Way to miss the fucking point, idiot! Manboobz fails kindergarten math. Big surprise there.

The goal of kindergarten math curriculum is to prepare children for first grade math. Some key skills include:

To count by rote at least to 20, but preferably a little beyond.

The concepts of equality, more, and less

To count backwards from 10 to 0.

To recognize numbers

To be able to write numbers

To recognize basic shapes

to understand up, down, under, near, on the side, etc. (basic directions)

To have a very basic idea of addition and subtraction

It also helps to expose the student to two-digit numbers.

So Manboobz has posted a spectacular retarded take-down of my post on the age of consent.  In his first sentence, Futrelle writes

http://manboobz.com/2013/05/12/female-mra-argues-that-the-real-abusers-in-the-bbc-pedo-scandals-were-the-underage-girls/

British barrister Barbara Hewson caused a bit of a stir last week when she called for the age of consent in Britain to be lowered to 13 so as to end the alleged “persecution of old men” like those arrested in the wake of the recent Jimmy Savile scandal, which revealed a widespread culture of sexual exploitation of underage girls (and some boys) at the BBC in the 1970s.

And then two paragraphs later, writes

Uh, Judgy, in case you missed the point of the whole debate here, we’re not talking about women. We’re talking about girls. In the case of  BBC broadcaster Stuart Hall, one of the victims that he has admitted to assaulting was nine years old at the time. Nine. Savile’s youngest alleged victim was an eight-year-old boy, and dozens of his alleged assaults were upon children in hospitals.

Now class, today we are going to talk about the concept of greater than and less than.  We’re going to use Alfred the Alligator to help us understand.  Alfred will always eat the number that is the biggest, so we turn his mouth towards the bigger number.  Okay?

Which number is bigger?

Or

Did you pick 13?  Yay!

Lowering the age of consent to 13 would still make any sexual activity with a 9 year old completely illegal! 

David’s commenters have quickly concocted a narrative about how the suggestion that the age of consent be lowered to 13 allows pedophiles to abuse children of any age, and furthermore, that in claiming 15 year old girls might have had some knowledge of what they were doing, I am explicitly supporting the rape of children.

Which obviously means the entire MHRM is nothing but a giant cover for child rapists.

Futrelle then complains about my use of photos of underage girls dressed up to look much older (and not dressed by ME, I might add), naturally without any context whatsoever.  Uhm, Futrelle, the discussion was about adding age gap considerations and a mistaken age defense to existing age of consent laws, which is ALREADY IN EFFECT in many American states.

http://judgybitch.com/2013/05/09/should-13-year-olds-be-having-sex-probably-not-they-shouldnt-be-fame-whores-either/

Age gap considerations make it EASIER to prosecute pedophiles (both male and female) while avoiding Romeo and Juliet cases of two young teenagers engaging in consensual sexual activity.  If anything, my post supports fine-tuning the law to go after ONLY predatory adults.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1228366/I-abused-woman-haunts-day.html

Finding a way to deal with women who are abusing young men sexually has become a fairly pressing concern.  And again, age gap and mistaken age defences HELP with determining which relationships are likely to be predatory.  A seventeen year old girl with a fifteen year old boyfriend is different from a forty year old woman with a fifteen year old boy-toy.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2114592/The-ultimate-cougar-Former-police-officer-sex-teen-100-times-stalked-high-school-boys-sex.html

I find it interesting that when women parade around their much younger boy-toys, the culture is completely silent on the question of whether or not the women are abusing their power over these men.

Sam Taylor Wood began screwing Aaron Johnson when she was 41 and he was just 19.  No outcry there.  Quite the opposite.  They met when Wood cast Johnson in the film Nowhere Boy, which she directed.  No power differential to exploit there, huh?

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/aaron-johnson-sam-taylor-wood-married-341208

That’s just some good old fashioned cougar power.

Double standard much?

Futrelle is obviously an idiot, but there is a more important cultural conversation he is inadvertently hitting.  In attempting to link the MHRM and women who don’t like feminism all that much with pedophilia apologists, he is admitting, more or less, that he has run out of valid, rational, logical arguments against the ideas and realities we are asking him, and by extension, the whole culture, to confront.

No one in their right mind thinks anyone who takes sexual advantage of hospitalized children is anything but a predator, and yes, we want those individuals prosecuted to the full extent of the law.

But that does not automatically make every relationship between and older person and a younger person an abusive, exploitive relationship.  If we’re going to give the ladies with their trophy-boys a pass, then men should get the same pass.

29 year old Lauren Pope can bag an 18 year old boyfriend and not raise any eyebrows.

32 year old Carolyn Flack can hit the sheets with 18 year old Harry Styles, and that’s just some massive lady triumph.

And you know what?  I agree.  Those 18 year old boys know what they are doing.  They are responsible for their own choices.  And really, it’s none of our business, right up until the moment they get dumped and then cry foul.

Bullshit.

In One Way or Another, Nikki McWatters recounts her experience as teenage groupie chasing after rock-stars.

As a young teenager, Nikki formed a group with her catholic school friends. The aim? To bed as many rock stars as they could. And so began her experience as a bed-hopping, drug-experimenting groupie at the age of just 15.

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/nikki-mcwatters/predatory-teenage-girls_b_2287890.html

And if Nikki were to turn around now and claim that she was abused, I would make the same call.

Bullshit.

15 years old is not a child.  Nikki knew exactly what she was doing when she went after Duran Duran.  And Karin Ward knew what she was doing when she went after Gary Glitter.

Turning these girls into “victims” is just another way of saying women are never, ever responsible for their own decisions.  We can always blame men.

Quite frankly, the game is getting tiresome.  At some point, the feminist brigade is going to have to concede that women are actually humans with agency and responsibility.  That won’t be easy, but let’s keep our faith shall we?

One day, they will figure out that 13 really IS greater than 9.  Grade One math is gonna be a bitch.

Lots of love,

JB