It's not illegal, but it's still weird, creepy and potentially harmful and no amount of lambasting about "the problematic age gap discourse" will make it not true.
It's not illegal, but it's still weird, creepy and potentially harmful and no amount of lambasting about "the problematic age gap discourse" will make it not true.
I mean, power dynamics are something that needs to be considered to make a healthy relationship, but all relationships have power dynamics. I mean, the power dynamics between men and women in general is likely more intense than the specific gap that of a 26 year old and a 19 year old.
Heterosexuality is not something we can get rid of, much as I dislike it. Dating someone who’s barely an adult so not a requirement of your biology.
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Your vote should barely count. You should only barely drive a car.
Cars should be illegal except for exceptional circumstances.
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You should barely be able to discern the power dynamics.
Nah I personally am fine with this. The law should be seperate on certain matters. Like I think certain things are a bad influence on society or immoral, yet I don't want them banned or made a crime. Like cheating in a relationship, I think that's immoral, but it shouldn't be illegal.
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People do that as well when someone cheats. How many people fantasise about vigilante justice in cases like this, it's a common trope in films, books and TV shows.
Something can be in a morally grey area without it being illegal. I just don't think the legal system should get involved with this kind of thing when everyone involved is an adult.
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you may not like it but 18-19 yo are not the same as 26-27 yo.
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Germany has that system?
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I thought that was just called "Romeo & Juliet laws". "Rolling age of consent" makes me think of something that would continue to be similarly segmented up to like age 25 or 30.
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That sounds better but still not perfect.
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idk what the ideal system is. 18 to 21 is fine.
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I see your point but I disagree with the point. I think you should be allowed to point out flaws in society without being expected to also have all the answers. A lot of the times that opinion is just used to shut up critics.
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I’m open to discussing solutions. I’ll think about it. What do you think should it be?
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That sounds better
I didn't actually want to accuse you of saying this, but this sounds like to me you're saying heterosexual sex can't be truly consensual?
What I'm saying is that all relationships have power dynamics.
LS can speak for themselves, but that is a line that many radical feminists take
This sounds like cult Maoism.
I know, and I can see the logic. Still, I hope that straight people can have consensual sex, because the alternative would seem to make humanity irredeemable.
As I said, heterosexuality is unavoidable and even necessary to an extent. I’m not against it in principle.
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Hetero is the sussest of all sexualities.
I don’t know enough about “radical feminism” to say I am one but I’m a feminist and I’m a communist so I am a radical feminist.
In this case, I believe they're referring to the radfem idea that all heterosexual sex is wrong and that being a lesbian is as much a moral/political choice as a sexuality. Some, but not all, of these people are also TERFS.
Eww
all consumption is non-consensual under capitalism
I’d be open to that argument. But I’m not heterosexual so I can’t speak from experience.