It’s baffling to me as well. But in certain ways its a fundamentally natural result of subscribing to the idea that “boys will be boys.” Which, shit like this makes clear to us, victimizes boys, too.

Because boys are supposed to be sexually hungry, because lots of sex, as early as possible, is manly and good, because women are too subservient / psychologically simple to be dangerous predators.

At that age, his parents are still purchasing his underpants. But they had a “relationship.” Right.

Don’t get me wrong, this woman is disgusting, but what I can’t wrap my head around is the parents accepting their “relationship” which wasn’t a relationship it was sexual abuse.

She got caught with this one. How many others did she get away with?

I agree with Squarr. Not “sex.” Rape.

HIS FAMILY ACCEPTS THEIR RELATIONSHIP?!

YEP.

If my memory of thirteen year olds, boys especially, is remotely valid, aside from being deeply disturbing, this is wildly confusing.

Thank you. Not “relationship,” either. Predatory behavior and grooming. And fuck that fucking family.

Not “sex.”

That doesn’t explain him shitting on her (once only by implication) in three separate interviews, unprompted. It doesn’t explain why she is the one he lashed out at. It doesn’t explain why the comments were so gendered. It doesn’t explain the mystery that is Adam Levine. So, nah.

Yeah but how would any of the regulation seriously proposed by anyone (waiting times, background checks, training, licences, assault rifle bans) have stopped her from owning a gun for protection?

I’m not aware of any current or proposed gun control laws that would prevent her from having a gun.

I am well aware of the campaign against Rachel. Almost all of it originates with Gaye Dalton, who in case you’re unaware, conducts herself as would a stalker on twitter, constantly harassing Rachel or anyone who dares to mention her. But let’s assume Rachel is a mustache twirling, villainous fraud. ...How about the…

You know, every time I read an article about sex work somebody has to say “listen to sex workers”...as if that is a single and unified opinion? Rachel Moran, who wrote her book endorsing the Nordic model, was a former sex worker. I live in Canada, and all of the First Nations women’s advocates I’ve heard from — some…

Hardly that long ago. And it’s still very common in some circles. Get out of your bubble.

This is a very complicated issue that won’t be fixed just by legalizing it. I actually agree with him that legal prostitution commodifies women’s bodies (and to a smaller extent, men’s bodies) and that’s not ok with this feminist.

This is why we can’t have nice things. Because people who disagree on a hugely contested complicated issue are “awful” people who write “bad” things.

This was the traditional feminist line not that long ago, so it doesn’t surprise me.