Posted on 03/12/2023 5:46:57 PM PDT by NetAddicted
A San Francisco Bay area teacher went viral on Twitter last weekend after posting a lengthy thread arguing that sex between a child and an adult is not “intrinsically harmful.” Zara Degeneres, a self-described “pagan witch,” faced widespread condemnation from parents. According to her LinkedIn page, she specializes in “teaching sex-positive values to middle and high school students through sex education.
On Friday, Degeneres wrote,
“Sometimes in education, a student hits you with what can only be described as a ‘curveball.’ In my case, as a provider of consent-awareness and sex-positivity-oriented courses, I often find myself getting pulled towards some rather tricky and politically fractious subjects.”
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Sometimes in education, a student hits you with what can only be described as a "curveball". In my case, as a provider of consent-awareness and sex-positivity-oriented courses, I often find myself getting pulled towards some rather tricky…
— Zara DeGeneres she/her ⛤ (@zaradegeneres) February 24, 2023
According to Degeneres, those “tricky and politically fractious subjects” include the age of consent laws.
“A reply I often hear when explaining the topic of sexual relations among minors and between minors and adults, is ‘how is it abuse if I wanted it?’” she wrote.
“The answer to this question, is that sex between a minor and an adult isn’t *intrinsically* abusive, nor innately harmful!”
She argued that child-adult sex is only “inappropriate” because of outdated Christian morals. According to the “sex educator,” children are only harmed because of the guilt and shame imposed by “highly religious parents.” Degeneres said she believes that children are fully capable of consenting to sex with adults.
“Since harm in casual relations with peers and adults comes from guilt and social conditioning or in thankfully rare cases, force, which is always wrong, it’s important to drill these ideas into kids from an early age. As sex-positive educators, we have a responsibility *not* to teach the next generation to see themselves as helpless victims, especially young girls.”
Degeneres then went on the mock conservative activists for spreading “hogwash about sex being intrinsically harmful,” citing the work of psychologist Bruce L. Rind as “evidence.” Rind’s study, which argues that child sex abuse “does not cause intense harm,” was condemned unanimously by Congress in 1999.
“There shouldn’t be any “sex-positivity” courses for children,” DeSantis Deputy Press Secretary Jeremy Redfern wrote. “This is grooming. There’s no other word to describe it.”
Read this and draw your own conclusion about what is being pushed on the "minor attracted persons" front. https://t.co/A0mXWUnz0d
— Dr Jordan B Peterson (@jordanbpeterson) February 26, 2023
“Absolutely horrifying that this person is actually in a position to teach children,” writer AG Hamilton said in response. “While there may be gray areas, children are generally not in a position to be able to consent to sexual relations with an adult and the harm is obvious.”
Absolutely horrifying that this person is actually in a position to teach children. While there may be gray areas, children are generally not in a position to be able to consent to sexual relations with an adult and the harm is obvious. https://t.co/3bBZ0EKn4n
— AG (@AGHamilton29) February 26, 2023
“You make me want to puke. Stop trying to normalize adults having sex w a child. If I knew your real name I’d turn your ass in, child molester. Signed, A survivor of childhood sexual abuse”
🧵🧵🧵THREAD:
Sometimes in education, a student hits you with what can only be described as a "curveball". In my case, as a provider of consent-awareness and sex-positivity-oriented courses, I often find myself getting pulled towards some rather tricky…
— Zara DeGeneres she/her ⛤ (@zaradegeneres) February 24, 2023
We currently have a mechanism for dealing with people like this – prison and the sex offender registry. However, it appears to not be enough to prevent the problem. @MattWalshBlog @libsoftiktok https://t.co/1nI17IZQzl
— Unconventionally Conservative (@unconcon1) February 26, 2023
According to Degeneres’ Linkedin, she holds no advanced degrees and received a bachelor’s in psychology in 2013. She claims to have been teaching “sex-positive” messages to teenagers since 2017.
Zara Degeneres? What the hell is she doing in America?
Is “she” yet another pervert man pretending to be a woman?
Oy vey! I have so much problems posting links. One more try to post link to Twitchy article about @zaradegeneres’ pro-child sex tweets:
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4134136/posts
I’m betting so. Searching the zarad... name, lots of different sites come up, like LinkedIn. I haven’t checked them out, but I would think zaraD would have been fired by now, if actually a teacher. Maybe San Fransicko doesn’t care.
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It’s sometimes interesting how appropriately named some people are.
Say what?
Appropriate how?
Normalizing pedophilia is a core goal for Democrat Kiddie Rapers.
This needs to change: Quickly, decisively and forcibly.
Its all explained in the new kindergarten book “Brown Chicken, Brown Cow”
Will you please add me to your list? Thank you
It’s illegal End of story
I’m sure you’re right about why the name Degeneres was chosen. Question: where did you find those tweets?
Degeneres as in degenerate.
Yes, Welcome aboard.
It was from https://twitter.com/zaradegeneres/status/1561028488785563648 but which now says: This Tweet is from a suspended account. Learn more
Sometimes I am so slow. All I saw when I looked at the name was a potential link to Ellen Degeneres.
When I try to look at ZaraDegeneres’ tweets, they’re always deleted. That is why I wanted to know where you found his/her/its tweets.
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