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redqueen

(115,177 posts)
8. It's awful.
Tue Jun 24, 2014, 02:44 PM
Jun 2014

And it reminds me of this tumblr post:

darkmarxsoul:

iflybikes:

When men talk of women and girls in terms of legal/not legal, what they’re really saying is “I already sexually objectify this child and would attempt to fuck her if there were no laws in the way.”

You can’t deny that is fucking scary.

Sometimes there are things that just sort of vaguely seem wrong, but you can’t put your finger on why…until it’s worded like this, and suddenly everything slides into place and you feel like someone punched you in the gut.


The normalization of the idea of adult men fetishizing young teens is not new. There's a song posted in ism's thread about misogynistic music that's about this, and it's from the 50's or 60's.

Now that porn is tainting so many other aspects of society it's getting more noticeable. Maybe enough people might start to notice it and decide it's a problem that it might actually change. That kind of thing is the goal of radical feminism, and it's why we complain about these kinda things.

And just thought I'd also mention, there are many who are busy pushing the idea that it's 'natural' for adult men to fetishize young teenage girls, e.g. making up reasons to rationalize it using bullshit like evo psych.

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At least it doesn't say BainsBane Jun 2014 #1
I think it's the "jail bait" gimmick that troubles me Orrex Jun 2014 #2
I missed that BainsBane Jun 2014 #5
Am I reading it right ... ? Tuesday Afternoon Jun 2014 #3
Yeah, that's how I read it. Orrex Jun 2014 #4
What I think is it's partially true ismnotwasm Jun 2014 #6
That's a good assessment, I think Orrex Jun 2014 #7
It's awful. redqueen Jun 2014 #8
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