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Hot take: 26 year olds should not fuck 19 year olds. (hexbear.net)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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It's not illegal, but it's still weird, creepy and potentially harmful and no amount of lambasting about "the problematic age gap discourse" will make it not true.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I mean, power dynamics are something that needs to be considered to make a healthy relationship, but all relationships have power dynamics. I mean, the power dynamics between men and women in general is likely more intense than the specific gap that of a 26 year old and a 19 year old.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Heterosexuality is not something we can get rid of, much as I dislike it. Dating someone who’s barely an adult so not a requirement of your biology.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I didn't actually want to accuse you of saying this, but this sounds like to me you're saying heterosexual sex can't be truly consensual?

What I'm saying is that all relationships have power dynamics.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

sex can’t be truly consensual

all consumption is non-consensual under capitalism

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (3 children)

LS can speak for themselves, but that is a line that many radical feminists take

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I know, and I can see the logic. Still, I hope that straight people can have consensual sex, because the alternative would seem to make humanity irredeemable.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

This sounds like cult Maoism.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I don’t know enough about “radical feminism” to say I am one but I’m a feminist and I’m a communist so I am a radical feminist.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

In this case, I believe they're referring to the radfem idea that all heterosexual sex is wrong and that being a lesbian is as much a moral/political choice as a sexuality. Some, but not all, of these people are also TERFS.