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@flawlessflop @SeanLindo @mrsakwood @danyatma They're biologically adults, & legal adults. Biological adulthood is defined basically by having passed puberty, esp. postpubertal ( able to fertilize or conceive, & generally finished major growth spurts ). Legal adulthood is more arbitrarily defined & variable. What you are

@flawlessflop @SeanLindo @mrsakwood @danyatma focusing on, flawlessflop/marie, is mental/brain maturity, but, forget Google's overly generic bullshit, the prefrontal cortex of the human brain develops well into the 40s, by which time most women are on the threshold of menopause. medicalxpress.com/news/2010-12-b…

@flawlessflop @SeanLindo @mrsakwood @danyatma obviously, raising consent age to damned near menopause would be ludicrous from a biological & reproductive normalcy standpoint. What is more, mental maturity, even brain maturity, can vary greatly from person to person, including age of maturation, ranging anywhere from 15 to 25

@flawlessflop @SeanLindo @mrsakwood @danyatma for basic "adult-level" brain functioning, & with females often maturing up to several years ahead of males during the teens & early 20s (e.g. the generic her 16 can be as neurologically advanced as the generic his 20, depending on many variables ). Various regions of the

@flawlessflop @SeanLindo @mrsakwood @danyatma brain peak & decline at various points from childhood to old age. Further, experience & habit play roles in shaping the brain. The "mature" brain is more synaptically rigid, is more difficult to "reshape" via new patterns & information. But all of that misses the point of when a

@flawlessflop @SeanLindo @mrsakwood @danyatma person is mentally competent. Comprehension/IQ (reasoning ability ), the main factors in mental competence reaches normal adult average levels, on average, by 16, and that's been repeatedly proven since comprehension testing became institutionalized. We can get into the variables

@flawlessflop @SeanLindo @mrsakwood @danyatma of competence related to emotional maturity et. al, but if above retardation level IQ isn't enough for competence, then many 21+ & 25+ adults would be stripped of their rights ( ADHD, OCD, bi-polar, general immature & crazy. We have a 74 year old surly child in the White House )

@flawlessflop @SeanLindo @mrsakwood @danyatma From a strictly biological perspective, there is nothing abnormal about it. Founding mother Sacagawea was 16, pregnant & helping Lewis & Clark explore America 250 years ago, when Founding Father President-to-be James Monroe was Wedding a teen & his contemporary

@flawlessflop @SeanLindo @mrsakwood @danyatma Founding Father President-to-be Thomas Jefferson was impregnating an enslaved one (though the 1st pregnancy happened in Paris where Sally was, technically, free). The biological threshold is postpuberty, after which average females mid-to-late teen to very early 20s are often so

@flawlessflop @SeanLindo @mrsakwood @danyatma physically similar it can be difficult to impossible to age/phenotype differentiate between members of the different subgroups ( e.g. a 17 year old from a nearly identical to her 20 year old ). You, flawlessflop/marie, are a perfect example of what I am talking about.

@SeanLindo @mrsakwood @danyatma You ( @flawlessflop) are, according to your profile tag, 22, & (not flirting, I'm Married, just facting ) you're a pretty young lady by most conventional standards & attractive. You might be slightly thinner than the avg. ideal, but the avg. man would still find you attractive,

@SeanLindo @mrsakwood @danyatma @flawlessflop EVEN THOUGH, ( facts, not insults ) your face & phenotype (body shape), especially because you're quite slim, are identical to those of many females at age 16. Actually, many that age are larger/heavier than you are. Ergo, anyone capable of physical attraction to you would also

@SeanLindo @mrsakwood @danyatma @flawlessflop be capable of attraction to them. From there ( the point at which the biological normalcy of the attraction is established ) it becomes an ethics question, but, #realtalk, the world & esp. our culture is full of unethical people. Adultery is a MAJOR Sin, but many people in the

@SeanLindo @mrsakwood @danyatma @flawlessflop current culture treat it like it's no big deal at all. A man f*cks another man's wife, we hardly bat an eye... but we're still talking about how Jerry Seinfeld dated that 17 year old when he was almost 40, and Tygga can't get a break lol. Speaking of ethics, though, one thing I

@SeanLindo @mrsakwood @danyatma @flawlessflop really wanted to point out to you, because of your Black Lives Matter support, and because of your awful comment about mutilating males to "correct" them... sex panic is dangerous, and was responsible for the lynching and mutilating of MANY black men in America through history.

@SeanLindo @mrsakwood @danyatma @flawlessflop I cannot emphasize that enough. Propagandist portrayals of black men as looming, savage sexual predators, & of young white women, esp. teens & 20s, as innately innocent, hapless victims, was the MAIN propaganda incentive for the lynching of black men. 14 year old Emmett Till was

@SeanLindo @mrsakwood @danyatma @flawlessflop lynched (the details of his murder are brutally horrific ) because of accusations that he made sexual advances on a white woman. The Tulsa massacre was sparked by a situation revolving around accusations of a 19 year old black man attempting to fondle a young white woman of 17.

@SeanLindo @mrsakwood @danyatma @flawlessflop Hundreds upon hundreds of other lynchings, more of them than not founded on hype about black men sexually "violating" "innocent" white young women, even if the white young woman initiated the sexual encounter. Indeed, she was deemed to be innocent because "weak" minded female,

@SeanLindo @mrsakwood @danyatma @flawlessflop inevitable influenced by the "corruptive" power of the "innately" "perverse" black male. And the remnants of that racist demonizing still plays a factor in our criminal injustice system, so I'm very wary of rushes to hype sex panic with a definitional "demonic" villains vs.

@SeanLindo @mrsakwood @danyatma @flawlessflop "innately" "innocent" "victims" narrative (obviously aside from situations of actual forcible r*pe, the disgusting horror of vile incest, etc. ).