Age of Consent is decided at the state level, not Federal, except for a couple of narrow exceptions.The thing is. Federal law is 18.
Ah, yes. The Great American Fairytale, in which children stop growing at age six and then, when the clock strikes midnight on the night before their eighteenth birthday, they undergo a magical transformation, gaining twelve years' worth of physical, mental and emotional growth in the span of a split-second.
I've heard it reiterated many times, in American pop culture, news media and from individuals online.
It's one of the weirder aspects of U.S. culture and law to us outside observers, to be sure. I've never understood it, myself. Perhaps Americans simply don't interact with their offspring between the ages of six and eighteen?
It's goddamn hilarious because I've seen Americans (to paraphrase) basically go "they're under 18! Pedophile! Pedophile!" and then "Oh, wait, they turned 18 a week ago? Sweet, are they on Tinder, Porn Hub/Only Fans, or at the strip-club yet?"
I just... what?
California also historically lacked exceptions for near age relationships. In most other States that have age of consent laws at 18, there are explicit exceptions built in for near age relationships, usually two to three years IIRC.Eighteen is the age of consent in California, which tends to use its media domination to force its views on the rest of the country, and the age it's legal to make porn so a lot of porn tends to emphasize that she's 18. Apparently a lot of people, for some stupid reason, use porn as their reference material for how sex, dating, and laws work.
Note, however, that in spite of the fact that they always condemned relationships between older men and younger women, even when the latter was in her twenties or even thirties, they never seemed to give a crap when it was an older woman with a younger man, no matter how young the latter was. This is because all that claptrap about power dynamics was mostly about Third Wave feminists eliminating what they saw as the competition (which also included the sex industry), so that they could monopolize sex and use it to gain power.No, the viscous attitude towards age gaps actually comes from the Third Wave Feminism and the Social Justice Left because the person with an older age, being more mature and potentially in a different phase of their life is seen as having coercive Power over the younger aged partner and thus because they have that Power they are not engaged in a relationship between equals and thus sex within that context is tantamount to Rape, hence the antipathy shown towards it especially in online spaces.
Yeah that sounds about right.Note, however, that in spite of the fact that they always condemned relationships between older men and younger women, even when the latter was in her twenties or even thirties, they never seemed to give a crap when it was an older woman with a younger man, no matter how young the latter was. This is because all that claptrap about power dynamics was mostly about Third Wave feminists eliminating what they saw as the competition (which also included the sex industry), so that they could monopolize sex and use it to gain power.
Yeah, I can't get over people acting like Leonardo DiCaprio is some kind of sexual predator for dating a 19 year old, yet when he was that age and younger, all kinds of middle-aged women openly lusted after him. You also don't hear them say a peep about Madonna going out with a guy that's in his 20s, Demi Moore marrying Ashton Kutcher (they saved their outrage for him cheating on her), or Jada Pinkett seducing one of her son's friends.Note, however, that in spite of the fact that they always condemned relationships between older men and younger women, even when the latter was in her twenties or even thirties, they never seemed to give a crap when it was an older woman with a younger man, no matter how young the latter was. This is because all that claptrap about power dynamics was mostly about Third Wave feminists eliminating what they saw as the competition (which also included the sex industry), so that they could monopolize sex and use it to gain power.
It's even more hilarious that man are choosing to go abroad now to find a wife or girlfriend -- Western women are losing their shit because of it, especially those in their thirties up.Yeah, I can't get over people acting like Leonardo DiCaprio is some kind of sexual predator for dating a 19 year old, yet when he was that age and younger, all kinds of middle-aged women openly lusted after him. You also don't hear them say a peep about Madonna going out with a guy that's in his 20s, Demi Moore marrying Ashton Kutcher (they saved their outrage for him cheating on her), or Jada Pinkett seducing one of her son's friends.
Yeah, I can't get over people acting like Leonardo DiCaprio is some kind of sexual predator for dating a 19 year old, yet when he was that age and younger, all kinds of middle-aged women openly lusted after him. You also don't hear them say a peep about Madonna going out with a guy that's in his 20s, Demi Moore marrying Ashton Kutcher (they saved their outrage for him cheating on her), or Jada Pinkett seducing one of her son's friends.
As military it is basically to make sure military members in countries that have lower then 18 limits to have the US members sex tourism fucking minorsAge of Consent is decided at the state level, not Federal, except for a couple of narrow exceptions.
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The 18 requirement to make pornography is a Federal Statute. Weirdly, even though it's legal to have sex in the United States at 16 years of age in most states, it's illegal for US citizens to have sex outside the US at that age. This law was intended to cut down on sex tourism and leads to the exceedingly weird situation that a pair of 17-year-olds can be happily married and banging like a drum in Texas with no problem under Federal Law, and become Federal Sex Offenders guilty of molesting each other by walking across the border to Mexico and having sex there.
As this specific law tends to impact deployed military personnel very heavily, the military tends to just push "Only over 18" and ignore the schizo idiocy of it being legal in most of the states.
Yeah, I can't get over people acting like Leonardo DiCaprio is some kind of sexual predator for dating a 19 year old, yet when he was that age and younger, all kinds of middle-aged women openly lusted after him. You also don't hear them say a peep about Madonna going out with a guy that's in his 20s, Demi Moore marrying Ashton Kutcher (they saved their outrage for him cheating on her), or Jada Pinkett seducing one of her son's friends.
And then throwing a hissy fit when he gets a lover twenty years younger than her who isn't jetting around the world alone half of the year.Shakira marrying a man ten years younger than him, just for the flex, then brooming him and abusing his mother, the grandmother of her kids and shagging half her back up dancers all of which are 19-30
It's even more hilarious that man are choosing to go abroad now to find a wife or girlfriend -- Western women are losing their shit because of it, especially those in their thirties up.
Female empowerment. Has-been women targeting an emotionally immature male sexual partner? A-ok! Since that means she's got the situation by the balls. Presumably.Yeah, I can't get over people acting like Leonardo DiCaprio is some kind of sexual predator for dating a 19 year old, yet when he was that age and younger, all kinds of middle-aged women openly lusted after him. You also don't hear them say a peep about Madonna going out with a guy that's in his 20s, Demi Moore marrying Ashton Kutcher (they saved their outrage for him cheating on her), or Jada Pinkett seducing one of her son's friends.
If there is one thing women hate it is competition that undercuts their value. If there is a second thing they hate, it's cultural differences. As someone said, all women sell sex, which is why they protect the market.It's even more hilarious that man are choosing to go abroad now to find a wife or girlfriend -- Western women are losing their shit because of it, especially those in their thirties up.
I've seen a few of those videos: The bitter American women making them, and they're typically 304's, jealous women in their thirties up, or women who claim they're the most beautiful woman in the world but seriously need to hit the gym, in those videos claim that Filipino women are basically a) naive, b) dumb and uneducated, c) only gone for because of their looks (which is so goddamn hypocritical of these masculinized Western women that it's disgusting), and d) meek and easily controlled/groomed.The casual racism of American women towards Filipino women in the various TikTok videos trying to call out "passport bros" is absolutely hilarious to me, as they just continue to prove how awful they are.
I did some online dating with a few Filipina's. Can confirm most of what you said. I would hesitate to say that they are better educated, but rather they take what educated they get much more seriously. In the US most education is "scarf and barf" but in a cut-throat society like the Philippines, you can't afford to lose out on any option for self-improvement.a) naive, b) dumb and uneducated, c) only gone for because of their looks (which is so goddamn hypocritical of these masculinized Western women that it's disgusting), and d) meek and easily controlled/groomed.
Oh no! There is easy competition that out-does us at every turn. Shall we better ourselves to make us more marketable to the menfolk? No! It's the world that is wrong, let us petition the government to prevent sexual competition from being an issue, even if it cuts us off from Islamic immigration.What's even funnier? Swedish women, the batshit feminist brigade, tried to push their government to severely limit Swedish men from going to Thailand to find Thai wives.
I've seen a few of those videos: The bitter American women making them, and they're typically 304's, jealous women in their thirties up, or women who claim they're the most beautiful woman in the world but seriously need to hit the gym, in those videos claim that Filipino women are basically a) naive, b) dumb and uneducated, c) only gone for because of their looks (which is so goddamn hypocritical of these masculinized Western women that it's disgusting), and d) meek and easily controlled/groomed.
Filipino women hit back saying a) they're likely more educated than the average American woman now, and given how badly American education has degenerated, they're most likely completely correct, b) understand that men seeking partners want them to be, you know, actual women and family-orientated than wannabe men ("I'm a Boss Babe!"), c) admit they are more attractive in looks and personality to Western women (again, typically true because of how badly feminism has contaminated things in the West), and d) meek and easily controlled? Seriously? If you cheat on a Filipino woman, you're likely going to end up cut up into pieces and thrown as fucking fish-bait by either the women themselves or by a member of their family! smh
What's even funnier? Swedish women, the batshit feminist brigade, tried to push their government to severely limit Swedish men from going to Thailand to find Thai wives.
Tell that to bitter Western women on Tik Tok, heh.No....any one who has ever dealt with philopino woemen knows that they are not meek or easily controlled and seriously never ever cheat on one. Jor isn't fucking kidding do not cheat on a philopeno woman ever.
That's an interesting perspective and it makes sense.I did some online dating with a few Filipina's. Can confirm most of what you said. I would hesitate to say that they are better educated, but rather they take what educated they get much more seriously. In the US most education is "scarf and barf" but in a cut-throat society like the Philippines, you can't afford to lose out on any option for self-improvement.
I'm going to ignore the looks issue. The fruit doth hang too low.
In my experience with Asian women in various romantic contexts, it's not so much that they are submissive (at least not in the sense that we would understand it) but rather that there is a culturally imposed reverence for social roles. As such, the role of the "husband" as being a leader towards the "wife" is as significant as a "boss" being leader for the "employee" which is why nice docile little Asian employees can turn into domineering douchbags as soon as they get a lick of power.
As an example of this role based society thing. There was a story from ancient China where a step-mother wasn't connecting with the child of her new husband. After a while this drove her depression and she moved back in with her parents on a permanent basis because she felt she could not fulfill the role of the mother.
Oh no! There is easy competition that out-does us at every turn. Shall we better ourselves to make us more marketable to the menfolk? No! It's the world that is wrong, let us petition the government to prevent sexual competition from being an issue, even if it cuts us off from Islamic immigration.
Swedish women, who were once lauded for their beauty, femininity, and feminine toughness have degenerated into being penis-hating battle axe feminists: Is it any wonder why Swedish men are bailing?
that bites since I'm attracted to the shieldmaiden archetype. Sturdy, med-height/tall and a tomboy at heart. :/ alas tis not meant to be I guess.