all else aside, I certainly didn't expect a self-proclaimed Communist to call MeToo movement against harassment "shrill"
Then my question would be, should I call out all those girls / women who flirted with me as harassers and myself join the MeToo movement ? Would that be a done thing ?
For example, one evening I must have been looking particularly attractive ( heh heh ) and was going to a second-hand bookshop. I went to the autorickshaw stand / bus stand and as I boarded a rickshaw a woman who was waiting for a bus almost came into the rickshaw and tensely asked me if I would take the rickshaw towards her house. I told her I decline. And then once at the bookshop a girl ( a pretty one ) began flirting with me and we spoke until the bookshop closed for the day. Regrettably I neither took her number nor took her to a nearby tea place. But should I now declare myself outraged and put out statements of MeToo harassments against these two women ?
but no, the research isn't that new and isn't from new feminists. it's both government and privately funded research from all over the world since a long time. Indian government initiative against teen pregnancy, and other initiatives all over the world wasn't because of shrill feminism, but evidence based medical reasons. there was a recent paper that said teen pregnancies are safer, but that went against lots of better quality research earlier and was quickly debunked by other researchers for using very bad methodology.
Why are we talking about pregnancy ?
and sure, I'm against capitalist exploitation too, and we could have replaced it with better systems if we had any. currently we're trying our best to increase wages and have better conditions. it's a slow process
"Increase wages" : Well, in
this thread I have proposed the outline of a new economic system which abolishes the traditional money system, keeps leftist socio-economic system and through an evolved money system realizes the Communist desire of abolishing economic classes ( rich, middle, poor ). The money system here exists because ATM technology is not existent that can make everything free despite current availability of advances like 3D Printing and Vertical Farming.
And in
this thread I describe how technically the Libyan Jamahiriya political system worked. This system which was people's rule - direct democracy, real democracy - can really be called realization of the Communist desire of "Withering away of the State". Real democracy. The system was adapted for Venezuela by Hugo Chavez.
So by this way of enabling a Communist socio-economic system and a Communist political system, Capitalist exploitation can be ended in an instant. The only requirement is for people to accept the sensibility of this and make themselves part of this. Nature will not reject the system, some people will.
and yes, 15-16 year olds are underdeveloped in ways a 25 year old isn't. to claim otherwise is disingenuous.
Come on, you are just being stubborn despite my very simple questions I asked in the very first post you quoted and my subsequent posts about this.
Lastly, in the sublime sci-fi book series Dune began in 1965 and written by the American Frank Herbert - perhaps one of the best books written by humanity - and which is set thousands of years from now and in its TV adaptation of year 2000 the Duke Leto, father of Paul Muad'dib who becomes the Mahdi and Paul's mother being the bound concubine Lady Jessica, Leto brings Jessica when she is 16 and he older.
BTW the first book, Dune, is being released as a new film in India on the 15th of this month. From the trailer the film doesn't seem as magnificent as the book or even the 2000 TV adaptation but you should watch it.