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Olivia Rodrigo concerns

mardi 19 mars 2024 à 05:23

Singer Olivia Rodrigo became a champion of freedom by distributing condoms and emergency contraception pills at her concerts. But now she has ceased that practice, citing a vague concern about "children" that attend.

I can't tell whether "children" in her statement refers to the people we normally call "children" — pre-teens — or to everyone under 18. But either way, I can't see even a lick of sense in that decision to stop. Whatever a person's age, if person is going to be sexually penetrated, it is good for that person to have a condom available. Whatever a female's age, if she may get pregnant, it is useful for her to have emergency contraception available.

Unless she presents clearly some other reason, I have to think that she has yielded to an incoherent right-wing moral panic.