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.
#StopTheHysteria #RespectYoungAdults
It's going to be very hard for most people to admit they were wrong.
but we need to realize that Chris Hansen was the villain in that show.
#StopTheHysteria
and our society needs to have a reckoning with the fact that 99% of our "To Catch A Predator" mentality was pure witch hunt. Like it was literally as dumb as 17th Century witch trials.
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even the vocabulary here is highly emotionally charged, but mostly devoid of meaning
terms like predator, grooming, trafficking etc have no objective definition but everyone has strong visceral reactions against anyone accused of it.
#StopTheHysteria
This is a giant problem because everyone is thinking emotionally not rationally.
So the discourse will be filled with anger but devoid of calm insightful analysis.
#StopTheHysteria
Jerry Falwell and #MeToo agree that men who want sex are evil.
When Christian Fundamentalist Conservatives and Radical Feminists agree, people who still have some common sense need to stick together and fight for sanity.
primal.net/e/nevent1qvz...
#StopTheHysteria #SexPhobicPuritans
Then we get guys like this who "learned" from the giant pile of nonsensical lies told about Sandusky and Paterno.
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Here's a guy who doesn't know what pedophilia is, waxing philosophical about it.
The intensity of the stupidity of this entire discourse is jaw-dropping.
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I live in a country that had a MASSIVE HYSTERICAL MELTDOWN over a 1/2 second glimpse of one of Janet Jackson's boobs.
Americans wig out over the slightest sexual "danger".
THAT is fucking weirdo behavior.
#StopTheHysteria
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?
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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.
#StopTheHysteria #RespectYoungAdults
demands that we scream about the bogey man, the all pervasive but undefined, undefinable, and essentially meaningless term "trafficking"
northdakotamonitor.com/2025/03/26/former-nd-sen...
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The Ancient Greeks ate apples, and why that matters
youtu.be/Wy6LWXHwRX8
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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
Soledad O'Brien praised a company for firing a man for being creepy. OK.
So to be fair all people who seem creepy should be fired from all jobs, right?
What is the objective criteria for creepiness that shows the line between odd behavior and fire-able "creepiness"?
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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?
#StopTheHysteria #RespectYoungAdults
"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.
#StopTheHysteria #RespectYoungAdults
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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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.
#RespectYoungAdults #StopTheHysteria
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.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdhD...
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little kids is so wrong on so many levels and creates a myriad of problems. Our laws need to take reality into account. Otherwise we're gonna keep seeing all sorts of bizarre injustices.
#StopTheHysteria
Listen to victims.
Most people know the story of Polanski's crime. So they can just skip the first 15 min.
The last 20 min however are really important unfiltered views of the victim. A perspective rarely heard & extremely important.
#StopTheHysteria #RespectYoungAdults #Polanski #RomanPolanski
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.
#StopTheHysteria #RespectYoungAdults
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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.
#StopTheHysteria #RespectYoungAdults
It's disturbing that in our society that EVERYBODY is ALWAYS accusing all their enemies of pedophilia, but NOBODY has even bothered to take 5 minutes to learn what the word means.
#StopTheHysteria
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.
#StopTheHysteria #RespectYoungAdults
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?
#StopTheHysteria #RespectYoungAdults
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.
#StopTheHysteria #RespectYoungAdults
