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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2017-10-30 06:44 pm

[ SECRET POST #3953 ]


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Re: This twitter thread (LGBT and consent)

(Anonymous) 2017-10-30 11:42 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't think the issue is that 14 year olds are "virginal pristine nuns," it's that there's a big difference in power and experience between a 26 year old and a 14 year old. I had older people hit on me as a preteen and young teenager, and the creepy things to me were: that I was never sure at the time whether the person was hitting on me or not, due to lack of experience (now, I can look back on it and see that they obviously were), and that I still felt like I was supposed to be polite to adults and that outright disobeying them could get me in trouble. All that "respect your elders" stuff. So felt like I had to try to weasel out of the situation without offending anyone, plus I couldn't outright say anything, because what if I was wrong and just imagining something more sinister in an innocent interaction?

I wasn't a "pristine nun" in my mind (I was a virgin), but I didn't have the life experience to really know what was going on and I didn't feel like I had the right to fully stand up to adults.