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it's not a 'thing', but it is one user wielding it to try and shut down any conversation, but maybe they were trying to make a different point and made it in the most crude way possible

sorry if i keep coming across as incensed with these comments, but it feels like an insane blindspot for hexbear to have

like why of all things is this being memed on? Sure, you'll see the occasional post that goes overboard but it's incomprehensible to me to log on to this site and see people acting like there is NOTHING to be taken seriously here. EVERYONE has to have some 'Power Dynamics' or 'well lock me up cos my girlfriend is two weeks younger than me' joke to post for a handful of upvotes.

Maybe it's because the users commenting have never dealt with this, or had friends who have, but it feels like this whole thing denies entire experiences that so many of my AFAB friends have had with older men manipulating and taking advantage of them at 16 (or if they have even a modicum of shame, waiting to pounce until theyre 18), and to see users here just brush the entire thing off - and for what? Legitimately for what?

That last question is why this whole thing smacks of defensiveness for me. Either that or a bunch of people being reactionary and scared of some imagined puritan boogeyman laying in hiding in the next generation.

and people had the gall to tell me the other day that users on this site aren't being weirdly defensive about this discourse

wonder if we're gonna get more comments complaining about the age of consent again this time

repetitive strain injury - i was getting constant wrist and hand pain for a while cos of all the clicking, i had to take a break to give my hand time to recover

i really enjoyed playing at launch but a week of straight playing left me with RSI lowkey lmao

i think i need to figure out how to get used to controller input

you missed this one https://hexbear.net/comment/5812044

and this one https://hexbear.net/comment/5811125

and this one https://hexbear.net/comment/5811178, specifically sooper_dooper_roofer's comment

and as for what you've linked, where you're reading 'satirising' i'm reading 'taking something to a logical extreme to show how ridiculous it is', and it's definitely pointed at this discourse and not at redditorisms

this whole thread is a Reddit reference, feels like I stumbled into bizarro hexbear

why is always when some shit like this gets posted i see a bunch of reactionary comments on hexbear like 'oh well i guess we all have to date someone born the same SECOND as us HUH? I better tell my WIFE I'm a P*DO because there's two years between us!!' like come the fuck on

i get it, idpol's gone wild and the youth are nutso but do you really have to throw out the nuance?? maybe i'm misreading things but it feels like some of yall get really defensive when this topic comes up, and as a result we can never have any valid discussion about this topic without someone throwing some reddit-level bad faith thing at you for saying 'yes, there is some truth to age-gap discourse'

i know this is obviously a sensitive topic for you, but it is far from the 'one socially acceptable' form of body shaming, and if we really want to go there the social consequences of 'being bald' are nowhere close to the social consequences of 'being fat' or 'being visibly disabled'

I agree, all of them are body shaming and should not be condoned, but they are not comparable in the way you're trying to insinuate

you dislike the botez sisters for being women in your hobby

i dislike the botez sisters for defending slavery in the UAE

we are not the same

i was gonna say any bit part where they were too cheap to hire a POC so they got Hank Azaria to put on a shitty accent, but after some research that's a surprisingly wide net (actually insane what they were still doing just years ago)

i'll go with Hank Scorpio, the better Hank