Why do so many people so desperately cling to the obviously false belief that 17-year-olds are children? a thread 🧵 1) Very lucrative television fear-mongering has, over the last few decades, ginned up so much hysteria that large portions of the general public now believe that sex crime is rampant. 2) They are thoroughly convinced that sex predators are everywhere. At the same time they are sure that anyone under age 18 or 25 is totally helpless against the magical brainwashing powers of “groomers” 3) In their minds teens can easily be raped and traumatized for life by these perverted sex-crazed psychopaths without ever even realizing that they’re being permanently psychologically damaged. Teens are normal humans who like sex. So sometimes they have sex. 4) In the deranged minds of the fear-addled public however, it’s very important to make sure that teens cannot legally consent. Otherwise how could you get a rape charge to stick against the alleged sex predator, with whom the young adult made love? 5) It is crucial to the fight against the mythical monsters that teens have no right to consent, and no right to control their own bodies or sex lives. 6) This is problematic because we spent the last 50+ years repeating the axiom “What 2 consenting adults do in the privacy of their own bedroom…” 7) Therefore adulthood simply must be denied to biological adults who don’t meet the age requirement. Anything else would be an endorsement of their rape and traumatization by evil sex monsters. 8) Their fear-addled minds are really convinced that anyone who acknowledges the fact that 17-year-olds are adults has no motivation other than the legal sexual exploitation of defenseless feeble-minded 17-year-old children. 9) The whole thing is completely insane on every level. but nobody is thinking. everyone is fearing. the rational got tossed out the window long ago. the only thing left is hysterics. 10)