Seems pretty clear our President is as well by the criteria you are judging Sen. Feinstein by. 

That is true but that range is generally geared towards teenagers, so that an 18 year old can’t be charged with a crime for hooking up with a 16 year old.

The point isn’t that people find them attractive- it’s commodifying their sexuality in a way that is both outside of their control and which doesn’t benefit them at all unless they decide to do adult content. Those radio shows make money from advertisers. Reddit makes money from advertisers. This post outlines how…

So I’ve never told this to anyone. But I remember being leered at by construction workers when I was 13. A child. I was uncomfortable, but I kind of *secretly* liked the attention because no boys at school ever noticed me. Then I felt guilty about liking it. Then learned to not trust my feelings at all because they…

Say a guy never heard of MBB until she turned 18 and finds her attractive, that would fall under the definition of “adults being attracted to other adults” but does it make it any less creepy? -

I’d wager you’re arguing with a dude not a 40 year old woman.  You’re wasting your time.

I mean yes BB did make the choice, but she capitalized off the creepy obsession with it “legally being ok” to sexualize young women. And honestly good for her, but it’s still creepy AF

The problem is that people have wanted to have sex with them while they were UNDER the age of 18. It’s the countdown to them being “legal” that’s disgusting and needs to be addressed.

Yeah, that’s always been fucking gross. I can’t believe there are people who admit to this shit.

It’s gross. Hell I think Natalie Portman’s entire career spring boarded off of being an underaged sex symbol...

Me. I'm right smack dab in the middle.

Nancy+Robin!

Man I hope Steve & Nancy don’t get back together. Not that I want her to be with Jonathan either. Nancy is awesome though, the best character on the show to me, sensitive but very tough. 

It’s weird - and as I mentioned elsewhere - I didn’t even see color in either direction - I saw “macho assholery”, and disrespect for a woman’s ability to defend herself. Possibly because right before I read about it, I’d been shaking my head in annoyance about a home-grown episode of something similar - i.e., the…

Unfortunately, like many others, he’s decided that trying to be the new Mini-Trump is the key to success.

What has truly made me despair for the human species during the past few years is that it really doesn’t take any kind of deep fake or serious effort at all to make people buy into a completely unrealistic, or ridiculous reality.

First, you might want to read the “we want you to cringe” part again, because you’ve misunderstood (and therefore misrepresented in your reply) what they are saying.

Similarly worried about the implications of deep-fakes.

That’s what I fear. There is no truth any longer. Truth is negotiable and reality is what you can make people believe. This is a Pandora’s Box that has no bottom and could be so disruptive, in the wrong hands, that it can break society as a viable construct. I have, on my desk, a machine with the power to remake the…

Welcome to our post-truth dystopian reality. I was discussing this (not the porn part, but the political ramifications) over dinner with the family last Friday and told them the first time that I saw a deepfake used to affect politics (though I’m sure it wasn’t) was as a plot device in the 1987 film “The Running Man”. …