I personally think rizz is being that bad, but he is absolutely falling into a trap I frequently do, which can be described as needless, tone deaf compartmentalization. Much like this.
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Let me try again. My wife is a teacher - she had to attend child protection training. One of the topics that was covered in depth was this one, due to itâs current prevalence and presumably the unfortunate combination of gullibility and sexual frustration that characterises teenage boys.
I get that it doesnât fit your narrative, but it is unfortunately not a product of the fevered imagination of some redpill knobhead. Does it affect how we treat revenge porn against girls? No, of course not. Responses to this have often been woefully inadequate and I guess that, in addition to lawmakers not really getting the internet, that it has a lot to do with the prevalence of shitty attitudes to sexual behaviour in general, and with regards to the sexuality of young women in particular, leading to victim-blaming.
What, class oppression?
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Thanks for the link, and I appreciate that youâre not a knobhead, although I can be at times. The BBC story is, unfortunately, short on details regarding the prevalence of boys being targeted for exploitation via internet criminals. As a baseline, or my ânarrativeâ as you put it, is informed by the U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement Agency (for one), and they say:
Each year, millions of children fall prey to sexual predators. Experts estimate that one-in-five girls and one-in-10 boys in the United States will be sexually exploited before they reach adulthood.Those numbers are for the US alone and they do not attribute which experts or which studies were used to form that basis. The European Online Grooming Project looked at people who groomed young people for sexual predation, and they found:
In this study the groomers described victims that were primarily teenagers (age 13-15), most of whom were female. However, it is possible that these groomers approached many more victims who were not specifically identified. Whilst this sample was in no way statistically representative, the lower rate of male victims is consistent with the research literature.From a study regarding mental health problems correlated with internet use and abuse, the researchers found:
Youth online sexual exploitation victims were more likely to be female (77%) as compared to other clients (32%) experiencing other problematic Internet experiences...And while it is tangential to our discussion here, a study done on human trafficking for sexual exploitation found that:
Eighty percent of victims were women and girls; 20% were men and boys.I don't post this to say that boys don't require oversight when using internet communication technologies or that they're not at harm from pedophiles and such, but I find the specificity of boys being most at risk of exploitation from using ICTs to be overwrought and, frankly, incorrect.
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Since you asked, you would seem to go for the latter. And no, you donât seem to want to fix anything. Wallowing in the mud puddle you would claim to be above. Difference between us, I suspect, is that I donât claim to be above the mud puddle while standing in it.
I havenât called you or anyone any names⌠and I think I put in far more than a slacker level of effort to somewhat gently break some bad news to the guy. That his argument is that of a misogynist.
I can tell you just cannot stand condescension, name calling, and wish to elevate the whole debate without point scoring. It is so clear. Nothing could be clearer.
So, are you so sure youâre leadin from the front there?
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