Were the gender roles reversed how would we all feel about this?
Is an 18 year old age of consent realistic?
Were the gender roles reversed how would we all feel about this?
Is an 18 year old age of consent realistic?
In other news... 8)
https://www.etonline.com/gwyneth-paltrow-proves-she-has-a-sense-of-humor-by-responding-to-a-nsfw-meme-about-her-108807
Will she remember to remove the jade egg (or whatever) from her vagina first?
Here is a new article explaining that Asia Argento has decided to stop making payments to Bennett. The last paragraph is the most pertinent, IMO. In the previous articles, it was my understanding that he was 17 when the so-called incident took place. He is saying he was underage when the event took place. That he doesn't think people can understand this "from the eyes of a teenage boy."
My goodness, 17 isn't 12. When I was 17, quite a few thing were going on. In many ways, I was like an adult. My band was doing well. We even played at the Junior-Senior prom when I was 17. We weren't babies. Sex wasn't something scary to us like this guy is acting like it was for him. I'm sure there are those who can identify with what I'm saying. As far as I'm concerned, it would be nice if he would just shut up, live life and stop whining. It seems to me Asia Argento has enough problems in her life, like, for instance, having her boyfriend killing himself. I'm sure she would have preferred that that hadn't happened, that the public would at least give her the benefit of the doubt, and that the Bennett guy would STFU. Maybe she really is an awful person. I don't know. But I do know that a person who is 17 should be able to handle things a lot better than Bennett did. He is 22 now. I wonder if he is going to just keep bitching about supposedly being a victim. To quote Nietzsche from "Untimely Meditations"----
2. Little Jimmy Bennett: If nothing worse than being on the receiving end of a blow job will rank among the troubling/crippling issues of your life, then I'm happy for you. Meanwhile, do choke on that money.
https://pagesix.com/2018/09/04/asia-argento-wont-pay-accuser-the-rest-of-380k-hush-money/
News Flash...
http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2018/09/05/gwyneth-paltrows-goop-agrees-to-pay-settlement-over-unscientific-health-claims-about-vaginal-eggs.html
If there's any 17-year-old male who wouldn't jump at the opportunity to bed an attractive woman a few years older, I don't think I've ever met him. That heavily colors my opinion of this situation.
Were the gender roles reversed how would we all feel about this?
Everything seems to be suffocated under a blanket of new prudery these days while at the same time porn is omnipresent.
But if we can't make snap judgments, how will we be able to come up with something new to be outraged about every day?
That looks interesting. Missed it completely. Guess I'll tune in for the upcoming season.
There are people not interested in it because of Seth MacFarlane and maybe that's understandable. I'm not very familiar with him, but I think he has had some other shows that were lacking.
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He's made a career of being politically incorrect; trolling. I'm sure you've heard of Family guy, and the whole We Saw Her Boobs musical number at the last awards show he hosted.
Personally I'm not sure if I am OK with the schtick, but it seems that at least sometimes he was making the right point. Nobody's perfect.
"I can only speak for myself, but I can vividly remember reaching puberty early."
You mean you have actually grown out of it by now? Sure had me fooled. (ducking ...)
No worries, I like INFPs, doesn't everyone, you're a rare breed! :mrgreen: I have some of it in me as well. Mass genocide is not really a desirable core capability if I may say so as a German.
I'm also inherently shy - all the jester, irony/sarcasm and low pc taboo-icebreaker is a way to compensate and camouflage that, I realized that early on.
Jung is a bit too esoteric/quasi-religious to me (one of my best buddies is a glowing Jung disciple, it does give me headaches sometimes), I'm more with him here ...
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e9/Sigmund_Freud_1926.jpg/170px-Sigmund_Freud_1926.jpg)
Oh, the drama! "Survivors"!!! Auschwitz had survivors. Gene Simmons' mom is a survivor. People whose parents starved to death in the Sahel Desert are survivors. A victim of a violent rape is a survivor. A late Senator and fine man was a survivor of an airplane crash and subsequent Hanoi Hilton imprisonment. Having received a blowjob you regret for whatever reason doesn't make you a "survivor". Inflationary use of language, let's not get carried away. The statistics of people dead from received blow jobs are insignificant - and there are likely to be worse deaths while we're at it.
Isn't your dad a scientist? We're mammals made to mate and breed. Lots of things people want at any given time can be problematic and regrettable in the aftermath, you wanna forbid them all?
The alleged psychological and sociological side effects of sexual acts have been blown out of all proportion IMHO, it's a primal act. If it goes together with love, so much the better. If it doesn't, people can still enjoy it. It should neither be a life- nor world-changing matter. We've built this huge cultural and moral bogus structure around it - sacrificing all reason and proportionality in the process.
My son - like most people - probably has all kinds of issues, some of which I am no doubt to blame for. Sexual experiences with a very much older woman as an adolescent are not among the known sources of any issues I have yet noticed with him. And yes, we have deep conversations about all aspects of life, sex included. Last I heard, we were in the 21st century, not the 19th one and I faintly remember something called the "sexual revolution" in the 60ies (when I was born) - not all of which has yet been the victim of an ideological reactionary roll-back (whether religious, conservative or feminist). So, while I might not be the first to know, I generally take enough of an interest to get to know eventually.