This monologue lists terrible shit that previous generations caused, then flips on a dime and declares that the one generation not responsible for any of it, is BY FAR THE WORST GENERATION EVER.

That's how deep our culture's reflexive "blame youth for everything" bias runs.

It's very fucked up.

#RespectYoungAdults

Beloved scholar and educator Dr. Howard R. Bernstein died on Jan. 15, 2007. This is an excerpt from one of his final interviews. This is an early edit of a documentary about Dr. Bernstein's life, his academic career, and the lives he has touched in the classroom. Interviews with several generations of students in an attempt to explain Dr. Bernstein's uncommonly sucessful teaching methodology. Dr. Bernstein is battling terminal cancer. Directed by Eric Byler, former student of Dr. Bernstein's at Wesleyan University.

Tom Woods interviews Dr Robert Epstein about his book Teen 2.0

It's surprisingly good.

There is literally nothing harmful about 17 year olds having sex.

Why do we have to be so fucking cruel to people who fall in love?

Is our whole society a bunch of fucking sadists?

Details: A 24-year-old Iowa high school teacher arrested for allegedly having sexual relations with her 17-year-old student is opening up about their trysts. Mary Beth Haglin, a substitute English teacher, showed Inside Edition the raunchy photos she sent to the student during their 6-month relationship. Haglin turned herself in to authorities in July. Speaking to Inside Edition, she expressed remorse. "I never thought it would get this far," she said. #InsideEdition

Two consenting 16 year olds can both go to prison each for the "rape" of the other. Our laws are incredibly fucked up.

Joliet criminal defense attorney and former Will County prosecutor Steven Haney provides a description of Illinois' age of consent law.

All sex everyone under 18 has in California is illegal.

Only about 50% of the population are virgins when they turn 18.

At least half of all Californians have committed sex crimes sometime in their teens or early 20s.

Zach Anderson had consensual sex with a girl he met on a dating app who told him she was 17, but she was just 14.

ABC News (Oct 13, 2015)

This is the complete interview. It was recorded in August 2022.

Max's take on the age of consent is stupid beyond belief. Max does, however, succinctly disabuse Thad of the notion that he would brutally murder a man who dates his daughter.

Judith Levine, radio interview by Doug Henwood about her book "Harmful to Minors" from May 30, 2002.

More about Judith on her official site JudithLevine.com

(a fabulous video by Haley Helmholtz) James is in your head.