I think it’s because it’s mostly breeders around here who don’t understand the power dynamic between 2 gay men, which is nothing like the dynamic between het men and women.

19 is not the same as, say, 16. It’s still young but most people that age become better able to deal with the various cofusing things life throws at all of us. I thought you were talking about underage persons in your original post.

The CEO of Blackstone was also the chair of the disbanded President’s Strategic and Policy Forum. Hmmmm. Coincidence?

“We’ll keep the light on for you, and that’s the absolute extent of our goodwill.”

...and your experiences and evident capabilities as a teen yourself undoubtedly inform your views. I, on the other hand, am hosting a 15-year-old exchange student too scared to call customer service for a mobile phone that won’t connect to wifi (and in fact didn’t even think to do that until I researched whom, how…

Oddly, Wi-Fi is usually free at the shit hotels and an extra charge at the luxury places — the thinking is the rich will pay.

My being pedantic aside, your joke is funny and this story is sad.

Motel 6 is owned by Hilton, so they’re out, too. Blackstone, their owner, also owns The Weather Channel, among many, many other corporate properties. Also, they’re into hedge funds.

“Whoops I got caught so now I’m gonna stop doing it” is also gonna be my get-out-of-jail defense when I get busted for some heinous crime. That’s how it works, right?

Speak with your wallets, Americans;

“Every morning at about 5 o’clock, we do the audit and we push a button to send it to ICE,” an employee said, adding, “but since we charge $19.99 a day for the wifi password, it doesn’t actually go anywhere.”

Ahh, so it’s not the guests that they “leave the light on” for. Good on them for saving ICE money on night vision goggles...

That sucks, man. These employees should just deal with their self-loathing and disappointment over ending up at Motel 6 on their own, and stop taking others down with them.

You sound like good people.

If they’re of age and coming on to you, it’s all consenting adults and since they’re choosing to pursue you that doesn’t sound like a skeevy power imbalance issue.

Listen, you asked and I answered. You gave reasonable responses to other people who disagree with you so I’m not sure why mine punched your buttons. Just because an 18-year old can be sent to war doesn’t IMHO mean that we can harm them in other ways, too. Legally you’re in the clear and you’re the boss of your ethics…

That is very important.

The age gap issue can be really really context specific.

IRL yeah, I’d side-eye. As the plot of a fictional coming of age story that treats the age difference sensitively and in which the characters are actually over the age of consent in the location of the setting andthere isn’t any other power imbalance, my pearls remain unclutched. Particularly since it sounds like a…

Even though the war on language continues, words do still have defined meaning.

I’m a 47-year old woman and I don’t find teenagers sexually attractive; they look unfinished.