That’s the point - the power imbalance. Marry off young girls to men who can groom and control them. Daddy-husbands and child-wives. The Christian complementarian model sees women as essentially children anyway. Like Moon’s comment implies - if they marry you off at 12, you are never getting the independence to escape.

At least Tennessee Representative John Rose waited until the teenager he met judging a FFA competition was 18.

During debate Tuesday on a bill banning gender-affirming care for transgender minors, Missouri State Senator Mike Moon suggested children as young as 12 should have the right to marry with parental permission.

“Do you know any kids who have been married at age 12? I do. And guess what? They’re still married,” Moon said in response to questioning by Democratic state Representative Peter Merideth.

Child brides aren’t old enough to divorce their husbands.

According to divorce lawyer Nancy Zalusky Berg, the answer to that is no, not directly. A minor can’t file for a divorce because they’re not considered old enough to do it. That’s because marriage is considered a contract, and most laws stipulate that only adults can enter into contracts. So, if a minor wants to change their marriage contract, they need an adult to help them do it. “Our laws around marriage operate under the presumption that everyone’s an adult,” Berg explains to Teen Vogue. That’s a conflict when you consider that, between 2000 and 2015, there were at least 207,468 child marriages that occurred in 44 states, according to figures from PBS’s Frontline.

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I think the evidence suggests that I understand biology quite a bit more than you do. If you want to compare Erdős numbers, I’m pretty sure mines bigger lol.

Yeah - I love teaching biology! Physics is more fun, but I’m always down to give a lesson in sex differentiation and homologous structures!

Bigger than yours I bet

I think it is important to quote him. He’s like Alex Jones - context damns him.

When we read these quotes, we need to remember that Trump gave him a Medal of Honor.

“So, Ms. Fluke and the rest of you feminazis, here’s the deal. If we are going to pay for your contraceptives, and thus pay for you to have sex, we want something for it, and I’ll tell you what it is. We want you to post the videos online so we can all watch.”

The bonus is that he doesn’t watch full-on advertisements and commercial breaks like we were forced to in the 80s when it was live TV or no TV.

I think the problem for modern youth is that there’s no way to tell what’s an ad anymore. Scrolling through TikTok or any social media will show you tons of advertisements which are not marked as advertisements.

The mainstream internet is driven by advertising. At least when I was a kid we could step out during the commercial breaks.

“Lord’s Resistance Army are Christians. They are fighting the Muslims in Sudan. And Obama has sent troops, United States troops to remove them from the battlefield, which means kill them. That’s what the lingo means, ‘to help regional forces remove from the battlefield,’ meaning capture or kill. So that’s a new war, a hundred troops to wipe out Christians in Sudan, Uganda, and – (interruption) no, I’m not kidding. Jacob Tapper just reported it. Now, are we gonna help the Egyptians wipe out the Christians?"

I’m pretty sure that high schools were having “Kony 2012” assemblies at that time… I guess Rush’s endorsement of Trump means that he wasn’t so bothered by child rape anyway.

“There’s nothing good about drug use. We know it. It destroys individuals. It destroys families. Drug use destroys societies. Drug use, some might say, is destroying this country. And we have laws against selling drugs, pushing drugs, using drugs, importing drugs. And the laws are good because we know what happens to people in societies and neighborhoods which become consumed by them. And so if people are violating the law by doing drugs, they ought to be accused and they ought to be convicted and they ought to be sent up.”

Oddly enough, he married four times and never had any children….

Here’s what Rush (rest in piss) had to say about Pete during the 2020 run.

RUSH LIMBAUGH (HOST): A gay guy, 37 years old, loves kissing his husband on debate stages. Can you see Trump have fun with that?

They’re looking at Mayor Pete, 37-year-old gay guy, mayor of South Bend, loves to kiss his husband on the debate stage. And they’re saying, OK, how’s this going to look, 37-year-old gay guy kissing his husband on stage next to Mr. Man Donald Trump? What’s going to happen there? And they got to be looking at that, and they’ve got to be saying, that despite all the great progress and despite all the great wokeness, and despite all the great ground that’s been covered, America’s still not ready to elect a gay guy kissing his husband on the debate stage president. They have to be saying this, don’t they? Now, there may be some Democrats who think that is the ticket. There may be some Democrats who think that’s exactly what we need to do, Rush. Get a gay guy kissing his husband on stage, ram it down Trump’s throat, and beat him in the general election. Really. Having fun envisioning that.

I’ve also seen tons of disgusting comments from Republican politicians and conservatives online speculating about the sexual positions he prefers with his husband.

There are also lots of disgusting comments about his family - here’s Mike Pence:

“When Pete’s two children were born, he took two months maternity leave, where upon thousands of travelers were stranded in airports, the air traffic system shut down, airplanes nearly collided in midair,” Pence said. “I mean, Pete Buttigieg is the only person in human history to have a child and all the rest of us get postpartum depression.”

One could also argue, as Ta Nehisi Coates does quite elegantly, that Trump won his first term as a reaction to Obama. A sense of anger at the fact that a black man was in office. It’s almost as if he purposefully degrades the office out of spite - “if a black man can be president, the presidency should be meaningless.”

It really is this.

I mean,do you really think janet jackson didn’t want people to see?

No, I don’t.

It’s interesting how Justin Timberlake had a career after that incident; when was the last time anyone’s heard from Janet Jackson?

I don’t see how this is different from revenge porn.

It’s cute that you assume I had surgery.

Yeah, gay men sure do appreciate my beard. I’ve been too lazy to trim for a bit, thanks for the reminder.

If you want dick pics just ask me nicely.

Online dating apps are irrelevant. When they find out you’re biologically female they will lose all interest if they’re gay males.

You are assuming that I haven’t already completed the act. I’m not going to bore you with the details of my hot sweaty mansex, unless that’s something you’re into. (Tbh, this wouldn’t be the place.)

Yeah, your second paragraph isn’t even a thought. You’re stringing together buzzwords and catchphrases like a parrot. You’re not going to manage to play a convincing feminist dumbass.

Idk, the guys blowing up my phone on Grindr right now seem pretty attracted. Chubby bears with hella body hair are a prime currency in the gay world, let me tell you.

Like, you know one believes that “trans people are conversion therapy” or “genital preferences” shit IRL right? Most people are ya know, normal. Everyone has preferences for who they feel like dating, whatever.

Some gay guys haven’t been interested because of my equipment; other guys have been very eager; most are in the middle. I don’t share dick pics without consent, but I can tell you my little soldier is pretty impressive when he stands for attention.

Like again, you’ve wriggled your way so far away from even trying to make a point. See, at least TERFs can be convincing with the claims of being feminists. This is such a transparent ass pull; you don’t actually give a shit about homophobia.

Facebook started as a Hot or Not website. Fucking creepy.

YouTube also started because the founders wanted to see the Janet Jackson nipple slip. (Which fuck them for that.)