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This is definitely the type of guy that would argue age of consent laws are unfair to teenage girls. https://twitter.com/vantestaegi/status/1246166888079478785
I strongly belief the root of the vitriol so many men have towards boy bands in particular is that it is threatening to their belief that there is a certain formula of man that all women must like, and you have to be that man in order to score chick's.
I bring up aoc laws, because a lot of these guys argue the age is too high. Women mature faster than men so as a 25 year old they should be able to date a sixteen year old girl with no legal repercussions.
They obsess over younger women and girls as the ideal standard, and there is a cultural fixation on female youth and abusing that power structure to their advantage.
People joke about this dynamic on reddit relationships all the time.
People joke about this dynamic on reddit relationships all the time.
It isn't just in North America. We frequently see young women and girls exploited by older men all over the world.
Many folks that are women or read as girls in their younger years have a disturbing story of some older man saying something creepy about them when they were like 12.
There are thriving porn genres dedicated to "teens" and replicating these power structures.
The men that argue against age of consent laws insist that young girls are being treated unfairly and their agency is being taken away. We should trust them, they will say, to speak for themselves.
These men believe that if the laws worked in their favor. They'd be swimming in teenage girls.
There are a lot of artistic works that these men hate because teenage girls like them. But for this thread let's focus on the boy band.
