if you think average cognitive differences between 23 and 25 year olds constitutes a power imbalance, just wait till you hear about couples where one partner makes more money than the other!

power discourse has rotted people’s brains to the point that the only way they can even conceptualize of relationships between consenting adults, is to place them somewhere along a victim/victimizer spectrum.

i hate to break it to the relationship police, but among mature adults with fully developed brains, there are still vast differences in intelligence between individuals. either we get comfortable with “imbalances”, or we start pairing people off by IQ.