Forest =/= Trees.Fereshte wrote: ↑Fri Feb 09, 2018 2:12 pmAbsinthe Green wrote: ↑Fri Feb 09, 2018 12:39 pmBetter idea.
Why don't we quit condescending to adolescents by assuming they have no sex drives of their own that are completely unique to them & then compounding that condescension by pulling the rug out from under their erotic agency just because said drives/agency makes us uncomfortable?
Perhaps young people - young girls/women in particular - wouldn't be so vulnerable to sexual predation if they had access to the information, contraception & respect-based privacy they need to make & execute decisions w/ regard to their sex lives/education instead of having their erotic confidence forever being cut off at the knees by the hopelessly well-intentioned yet utterly patronizing set.
Just Sayin'.
Yeah, no. Not wanting adults to sexualized young girls, especially prepubescent girls, isn’t condescending their sex drive or their sexual agency. It also makes them MORE vulnerable to predators to say adults should and could sexualize their bodies. If Abby wants to have sex with someone her own age, that’s one thing. But that clearly isn’t what’s happening here. Your defense of the sexualization of a child is...kind of creepy.
1.) We're talking about a Fictional Narrative, not a Documentation of Behaviour. The characters are not Real People, regardless of whatever affection we've developed for them. They are & remain Lines On Paper &/ Computer Screens, & as such nothing bad or good ever truly happens to them. The inability of some of the audience to distinguish Real Life from Storytime & their added insistence to ascribe beating-heart, blood-in-their-veins, puke-when-they're-sick & bleed-when-they're-cut qualities to make-believe characters is what's truly creepy here.
2.) Abby's mistaking having big boobs / being an adult as the answer to all her problems re sexual attention is a direct consequence of her youth, naivete & lack of access to decent information. Being a child means you're perpetually in the thrall of beings that look like you but are much bigger, much more powerful than you, always seem to know more than you &/ in the know re what's really going on yet are never letting you in on the full picture. Being an adolescent means being aware of all that & brace wildly against it, often to one's disadvantage, precisely the predicament Abby's in. Throughout the series, Abby has consistently expressed an attraction to & appreciation for boys &/ men, & a lot of the comedy has grown out of both of her failed attempts to get their attention or blowing a common-sense & stable-comportment gasket when confronted with male beauty. I mean, if even Chloe isn't immune to the charms of a shirtless Teddy, of course Abby's going to go full-throttle Spaced-Out Horndog from a glimpse of Angelic Buttocks. It's not shameful for young girls to appreciate the erotic capital of others &/ want some sexual attention, regardless of how much the well-intentioned bluenoses try to make them feel ashamed for it, nor is it Rape Culture pointing that out. That's she's going about it in completely the wrong fashion is where the unlimited potential for comedy gold is coming from. I can hardly WAIT. If "What? Do I Have A Booger?" isn't a pretty clear hint how not-seriously we're supposed to take things & a pretty obvious clue as to how this is going to play out, then there's not a whole lot others can do for you. That the tightly-wound Spawn-of-Comstock killjoys aren't getting it is on them & not the authours.
3.) Slash-Stab knows exactly what the fuck she's doing. By giving Abby exactly what she wants, she's likely to make her infinitely more miserable than if she'd taken away all of her succubus-mojo. She's a Tartarus Academy instructor, fer cryin' out loud - you don't get to that position by being nice to people. You get there by being a twisted fucking sadist. Especially to children.
So, Yeah.