It's also nice to see really good looking guys yearn, flirt, kiss like they mean it, and repeatedly ask about consent and comfort. A much-needed visual escape from all the depressing news, doomscrolling, and constant layoffs this year.

“everything sucks/everybody dies and nothing is resolved” is the most realistic type of fiction and there isn’t much of it…

even when contents are brutal, violent, & depressing, there is usually hope, or competence — some resolution or detente. closure.

virtually all fiction is escapist

It makes sense in a patriarchy that the age of consent is 18, while allowing child marriage to get around age of consent laws, because the law isn't about protecting children who are too young to consent to sex with adults, it's about protecting a father's property to maintain marriage value.

what follows immediately after the birthright clause? the privileges and immunities and due process clauses? and what follows them? the equal protection clause. all of this is explicitly to say, "the declaration is the constitutional law of the land"