Why don’t they just make 25 the age of majority since that’s when the brain is fully developed?
I expect this to occur, especially for women. As a psychologist points out in the comments, this supposition about the “brain being fully developed” is bunk. But I expect the “age of adulthood” to be made 25-30 for women in my lifetime de facto or de jure, and probably 21 for men. But perhaps just for women — hard to tell now.
Not among working scientists, but on this site, I occasionally encounter theories that do not fit the existing, large-scale real-life data at all.
Must-ask question for any theory: "What would the world look like, if this were true."
To be science, it has to connect to reality.
— zeynep tufekci (@zeynep) May 31, 2022
This is why I love Zeynep. She’s not afraid of pissing off the “Everyone is gonna get Covid 900 times a year and it’ll end society” crybaby Covidian libs. Surprised they haven’t turned on her more, to be honest.
Good short essay. She understands what’s really going on.
I often hear that, in a relationship across an age gap, the older partner is the more powerful. There are, of course, relationships in which this is true: between suave, wealthy Svengalis and naive ingenue mentees. But in my experience the power imbalance is more often the other way around.
Indeed. A lot of women have realized they can get away with the “Tee-hee, I was just a naive little 23-year-old baby, I didn’t know what I was doing” act, and are going to use it. It’s only human to do so, but it doesn’t make it true — no more than it is true when men say, “I thought she said ‘yes.'”
And it’s common to feel especially insecure about your attractiveness when you’re the older party, especially if you’re a woman. In an age-gap relationship, there is often a significant power gap—the younger person wields more power simply because he or she is more sexually desirable and therefore has far more relationship options. This is especially true if the woman is the older one: youth is more prized in women than in men.
The dream of everyone is to have power and choices without accountability and responsiblity. Feminism has realized it can get away with this (their “All women under 40 are powerless little babies” schtick) and so it’s going to try. It’s not women being evil; it’s women being human.
And of course PMC libs are fine with this dull accounting because they wish to herd everyone into the all-knowing all-seeing algorithm, and anything they can quantify and make verboten serves this end very well indeed.
I really hate hot (spicy) food. Can’t taste it. A total waste of time and money.
I thought I felt something gnawing on my leg earlier, but it was just one of those ghost itches. But I live in Florida so you always have to check because a lot of the time there is in fact something chowing down. The peril of being Floridian.
Still thinking about that time I was trying to dial 000 and my phone stopped me to ask me to rate the phone app on the play store
No biggie, just trying to get an ambulance for my dad who was having a heart attack, which he then died from
Silicon Valley is evil y'all
— jade darko (@jadedarko) February 4, 2022
I wasn’t trying to make such an important call, but this happened to me recently too. I was so angry about it that if I could’ve cranked open the silos and launched a buncha of nukes at all the tech bros in Silicon Valley, I would’ve done it.
Hey, remember when liberals used to be not absolutely terrified of sex and sexuality? That was pretty cool, wasn’t it? What happened to that?
Sources: Cary Fukunaga ‘Abused His Power’ To Pursue Young Women on Set.
Too bad this is what MeToo came to be about, rather than actual harassment.
Translation of all this: I was pretending to be a naive young woman and using my sexuality to further my career. It did not work out and now I am really fucking pissed that it didn’t go as I’d hoped.
penis'd ppl who've banged multiple vaginas: do vaginas have noticeably different shapes (like curved up/down)?
— Aella (@Aella_Girl) April 6, 2022
The penis just isn’t very sensitive in that way so it’s hard to tell. Usually can only tell that with fingers or that the woman says that certain positions are better or more fun for her.
The main vaginal difference you can discern with a penis is depth and tightness. I’ve had sex with more than few women where I was just too large for them (and I’m not that huge), so I don’t understand why guys are obsessed with having a massive schlong. And I’ve had sex with a woman who was a recent former gymnast who had much more control of her pelvic floor/vaginal muscles than anyone I’ve met before or since. She could deliberately squeeze my penis so hard it was almost painful. I’ve never been with anyone else like that, or with such fine control. The reason I mention it is that with her, I could tell what shape her vagina was simply because she could squeeze me hard enough when inside her that I could discern some shape — as I said, the penis just is not that sensitive in reality in that way.
Has there ever been a religious movement quite like this before? That’s fascinating — if disturbing — stuff.
Some of those people you can just tell need assistance with their mental illness, but you know they’ll never get it.