For centuries bigots have been using "their brains are defective" to justify horrendous treatment of women, Africans, etc.
They always use pseudo-science to back up their obnoxious claims.
Today they use *exactly the same* shit arguments to demean and degrade young adults (aka teens).
For centuries bigots have been using "their brains are defective" to justify horrendous treatment of women, Africans, etc.
They always use pseudo-science to back up their obnoxious claims.
Today they use *exactly the same* shit arguments to demean and degrade young adults (aka teens).
People seem to believe that sad downtrodden billionaires are being taxed 99.65% and the brave trickle-down soldiers are fighting to cut that to 99.3% When in reality they pay like 3% and progressives would like to see that rise to 10%.
I like to learn from the experience of people older than me, but I also like the fresh perspectives of people younger than me. I believe that all age groups can benefit a lot from spending time with other age groups.
Generations Y and Z are so right about so many issues, that I have to admire them. but at the same time they're constantly inventing bizarre Anti-Age-Group-Mixing taboos that make no sense and cause enormous harm.
Dan Siegel says, with a straight face, in front of an audience, and cameras, that: Adolescence used to last 2 years but now it lasts anywhere from 12 to 20 years. 6 to 10 times longer. For no reason. It just happened. Dan Siegel is batshit crazy.
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Prohibitions of very popular products like weed, alcohol, sexual services, or porn do far more damage than the products themselves.
#FreakishTrads have a weird fetish for making totalitarian police states to brutalize those caught breaking useless moral codes.
#Prohibition
I've seen a lot of people say they don't believe in climate change because "we're too small relative to the earth," and I think we've really failed in teaching those people something fundamental about what the scale of our relationship to the earth actually is.
Here's what happened:
Clickbait media outlets made money writing "X is Y"
Peeps wanted to believe that so they told all their friends
When a real journalist asked experts in the field they said "We don't know what X is"
The public believes utter bullshit and the whole debate is nonsense.
"When his child was born he looked down with disdain at the screaming infant... I don't see no tenacity, grit, or wisdom here. And I'm supposed to love this noisy little shit?"
View quoted note →Recently I've seen people claim that pole dancing is not sexual.
Twerking too. Kissing?
and the simple fact is, that it doesn't matter.
There is nothing evil about sexuality.
It's ok that Barbie Dolls have boobs.
"sex trafficking" is fear-mongering bullshit.
Huge scary headlines that make great click-bait all based on fraudulent statistics.
Chris Hansen got rich terrifying parents, and our whole society is like a big mental patient ever since.
#SexTrafficking #trafficking
When we were 15 and 16 they called us young women. Because we were. There was really no problem with that. Just in the last decade or so Americans have decided that biology means nothing, only the law matters. It's weird and very problematic.
Brazil, Portugal, Hungary, Germany, and several other countries have their ages of consent set at 14. They do just fine. Don't let sex-phobic Puritan hysteria control your thinking.
Stop Judging Age Gap Relationships
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Way back in the 90s Rush Limbaugh showed you could make a ton of money by being a snarky asshole media figure. Lots of people tried to emulate his model. So many in fact that the space is very crowded and in our attention economy the most outrageous wins.
Discussions about "ability to consent" are today's version of overconfident smart people in the 1820s arguing about how the shapes of their friends' heads show that they are honest/deceitful/energetic/lazy/perfectionist/sloppy etc.
Bans on dating people 10 years older or younger are like prohibiting people from going to the bank because they might rob it. "Letting them in the bank creates potential for abuse"
