| Posted: 03 May 2026 at 8:04pm | IP Logged | 6
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I am really of a mixed mind on this. I mentioned in another topic that there seems to be a weird inverse with younger people who identify as “progressive,” that they seem to have weirdly conservative attitudes about sexuality in terms of acceptable practices, even while advocating for tolerance of people whose genders do not conform to traditional societal norms.
To a point, I really get it. It’s not as if we’ve escaped the unfortunate past where girls as young as 12 were married off to grown men - this shit still happens around the world in 2026. According to UNICEF, approximately 12 million girls are married before the age of 18 every year. Even in the US - between 2000 and 2018, 300,000 minors were legally married. I agree with what science tells us about the human brain - these girls are not capable of making informed consent. It’s not just wrong - it’s morally reprehensible. I don’t care if it’s different cultures, morality is not subjective.
But if two people are adults, with the full array of legal rights afforded to them through adulthood, sincerely, it’s none of my business and I have no negative judgment of people entering into relationships with whatever other consenting adult they can find. What was the thing JB observed recently? When we start using words wrong - like “groomer” - then it makes it harder to use them in a meaningful way when it’s appropriate.
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