A response I wrote to an article on Child Marriage;

This is a thread where White people are condemning indigenous cultures.

This is a thread where White people are condemning indigenous cultures. The implication is that White people can not only pass judgement on indigenous people, but that it is appropriate to us the power imbalance to Westernize them.

If there was a thread promoting Chinese imperialism I promise I would challenge that too.

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This is a thread where White people are condemning indigenous cultures.

Well, only the parts of those cultures that involves cutting off body parts.

You object to the marriage customs of indigenous people as well... and probably other customs as well.

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You object to the marriage customs of indigenous people as well... and probably other customs as well.

You'd probably be surprised to know that my concerns are pretty much limited to giving girls to grown men, and the cutting off of sexual body parts.

Grown men such as men in their mid to late 20s such as Edison marrying middle to late teen age women as was common at one point in our history

Far better to have those women/girls having children by teenage boys who can not care for the offsprings they took part in producing.

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Grown men such as men in their mid to late 20s such as Edison marrying middle to late teen age women as was common at one point in our history

So if it was good enough for Edison, it's good enough for you? Okay.

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Far better to have those women/girls having children by teenage boys who can not care for the offsprings they took part in producing.

Yeah, probably better to hand the girl over to a full grown man so that after he impregnates her, the baby will be better off. Maybe you're right about marriage and females being regulated. Never mind that a grown man has nothing in common with an emotionally and intellectually immature female, and that an intellectually and emotionally immature female has nothing in common with a grown man because it's not about the female, is it. So what if the girl isn't into the man or doesn't want a physical relationship with him? It's all in her best interest, right?

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/science-news/10529134/Girls-really-do-mature-quicker-than-boys-scientists-find.html

It is a well known truism that girls mature faster than boys.

But now scientists have discovered for the first time that their brains can develop up to ten years earlier than boys.

Newcastle University stumbled upon the finding while conducting experiments into how the brain stores information.

They discovered that as the brain matures it begins to ‘prune’ information that is stored and focus on what is important.

For girls this can happen as early as 10 years old, but for boys it can take until between 15 and 20 for the same.


Dr Marcus Kaiser said: “Completely by accident we found there is a difference between boys and girls in terms of development.

“We found that the brain begins to prune neural connections which it does not think are important.”

During this process similar memories or sounds or sights that appear in the brain several times will be shut off.

Researcher Sol Lim said: "The loss of connectivity during brain development can actually help to improve brain function by reorganizing the network more efficiently.

“Say instead of talking to many people at random, asking a couple of people who have lived in the area for a long time is the most efficient way to know your way.

“In a similar way, reducing some projections in the brain helps to focus on essential information."

Only important connections, like linking the sound of a familiar person’s voice to their face are preserved.

But while scanning the brains of 121 volunteers between the ages of four and 40 they discovered significant differences.

“Previous studies have shown that the brain does a lot of re-organising during puberty, there is greater activity during this time, “ said Dr Kaiser.

“But it was rather unexpected to find that these changes were starting much earlier in girls in comparison with boys.

“Around 10 to 12 you start to see a lot of activity in the brains of girls as this pruning takes place, but it was between 15 to 20 for boys.

The work is part of the EPSRC-funded Human Green Brain project which examines human brain development and is published in the journal Cerebral Cortex.

In many cultures a 15 year old is considered an adult with all of the rights and reaponsibilities of adulthood.

This is a thread where White people are condemning indigenous cultures. The implication is that White people can not only pass judgement on indigenous people, but that it is appropriate to us the power imbalance to Westernize them.

You do know we invaded Afghanistan recently., right?

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In many cultures a 15 year old is considered an adult with all of the rights and reaponsibilities of adulthood.

Well then it must also be true that a 15 year-old girl has the responsibility to exercise her right to decline an offer of marriage from a grown man if she so chooses. It must also be true that a 15 year old girl can exercise her right to choose to wait a few years to marry a male of the same age who she is actually attracted to.

So no mid teen girl is going to be attracted to a mid 20 year old male?

Then they can leave Afghanistan to the Afghanis to decide their own future according to their own cultural values.

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So no mid teen girl is going to be attracted to a mid 20 year old male?

Sure. It's called a crush. And boys, as well, develop crushes on older women. Emotions rule when you're a teen. Sometimes, being an adult means protecting teens from themselves, and not using their hormones against them.

Are you of the opinion that when these boys develop crushes, they should wed these older women? Do you think they would make great fathers?