All of which can and do apply to relatiosnhips with people the same age. Who is anyone to moralistically tell another legal adult what they can and should (or not) be doing? Who are they to say what is healthy or not yossa?
I can't convince my little brother that quitting college and becoming a clerk in a store is a bad idea. Moreover, who am I to decide for him how he should live his life. It’s just that I, having more experience, see the consequences that he will have to face in a few years after this decision, but not only does he not see them, but he doesn’t even want to think about them. But he will still have to think, only in a situation when it will be very difficult to change or rollback the stupid decisions.
I agree with you that I can't tell other adults what they should do, but that doesn't mean I can't have an opinion about their decision and speak it out loud. Everyone is entitled to say what is healthy or not, but not me? And no, I'm not going to endorse or support the decisions of people I care about if I think they're wrong. The last word is of course theirs, it’s their life. But responsibility for the consequences of their decisions also lies with them.
Then again, she sure as shit isn't mature enough to be making financial decisions about college, driving, voting or any number of other things that can and do have far more wide reaching consequences than who she decides to fuck. Agree?
The problem is that she's mature enough to spend money and get laid, but not mature enough to handle her loan payments and deal with the consequences of being taken advantage of by an old pervert.
All your theoretical discussions about morality, free will and adult choice will end the moment your daughter appears on the doorstep and says: "Dad, this is my boyfriend, his name is Jesse Pinkman, we are going to live together."
Or will you say "It's not my problem?"
All this started by a comment by Neon that I called out, because every...single...relationship in this VN is unhealthy by the very fact of what the MC is and has (and thre people he is interacting with). No one (especially not Neon) called any of those out as being 'unhealthy', just Gabby...purely because she is 18. That to me is wrong and is infantilising a legal, adult woman who can do wtf she wants and sure has hell needs no ones permission, and sorry, but that behaviour needs to stop because again, if these young mindlessly dumb children are not mature enough to decide who they want to screw...tell me yossa (and everyone else)...what ahe will they be hmmm? Serious question...I'd love to know your answer.
Well, maybe I'm wrong, but isn't that the point of the game: how the MC deals with "unhealthy" situations, whether he'll fix them or use them to his advantage.
If Nicki had thought with her head, she would have ditched the little rat, married Guy and they would have lived happily ever after. But I think then the game would have ended in the first chapter.
If you're asking my opinion, well, they all are mature enough to decide who they want to screw, but not all of them are mature enough to handle the consequences on their own. So it's on them if they become Bad Guy's fucktoys or Lucien's "starlets."
Mommies always tell their Little Red Riding Hoods about the wolf, but who listens.
Anyway, I don't see what any of this has to do with the take that a relationship between a younger woman and a much older man tends to create an imbalance of power and a more vulnerable position for the woman.
Viola's relationship (as just one example) is FAR more unhealthy than Gabby's ever will be...
Just don't rape her and you'll be surprised what a sweet little thing she is
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