broad stroke sentimentalist

Honestly the reason why I keep bothering you fucking gays about call me by your name is because not only am I incredibly disgusted with the leaders in our community for uncritically praising the film, I’m also petrified for the impact it’ll have on our youth. There are a lot of lonely gay kids who feel that the only way they can experiment is by sleeping with older men because kids in their peer group are either hostile or closeted. These kids may want to be sexually active and think they’re mature, but they’re still vulnerable. Creating a story where adult/child sexual relationships are seen as being in love is dangerous because it can easily be used by predators irl to groom young people. No matter the era or the persons sexuality it’ll never be healthy for an underage teen to first be introduced into sex through the actions of adults. Age is not just a number, it’s not moralistic to say that there is obviously a power imbalance between a graduate student and someone who’s barely finished with high school.