It wasn’t the Nazis, or the open White Nationalism, or Elon Musk’s toxic narcissistic musings and endorsement of the fascist and deadly Trump regime, or the full hearted philosophy of dismantling democracy and open hatred of empathy. It wasn’t even the absurd and intensely rejected misnomer of ‘X’ forcibly replacing “Twitter”…
No, in the end, it was the pornographic nudity that caused the downfall of the so called ‘X’. So it goes.
That’s how it goes sometimes. The Mines Act of 1842 in the UK didn’t get passed because a bunch of children (some as young as 8 years old) died in a horrific mining accident. It was passed because during the investigation of that accident it became known that the women working in the mine were wearing trousers, and due to the excessive heat in the mines, were working topless in the presence of men. Victorian England wasn’t scandalized by a pile of children’s corpses, but goddamn it, something had to be done about those bare tiddies.
Well to put it into context, you were allowed to work underground at the same age you were allowed to have sex, which was two years before you were allowed to be married, at the good ol’ ripe age of 12.
This whole “you gotta be 16/18/21 to be considered an adult” thing is really recent in human history all things considering.
It wasn’t the Nazis, or the open White Nationalism, or Elon Musk’s toxic narcissistic musings and endorsement of the fascist and deadly Trump regime, or the full hearted philosophy of dismantling democracy and open hatred of empathy. It wasn’t even the absurd and intensely rejected misnomer of ‘X’ forcibly replacing “Twitter”…
No, in the end, it was the pornographic nudity that caused the downfall of the so called ‘X’. So it goes.
That’s how it goes sometimes. The Mines Act of 1842 in the UK didn’t get passed because a bunch of children (some as young as 8 years old) died in a horrific mining accident. It was passed because during the investigation of that accident it became known that the women working in the mine were wearing trousers, and due to the excessive heat in the mines, were working topless in the presence of men. Victorian England wasn’t scandalized by a pile of children’s corpses, but goddamn it, something had to be done about those bare tiddies.
I just can’t understand what goes inside those people’s minds no matter how hard I try and that’s really frustrating.
Wikipedia lists as a result of the act “No child under 10 years old was to be employed underground.”
Hooray…?
Well to put it into context, you were allowed to work underground at the same age you were allowed to have sex, which was two years before you were allowed to be married, at the good ol’ ripe age of 12.
This whole “you gotta be 16/18/21 to be considered an adult” thing is really recent in human history all things considering.