Morally? No.

Legally? Be careful. Some places have allowances in laws to permit relationships between closely aged young people, even if one is technically a minor. Some places do not. Check your local laws. If it’s not explicitly laid out as an exception, a bad breakup, a bad parent, or even an unlucky encounter with a nosy cop can seriously damage your life.

~0%. Everyone is reliant to some degree on others. Even if you grant a tropical paradise to somewhat ease the physical needs, even survival is a team activity, and no one thrives under forced solitude.

I said before to keep trying and maybe one day you’d make a funny comic, but it really just isn’t happening. This is worse than unfunny, though. You should probably just stop.

‘Eggs are really small potatoes?’ Got it. Off to make some potato salad.

I’m wierder than most, so take this with the proverbial grain of salt.

First, the fact you are reaching out, even like this, is a good start. Don’t let the urge die if you can keep it up.

As for next steps, find your people. Is there someone out there who you see ‘speaking truth?’ Do they have a community? Find it. (People on here can help to a certain extent if you are willing to share, which I know can be a bit scary online)

What about your other interests? Do you game? There are communities for that. (Famously there are a lot of femboy gamer communities. They aren’t going to hate you for being gender-non-conforming.) There are streamer/youtuber communities. (Check out Phedran, a cool gal with a chill comm. No hate for gender-non-conformers there.) Do you like a particular fandom? Same. Drum circles, writing/reading groups, secular action groups, (you like caring for people? Try volunteering. There’s a ‘Food Not Bombs’ chapter in all the urban centers of Ohio. Even if you only go once a weekbecause of the long drive, you might find your people.) philosophy study groups (special mention: Quarantine Collective, very inclusive but not in a ‘repeat the party slogans’ way) and who knows what else. Do something you love and do it with people.
Is there a local queer community where you are? (coffee shop, bar, whatever) Even if you aren’t gay, you don’t have to take on any particular identity to socialize. The community is usually very welcoming of those who aren’t locked into the old fashioned gender norms, and at the least, aren’t likely to hate you for that kind of BS reason.

You have options. Keep the momentum going and grab one.

Ah, yes, the Irish American…

The mockery in ‘chav’ is not about class, but choices in relation to class. Class is not chosen. That particular ‘look’ is certainly chosen.

This is a young man in a pub. They might call him working class, but few would call him a ‘chav.’

The young men in your provided images are absolutely the sort who would be called chavs, not because of something intrinsic to themselves, and not because they work for a living, if they do, but because of the choices they have made in how they present themselves to the world.

The chav look is not respected because it simultaneously follows neither the unwritten rules of modesty and dignity that the working class often use to claim moral superiority over the wealthy, nor the unwritten rules of ‘tasteful conspicuous consumption’ used among the wealthy as their in-group lanuage. It is part of a subculture within working class spaces that attempts to draw esteem via conspicuous consumption, but without wealth. It is a subculture which has ‘bought in’ on the consumerist ethos which says ‘who has the shiniest hat, and the most attention, is the best person.’ The message is subtle, but present.

You can be attracted to the aesthetic, just as some people are attracted to the aesthetic of prison inmates, serial killers, fascist uniforms, etc, but the real-world versions of those things are not something to hold in esteem, regardless of how hot they might be. You aren’t the first person to be attracted to an aesthetic tied to a problematic culture, and you won’t be the last.

I tend to treat words fairly literally and try to be precise, so if I say ‘I’m sorry,’ it’s because I am sorry. If I want to sympathize, I can say other things. (‘That’s awful.’ ‘Those bastards…’ etc.) On occasions where I have not felt sorry because the other person has reacted emotionally to something , I tend to ask questions. Calmly giving people a chance to feel heard can often help.
In most cases, though, I try to move people toward solutions-oriented thinking to prevent spiralling. Asking questions lets them put the problem into words, helping them switch from a defensive emotional stance to an open brainstorming stance. Giving people a goal can make them feel a sense of progress, giving them distance from the problem and possibly netting a better final result than even might have happened without the inciting event.

Great, and now there are adventurers on the lawn.

I think I’m past being mystified by there being a market for stupid, terrible games. I used to find it confusing but the answer for so many confusing things in life is just ‘idiots exist.’

Who?

Masking techniques

For prying questions, pick up some evasive answers. The response only has to vaguely imply an answer. Use ‘I’m not sure’ or ‘I don’t know’ where applicable.

To skip chitchat, skip the locations it starts if possible, and just look like you are in a hurry if you can’t avoid them.

Learn the signals for uninterest, like not looking at them, one word/grunted responses, beginning work, etc.

Keep in mind though, the purpose of the ritual is to let people feel good about their time working together. If you negate it, you will not have that positive impression in their minds. They will think of you negatively, which will absolutely cause you other problems. It might be worth spending 15 minutes of ritual as insurance to reduce likelihood of problems later because everyone thinks you are a prick.

Easiest solution is to use unprocessed meats. Get thin sliced pork, (butchers usually have a deli slicer for raw meat, or you can do it yourself with a knife if you are careful) add a dab of honey or maple and a sprinkle of cayenne and cook.

You can find lots of packaging for ‘nitrate free’ things that have a disclaimer somewhere saying ‘*except from celery.’

I was thinking about these literally just yesterday. I’m wondering if they could be essentially replaced with something like those wax bottle candies. Maybe not the best for places that reach extreme temperatures but some places could do it without issue.

My darling man, Darin

It’s a tough question to even approach an answer to, because, for one, there are people who moralise the issue and say pedos shouldn’t have anything that might make them happy, regardless of whether it would reduce their likelihood of victimizing real children, (the same attitude saying drug addicts are degenerate scum) and less stupidly, the only way to tell what the effect of such a thing would be, would be to do it and see what happens. Then it’s the same problem with any other human experiment. If it led to a decrease in child rape, you’d see some academic writing on it but you would still get a lot of people hemming and hawing about the moral hazard. If it led to an increase, whoever made the decision to give the go ahead on it would be arguably morally culpable for all those extra kids being harmed. Not a lot of people funding grant proposals are looking to risk being put into the bad part of the history book to, just maybe, be labeled ‘the one who helped the most hated class of the mentally ill.’ (If anyone wants to argue the paedophiles aren’t mentally ill, I’d have to question how their definition of mental health includes rape, but I digress.)

Personally, I’d like to do away with the hate and get them all into some form of treatment, whatever that might mean. (I’m not a psychiatrist.) While they hide, they are more likely to be a danger to others. If visible, they could be researched, maybe treated or screened against, but we’ll never know while they are hidden, and it seems better to reduce the hate, usually a good thing to do in any case, and get them to come forward, than to surveil the whole of society as though we’re all criminals, or sit on our hands and pretend everything is going well, as is, when the President of the US, a member of the royal family, and dozens of other powerful people are dodging questions regarding possible involvement with a child sex trafficker.

Have you seen the world you live in? We can’t even get everyone to agree kids shouldn’t be in porn. There is zero chance you are going to get everyone to agree to sacrifice their civil rights on the altar of ‘protecting’ the kids of parents who refuse to do it themselves from something many don’t view as harmful.

Even if true, how is that relevant to the case?

And now Dupont will claim copyright against anything successful you ever produce.