Notices by Gwendolyn (gwendolyn@mastodon.cloud), page 2

Stigmatizing relationships between teens and 20 somethings prevents our young adults from getting the experience they need for adult life. It stunts their growth. Then we complain about them not doing well and sometimes choosing an abusive boyfriend? We created this problem.

The entire concept of "male gaze" is RadFem bullshit. The idea is that women are subjugated by visual contact with men.

Men see sexy bodies. Men, both gay and straight are aroused by sexy visual stimuli. This is in no way harmful to women.

There are, of course, examples of parents forcing kids to grow up too fast.

but what I see in my town and in the news is 99% parents and schools forcing young adults to stay children, or child-like, for years after they could have and should have grown up.

Vimeo deleted my account because I called this bigot a bigot. Does that qualify as a "malicious insult or attack"?

https://tube.xy-space.de/w/tXiprYkT24iRo3Sz8CuK8b

_"I still don't feel like an adult."

If you've never felt like an adult, how do you know what it feels like?

The way you feel doesn't make you an adult. Nature turns children into adults. Society lays a bunch of crap on you about how you should feel, but that's nonsense.

Peeps in the US whipped themselves into an hysterical frenzy over mythical sex predators raping their children and lurking around every corner ready to pounce on their next sweet innocent victim. Hansen and Walsh got rich as hell terrifying American parents. Our whole society is an emotional basket case ever since.

The science: "Available empirical evidence does not suggest that major sporting events cause trafficking for sexual exploitation. Yet, we find that 76 per cent of US print media from 2010 to 2016 propagated the ‘Super Bowl sex trafficking’ narrative."

https://www.antitraffickingreview.org/index.php/atrjournal/article/view/404

The "science" they used to "prove" that your brain is undeveloped until you're 25 is garbage,

allowing us to *Wildly Exaggerate* the importance of the prefrontal cortex.

https://nature.com/articles/d41586-022-00767-3

Over 400 million people live in EU countries where the age of consent is 14, 15, or 16

so that's a whole lot of normal respect for teens' bodily autonomy.

Civilized countries don't bring the cops in to try to do their parenting for them.

Only really fucked up countries do that

Nature sexualizes people, not me, not you.

Adulthood is not created by politicians but by nature.

#science

People have consensual sex WITH power imbalances all the time.

the existence of power =/= the abuse of power

#StopTheHysteria

Ask 100 people how big an age gap creates the mythical power imbalance that allows the magic brainwashing of grooming to take place.

No two people will give you the same answer. And no answer will have any scientific basis at all. Everyone will be making up bullshit.

_"We spend millions on revenge, and we spend pennies on prevention" James Cantor

#Crime is way down. Our #YoungPeople have never been safer, but terrible #dorks keep going on & on about "#predators", a word which means #AbsolutelyNothing, but is used constantly for #raw #FearMongering. Do not #participate in ginning up #paranoia. It is harmful as #hell.

We've reached a point where so many people have taken so many naked selfies, that it's not shocking anymore

It's become quite normal

Some peeps will giggle at Geraldo's facial expression or make rude comments about some body part of Vanessa Hudgens'

but it's no longer a scandal. It doesn't ruin your life to have old embarrassing photos around the internet anymore

We need to #StopTheHysteria

Our panicky overreactions to them are causing far more harm than the naked pics themselves

The teen mental health crisis has nothing to do with porn.

Porn is all over the world, but the crisis is only in the USA.

The cause of teen suicide is the fact that we treat young adults like shit in this country.

If you want to put someone in prison it's on you to prove that someone was hurt.

You must have evidence of harm.

Justifying current laws by claiming "potential for abuse" is just idiots demanding incarceration for some kind of damage you think somebody could cause some day. #Evil

When any tiny brain change means "Not Yet Adult" anybody can write that adulthood begins at 20, 25, 35, or 50.

It no longer matters.

A year ago wackos were claiming that Musk owning this platform meant the truth would come out, the establishment narrative would be torn down, and that Biden was terrified of Elon and all the free speech that was about to explode onto the scene 😀😀😀

Yes, America really adopted Charlie Sheen's worldview.

Here's how it happened.

https://youtu.be/F6AR5LxXUMQ