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I think my boyfriend is trying to mansplain to me. Bless his heart.
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Some want to end zero tolerance policies.
Some want to lower the voting age.
Some want to reimagine childhood and family entirely.
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The real point, the thing that underpins all this, is the nature of human emotion. Feeling good about yourself is not the result of earning power or career success. It’s not a result of feeling morally superior to other women. It’s not a result of bumper pay packets or looking great or even what other people think of you. None of that makes you happy. Happiness is an inner spring. It’s more a reflection of who you are than what you are.
Am I happy, or am I just operating under “false consciousness” and think I am? When you understand that satisfaction is not a function of material circumstances, you see how pointless that question is.
So does porn make you happy? This study implies nothing about causation: maybe the people who stick around in porn were already happy to begin with. Maybe our occupations have exactly nothing to do with our feelings of satisfaction and self-worth. And maybe eventually we’ll stop projecting what we think people should do and feel onto others and start concentrating more on our own inner selves.
I really like how direct and realistic Chaz and these other parents are being. According to the data, most young people will look at porn at some point. However, I have to say that I do not recommend making sexually explicit Web sites available to children.
This is about much more than a young person viewing nudity – does this site provide information and education about how to treat women with respect? Does it explain that not everyone looks like the women (or men) on these sites? Better for young people to go to age-appropriate sites, like Sexetc.org or Scarleteen, where they can ask questions and learn more so that whatever images they do end up seeing – whether online or in magazines or in other media – are put into appropriate contexts.
— Elizabeth Schroeder, executive director of Answer
Read the rest of this scenario and see the others here, or read the whole piece at the NYT here.
