I'm so late to the thread, but thank you so much for this! I'm a woman who is kind of socially awkward (although better than I was as a kid), especially when it comes to flirting and dating. Yet somehow, I've managed to never street harass a man. Also, my brother is autistic and he doesn't harass women.

Oh, and you're moving the goalposts. Your original argument was that looking like an adult makes you one. Now you're pretending consent laws are fine and we just have to remember they're different elsewhere.

I think I did. I can practically see the rage spittle flecks on your screen. You made the disgusting argument that developing secondary sex characteristics qualifies a girl as an adult for sex or port purposes and are now all butthurt because several people called you out.

Oh look, another guy who just happens to have age of consent laws everywhere memorized but gets mad when he's called a perv for wanking to young girls.

Unsubstantiated terror panic and money making go so well together. See Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein.

I see I struck a nerve. Maybe next time you'll stop and reconsider before you argue that boobs make one an adult. They don't.

It's a myth that medieval girls used to be married with kids by 16. The age most women married was more like 19 or 20. Giving birth at a young age is far more dangerous. The birth canal is smaller because contrary to what your perverted ass wants to believe, a 15 or 16 year old is not fully mature. Physically or…

I'm really hoping the actress who played Ruthie had a parent or babysitter on the set with her at all times. I seem to remember from watching the E! True Hollywood Story of Full House (don't judge me) that the Olson twins did so maybe it's the norm when they're really young.

There's no magic transformation into a mature adult upon your 18th birthday. Literally no one is arguing that. But there has to be a line drawn somewhere and as a society we have chosen 18 as the age when you become an adult. Probably because it's when you graduate high school. If that means an exceptionally…

My conspiracy theory is that they confiscate all your liquids so that passengers will be forced to buy wildly overpriced airport water, soda, shampoo etc.

This is the same type of guy that would be the first to deny that there's a male entitlement problem in our culture.

Nobody thinks that all men are violent misogynists. However, almost every woman had been victimized in some way or have had a close call. Our culture tells men that they are entitled to women and some will take that to an extreme. We don't always know just from looking at a man who is unhinged and who isn't.

Hey, that's my avatar!

Are you a new writer here Jia? If so,welcome and great post! Care to celebrate by following me so I can finally get out of the greys? I promise I'm not a troll. You can check my history.

Feel free to search for the posts about Eliot Rodger. There were a lot of men who decided that it was the appropriate time to seek dating advice and complain about tough "Nice Guys" have it.

My strategy is just to pretend I don't even hear or see them. I just found a gif that perfectly expresses my reaction when dudes try to talk to me on the street (thank you Dlisted). Just pretend Lea Michele is a man.

If this is true I don't feel bad.

Your daughter rules.

That was my thought. Is LOTR quoting supposed to be a bad thing?

I'm also excepting to see a comment from a man asking how he can pick up women in bars in a non-creepy way. Because as we all know, nothing is more important than a man getting a date/getting laid.