This community is (still) looking for moderators!
Requirements:
- You’re not a racist, homophobe, transphobe, Pro-C MAP, etc.
- Occasional activity on Burggit. Ideally this would be posts here, but anything else that indicates activity would also work.
I am specifically looking for someone to moderate noncon/rape stuff. If anyone’s willing to moderate ryona, I’m also willing to unban it (as long as there’s no opposition). If you would like to apply, leave a comment below.
EDIT: Please keep the comments for applications or questions. If you want to decry the fact that I’m not accepting Pro-C MAPs as mods, do it somewhere else. The [META] tag exists for a reason.
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Treating Pro-C MAPs like a boogeyman is ridiculous.
How so? They think that children can consent, and that it’s therefore okay (or should be okay) to have sex with a child. Much like the rest of that list, this isn’t an “agree to disagree” sort of situation.
It’s more than that, and to pretend it isn’t is disingenuous. Society believes that minors (legal definition, persons below the age of 18) can’t consent, and that even consensual sex between minors is rape (with the person at fault being the male, because he “should’ve known better”).
Being a Pro-C MAP is about advocating for their rights, because no one else will. Minor’s rights are being reduced day by day, and it’s actually gotten to the point where state governments are trying to pass a bill that would send them to jail for trying to look at porn. Do you really think this is acceptable?
It still includes the “adults should be able to have sex with children” part, and that’s the part I take issue with. Also, considering that the ‘C’ stands for “Contact”, it’s hard to believe.
This is definitely a problem, and some states have so-called Romeo and Juliet laws for situations like this. As somewhat of an aside, isn’t the age of consent below 18 in some countries (iirc it’s still 16 in some states)?
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There are people advocating for their rights, which is why we have things like Romeo and Juliet laws. Maybe you believe that it’s not enough or that there should be more advocacy, and I don’t think I’d disagree with that. But no part of minors’ rights implies “adults should be able to have sex with children”, nor is it a necessary position to take to advocate for minors.
Contact stance isn’t really about current society, it’s about whether or not you would agree with a future where it’s destigmatized.
Romeo and Juliet laws don’t exist everywhere, and would likely be ignored if the parents made a big enough complaint.
Yes, but even then, people are looked down upon for it, even if they’re close in age (16 and 18). People even look down upon adults for just being friends with people under 18, it’s getting to be ridiculous. There’s also the people who call out “pedophilia” when adults are in age gap relationships with adults, but that’s a whole 'nother can of worms.
If they want to, they should be allowed to, and that’s something that should be up to them to decide, not the people around them. If they choose to have sex with someone, let them. If they don’t that’s fine too. But it shouldn’t arbitrarily be illegal for them to have a relationship with someone older than them.
This definitely isn’t the case for all Pro-Cs, and doesn’t really affect my point.
It’s not arbitrary, it’s based on the notion that children can’t consent.
Ultimately, you’re not going to change my stance on this. I will not appoint a Pro-C MAP as a moderator on the grounds that I won’t work with someone who thinks children can consent (in either a real or hypothetical society).
I’ll just say the notion itself that children can’t consent is arbitrary. There’s a threshold of mental maturity required for consent somewhere, but age isn’t a very good proxy for that and its use ends up resulting in many children above said threshold, as well as many adults below it. Romeo and Juliet laws just shove the arbitrariness into everyone’s face.