From an objective standpoint, I think the turning point for these opinions was far more recent, and if I had to point to a specific year, I would say 2004 with the debut of Chris Hanson’s ‘To Catch a Predator’ on Dateline NBC.

Prior to this, I don’t even remember being exposed to the idea or concept of this. I never heard people talk about it, but in a way this show changed or I guess really even created opinions on this subject.

From a non objectivist perspective, just because I never heard of it prior, it seems to have been an epidemic and maybe I was lucky enough to not have thought about it.

I lost my virginity at 15 to someone many years older than me, but I didn’t have a second thought about it, it was like anything else - drinking, smoking, staying out late, this idea that maybe I was too young, but also that everyone else did it, and that’s as far as I ever considered it.

I grew up in a different time though, before the Internet, small town, and low income and people I came into contact with didn’t even put these things into ideas with words if that makes sense.

I think at best I understood that older men could be untoward with younger folks, but it was treated more as a joke, or something to keep in mind around older relatives and strangers, but not an imminent threat, more like an annoyance to be put up with.

I think it’s okay to talk about this, and I’m sorry for your trauma. Protecting children is super important, and so the increased talk of this subject I think helps and protects more, but there is an undeniable generational difference in how people even think about this.

I grew up thinking of this as not even an idea, so I wouldn’t have thought about it being worse than anything else. I would have been more scared of drug addicts, and the homeless.

It’s because it is the result of the action, like a drawing. We just don’t say a built, or a drawn. I’m not sure why we used the gerand in English, but we do.

I was going to say that yeah, you can actually get even motels and some hotels at hourly rates, usually in high crime areas with rampant prostitution.

Isn’t that more like “you can’t ask an elm tree for pears?”

And even more literally “don’t ask for pears to the elm?”

I usually find that ballpoint pens work poorly if paper has gotten wet, if it dries though you’ll probably be able to keep writing in it, best to throw it out though tbf

You can poke a tiny hole into a piece of paper for the same effect

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I’m honestly, honestly convinced that the villification of centrism and liberalism on both leftist and right political ideology is designed to increase disagreement and prevent compromise on political issues, likely for people to focus on race or politics over class issues, or to prevent good faith discussion of issues to prevent social progress.

I know, without a doubt this will be voted down, but I’m actually asking you to think about this critically before both political extremes go down the authoritarian route and it becomes too late to actually unify people to rationale and true dialectics.