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[–] tiny@midwest.social 16 points 13 hours ago (3 children)

But Linux is just kennel we need to look at all the gnu components that make Linux a complete os.... Wait maybe not https://drewdevault.com/2023/11/25/2023-11-26-RMS-on-sex.html

[–] TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works 6 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

He's right that we shouldn't infantilise teenagers by calling them 'children', lumping them in with prepubescent children as if there's no difference between them.

[–] raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

Sorry but by the article linked above, he whatabouts rape of teenagers with "but they were not children". He may have done a lot of good for free software, but this is not a single poorly worded comment - these kinds of statements can be found by the dozen. And that means he is mentally unwell / mentally damaged to consider them acceptable.

[–] Holytimes@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 hours ago

As much as people fucking hate when this line gets rolled out and for good reason.

There's a reason chronophilia is a term. Infantophilia, pedophilia, hebephilia, ephebophilia, teleiopholia, mesophilia and gerontophilia. Are all different things.

Actually properly respecting, and using correct terminology can and should be a thing as it prevents unreasonable harm in instances where things are perfectly fine.

For example a 18 year old ephebophile. That's fucking normal, even tho in the eyes of the law it's punished as a sex crime. A 18 year old and a 17 year old with a 6 month gap gets fucked because we don't actually take into account logic when it comes to this topic.

So that 18 year old is now a "pedophile" a term with horrid implications and life defining punishments legally and socially just because we all refuse to actually educate ourselves of the terminology and actual research on the topic.

Because the word pedo has such a huge social negative (for good reason) that we basically just all collectively go stupid as fuck and go straight to the worse punishment we can with out ever considering logic.

It also makes further research into the topic absurdly hard to do and secure funding for. Because of the massive social problems with attaching your name to such research.

Cause even researching it can result in you being attacked. There's been a number of instances iv seen where research on the topic dead ends because no one is willing to actually attach their name to the subject. Or when something gets published it gets dragged through the mud because it's a easy headline.

So we never actually find healthy and effective methods to deal with the problem. We just attack, mislabel, don't think and cause more harm by not actually trying to deal with it. Because the problem is "icky".

[–] vivalapivo@lemmy.today 8 points 12 hours ago (3 children)

Something that the society achieved in the last 150 years are two dogmas:

  • 5/7 8 hours workweek is a maximum
  • people before 18 should not have sex with people after 18

I'm kinda glad that questioning these puts one into a category of weirdos.

[–] drath@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

5/7 8 hours workweek is a maximum

Gig workers and 2-2-3/7-7 shifters that are often forced to work on the off-days:

people before 18 should not have sex with people after 18

It's mostly "people younger than 16 should not have sex with people 18 or older", because legal age does not match age of consent. Even then, there are some regions that tend to disagree, most notably China, Central Europe and South American countries that put the lower bound to as low as 14. But it still leaves 18-year olds to be open for grooming by perverts of any age. And that, according to DHS, 8% of women had sex with somebody before reaching the age of 14, 41% had it before age of 16, and 67% before 18, putting any such "dogma" into further questioning.

Disclaimer: Not proposing anything here, just pointing that answers to those questions are far from being settled upon.

[–] 3abas@lemmy.world 23 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

5/7 8 hours workweek is a maximum

I question this, it's way too much labor with not enough compensation.

[–] vivalapivo@lemmy.today 11 points 11 hours ago

You've got the idea right

[–] Eyck_of_denesle@lemmy.zip 4 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (2 children)

5/7 is an entitlement in the vast world

[–] Auth@lemmy.world 1 points 13 minutes ago

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/average-work-week-by-country

Majority of the world works 40hr or less which is basically a 5/7 schedule.

[–] vivalapivo@lemmy.today 1 points 4 hours ago

Just as the fact that sex with underage is considered a rape.

[–] dandylion@lemmy.zip 1 points 12 hours ago

thank you. very important to share here.

unfortunately I've heard similar phrasings and ideas expressed by 20- and 30-something year olds in the gaming community. still has me feeling unwell.