Teens are in the middle of a massive mental health crisis precisely because of the bizarre unnatural artificially extended childhood which is imposed on them. 1)

They are demeaned, degraded, insulted, and infantilized constantly. and we wonder that they have their highest suicide rate in history. It is all new. It is completely unnecessary. It is a nasty permanent self-inflicted wound on our society. 2)

I demand that people give teenagers basic human respect. Yes, bodily autonomy is part of that. Yes, not calling them children is part of that. 3)

Acting like teens are toddlers who will be damaged by seeing a penis is ridiculous hysteria. It’s absurd bullshit that causes tremendous harm and ignores all of the real problems we’re facing. 4)

We have 1000s of years of history showing that teens do just fine when given the chance, but we refuse to learn from history and we teach our young people total bullshit from clickbait myths about them having retarded brains until they’re 25. 5)

We as a society cannot make rational decisions because we are in the grips of hysteria. Everybody is screaming about pedophilia, but at the same time nobody even knows what the word means. It’s very reminiscent of the 16th Century witch trials. 6)

In the 1400s nobody was bothered by witches at all. Along comes the printing press and soon everybody was so terrified they had to start burning their neighbors alive. 7)

In the '80s nobody worried about pedos at all. Along comes the internet and suddenly everybody perceives a massive epidemic of pedophilia and groomers etc who absolutely must be exterminated in a gruesome fashion. 8)

Change is scary. Powerful new information technologies shake everything up. People react by looking for someone to blame. Some class of people that everyone can universally hate on. 500 years ago it was witches. Today it is pedos. 9)

To make our society work we all have to calm the fuck down. There are some basic facts like crime in the USA is at 60 year lows. Our children haven’t been this safe since the 1950s. Teens are perfectly capable of telling a creep to fuck off. It’s not hard. 10)

As with most panicked responses our reaction to the non-existent giant plague of pedos causes far more harm than good. We spend a lot of time and effort “protecting” teenagers by filling their heads with extremely disempowering messages. Effectively taking away their power. 11)

and the young have internalized it. They’ve been told so often that their brains will not work properly until they’re 25 that they fully expect to act like totally idiots in adult bodies for a decade. It’s self-fulfilling prophecy. 12)

It doesn’t have to be that way. We chose to make them morons. 13)

One of the main reasons we infantilize them is fear of sex. If a young woman at 16 thinks she’s old enough to date a man twice her age, she must be convinced that she’s only a child with an undeveloped brain. Otherwise she might have SEX!!! 14)

Despite the fact that there’s not a shred of evidence to show that teens having relationships with older adults is in any way harmful. It’s pure hysteria about a non-existent problem causing massive real problems. 15)

Somehow in the last 20 years teenagers stopped being young adults in the public mind and became large children. It’s unscientific garbage of course but it is perceived to be true. If teens are children then attraction to them is pedophilia. Which is TABOO. 16)

but literally 100% of men are sexually attracted to under 18s. It’s a simple biological fact. So every man feels what is publicly perceived to be the most heinous perversion of all. 17)

Women who know a few men are also aware that the 15 year old with beautiful tits at the swimming pool is gonna turn on all the men. They are not blind. They just honor the taboo. Thinking that a teen might have a sexuality is repugnant to the point of unacceptable. 18)

Effectively by lying to ourselves about who is and isn’t a child we painted ourselves into a corner where everybody has to lie about natural sexual attraction 24/7 So everybody is terrified. Everybody forgot that arousal =/= action. 19)

Americans are running around accusing others of thought crimes “That man glanced at my daughter’s chest!!!” It’s absurd, irrational fear, and it makes everyone super unhappy. We all need to calm the fuck down, and start treating teens with respect again. 20)