love it was rape. (That's the idiocy of "power dynamics")

There are real biological differences between children 0-11 and adults 14+ Society always has and always will treat adults and children differently. I accept that fact.

Same age relationships are sometimes abusive. Age gap relationships are sometimes abusive. The abuse is the problem. Let's stop abuse. All abuse. To do that we need to stop obsessing on stupid distractions like age gaps.

If anybody really thought 16 year old brains were deficient we wouldn't let them drive cars, quit school, work full time in dangerous environments, or even babysit. We know perfectly well that 16 year old brains work perfectly well.

Doofus: "I'd never let my teenage child date someone X years old!!!!"
Common Sense: "LOL! Hypothetical parents pretending they have hypothetical control over hypothetical sons and daughters who are young adults aged 14-19!
(pro-tip: peeps do stuff. you don't have control)"