Comment on Age check

• SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Remember Gary Hart? He had to drop out of politics because of a rumor of an affair.

  Meanwhile… Margaret Trudeau is doing blow with the Rolling Stones at Studio 52.

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  • Canconda@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yea cuz the majority of Canadians aren’t fucking prudes lmao.

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• tmyakal@infosec.pub ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Neither of them should’ve been punished? He was her boss, and decades older than her. He should’ve kept his pants zipped up.

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  • Canconda@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yea it’s called consent. Not every power imbalance is inherently coercive. Society should be punished for being such prudes… they’d probably find they like it.

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    • AeonFelis@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Not every power imbalance is automatically coercive.

      The problem is that power imbalances make it impossible to establish consent:

      • The underling has no guarantee that refusing will not result in retribution.
      • The superior has no way to know if the underling’s agreement is true consent or if it was out of fear of retribution.

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    • JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It was the god damn president of the United States of America. That’s a fucking power imbalance if I’ve ever heard one.

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    • OneOrTheOtherDontAskMe@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Not every power imbalance is coercive, but the PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES TALKING TO A 21 YEAR OLD STAFFER IS

      In case you didn’t consider that one

      Gross, dude

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      • Canconda@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        She’s a grown ass woman dude. This whole gen-z infantilization of 20 something year olds is ridiculous.

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  • AWistfulNihilist@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    DNC types get super cagey when you admit that Bill Clinton is a serial adulterer who was in an extreme power imbalance relationship with a woman in her 20’s.

    I’m glad the party is willingly offering him up as a sacrifice to the republicans to get keep the Epstein probe going. Every time the GOP tries a burying tactic, they truss Bill up like a suckling pig, and I’m fine with that. Dude is and was a creep.

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