ikr good to know the french marxists are focusing on the important issues like ABOLISHING THE AGE OF CONSENT instead of insignificant trivialities like global capitalism
Oh come on. The extent of their involvement was signing a petition. It's not like that's what they were dealing with every day. During the 60s and 70s France was undertaking a large upheaval in social norms, attempting to get rid of the old strict conservative orthodoxy. But usually when that happens, you also get the flip side of dumb shit like this. The same thing happened everywhere in the world but in France it was a bit more pronounced because the wave was more radical than, say, the US or whatever. It would be a few more decades before people figured out what a better approach to sexual mores was (ie emphasis on consent and power imbalances). For a while you had the religious conservative camp imposing harsh restrictions on everything, and the reformer camp trying to get rid of all of them, which seemed sensible at the time.
ikr good to know the french marxists are focusing on the important issues like ABOLISHING THE AGE OF CONSENT instead of insignificant trivialities like global capitalism
Oh come on. The extent of their involvement was signing a petition. It's not like that's what they were dealing with every day. During the 60s and 70s France was undertaking a large upheaval in social norms, attempting to get rid of the old strict conservative orthodoxy. But usually when that happens, you also get the flip side of dumb shit like this. The same thing happened everywhere in the world but in France it was a bit more pronounced because the wave was more radical than, say, the US or whatever. It would be a few more decades before people figured out what a better approach to sexual mores was (ie emphasis on consent and power imbalances). For a while you had the religious conservative camp imposing harsh restrictions on everything, and the reformer camp trying to get rid of all of them, which seemed sensible at the time.
Ok but you could also just not sign the pedo petition
haha I was joking more than anything else, I don't judge them too much for doing this
I mean you can definitely judge the person who wrote the petition VERY much, he is the subject of the book referenced in the article.