Age gap discourse is incredibly stupid. The problem with age is when fully developed adults take advantage of children or young adults who are not yet fully developed and thus vulnerable to manipulation. Once everyone is over 25 or so, it’s just adults fucking other adults. It’s wildly infantilizing to assume a fully capable and independent 31-year-old woman isn’t mature enough to be responsible for making bad decisions.
This is not an endorsement of RFK in any way. I want to be clear that I would prefer that no one be having sex with RFK, and it would actually be really great if we never heard about him ever again.
Power dynamics.
Russian power dynamics.
Hydraulic Power Dynamics with ZZlavic Characteristics.
the organizers: :flashbang:
Wasn’t this woman a Berniecrat darling? I remember EnoughSandersSpam seething about her all the time.
Another NATO leftist
She was but she tried to split the progressive vote in 2022 when Kristen Gonzalez ran for NY State Senate and justified it by saying small business owners wanted her to run.
yes
Yeah, she was originally co-chair of the Obungler campaign or something like that. One of those Occupy type so-called “progressives.”
“I was on the ground aiding the butchery of Libya” is a hell of a take.
Libs think so highly of their shitty opinions.
as soon as they get any pushback whatsoever: “Russia is here to fight me”
as if any nation state finds it even remotely important enough to reply to your dumbass opinions on whatever culture war bullshit is going on at the moment.
Russiagate broke these people’s brains.
I’d say they are still suffering from sympathy McCarthyite Red Scare disorder.
Russiagate was targeting aging White people who lived through and internalized the Red Russian menace and the weak-minded, brunchbrained libs of the younger generations are just the new carriers of the old virus.
What only reading Harry Potter and avoiding theory does to you.
Seriously, I feel like since the election campaign started in the US, everyone who doesn’t side with them is automatically a russian bot. They’re fucking delusional
Power dynamics.
do you disagree ?
There is a specter haunting Hexbear…
Do you disagree?
Good bit.
I can’t tell if this comment is serious, because, like, what power dynamics? She didn’t work for him.
I can’t tell if this comment is serious
How the greats have fallen
It’s an inside joke about an age gap struggle session from two years ago
Oh okay, I probably never knew about that
It was an @LiberalSocialist@hexbear.net thing
Hey, but they were just doing what the union wants. Do you disagree?
Do you disagree?
“Age gap discourse” is a form of social violence that attempts to wrest away the hard won sexual agency of women by infantilizing a woman, removing all of her agency, portraying her as a literal child, and portraying her consensual relationships as sexual violence. And all this is done, not in private by concerned friends, but in front of the world. “Age gap discourse” is dragging a woman through the mud of the town square yelling “this child is being sexually abused!” And pretending it’s feminism.
At best it’s a negation of the idea of “adult” as a concept, and at worst it’s an attempt to say that it can never apply to women.
Well said.
wrest away the hard won sexual agency of women by infantilizing a woman, removing all of her agency
After 20 some years of reading blogs, personal essays and other anecdotal accounts of personal trauma, I’ve honestly come to the conclusion that people don’t have agency, or if they do, they don’t want it. Especially when it comes to sex.
Turns out humans are messy idiots who often choose to do things they almost immediately regret and often express a desire for society or some other “big other” to police their behaviors to prevent them from making decisions they regret. Most people do express this desire that literally because it runs up against our fetishized concept of “freedom”, but I think it’s a desire we all have and that all the “age gap” stuff is an manifestation of it, we want society to police our sex more so we don’t consent to things we end up regretting.
Trevor from Aeon Flux was right.
One of the episodes is him showing his massive surveillance system, the screen behind him is people doing various sex things, I think, and saying it’s setting people free. I forget the nuances.
I’m 90% sure he then crawls in to his secret sex dungeon, which is located inside the belly of the president of the former regime, to have weird surrealistic sex with Aeon.
God, I’m so glad about the Hexbear position on this session. I had an ex, “socialist” who always said any woman younger than like 30 was a “child” whenever it came to relationships or sex. We were together like 8 years and it would come up occasionally but any arguments I would make against it were just labeled “anti-feminist” or taking advantage or whatever. Of course when she was younger she could make the same choices but now other women couldn’t because of power dynamics.
I wouldn’t be surprised if she was @LiberalSocialist@hexbear.net.
It’s fascinating to see in real-time how the American political class never takes responsibility for anything and manages to find a new foreign threat to explain it. Americans can never do any wrong and if they do it’s because a foreign outsider told them to.
The “obsession with a plot” part of ur-fascism.
I think 31 years is old enough to decide if hanging out with a worm and it’s host body is a thing to do. Even if the worm is a charming continental that speaks 6 languages and knows how to play baccarat.
Everyone I don’t like is Russia and everyone I do like is a persecuted intellectual
31… She was a fucken’ kid.
RFK’s worm must have crawled under there for warmth.
It’s [UTC + 3] in Moscow!
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What is she even saying? That its anti-feminist to believe a 31 year old woman can make descions for themselves?
Kind of ridiculous really, I’m a man around that age and I absolutely should not be in charge of my own decisions.
is there even a relationship being alleged here? or is this “it’s not fair for an interview subject to be older” like wtf
Power dynamics
Can’t stuff just be gross and weird I don’t need a dissertation
Some people can’t even achieve age gap!
Even if we do away with the stigma and treat them as equals, we must also create factories that can patch up their pants so age gapless ppl don’t have to bear the embarrassment of wearing scrubbed up, holey inseam clothes!
