Companies don't think.

Employees are thinking "I like my job/it pays the bills/my coworkers are fun/it's an interesting problem/the nerd rapture is here"

Bosses are thinking "This gets me fat stacks"

Investors are thinking "This will get me stupidly fat stacks, and if it causes social problems I won't bear the cost"

Read Marx, like I'm not shitposting. If you want to understand why these traps happen and why capitalism keeps going here read Marx. You don't need to 100% agree with him but the economic analysis is invaluable.

not the puritanism

They are overwhelmingly from the usa

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/non%20sequitur

Doesn't follow squirrely

This article is a nothingburger. It's just "oppression bad" and "it's complicated" with a few strawmen thrown in.

Who is it for?

There have been Muslim societies in which governments compelled women to cover themselves, and others in which governments compelled them to uncover. There have been states that excluded women from education and public life in the name of religion, and states that excluded them from universities and employment because they insisted on wearing religious dress.

History is particularly troublesome for the simple oppression narrative.

Take Iran. The Islamic Republic’s compulsory hijab is well known and rightly criticised as coercive. Less often remembered is the earlier history of state-enforced unveiling under Reza Shah, whose 1936 Kashf-e hijab policy banned traditional veiling and subjected women who wished to remain covered to state coercion.

Yes, social and political regulation of women's bodies is bad. If you would be shamed for abandoning your religion and slutting it up that is bad, if you would like to cover yourself in the absense of social pressure to do so that is fine.

A woman in a miniskirt may be making a choice. A woman in a bikini may be expressing herself. A woman who surgically alters her face or tattoos her body is exercising bodily autonomy.

Strawman. Huge amounts of feminist discourse in western feminism is about women being pressured to sexualize themselves (or avoid sexualizing themselves) due to patriarchy.

Nobody holds up magaface as an example of women's lib. We all live under patriarchy.

Idk Americans can be a bit puritanical and weird about stuff. A lot of them never remove their christian brainworms.

Some coms are on a hair trigger though because people that know the age of consent in ever jurisdiction often have a weird interest in bringing up all the ways that doing something something sexually transgressive that might involve grooming is actually cool and good.

Hexbear probably isn't the place to discuss this stuff because they're very defensive of the community vibes and safety of users, and also weirdly puritanical sometimes.

I think it's probably mod overreach your position seems clear that grooming is bad and you're discussing theoretical other scenarios but in the context of the article it's understandable that the timeout would happen.

fwiw I think incest is a crime because it's a blunt legal instrument to just easily protect people from a lot of extremely nasty scenarios.

incest cannot be about ‘consenting adults’ because those adults psychology are incredibly intertwined, and the decision to perform the incest cannot be held separately form those relationships.

Distant cousins, children adopted out and meeting for the first time (it's actually a thing that separated siblings find eachother more attractive than average which is a bit of a genetic health fail lmao), people that have lived full lives and decide to incest at like 50 years old or something. It's not preposterous to imagine scenarios where it's just odd rather than some fucked up messy tangled thing.

So uhhh, why was that ready to hand?

Sigh.

The usa has the largest prison population in the world and the highest per capita rate of imprisonment and yet we still work with them and even have an extradition treaty. They have a terrible and enormous war machine and prosecute multiple illegal wars constantly and yet our government signs treaties with them.

The EU allows fascists and eugenicists to control Parliament and openly run as these parties and our standards harmonise with theirs and trade agreements are signed. In living memory France was billing former colonies the cost of kicking France out!

Taiwan was literally run by facists and the government worked with them. The ROK is like 8 chaebols in a suit and has fuckall workers rights and we work with them.

Japan is an intensely racist and misogynistic society with a horrifically corrupt and unjust judicial system and yet they are allies.

Saudi Arabia is... well I don't need to go into it.

The reality of the world is that if you make an enemy or every state that does something objectionable and inhumane you will rapidly find yourself a very pure alliance of one amidst a civil war as that purity is established.

Australians cannot gain anything from this. A peaceful and integrated APAC only benefits the freedom and good fortune of everyone. Human rights hardly flourish in an atmosphere of paranoid spying and warmongering.