Right, I can’t imagine any person seeking the presidency holding an event, especially a fundraiser in a strip club. I’d be happy to be proven wrong. The only caveat I would put forth is someone doing an awareness event for sex workers, sex trafficking, or marginalized workers. 

I relate. I hate the super high rise almost as much as the how-low-can-we-go Brittney Spears. I also really miss wide waistband jeans. We are all over them with leggings but they were so flattering. It can be a bit midrise but both tames and tummy hang without being crazy constricting or look like there s a pooch…

Neither of those indicate that all relationships are appropriate. I probably suck at making any kind of point which was what I started this whole thread with in the first place. I tried to very carefully not indicate that there are not situations that are exploitative or inappropriate. But obviously I failed. I don’t…

Seriously, I am not in horrible shape (what does that even mean?) but I can’t do half of these. Turkisk get-ups are just so complicated. They require way too much brainpower. Also so much ab work is really not good for postpartum moms. I will never be able to do v-ups or scissors or leg lifts. After 4 babies my ab…

I don’t think I said anywhere that all relationships are appropriate.

We actually didn’t set the ages in laws based on brain science about cognitive ability. We set them based on arbitrary social agreements. There is no science reason that we selected 18 or 16 or 22 or whatever age. Brain science actually points to 25 to 30 as the fully mature brain for a neurotypical person.

I am not advocating that we treat them the exact same. There is nuance. There are reasons to inquire around the motivations and risks in the relationship. I just do not buy that we can draw a line on IQ to make a clear line. I work directly with self advocates on a weekly basis and this is an issue that they are…

I absolutely work with people directly, every day, that are advocating for their right to have an adult relationship with any other adult. I have worked in the field for over 15 years and there is 100% self-advocates who are out there fighting for this. And if you take a step back it makes some sense. It says really…

I didn’t throw a single strawman anywhere. I am stating that cognitive capacity is not a measure of ability to consent. People with intellectual disabilities are complex, full people who can be attractive to adults who are not intellectually disabled for reasons that are not exploitative. Even if they don’t use speech…

It’s very much a form of ableism to say that a person without cognitive disabilities could not possibly have a romantic, non-exploitative relationship with a person with cognitive disabilities. It’s this same kind of thinking that the state uses to strip parents with cognitive disabilities of their right to parent…

But why not mid-20s? I am really less concerned about the age of consent, although I have a problem with the idea that two people under the age of consent are raping each other. That is bizarre. I am more concerned with how the reasons for the chosen age translate to other scenarios. Like you said there is significant…

Yes but sometimes those brightlines chosen by society or the legal system are abelist and horrible. It wasn’t that long ago that forced sterilization of people with IQ under a certain number was routine. It is still pretty common practice that sex with any person with another person of a certain IQ is considered rape.…

It’s easier but it also leads to weird things. Mostly giving “age approximations” to adults with intellectual disability is not done in clinical practice any more but it was very common until very recently. So frequently, you have adults with an intellectual disability labeled as functionally X age which leads to…

Consent is such a fraught concept. There is nothing magical about the age of 18 or 15 or whatever post-pubescent age that is codified as the legal age of anything. The only reason for 18 has to do with the suffrage and military draft in the US but it could have easily been age 22 or age 15 if that is what the winds of…

You can double tax revenue without doubling taxes across the board. That’s how progressive tax policy works. Baffling, I know. 

We absolutely can and have negotiated with Iran. We came to a bilateral nuclear deal with Iran under Obama. Was it a perfect deal? Hell no. But it was a negotiation and it paused the escalation which Trump has just pressed fast forward on.

Truly, same reason I don’t send my husband shopping there with a list. What if they have new snacks? How can I live my life without those? I can’t trust him to know what carb-sugar-concoction I will NEED that I don’t even know exists yet. And I wonder why everytime I go to Costco I spend $300. 

For real. Mine aren’t super interesting or visually appealing but my kids love when we have “picnic” for dinner. It’s fun and all the foods are gone.

Right, cheese boards on my not fancy cutting board have been a staple at my house for at least a decade because everything gets eaten. They are mainstay for board game nights since everything is finger foods and graze-able.

I think pressing the limits of the human body is inherently abusive. And it is incredibly difficult to push your body day-in-day out without a team who keeps you on track and motivates you when your mind is revolting against your body. I think there are more humane methods and more safeguards that can be put in place…