Hate comes from anger. and anger comes from fear. The olds are really scared of the youngs. Gens Y and Z are digital natives. They understand this new digital device based society. They thrive in it. The olds rightly fear they won't be able to compete.
The entire concept of grooming is fear-mongering bullshit. No one has magic brainwashing powers just because they're older than the person they're chatting with.
The fact that people believe in teenhood or "adolescence" is pretty amazing. Some "experts" talk about adolescence ending at age 14, others say 25 or 30. Since the concept has zero scientific basis it's impossible to prove any of them wrong (or right). Social media is full of people screaming that 19-year-olds are children, especially if they suspect one of having sex with the "wrong" person. If that were true we'd have a massive child labor problem. Right now we have about 8 million 14 to 18-year-old young adults who have been forced into a kind of unnatural artificially extended childhood. They work, drive cars, join the military, some even start families, but society insists on infantilizing them, and criminalizing their sex lives. Not to mention the segregation. Barred from bars and night clubs, they're not allowed to socialize with anyone over 21. No society has ever done this before. It's a big experiment and so far the results are horrible. Youth suicide is at record highs. Doubling down on this tragic mistake is the dumbest thing we could do right now. Read More »
All the "sex trafficking" hysteria is total bullshit. Crime is way down across the board. Our children have never been safer. Grifters use fear-mongering to foment terror and fund their lucrative propaganda machines. Here's the truth:
https://www.buzzsprout.com/1112270/3883928-human-trafficking
Important:
"No, an online quiz cannot tell you whether you were sexually abused and repressed the memory. No, chronic health problems are not an indicator of forgotten sexual abuse. Yes, taking this quiz might cause you to develop false memories."
David Ley
Let's say, just for fun, that I sexualized a shoe yesterday. How would you know that I did it? How would I know that I did it? Would the shoe be different afterwards? Would I be different afterwards? Is this "sexualize" thing really a useful concept?
People did stuff like that. TV portrayed realistic events. Dee feels disgust about it now because a new taboo has been created since then.
but objectively there is no evidence of any rational basis for that taboo.
This 20-year-old report says that teens who have sex get depressed. Since then teens have been having less sex than ever, but their rates of depression and suicide have been sky-rocketing. The abstinence that it so enthusiastically endorsed failed miserably.
Puritan tradition, conservative values, abstinence only, whatever we call it, it's a kind of enforced ignorance which creates enormous problems.
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.
I have lived in countries where the age of consent is 15. It's really not a problem. Only the Americans are having a hysterical freakout, because they are terrified of sex.
everyone is constantly misusing the word pedophile and it's a huge problem because no intelligent constructive discussion can happen the haters thrive in the resulting chaos
I've seen many Americans loudly declare "THE AGE OF CONSENT IS 18!!" then looked at their bio which says they live in New Hampshire where the age of consent is 16. People don't know, and don't care. They have their dogma.
A bad paradigm: "Adulthood can only begin when development ends" is the premise, but change never stops. So we keep finding more and more reasons to say "but the brain is still changing even when you're 35, so clearly not adult."
