Don’t Kill your Gran. It’s far better that she dies alone and miserable, you know that’s what she really wants.
Robin Bury
3 years ago
Very good word reassuring. Far too much fear mongering and bullying Covid is a minor killer worldwide
robert scheetz
3 years ago
We’ll see what if anything happens with Ghislaine Maxwell; but, all indicators are that pedophilia will go the way of all the rest “born that way” sexual orientations, normalization.
I don’t know about 11 yr old’s; but, unlike the author, it’s my understanding that sex ed begins at 12. So they’re not deficient in knowledge when they chose the hooker look/behaviour. Though, in the event they may not like, or have been able to control, the outcome, which in any case is never what it’s cracked up to be; still, except as a legal technicality, they can hardly be judged “innocent”, or “incapable of consent”, any more than their, usually also underage, partner.
The author is indulging the conventional sentimental cultural fiction that exculpates Lolita, but is repulsed by Humbert.
bocalance
3 years ago
The ubiquitous nature of the sex drive in both genders causes concerns in all societies. Freud was controversial in his time largely because he argued that children were, indeed, sexual and not wholly “innocent”, here meaning the total absence of any sex drive. The problems arising from that drive brings the need for control or repression for both genders. Having lived through the “sexual revolution” in my youth, its unrestrained attitudes always seemed short-sighted to me.
Mark Brown
3 years ago
Fine article Ms. Harrington. This vulnerability is why such girls, as daughters, need their fathers in their home full-time to protect them, and the fathers need to understand they have the right and duty to protect their daughters and not stand by helplessly as seems to have been suggested by much feminist propaganda. In addition, a father’s advice and encouragement to his daughter, to behave a particular way when around boys, can help counterbalance the pressure from a boy to behave another way.
Georgina Franks
3 years ago
Such a great piece of writing. So well put. Thank you. Unherd has been my beacon of good information during this crisis. Refreshing to have clear headed prose. Perhaps the current government should approach Mr Sayers, to provide some well needed calm and logic during this Covid time.
I would like to add, I have been impressed with the solid thinking shown by Sweden. Even when the Swedish officials were being chastised, by other countries for the way they were handling things, they were solid in their response. Why are / were the Swedes able to be so pragmatic in the face of so much criticism, right or wrong, from so many countries ? How did they remain so steadfast in their belief that their strategy was the right strategy? That hard lock down is not sustainable, and the collateral damaged caused by hard lock downs is far too great a price for society to pay, on so many levels. Why were they able to understand this, from the beginning, see the bigger picture, and make their plans accordingly ?
Don’t Kill your Gran. It’s far better that she dies alone and miserable, you know that’s what she really wants.
Very good word reassuring. Far too much fear mongering and bullying Covid is a minor killer worldwide
We’ll see what if anything happens with Ghislaine Maxwell; but, all indicators are that pedophilia will go the way of all the rest “born that way” sexual orientations, normalization.
I don’t know about 11 yr old’s; but, unlike the author, it’s my understanding that sex ed begins at 12. So they’re not deficient in knowledge when they chose the hooker look/behaviour.
Though, in the event they may not like, or have been able to control, the outcome, which in any case is never what it’s cracked up to be; still, except as a legal technicality, they can hardly be judged “innocent”, or “incapable of consent”, any more than their, usually also underage, partner.
The author is indulging the conventional sentimental cultural fiction that exculpates Lolita, but is repulsed by Humbert.
The ubiquitous nature of the sex drive in both genders causes concerns in all societies. Freud was controversial in his time largely because he argued that children were, indeed, sexual and not wholly “innocent”, here meaning the total absence of any sex drive. The problems arising from that drive brings the need for control or repression for both genders. Having lived through the “sexual revolution” in my youth, its unrestrained attitudes always seemed short-sighted to me.
Fine article Ms. Harrington. This vulnerability is why such girls, as daughters, need their fathers in their home full-time to protect them, and the fathers need to understand they have the right and duty to protect their daughters and not stand by helplessly as seems to have been suggested by much feminist propaganda. In addition, a father’s advice and encouragement to his daughter, to behave a particular way when around boys, can help counterbalance the pressure from a boy to behave another way.
Such a great piece of writing. So well put.
Thank you. Unherd has been my beacon of good information during this crisis.
Refreshing to have clear headed prose.
Perhaps the current government should approach Mr Sayers, to provide some well needed calm and logic during this Covid time.
I would like to add, I have been impressed with the solid thinking shown by Sweden.
Even when the Swedish officials were being chastised, by other countries for the way they were handling things, they were solid in their response.
Why are / were the Swedes able to be so pragmatic in the face of so much criticism, right or wrong, from so many countries ?
How did they remain so steadfast in their belief that their strategy was the right strategy? That hard lock down is not sustainable, and the collateral damaged caused by hard lock downs is far too great a price for society to pay, on so many levels.
Why were they able to understand this, from the beginning, see the bigger picture, and make their plans accordingly ?