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.
I think that a lot of Gen Z has actually internalized the idea that they will be complete morons until age 25.
It's horrifying.
I'm glad Greta kicked Tate's ass
but acting like she was some huge underdog because at her age she's supposed to be intellectually feeble is slimy horse crap.
Stupid right wing men are always telling us what to wear and how to behave and it's annoying as fuck.
but the way to push back against that is *not* to deny the fact that breasts are secondary sexual characteristics.
Nor is it a solution to accuse peeps of thought crimes.
Some peeps are amazingly confident about their completely wrong "facts" :-D
(and their total ignorance of the existence of multiple jurisdictions in the USA and around the world)
The harsh reality is American age of consent laws as they currently stand are a dysfunctional mess that turn normal healthy teenagers into sex offenders.
We let 16 year olds work full time, drive cars, etc just like all other adults,
but then pretend that they're little kids who can't handle drinking beer until they are 21.
America has a bizarre unhealthy schizophrenic relationship with her young adults.
These day pedophilia is anything the crazies decide that it is, everyone who is accused is guilty, and anyone who questions the automatic guilt of someone who maybe thought, said, or did something which could possibly be remotely sexual and inappropriate supports child rape.
#TheHysteria
There is not a shred of evidence that a consensual relationships between 16 year olds and 30 year olds are in any way damaging. If there were, such relationships would be immediately banned all across Europe.
(where they are perfectly legal btw)
Even if we accepted the ridiculous myth that human brains are “still developing” in our mid-40s, the fact remains that:
still developing =/= mentally incompetent
#Neurology #Junk #JunkScience #Science #TeensAreAdults #nature #biology #teens #teenagers #infantilization #bigotry #TheHysteria #Respect
A: Did you ever have a puppy for a pet?
B: Sure
A: When was your puppy fully mature?
B: I dunno
A: Why not?
B: 'Cuz, like, how would I know? and why would anyone care?
(protip: "fully developed" is a stupid red herring)
Age-obsessed Millennials Freak Out Over Nothing
What happens when they are confronted by normal human romance? It ain't pretty.
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.
20 years ago we said this woman was sexy.
Today she is sexualized.
Sexualized means she's sexy, but she shouldn't be.
Why on earth would the age of consent be 18?
One of these two women is 4 years older than the other.
One is a minor. One is not.
Of course you can tell which is which, right?
Just tryin' sumpn
Puritan right wing fundamentalists realized that most of the population no longer perceived prostitution as evil,
so they made a conscious decision to rebrand it as SEX TRAFFICKING.
It was a propaganda coup. It was very successful in manipulating the minds of ordinary folk.
American Men hate themselves for their natural sexual desires. It's awful. We used to do it to homos. Now we do it to any man who sees any attractive woman who might be under 21.
#PuritanRevival is cruelly inflicting shame and self-loathing on fine normal men. It's evil.
We have a system that doesn't actually prepare children for real life, but one that artificially extends their childhood in order to avoid all possible "harm".
It's a disaster.
#RespectYoungAdults #StopNeoPuritanism
