They’re children. They’re literally students sitting in class. They’re 14, maybe 15 years old (I can’t remember which season specifically this is from).
That’s what grooming is. An adult, who is fully aware of what they’re doing, taking advantage of a teenager or a child and manipulating them or brainwashing them because they’re too young to actually understand what’s happening.
Tiffany thinks he’s talking about gardening. And even when Quinn is relating and thinking back on the story, she still doesn’t really understand what was going on. It wasn’t until her older sister and mom could process the scene through their adult brains that consequences were had.
It shouldn’t be the responsibility of children to recognize when they’re being groomed/gaslit/manipulated/etc.
^^^^^
This is exactly why young girls can never be “fast.” It’s not possible. They were either taken advantage of or groomed.
A Marine returns from duty in Iraq and is immediately reassigned to a remote location in Afghanistan.
That evening he arrives at his new post; a run down mosque in the middle of nowhere.
As he switches over with the marine currently stationed there, he realises there is no bed, no clean water, no toilet, just him, his weapon and the dirt on the floor.
The next morning he wakes up to find a queue of naked men leading into the mosque. At the front, the mosque leader is in prayer with the man leading the line.
As the prayer finishes, he drops to his knees and swings his fist into the naked guys balls, flooring him! The naked guy slowly comes to his senses and crawls out of the mosque.
Confused, the marine asks the mosque leader what’s going on…
“These men are thieves, rapists and murderers from all over Afghanistan.” He says, “Instead of prison, their punishment is to walk through the desert in nothing but their sandals, receive Allah’s justice, then return home.”
The marine returns to his post and continues to watch these unusual punishments.
After 6 long months of no bed, no clean water, no toilet and witnessing this unusual justice system, his replacement arrives.
“Hey, my last post was in Korea, how is it here?” Asks the replacement. “And what’s with this queue of naked guys in the middle of nowhere!?”
“Well, I’ll be honest with you”, replies the marine, “this a shit post, and what you’re looking at here is a criminal punch line.”
Sometimes I think about the future of self driving cars and how everyone I talk to about that future is like “okay but in an emergency we’ll be able to take back manual control, right?” and I usually placate them by saying, yeah, that’s totally how it’ll happen, but actually we’re already seeing the opposite. Cars with “self driving” features like steering and breaking that kick in and take control from the driver if the driver is about to rear end someone or is in a dangerous situation because the truth is computers can think faster and have better reflexes than us and I think about this going into the future and how if the self-driving cars are able to share their data with each other and learn from the driving experiences of every car on the road soon we’ll have cars that are so massively experienced at driving and avoiding accidents and making microsecond decisions and partial degree turns of the wheels and being so damn precise that automobile accidents will be almost unheard of and that’s when we’ll develop the most wasteful hilarious extreme sport in history where a single human driver will go up against an arena of ultra smart self driving cars and just by driving around recklessly try to coral them into crashing into each other and I tell you I would watch that sport all day.
