To be clear, these are both gross violations of trust, authority, etc. They’re also both rape — a child can’t consent to a person in a position of authority. But when you consider how teen boys and teen girls are conditioned from a young age, I believe the victim impact is different, but I’m not a therapist. 

Not sure why she was stymied, it’s relatively easy to think about the intersections. An older man and a younger man in a relationship grapple with power dynamics due to the age difference. An older man and a younger woman grapple with that plus the baggage that comes with living under the patriarchy. 

Just because it worked out well for you (mazel!), doesn’t mean that men aren’t predatory with regards to much younger women, especially when it’s a pattern of consistently not dating women their own age. There’s a reason those women aren’t interested. 

I mean, we can’t get cis men to give a shit about: equal pay, Title IX, childcare, rape... why should they care about abortion? Trying to make men care about “women’s issues” is a losing battle and the only way to win is to destroy the patriarchy structures that allow men’s whims to dictate women’s (and trans folx and…

It’s definitely not bullshit. At the SCOTUS level, it’s all politics, and much less jurisprudence, although we enjoy cloaking it as such. I watched the sausage getting made, it’s... not amazing. 

Kagan is right, but that argument (Equal Protection) wasn’t the winning horse when Roe was argued, while privacy had some legs because of Griswold. 

Came here to say kinda this, but also that Roe was argued on the basis of right to privacy because it worked in Griswold and was kind of the best of what was available at the time to form a winning or at least convincing argument based on precedent. But it was on shaky ground from the start. If Roe came up today, it…

I can’t get involved with drama at work because I’m “responsible” for “most of the company” but I see it. Nothing sucks the life out of ya like having to pull aside a grown adult for a talk about including everyone on an invite for after-work fun. 

I don’t know about you, but I can’t listen to the Lawfare Blog podcast every day while perusing NatSec news because I’d drink bleach. This nonsense drama, and adjacent silliness, is keeping me balanced. 

Have you... worked in an office... before? Messy drama queens of all genders, mean girls, and Chad sociopaths are everywhere. 

well here’s hoping your neighbors aren’t inclined to take photographs of you should you forget to draw the curtains one day

wtf

Did you think to ask this on Google dot com where you could find the answer easily? It’s happening, those things exist, in several states. It’s a privilege to be ignorant of this. 

It’s heinous and criminal and juvenile and exactly what I’d expect from hedge fund bros. Reminds me of that adult film actress who took a bodyshaming picture of a woman at the gym and was rightfully excoriated. 

Huh?

It’s not discourse. It’s literally the opposite. You’re not adding any news, here, champ. You’re doing that thing, “I’m just calmly explaining, why won’t you validate me.” You’re asking people to give consideration to people’s religious beliefs. That’s is not a “rational belief” against abortion as religious faith is…

You are sincerely expressing your opinion in order to foment disagreement. You do so by moving the goal posts, conflating concepts, and applying faulty reasoning which you call “logic”. Classic trolling. 

Incorrect. The majority of Americans believe that abortion should be legal. More than that, “on the belief that at some point before birth, the fetus is a human” -- everyone believes this, even people who support abortion care, which is why there are medical limits on what happens once a fetus crosses into viability. 

That’s a different contention than your first, but ok. I understand what these people believe: That life begins at conception and therefore any abortion is murder. To that, there are two things:

Yeah, no, I get it. I understand what they “believe” and I think they should be allowed to believe whatever they want. In this country, we do not make laws based on beliefs, and you’re conflating religious faith and belief, and also “Pretty much every law is an impositions on someone’s beliefs” is a silly thing to…