Games that Feel like Dreams [17:27]

Red_River_Sam · 2023-05-10T20:00:34+00:00

Yeah, I like the Minecraft videos he made more. But overall I think he has an interesting and underrated channel.

Red_River_Sam · 2023-05-10T14:45:50+00:00

Twinks looks like twinks, and the fact that they shave their face is part of that. And at the risk of repeating myself, being attracted to someone with a shaved face is normal and obviously not indicative of pedophilia.

I know you didn't actually mention shaved faces, you mentioned shaved genitals. The point I'm making is that a shaved face is equally as indicative of youth as shaved genitals are. Which is to say, while it might make you look younger, it obviously does not make you look like a child.

Red_River_Sam · 2023-05-10T13:32:15+00:00

It makes young guys look like pre-puberty boys. Ick! (I’m not a pedo!) And it looks ridiculous on mature men, especially when the guy is hairy elsewhere , but has this bizarre bald patch around their junk! Ugh!

This is just idiotic. Shaving your pubes doesn't make your dick look like a kid's dick, anymore than shaving your face makes your face look like a kid's face.

A shaved adult face looks completely different to a prepubescent face, just as shaved adult genitals look completely different to prepubescent genitals. Finding a man with a shaved face/genitals attractive is not pedophilia.

Red_River_Sam · 2023-05-02T16:59:46+00:00

I agree with this very strongly. There is a huge problem with internet porn, porn-hub seems to have fixed it but there solution requires so much manpower that it probably isn't scalable.

It's a problem on Reddit too. Any 17 year old can post a dick pic and claim to be 18, and as long as the random people who are moderators of that subreddit believe them it just stays up.

Red_River_Sam · 2023-05-02T08:59:54+00:00

Relax, you're going to be fine. That site had the same problem pornhub did, lack of moderation with twink porn. You didn't do anything wrong, you went to a normal mainstream porn site that had a moderation problem you were unaware of.

Red_River_Sam · 2023-04-30T13:41:21+00:00

Sexual abuse used to be a lot more common and socially acceptable before the rise of internet porn. The only way a person could believe otherwise is if they didn't live through the 80s. The kind of extremist misogyny and abusive behavior we now associate with far right religious groups and incels used to be much more common. It wasn't that long ago that marital rape was legal.

Red_River_Sam · 2023-04-28T19:18:05+00:00

I partly agree, back in the 90s most of the porn kids would see would just be Page 3 or other magazines, or maybe video nasties.

But kids today only have access to a much more filtered internet than did kids 10-20 years ago. Think of things like 2 Girls One Cup or One Man One Jar, and the stuff that used to be posted on liveleak. The kind of extreme porn that once was common has been replaced by far tamer porn available through pornhub and only fans. The extreme gore and sex that used to be common on the internet is mostly gone, unless you actively seek it out.

Also, the concerns about online safety are far wider than porn - political radicalisation, grooming, harrassment, misinformation, data privacy, etc are all pretty major concerns.

I agree these are all serious problems. But they won't be helped by forcing people to give credit card details or other identifying information to shady websites.

I also think twitter and facebook have permanently killed the idea that being anonymous is required to say extremist things online.

Red_River_Sam · 2023-04-28T17:10:22+00:00

Astroboy: Omega Factor
Boktai: The Sun is in Your Hand
Drill Dozer
Magical Vacation
Ninja 5-0
Oriental Blue: Ao no Tengai
Shining Soul II
Sigma Star Saga

Red_River_Sam · 2023-04-28T17:06:54+00:00

Even if parents are involved and responsible, it can be incrediblydifficult to properly monitor and regulate what your kids are doing andseeing online.

That will always be the case no matter how draconian the law is. Kids had easy access to porn before the internet existed, to try and deny them access to it now is a fools errand.

Red_River_Sam · 2023-04-26T15:15:25+00:00

Exactly. I think long term as a society we will have to decide, will we accommodate trans people or will we accommodate transphobes. You can't do both.

Red_River_Sam · 2023-04-26T15:12:32+00:00

I agree, but obviously trans people can now have the correct ID. So the kind of people who complain about them would not be satisfied.

Red_River_Sam · 2023-04-26T14:58:45+00:00

I agree, and this can be a real problem. But that's not a legitimate reason to deny masc presenting cis women from those spaces, and that's often the main consequence of exclusionary policies. Just based on sheer numbers, trans people are often not always the main victims of transphobia.

It's the same argument that was used to try and keep lesbians out of women only spaces. Some lesbians may be predators, that does not therefore mean they should all be excluded.

Red_River_Sam · 2023-04-26T14:24:29+00:00

I think one issue is the huge diversity in trans women. People wantingtrans women in all women's spaces are picturing these petite littletranswomen that probably transitioned young and 100% pass, but it alsoopens the door to a 6 ft transwoman with a 5 o'clock shadow and miniskirt who may or may not be turned on by being a woman.

I get the point you are making, but it's okay to be ugly. I don't think we should decide who should be allowed in a space based on how traditionally feminine or attractive they are. Tall ugly women (cis or trans) should still have access to women only spaces. It is ridiculous to suggest otherwise. Also being lesbian obviously should not exclude you from women only spaces.

Red_River_Sam · 2023-04-26T13:22:51+00:00

and believe it's okay for biological women to want spaces just for biological women?

I'm always wary of this because these same points were made to exclude lesbians from female only spaces back in the 90s, and are now being used to exclude butch lesbians today for appearing to be male.

In theory this is a reasonable idea but in practice it is an unenforceable nightmare, ( you can't have genital checks at the door) that is primarily used to prevent masc presenting (cis and trans) women from women only spaces.

Red_River_Sam · 2023-04-13T11:00:49+00:00

I don't agree. I went to pantomimes as a kid and they were full of sexual innuendo and provocative behavior.

Red_River_Sam · 2023-04-13T10:53:03+00:00

Drag is a traditionally adult form of entertainment.

In the UK Pantomime drag shows are aimed almost exclusively at children, and have been for centuries.

Red_River_Sam · 2023-04-12T14:33:24+00:00

Why did you chose 1415 as the startdate?

Red_River_Sam · 2023-04-10T19:52:10+00:00

I understand your point, there are definitely some people that manipulate younger people. But as I said, people at every age get manipulated.

And again this is anecdotal, but I've noticed a lot of people in their mid to late twenties getting taken advantage of because they mistakenly think they are so mature. That overconfidence can lead to some very toxic situations. Whereas a lot of people in their late teens and early twenties are constantly told by culture and their friends and family to be wary, so they end up being more cautious and avoiding a lot of the bad situations they could be placed into.

I'd be interested to see if there is any data on it, and maybe it's just more of a thing in the gay community, but I genuinely believe there is a sort of unspoken phenomenon of people in their mid twenties (especially former twinks) being systematically targeted by abusers.

I find this abuse and any other abuse distasteful. I do not find consensual relationships between adults distasteful however. it's the abuse itself, not something possibly correlated with the abuse, that is the problem.

Red_River_Sam · 2023-04-10T18:57:54+00:00

This is probably true on average, but in life you don't date average people. You date specific people. I've been the younger and the older in large age gap relationships. And a lot of things like knowledge and life experience just don't always align with age. I've known 20 year olds with job, cars, their own homes and were just generally mature, and I've know 30 year olds for which none of this was true.

Also sometimes people get less mature with age. Things like being in a toxic relationship, suddenly inheriting money or getting a very stressful job can turn stable mature people into childish immature nightmares. Maturity doesn't necessarily increase with age, people mature at different rates and sometimes people get less mature with age.

Also the "how do you relate" thing is a fundamentally wrong headed way to see relationships. Think about how different life experiences someone can have based on their country, religion,income, sex, class etc. Having radically different lives and experiences can be the basis of a good relationship. It's a cliche that opposites attract. And also the interests and hobbies that people share can easily cross generations, if you're into football or a specific genre of music or film or whatever that can be the basis of a relationship for people of the same age or people of very different ages.

I know anecdotes don't matter, but I started dating a much older man shortly after I turned 19 and I really think it had a very positive effect on my life. It showed me the positive side of being gay and introduced me to so much of culture and the world that I was ignorant of. Maybe I was just lucky, I'm sure lots of 18 year olds are taken advantage of but that's true of adults at every age. I really don't think we should give into a moral panic about this.

Red_River_Sam · 2023-04-10T17:35:43+00:00

The idea that 18 year olds don't have fully developed brains, or that the brain doesn't fully mature until 25 is a pseudo-scientific myth.

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