A: "When are human brains fully developed?"

B: "Are you asking that because you think teenagers are mentally incompetent and you want to be reassured that your vile bigotry is justified?"

They see images of women like this & feel sexual arousal. When told that 2 of those actresses were 16 at the time, they are horrified because in their minds that means they're vile pedo scum.

The entire concept of groominig is fear-mongering bullshit. and it is damaging as hell in multiple ways.

 Regardless of the ages of the participants. Hearts get broken. The Hysteria says that this or that age combination is so evil it is equivalent to child rape and should be punished as such. It's haters gone mad.

I was a teen woman at a time when we dated people 5 or 10 years older than us with little to no social stigma. Everything was fine. Today's social norms are based solely on hysteria. Nothing more.

#teen #woman #time #dating #social #stigma #norms #hysteria #agegap #sexphobia

People cannot "sexualize" other people. The whole idea is absurd.

The only reason 18 year olds would ever act like children is if they were infantilized. This is something we do in the USA now, and it is a bizarre anomaly in world history.

We raised them to believe they'll be immature idiots at 18, and Voilá! Self-fulfilling prophecy! They are.

It doesn't have to be this way. It shouldn't be this way. They're killing themselves at alarming rates. There is a massive mental health crisis among them, precisely because we keep treating them like shit, calling them children, and telling them they're retards.

 We've just spent 20 or 30 years telling our sons and daughters that they are *prey*. Prey is by definition weak. Prey is a helpless victim. We tell them that they will be *groomed*, because their tiny brains are too feeble. It's the wrong message.

Is your "raising awareness" really just very harmful fear-mongering?

 It is hysterical emotional reactions of people who have consumed tens of thousands of hours of fear-mongering TV bullshit. No one is able to think rationally at all any more. No one even wants to.

About 100 years ago Margaret Mead went to Samoa and lived with the people there. The Samoans had no adolescence. It didn't exist. When she described it they laughed at the silly weirdos who live in the USA. Our culture created teen behavior. It is not innate.

(fun fact: there is zero evidence that there is anything harmful about age-gap relationships)

#SPR860 #StopTheHysteria

America has never abandoned its bizarre, stupid, and destructive puritan roots. The hysterical overreaction to Janet Jackson's boob is an example. Nobody ever stops to ask "Who was actually hurt?" So there is no reasoned discussion. There is only taboo and insanity.

#SPR860

Currently popular hysteria says "age gap = power imbalance = rape"

So all age gap relationships are EWWW, or Gross, or Sus.

It's total bullshit of course. No social science research has ever found a problem with age gap relationships.

#SPR860

Countless lives could have been saved. Trillions of dollars not wasted on senseless brutal incarceration. If we had listened to them 50 years ago.

People are not mental incompetents until they reach some mythical point of "fully mature".

B: So, I make love to my boyfriend and depending on what some state legislators think it is either a beautiful romantic evening, or it's rape.

A: *silence*

B: And nobody cares what I think about it, because I don't make laws. It's just my life.

 "Believe victims, except if the victim says they're not a victim, in which case fuck them, because Twitter randos who have never met them know exactly who was traumatized, when and how."

#SPR860

Let's all respect a young woman's right to choose her own boyfriend. Wow. Radical, huh?

Part of respecting teenagers is being honest about the fact that they are not innocent babies. They can be violent criminals. When we pretend to want to protect our young adults aged 14-18 we need to admit that we also need to protect them from other teens.

 not only from the GOD AWFUL TERRIFYING age gap.