Here we go again.
These people just won't be happy until the age of consent is 35.
It's just coping and seething.
@diresock
I think you seriously underestimate the fear average person holds of being called a pedo by Karren.
Hint, mere accusation does drive people to suicide. Do you think, it won't drive votes?
Power resides where people think it resides. And people are starting to call a lot of bluffs lately. So take that on board in your assessments.
@NEETzsche @diresock
While you're technically correct, I don't think the change is comming as fast as you hope.
I think it’s going to take a generation. As we replace the old generation, our sensibilities become the status quo. It’s a cycle. I know I harp on about muh cycles all the time but here we are again. We’re going to have kids who think some of our ideas are backwards because they just don’t measure up to the times, times we can’t even fathom today.
@NEETzsche @diresock
Yes.
The first change I have noticed about this generation is, that the way they see photography is beyond anything, I was even able to explain to my parents. And I feel so left behind. 
But... Doing a professional photoshoots is a common event for them.
Well, it’s also worth noting that in some ways previous generations see vindication when their descendants call bullshit. For example, knowing how to do drywall and plumbing is more valuable than knowing how to do an Instagram photoshoot, and anybody who believes that’s “taken care of” is thinking of their 40-60 year old parents who will not be replaced when they retire for real and go to an old folks home or just croak outright.
@NEETzsche @diresock @LukeAlmighty I've got to learn a trade...I just need it to be a trade with mostly people who are chill about sexuality.
@NEETzsche @diresock @LukeAlmighty Maybe I could learn electronics and then pivot that into doing lighting work for events
@NEETzsche @diresock @LukeAlmighty The current generation (Gen Z) are the ones most into the panic culture. Pedo panic (age gaps are bad, 17 and 18 no good), violence panic (rape as a horror element is bad, GTA should not let you kill pedestrians), and probably more that I'm not aware of. It'd be about 100 years before we got anywhere, because Gen Z are the new boomers.
What I mean by that, and it's a really funny instance of "left-winger almost gets it", is that you can't really shame people to do something when the action is done in private.
It was a writer for Marvel comics, a "wahman of color", that complained on X that if half of the people praising her on social media would actually buy her comic-books, the series wouldn't be getting cancelled.
Voting, much like voting with your wallet, isn't done in public, so no amount of shaming works on it.
That's how we sometimes get a "silent majority".
Young women and old wealthy men, not ageing whores, wield more value in society.
Age of consent is more likely to go down to 16 than it is to rise to even 19.
Simply because young women want to have sex at those ages.
It is what it is