The other day I was watching a video from Jennie Gage on her YouTube channel named "Life, take two!," and in that video, she expressed her disagreement with the notion of any state jurisdiction here in the United States lowering its statutory age of consent to 15 years old in that she apparently believes that it would be a product of an oppressive patriarchy. Here is her video below.
Jennie Gage Obviously Supports Draconian And Unreasonable Statutory-Rape Laws
Now, don't get me wrong. Even though I do not agree with Ms. Gage on a number of issues, I still admire how interesting she makes the videos on her YouTube channel; and I must admit that I find her to be entertaining in her videos.
Nonetheless, I don't understand how she believes that our nation is so much better off with a statutory age of consent of 18 than industrialized nations that set their statutory age of consent at 15 or lower.
Of course, I don't condone pedophile-rights groups that go by mottos that say, "If you haven't had sex by 8, then you're late." Those people are dangerously out of touch with all reality.
The elephant in the room here is that a girl is considered to be a consenting adult at the age of 15 in the following nations: France, Albania, Andorra, Austria, Bosnia, Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Liechtenstein, Monaco, North Macedonia, Poland, Portugal, San Marino, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, and Sweden. Many of these same countries are very progressive, and they're not all necessarily religious.
In fact, a number of these same nations are predominantly atheist. Most of them are industrialized. Therefore, we're not looking at Third-World nations. Their statutory ages of consent are either 15 years old or lower. My opinion is that if lower statutory ages of consent can work in these nations, why can't they work in the United States?
Moreover, it bewilders me why statutory-rape laws are so harsh in the United States, but yet not one state jurisdiction in our nation has enacted the death penalty for prison rape. Now that we have six conservative Republican Supreme Court justices on the bench of the highest court in the land, anyone can see that the Coker vs. Georgia ruling is pretty much in the doghouse and won't be in existence for much longer.
A governor in any particular state jurisdiction would only have to pass a law that would make prison rape a capital offense, and his or her state's attorney-general would be guaranteed a hearing in the Supreme Court of the United States ("SCOTUS") to challenge the Coker vs. Georgia ruling and to seek to have such a stupid ruling overturned once and for all.
Ms. Gage? I know that you probably don't read my articles; but in case you do, allow me to question your school of thought. You proclaim yourself to be a liberal feminist. Well, Heather Corinna is a liberal feminist, and she opposes high statutory ages of consent in any nation. She criticizes the United States for having the highest statutory ages of consent and the most draconian statutory-rape laws in the world.
Dr. Judith Levine is a feminist, and she doesn't feel that American statutory-rape laws are fair and that the statutory ages of consent throughout our nation should mirror the legal voting age. She has voiced her opinion on a number of occasions about how she feels that minors 12 years old and older should have veto ability whenever they are named as "victims" in a statutory-rape case
Lenore Skenazy has never really identified herself as a feminist, but you know that she has liberal ideals as one in that she once stated in an article of hers how unfair she thought it was that a 21-year-old man had to be on the sex-offender registry for the next 25 years merely because he had sexual intercourse with his 15-year-old girlfriend. Ms. Gage? Do you honestly believe that women who support high statutory ages of consent and ridiculously austere statutory-rape laws are true feminists?
These same women are only drumming up business for the Prison-Industrial Complex here in the so-called land of milk and honey. They're not helping any teenage girl steer clear of a toxic relationship with an older man or a boy or man of any age.
Ms. Gage? It appears that you have not educated yourself sufficiently on what the statutory-rape laws in our nation are really all about. If you were to read the online publication titled The Paradox of Statutory Rape by Russell Christopher and Kathryn Hope Christopher from beginning to end, you would realize that these same statutory-rape laws put adult women, even your age, into imminent danger.
In the state of Washington, there was a court case in which a 52-year-old woman named Lindy Deer alleged that she could not be placed at fault in a statutory-rape case inasmuch as she was not awake when a 15-year-old boy had sexual intercourse with her. Ms. Gage? You're in your fifties. So, what makes you think that you could not fall victim to a rape at the hands of a 15-year-old boy and that you could not be charged with statutory rape despite that you were really the victim in the incident?
The current statutory-rape laws in the United States are a sham. Social-justice warriors that peddle them attempt to make them appear to be in the best interest of women and young girls, but they work against them more than for them. They're predicated upon the misconception that adult men are to blame for all teenage girls' problems, when fact has it that underage boys have the most access to middle-school and high-school girls and have the most opportunities to sexually assault them.
It's not older men that are mainly ruining pubescent and adolescent girls' lives. It's mainly underage boys that are doing so. Deadbeat teenage fathers are everywhere in the United States, but society and the law don't seem to pay much mind to the harm that these punks do to underage girls in the form of unplanned pregnancies and a future of poverty and financial dependence on the state.
Therefore, Ms. Gage, before you post a video about how you are so opposed to lowering the statutory age of consent to 15 years old, 14 years old, or even 13 years old, do your research; and you will find that I speak words of wisdom when I tell you that the current American statutory-rape laws on our law books are not turning the United States into a better nation and a better society than nations that have lower statutory ages of consent.
Ms. Gage? The current American statutory-rape laws don't go against what you perceive to be the oppressive patriarchy. It was the patriarchy that invented them to keep their underage daughters pure for marriage. If you did your research, you would see that. Therefore, the next time that you praise harsh statutory-rape laws, remember that you are really fanning the flames of an oppressive patriarchy against which you claim to fight.
Ms. Gage? I'm not here to berate you, but merely to question your logic. There are way too many people on the sex-offender registry that don't belong there, and there are definitely way too many people in prison who don't belong there either because of the oppressive nature of the statutory-rape laws in our nation. Why would you even want to condone that same travesty of justice? I thought you opposed authoritarian systems, so practice what you preach.
The current statutory-rape laws on our law books are a recipe for authoritarian systems. They encourage a guilty-until-proven-guilty kind of mentality throughout our nation's criminal justice system and court system. They take our nation one step closer to becoming a Fascist totalitarian police state.
Ms. Gage? You're a much smarter person than that. Don't allow your YouTube videos to lose sight about what what you're really all about.
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