HeatherFenix · @HeatherFenix
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HeatherFenix · @HeatherFenix
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We want to blame youth for being bad, or blame their hormones or brains. We hate the idea that we put them in a bad situation causing them to suffer and so they're lashing out.

#teens #teenagers #infantilization #discrimination #ageist #bigotry #thehysteria #respect #hate

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HeatherFenix · @HeatherFenix
18 followers · 447 posts · Server mastodon.xyz

You can join the US Army at 17.

You can join the British Army at 16.

Pretending that teenagers are too stupid to control their own sex lives is outrageously dumb.

#teensareadults #nature #biology #teens #teenagers #infantilization #ageist #bigotry #thehysteria #respect

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HeatherFenix · @HeatherFenix
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HeatherFenix · @HeatherFenix
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HeatherFenix · @HeatherFenix
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HeatherFenix · @HeatherFenix
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HeatherFenix · @HeatherFenix
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HeatherFenix · @HeatherFenix
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teaches that young adults aged 14-20 have no brain power

and can be easily brainwashed by anyone older than them.

There's not a shred of evidence to support that nonsense,

but people choose to believe it.

#thehysteria

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HeatherFenix · @HeatherFenix
6 followers · 229 posts · Server mastodon.xyz

Even if we accepted the ridiculous myth that human brains are “still developing” in our mid-40s

still developing =/= mentally incompetent

#neurology #junk #junkscience #science #teensareadults #nature #biology #teens #teenagers #infantilization #bigotry #thehysteria #respect

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HeatherFenix · @HeatherFenix
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HeatherFenix · @HeatherFenix
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Age discrimination can at best address a tiny fraction of the problem. Why couldn't the Washington Post spend 5 minutes looking at the numbers? youtu.be/mLx79YJ0cWM

#respectyoungadults #teens #teenagers #infantilization #discrimination #ageist #bigotry #thehysteria #respect

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HeatherFenix · @HeatherFenix
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HeatherFenix · @HeatherFenix
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HeatherFenix · @HeatherFenix
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Teens today are socialized to believe they are too stupid to tell a creep to buzz off. They are in a state of learned helplessness. has convinced them that they need laws to protect them from omnipresent groomers and predators who can easily outsmart them.

#thehysteria

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HeatherFenix · @HeatherFenix
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creates the very problem it pretends to solve.

Teach young adults to fear any contact with anyone older than them because it might be a groomer who will brainwash and sexually abuse them. So they never learn to handle normal social contact. Catastrophe.

#thehysteria

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HeatherFenix · @HeatherFenix
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HeatherFenix · @HeatherFenix
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HeatherFenix · @HeatherFenix
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We all know that abortion laws don't stop women from having abortions

So why do we think that strict age of consent laws will keep young people from having sex?

#respectyoungadults #nature #biology #teens #teenagers #infantilization #discrimination #ageist #bigotry #thehysteria

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HeatherFenix · @HeatherFenix
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