I remember when my Catholic dad lost his shit about the idea of schools handing out condoms Very similar energy to what you're displaying right now "It's like saying if kids will commit suicide with knives then we might as well give them a gun to do it reliably and painlessly"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @CarolT52973604 and
The idea that if I were "inappropriately and prematurely sexualized" this would constitute something similar to death -- going to hell, I suppose, or just being irrevocably corrupted and damaged Really great stuff to grow up with, I highly recommend it
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Replying to @arthur_affect @halford_rosie and
I am not your Catholic dad. Your issues with him don't relate to what I am saying. As an adult man, you appear to have absolutely no idea of the huge pressures teenage girls are under to be sexualised.
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Replying to @CarolT52973604 @halford_rosie and
And you think that eliminating any discussion of actual sex from sex ed is a way to relieve this pressure? Lol I grew up in a *fortress* of the kind of "safeguarding" you advocate -- nothing but dire warnings about pregnancy and STIs -- and it didn't work out that way
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Replying to @arthur_affect @CarolT52973604 and
You know what happens when you can't talk about sex frankly at all? You can't talk about consent either
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Replying to @arthur_affect @CarolT52973604 and
Speaking from your experience, would you say that your upbringing contained any consent talk at all? Even the non-sexual kind? Or were you expected to do as you were told and hug the relative you didn't want to hug? I know a lot of people who were forced to do the latter :(
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Replying to @Gerkuman @CarolT52973604 and
I had very little sense of my right to say yes or no to anything growing up
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Gerkuman and
So you should welcome SRE that covers consent but does *not* put children under additional pressure to agree to things they don't want.
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Replying to @CarolT52973604 @Gerkuman and
Describing sexual acts frankly is not "pressuring" people to do them
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Gerkuman and
So you have never heard of peer pressure? Okaaay.
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Kids aren't fucking blank slates before they suddenly learn about the existence of sexual acts from a sex ed class
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Replying to @arthur_affect @CarolT52973604 and
That’s the Christian grift. Move the goalposts from hypothetical perfect naifs who would NEVER if not groomed/pressured, to hypothetical possessed monsters who will do EVERYTHING that crosses their view, depending on what you want to pretend is harmful. Erase kids to protect em!
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