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Thankfully, America is not yet operating in the political reality of The Handmaid's Tale, much as you might wish it to be so.
by walrus01 4y ago
Thankfully, America is not yet operating in the political reality of The Handmaid's Tale, much as you might wish it to be so.
- jutrewag 4y agoI feel like that’s a hyperbolic take. Outside forces injecting chaos into the internal workings of a family are about as bad as things can get for a growing child. What’s the problem with deferring sexual issues to adulthood when you’re more mature?
- worklaptopacct 4y agoWhat makes you think that a marriage between two people gives them absolute knowledge how to raise a child in an optimal way?
- jutrewag 4y ago[dead]
- jutrewag 4y agoThat’s part of the deal isn’t it. The government can’t decide and mandate what the optimal way to raise a child is outside of certain aspects like schooling, corporal punishment, age of consent etc.
- worklaptopacct 4y agoWhat makes schooling, corporal punishment, age of consent, and - as discussed here - control over online communication acceptable government interventions into an otherwise wise, benevolent and self-sufficient family?
- mock-possum 4y agoThe problem is that those sexual issues arise for the individual almost as soon as they begin to experience puberty. You can’t make teens to ignore their sexuality for 6+ years. It simply will not work, it never has, it never will.