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And brother there's no place like home

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TW: Pedophilia

Teenagers are rarely taught the reason why they can't consent to sex with adults.

And that's because teaching them that would completely unravel our coercion-based society.

It can be difficult to explain in detail the exact reason and all the specifics in a way that they will understand. But the simplest way to phrase it is that in some cases, even when someone agrees to something and even when they appear enthusiastic about it, there's too much of a power imbalance that it's no different than forcing them. Also, having power and being abusive doesn't require a conscious expectation to be obeyed.

Imagine a world in which every teenager understood that and was easily able to call out anyone who tried to convince them otherwise.

They'd know that there's no such thing as an employee consenting to working for a poverty wage, working in unsafe conditions, working long hours, or working without taking breaks. They'd know that there's no such thing as consenting to paying a bank overdraft fee. They'd know that there's no such thing as consenting to student loan debt. They'd know that there's no such thing as consenting to medical bills. They'd know that there's no such thing as consenting to generating profit for banks or landlords in order to have a place to live and being evicted or foreclosed when you lose your source of income. They'd know that there's no such thing as consenting to a police search. They'd know that there's no such thing as a child who's okay with their parents spanking them. They'd know that being dependent on someone does not mean that you can never criticize them. They'd know that if it's considered abusive to simply play along when someone obeys, then it has to be much more abusive to actively expect to be obeyed, which many adults do to them.

And people who benefit from a society based on coercion masquerading as freedom wouldn't like that.

So instead, teenagers are taught something dismissive. They're taught that what they want doesn't matter. They're taught that they're too young to know what love is. They're taught "it's the law". They're taught things that are insulting to their intelligence, which they'll naturally rebel against.

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Lemur

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phineas and ferb au where they can't build anything and everything looks like this

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I will construct the mecha genre

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Who are generally more well-behaved? Seals or sea lions?

This might help put things into perspective. 😅

But in all honesty, our animals are amazing! Each individual has unique challenges and strengths, but they are all good pinns.

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People don't talk about this anymore, but our society just doesn't have enough sliding doors. The decline of vans since the 1980s has meant that portals-on-tracks have been rendered just about extinct in the modern day.

It's not their fault: everyone wants SUVs, with the doors that don't open as far and are less easy to load kids through. After all, if you're not dinging the door of the car next to you whenever the wind picks up, are you really a good parent? Plus, the kids put their French fries and spoons and Goldfish crackers in the track, and then it wrecks the bushing on the little wheel when it goes through the Goldfishified grease, and you have to pay the guy at the Honda dealer $150 for a new one and this all could have been avoided with a nice traditional hinge, you know? Like on a Mustang. Now that's what you should have gotten. A real sports car, assert your independence, live life to the fullest. We'll just get an SUV next time.

Me, I love a van. Not just for the massive cargo capacity, but mostly because a sliding door is cool as all hell. It makes an awesome sound, for one. Whoosh! Vrooooosh! If your regular goofy-clown-ears doors make any kind of a sound at all, then that means they're broken. And the nice square opening makes it easier to load weird-shaped items, like four boxed toilets, half a VW Beetle, or a Mopar A727 automatic transmission, without scraping up the bumper, damaging a door card, or punching a hole in a window.

In fact, whenever I'm driving a van, I get irritated that the driver's door – the most important door – doesn't slide. If I'm just zinging down to the post office to mail a letter, I don't get to use the sliding door at all, just the regular dumb one! Sometimes when that happens, I go into the grocery store and come right back out, just so that I get that nice whoosh-vrrrr from their sliding door. This used to be normal behaviour, folks. Look how far we've fallen.

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new age medicine 3 ⋆*.✧