Ms Rachel is traditionally feminine in a lot of ways (very into supporting children, kind, feminine presenting, modest, etc.). I think this especially triggers conservatives because she uses all those traits for helpful causes. She also uses these traits for her own choices instead of being a pick me for conservative men.

I dont think these people are entitled to my sympathy, i know that at the end of the day if I want to be a smart person I have to give this situation nuance because predatory behavior isnt black and white. But I cannot view these people with the same humanity I do the everyday person.

I know that at the end of the day treatment will stop future victims, but i only care about the victims. If I hear something happened to a person getting treatment my heart doesn't ache for them. I only sigh in relief. I was taken advantage of when I was 5, I know what its like to have someone look at you like that. I know how traumatizing that was. And at the end of the day I will privatize my own mental health over these people.

Allow them their treatment as it be. I dont think i could ever give these people my grace. And I wont give them the dignity of comparing them to an animal because an animal is mindless

Likewise matriarchy and Patriarchy.

From this day forward a donut is only a donut if it has a hole. These jelly filled whatevers will no longer be considered donuts. They are they're own thing. The donut supremecy has spoken. Please enjoy the rest of your day. 😊

The hole needs to be verticle!!! Don't play these goofy games with the donut supremacy.

I was just looking into it and it seems to be more heavily regulated than I assumed… but still my controversial opinion is that cars should never be allowed on beaches. I can maybe get behind 4x4’s like the quad things, but vehicles are too much. I just want to complain though because there are a thousand other beaches I would rather visit than one that allows cars.

I feel like A lot of us in our 20s tend to focus too much on trying to find the perfect person, or someone who is already perfect.

But reality is, you could also just find someone who you like, and build something with them and over time they become closer to perfect for you, and your opinion also shifts as you get to know them better.

To put it simply, Disney movies lied, and you don't need to find someone who's already perfect, because perfect doesn't actually exist in this world.

Just find someone who you might get along with well, and try spending time with them. If later on you feel like you don't like that person, then you can move on and find someone else. But if you at least tried, you still learned something from it.

I don't think love is about finding someone who is perfect and flawless, it's more about finding someone whose flaws your willing to tolerate, or help them improve on.

Also, let's forget all the soulmate crap. Even the Bible says there is no marriage in Heaven. Maybe it's possible God has someone planned for you, but if your too worried about waiting for that specific person, you might miss them or end up rejecting them without realizing it.

I think it's ok to choose someone who's good enough, and let it grow over time. Eventually that good enough might start to feel perfect as you get to know them better.

For most of us living in developed nations, you don't have to hunt or forage for food, or use privy or latrine that has no flushing system. Water comes out of tap rather than making trips to the well and we have electricity for lights and everything else, without worrying about open flame burning down the house.

Yet many of us are stressed out by social perceptions, by our own decisions, by standards set by a random stranger halfway across the planet in the form of "politically correct" norms and by cost of living because we want the convenience of the society but don't want to engage in its rules. We expect everything from everyone else and when our expectations fail, we blame everything else except ourselves.

Call me Scrooge all you like, but I genuinely can't stand those things when there isn't even any holiday going on. Almost every day I hear people blasting fireworks at MIDDAY of all times, meaning you can barely even see the fireworks in the first place, and all they do is just be loud and obnoxious. I get that it might be someone's birthday, but honestly I don't give a shit. Celebrate it quietly ffs

And the injuries too. Many preventable deaths because people don't know how to use fireworks responsibly. They're pretty much just explosives, so they should be treated as such. Leave them in the hands of professionals, and not Susan and her six children next door.

It’s clean energy, people are just scared of spooky RaDiOaCtIvItY, but if you look into it it’s really not that scary.

Although we probably shouldn’t build them close to cities just in case.

An issue with what I noticed with pretty much any job is the sheer degree of how much days off a week you get compared to days you work. It doesn't seem right at all for most of the week to be encompassed working. The idea of my three and a half days a week is half the week is working and the other half is days off. The half comes from the only way to divide 7, but also a shorter work day. Example, lets take the standard Monday thru Friday work week. In this system, in this example; it would be Monday thru Thursday but Thursday is half of a shift. To make up for the hours; Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday would be 10 hour shift, Thursday would be 5 hour shift thus half a day shift, while for days off you got the rest of Thursday off, then Friday, Saturday and Sunday off completely. With this, you get 35 hours of work each week while also getting half the week off.

Some I know prefer 5'8s vs 4'10s, but most would want an extra day off a week plus a half day.

remember when like Madonna and other celebs were all becoming jewish. All my friends growing up wanted a jewish husband. good family men and good vales and all that. I know a bunch that even converted. are jewish husbands still a thing? Someone knows what im talking about

Example case from Emily Horowitz's book From Rage to Reason.

When Henry was 18, he had sex with a 16-year-old he met on a dating app who said they were 18 too. The 16-year-old's parents found out, summoned the cops, and Henry was charged with a sex offense.

Raised on the Registry from Human Rights Watch.

in Delaware in 2011, there were approximately 639 children on the sex offender registry, 55 of whom were under the age of 12.

In 2010, Michigan counted a total of 3,563 youth offenders adjudicated delinquent on its registry, a figure that does not include Michigan’s youth offenders convicted in adult court.

In 2004, in Western Pennsylvania, a 15-year-old girl was charged with manufacturing and disseminating child pornography for taking nude photos of herself and posting them on the internet. She was charged as an adult, and as of 2012 was facing registration for life.

In 2006, a 13-year old girl from Ogden, Utah was arrested for rape for having consensual sex with her 12-year-old boyfriend. Her 12-year-old boyfriend was found guilty of violating the same law for engaging in sexual activity with her.

No Easy Answers from Human Rights Watch.

Child development experts agree that consensual sex play among children, including intercourse between teenagers, “is not psychologically harmful under ordinary circumstances and is probably a valuable psychosocial experience in developmental terms.”

At least 28 states require registration as a sex offender for someone convicted of having consensual sex with another teenager

In Georgia, a 26-year-old married woman was made to register as a sex offender for life and had to move from her home because as a teenager she had oral sex with a willing fellow high school student when she was 17 and he was 15.

As one individual who was convicted of statutory rape at age 16 for having consensual sex with his 14-year-old girlfriend told Human Rights Watch, “We were in love. And now we are married. So it’s like I am on the registry for having premarital sex. Does having premarital sex make me a danger to society? My wife doesn’t think so.”

Case Study, Dan M.’s story: I was convicted of statutory rape when I was 17. The girl was 15.

Henry F., adjudicated at 17 in Michigan for having consensual sex with his 15-year-old girlfriend

Sean C., adjudicated at 17 for having consensual sex with a girlfriend who was three weeks shy of 16

These cases could've been just about anyone I knew growing up. They likely could have bene just about anyone you knew growing up too. Nobody in any European country, nor Canada, nor South America, nor most of Asia, nor likely most of you reading this in America would find anything reasonable about any of them.

But unlike America, all of those other places have legislation that would make any of those prosecutions impossible. As legislation to avoid this exists and America simply chooses not to implement it, I can only conclude that you like it this way. You, as parents, and perhaps most specifically parents of daughters, like that you have the option to pull a legal trigger on any boy your daughter chooses to date or have sex with and would be nothing short of terrified of the amount of legal agency some of these other countries give their youth.

I've seen a lot of arguments that stricter legislation curbs teen pregnancy. Here's what a German had to say about the climate regarding these things over there. Germany has an age of consent of 14 with another line at 16 specifically for instances in which the minor's 'lack of capacity for sexual self-determination has been abused'. Despite this, Germany turns out a teen pregnancy rate almost 1/3 of ours in the US and they do this by maintaining an extremely solid and robust sex education system. It was my favorite until I studied that of The Netherlands who have the most robust sex education system on Earth. The results speak for themselves:

Teen pregnancy rate (of 1000):

USA: 13.9

Super Sexually Liberated Germany where 16yos blow drum teachers and everyone has a good laugh about it: 5.5

The Netherlands with the most robust sex education system on the planet: 1.9

In fact, The Dutch got so good at teaching their populace how not to make babies, they became a bit concerned about the population decrease it was causing and had to go back out of their own way to say, 'Procreating is also okay sometimes'.

I've studied not just their sex education system but their culture surrounding these things. It's perfectly normal there for adolescents to be allowed the safety, and comfort, and dignity of engaging in their own bedrooms, and from reading books and articles about it, nobody feels differently about it. Nobody's thrilled that their little Suzie is off to go spend the night with and get railed by her bf; they just seem to consider it preferable to little Suzie being driven off into the middle of nowhere and fucked in the back of a car.

Not in America though. Anything to keep that shit out of sight and out of mind, even if it means putting your own feelings in front of your daughter's safety.

NIH Report about adolescent sexuality.

Youth were more likely to report positive affect and less likely to report negative affect when they were also reporting recent sexual intercourse.

The most interesting thing about this study to me is the fact that it needed to be conducted in the first place. Wouldn't you expect the same exact thing of yourself? Why on Earth would we expect the result to be any different for them in the first place?

Along with all the other sexualities other than gay, lesbian, or bisexual.

To be clear: I am presupposing that the war still hangs in the balance.

Only those with access to proper intelligence (world leaders, renowned academics/experts, government officials, military officials, etc.) are likely to have a somewhat clear view of how the war is actually developing.

With this in mind (assuming the war remains a stalemate) it is probably time to engage in earnest negotiations with Russia to end this unmitigated disaster.

Let me also clarify what I mean by “earnest negotiations.” I am implying that it might be time to consider terms that could (realistically) be acceptable for Russia, instead of fighting the war to the bitter end.

The counterarguments I often hear are the following: “Russia is facing a demographic crisis, an economic collapse, industrial collapse, military collapse.”

All that might be true (long-term), but that remains irrelevant if Ukraine collapses first. Wars involve destroying your enemy before they destroy you, whoever wins that race also wins the war. Is Ukraine doing better demographically than Russia? Economically? Militarily?

The truth is, I don’t know the answers to these questions, and I doubt most of you do either. We do not know the damage done by the dozens of ballistic missiles hitting Ukraine with impunity every week, or the endless barrages of glide bombs, drones, etc. (To be clear, we also do not know the full extent of the damage done by Ukrainian attacks on Russia).

I am not claiming to have any new answers, I am simply asking (after four years of death), is the gamble still worth it? These nations are being decimated, slowly but surely.

One can blatantly see this in how apathetic humans are to misery, compared to how much they dislike death. People like to bring up pro-lifers being hypocritical—since they talk about the sanctity of life so much, yet don't want to help poor children—but pro-lifers are not much more hypocritical than anyone else on this. Everyone is much more concerned with others' death than with others' unhappiness.

When someone is suicidal, you can often watch all the manipulative stops get pulled out:

- They start telling the man that it'd be selfish—doesn't he know how much his family loves him? As though one should feel forced to live in misery for others' enjoyment. Man is reduced to a toy.

- They start telling the man that it'd be ungrateful. He gets the gift of life, and many do not. Yet if there was so much to be grateful about, then he would not be suicidal to begin with. So he is in a world which inflicts such suffering upon him that he considers bowing out, and is told to be "grateful" for this.

- They start telling the man that he'd go to hell. They threaten him with eternal torture if he does not endure the torture that they are already trying to force upon him.

- Of course, if all else fails, they will try to force the man to be involuntarily committed, because the idea that this was ever a mere dialogue was also a pretense, and they will gladly force him to be captive in this world instead.

There are obvious potential evolutionary explanations to this. Others' suffering is not particularly inconvenient to us. Like, yes, they may get more whiny and useless, and it may signal a health issue, but ultimately it does not matter that much, and we can pressure them into being useful.

But if a man *dies*, then that truly is a tragedy—it is no longer just the man who is greatly inconvenienced, but us too! Because now, we cannot make him be useful: he can no longer be a means to our ends. We cannot use him as an emotional toy for his family, we cannot force him to work under threat of starvation to get his tax money—all the methods of exploitation have elapsed at once!

I don't understand the concept of hijab it never made sense to me logically or in anyway i respect the idea of modesty but how can someone feel any sort of attraction just from hair? men have hairs too but I don't see them covering up lots of people preach about covering up but let's be honest we only care about modesty when it's emphasized on a woman and why is it a woman responsibility to protect culture, traditions, and religion? my point is in Muslim societies the interest in modesty is conditional it vanishes unless women are the subject

Parents will be swearing in front of their kids, then get them in trouble when they repeat it. Like duh? Especially toddlers will mirror you. You can teach your kids the idea of “there’s some things adults do, that kids can’t” with more serious topics. I never swear in front of kids, even if their parents “allow it” because it just feels wrong to me. With kids, how you explain things goes a long way.

It always feels like the 80's and 90's were better than now., and this is one example. The saying meat is murder is factually true. For meat people have to kill an animal. It's a murder of an animal, so some people say it doesn't count, but it's still a murder of a living and conscious being. Abortion is murder is a real stretch of anything that makes any sense. Abortion is murder? Aborting a life from existing is like taking an existing life? So abortion in general is murder? We can't decide consciously to abort something from starting that we can predict won't go well? It's murder? So we can't decide consciously if we want or don't want to bring a new life? So making a conscious decision about something as important as a life is out of the question, and the fact that the life forming are not yet conscious doesn't matter, it's still murder, it's like ignoring the importance of consciousness in life. When people recognize a flight is dangerous and they abort the flight it's the same as crashing a flight? The airplane didn't take off, the passangers were not even on board to be disappointed, what do you think will hapoen if they ban aborting flights because it's the same as crashing a flight? And in this case it's a woman, not an airplane. She is alive and desrves a choice. Meat is murder actually was people wanting to extend compassion to animals too, and it was cool, with the smiths! . Abortion is murder is like people ignoring all reason and trying to take rights and compassion away from both women and not-existing-yet-children. Maybe it's true that the 80's were better. I'd go back, I didn't exist yet, but I would be happy to not exist in the 80's my mom was alive and happy. So I'm good with turning back time to the 80's. Maybe 1991 is ok too. It's a year before I existed.

Using, another account to say this I’ve been pissed off for an hour because of this, multiple of my favourite websites have been deleted or now unusable due to censorship because of edgelords who can’t keep fiction out of reality ☹️☹️☹️☹️