• creamlike504@jlai.lu
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    2 days ago

    I hate this trope (even when it works), because it makes life easier for rapists who look like angels and unnecessarily tougher for decent guys who are uh… visually unfortunate.

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      1 day ago

      Most sex predator tells are avoidable stylistic choices. Nobody’s forcing Bannon to do his hair like that.

    • There are pretty sex offenders and ugly ones in every generation. Since US society used sexuality as a device of control the way dangerous cults do, we produce a lot kids who think human beings only have sex through coercion or opportunistic vulnerability (e.g. drunk girls at parties.)

      So it makes for a lot of potential sex offenders.

      Maybe some day we’ll toss abstinence only sex ed into a blast furnace and start teaching kids about consent.

      But then we’ll realize that click-wrapped TOS on our devices and hardware are bad-faith contracts we’re coerced to agree to. And that just wouldn’t do for our shadowy capitalist masters.