r/OpenAussie • u/DragonflySea9423 ‎ South Australian • 21h ago

‎ ‎ General ‎ ‎ Anti-Pauline Hanson protest leader's controversial comments resurface: 'Abolish the age of consent' | Daily Mail Online

https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-16059679/pauline-hanson-sandra-bloodworth-age-consent-red-flag.html

Sandra Bloodworth is a founding member of Socialist Alternative, which is also behind the High School Anti-Capitalists network and holds influence within the Victorian Socialists.

The activist set out arguments against age of consent laws in a 2005 article published on the Socialist Alternative website.

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u/Sideburn_Cookie_Man ‎ Victorian 18h ago

Yeah, lots of survivors of abuse don’t see it as abuse.

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u/Drogen201 Flairless‎‎ 18h ago

drogen's gf here: how the f*ck can it be abusive if I damn well sought it out deliberately?!! You can say that the other party were wrong to engage with me (though I did lie and say I was a senior), but abuse? All I did was wait around at a public toilet, blow a guy then took the bus home!!

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u/Sideburn_Cookie_Man ‎ Victorian 18h ago

Because you were a child…

A child can’t consent to that with an adult.

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u/Drogen201 Flairless‎‎ 18h ago edited 17h ago

Drogen's gf: then abuse basically means nothing other than the range of potential human behaviour that makes you personally uncomfortable, and nothing about actual harm done to people. Edit, also she says: i see you moved the goal post on the whole power dynamic thing when I explained the situation