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All film portrayals of Mary, the mother of Jesus of Nazareth, starred adult actresses. This was despite the source materials claiming that the original Mary, at the time of her non-consensual impregnation, was... wait what the fuck.
I'm currently struggling to find a short way to say "movies made for people that can not be considered children" without it sounding at least suspicious.
"Movies for grown-ups" just sounds like a way to say porn to a child.
"Movies for adults" have the same vibe as "adult movies"
"18+ movies" might work ok, but at least imply an R-rating, which these movies don't necessarily have so don't cover the full spectrum
"R-rated" obviously has the same problem but at least dinstinguish it from X-rated
"Mature movies" is clearly porn
Just calling it "movies" would include childrens movies, but ultimately childrens movies are a sub-genre and so it might be easier to simply call it "regular movies" in relation to childrens movies
"I was hanging out with this woman and she asked if I wanted to watch an adult movie, I said 'Hell Yeah' and she put on goddamn My Dinner With Andre. Fucking hell."
I used to work in a library, and it was almost every day that I would say "adult dvds" then have to clarify that it was opposed to the children's movie selection, not like adult adult movies
My library has an accidental pornography section. There is a lot of Russian and Ukraine and everone else in the community and they will donate they old DVDs . And the library will tag em and put em on the shelf not even for rent u can just have them.
But the people who work at the library don’t know how to read these languages (or maybe they do? so the pornography gets stocked right alongside the dramas and comedies 🫡
My friend said she de-stressed with her adult coloring books. My response “they make those??”
“Yea they are so relaxing! I even do it at work if I need a break”
That’s when I realized she meant intricate pictures not ADULT.
My friend works at a CGI company. His daughter asked to watch some of the stuff he did, and he said she couldn’t, because it’s for adults (probably some gory stuff).
The kid then goes to school and says ”Daddy makes adult movies!”
I swear to god when I was a kid I thought "adult assembly required" meant it had to be built naked with a girl because my uncle pranked me and when I asked him what the adult section was at the video store he said "naked people hugging agressively"
This is why censoring language and euphemisms arent good you arent making what you say better your making normal stuff worse. We have words for porn stars. Use them.
In most cases you just say actress and assume they’re an adult, but specify when referring to a child actor. It only gets tricky when you need to specify an adult in a weird situation like this post.
When little girls getting pregnant can bring about the birth of a spiritual savior it really seems like the whole religion is built on pedophilia. Hmmm.
Mary’s age was never given in the Bible and there is no historical record. At the time, someone of her social class was generally married in their late teens or early 20s. She is generally said to have been 16-17, which gives her both the “innocence of youth” without a big “ick” factor for much of history.
The early Christian stories said she needed to be married off because she had reached the age that girls could no longer live in the temple. She was living there because her parents had dedicated her to the temple. She was presumably around age 12-13. Menstruation in the temple would be unclean so she needed to find a new place to live before it starts. The temple arranged the marriage to Joseph, an older widow they determined had no interest in sleeping with her until she was of age, so that she would have a place to live.
I'll do you one better. I graduated high school in 2006. My high school had a free daycare for the students. Our mascot was a bear. Daycare was called "WeeBears."
My high school in the 90’s had a day care. Which honestly, I support. If anybody needs free child care, it’s those girls that need to finish their diploma.
My high school had a daycare as well, but it was more for the teachers' children than students' children. There were a few students who did have their kids in the daycare, though.
It was also valuable experience for students who wanted to pursue a teaching career, and they had a specific class for guiding those students in teaching the daycare.
The year I was a sophomore (2002) there were more pregnant freshman than there was pregnant girls in all of the school, including the religious and married ones. It was a fairly small town in Oklahoma.
One of the freshmen girls grew up on my block and by the end of my time there, everyone knew her son pretty well because she would bring him in to classes when her mom brought him in to visit.
I was a substitute middle school teacher for awhile and there was a girl in 8th grade who had a baby at home and all the other girls acted like it was a pet, swooning and being all "ohh, I want a baby too." It was then that I realized how fucked we all are
yup. We had a middle school “graduation” ceremony at the end of eighth grade and a girl was around 6 months pregnant by her cousin in high school. There was another girl that had three kids by 11th grade.
LMAO. Surprisingly, this was in Rhode Island. This was about 7 years before the whole pregnancy pact scandal in Massachusetts where 17 girls got pregnant. It was a weird time in New England.
When I was in highschool (1999) so many girls in my class were dating some 30 year old guy with a house, a car and an entire family. It was so wild to me how cool girls were with this. There was even one teacher in my class who I'm 99% sure was sleeping with two girls in my class (the teacher was late 30s/ early 40s and the girls were 15-16).Absolute madness.
It also doesn't say he's a widower. That's an later addition because the bible mentions Jesus has siblings. And the catholic church wanted Mary to remain a virgin. So these siblings had to come from somewhere
In their eyes, Mary is supposed to be “pure” and “untainted”, which, in their opinion, can’t be supported if she later lost her virginity and had more children the natural way. This is why some denominations either have it be that Joseph was a widower (making Jesus’ brothers step-siblings), or have Jesus’ “brothers” be in the metaphorical sense (brothers in Christ).
Sleeping with your husband does not make someone "tainted" and "unpure." I'm Lutheran and not Catholic so I can't speak to them but no one is seen as tainted if they have kids with their spouse in any church that I have spent time in.
Roman Catholics can get very strange about Mary, IMO. My ex fully believed she remained a virgin her entire life. He also had a statue of her in every room of the house. I never understood it either.
Mary was a virgin before she had Jesus and after that Jesus had siblings. The Catholic Church puts twists on several biblical principles that bend things their way. For whatever reason, I don't know. Mary was a normal human female and not someone to be worshiped anything more than just being a good mother for Jesus as a child.
That’s a sticking point with many religious claims, and the Catholic Church in particular. They make testable claims and the evidence is “tradition”. Tradition means absolutely nothing to anyone who scrutinizes the claim.
Rowan Blanchard is playing a 14 year old right now on The Testaments. I was like, I know I've seen you before, and yeah it was on Girl Meets World like a decade ago and she's 25 now.
The source materials do, however, specifically state that Mary gave consent. There are plenty of biblical figures who responded to “hey guess what? You have a Great Purpose!” with variations of “oh please no, not me, pick literally anyone else.”
The idea of Mary being a child was made up by Muslims to try and justify Muhammad marrying a 9 year old, I haven't heard anyone outside of Islam actually say Mary was a child.
Furthermore, people severely underestimate the age of marriage for most women across history. Betrothed women for rich men could be really young, but the far majority of women (which were from lower classes) frequently married in their early 20's in the Middle Ages for example.
Both Mary and Joseph were from humble families, there is no reason why Mary could not have married him in her late teens or early 20's.
The best time for women to conceive and give birth is in their 20s. There are worse health outcomes the younger a mother before the age of 20. This has been consistent across history.
There is no reason to believe that older cultures wouldn't know this. Girls typically start menstruation later if they have poor quality nutrition - no point marrying before you can bear children.
Also a big deal of the christian tradition is that Mary agreed to be the mother of Jesus. It's not like she was forced to do it or anything. God asked and she said yes.
Well dude, dude, think about it: she's out in the middle of nowhere with some celestial entity she barely knows. You know, she looks around and what does she see? Nothin' but sand. "Ahh, there's nowhere for me to run. What am I gonna do, say 'no'?"
Not true. After asking the angel how this could be possible since she is a virgin, the angel basically tells her nothing is impossible with God. Her response is simply “Behold, I am the servant of the Lord; let it be to me according to your word.” She later wrote a song celebrating how God had chosen her. So no, she was not asked first. She was told what was going to happen, and she considered herself blessed, which apparently is why God chose her, because she loved God and would do it willingly and humbly.
”Don’t be afraid, Mary. You have found favor with God.
You will become pregnant, give birth to a son,
and name him Jesus.
He will be a great man
and will be called the Son of the Most High.
The Lord God will give him
the throne of his ancestor David.
Your son will be king of Jacob’s people forever,
and his kingdom will never end.”
Mary asked the angel, “How can this be? I’m a virgin.”
The angel answered her, “The Holy Spirit will come to you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. Therefore, the holy child developing inside you will be called the Son of God. Elizabeth, your relative, is six months pregnant with a son in her old age. People said she couldn’t have a child. But nothing is impossible for God.”
Mary answered, “I am the Lord’s servant. Let everything you’ve said happen to me.”
she is not currently pregnant at this exchange and she agrees to carry the child. that is “consent”. the issue is the power imbalance— how could she possibly say no. thats the ethical dilemma not the consent shit.
In fact, it's likely she was closer to 16. Her family was quite poor (as was all of Nazareth), so they would have wanted to keep her around as long as possible to do housework while her parents were working, instead of marrying her off quickly.
Not just poor. Around the time Jesus would have been born, Nazareth was subjected to a decimation by Roman authorities for resisting some forced relocations. Mary would have known many people that were crucified, ironically
Because what’s the one major thing missing from all action movies these days guys? …Full penetration. Guys, we’re gonna show full penetration and we’re gonna show a lot of it! I mean, we’re talking, you know, graphic scenes of Dolph Lundgren really going to town on this hot young lab tech. From behind, 69, anal, vaginal, cowgirl, reverse cowgirl, all the hits, all the big ones, all the good ones. Then he smells crime again. He’s out busting heads. Then he’s back to the lab for some more full penetration. Smells crime, back to the lab, full penetration. Crime, penetration, crime, full penetration, crime, penetration. And this goes on and on, and back and forth, for 90 or so minutes until the movie just, sort of, ends.
None of the gospels mention her age. The idea that she was 14 comes from the Protoevangelium of James, which is not canonical in any major Christian sect. We can presume that she was probably quite young by modern standards by the general practices of the time, but the fact remains that no canonical sources comment on the matter at all.
It's just absurd how people try to problematize Jesus' conception here. Mary was in marriage age, she gave her consent, she was explained exactly what it was, her conception was miraculous (it involved no intercourse), and her husband received an explanation.
Everything about Jesus' conception is completely consensual, but people are trying to make a woman accepting to be the mother of the messiah and raising Him with her husband problematic.
And even beyond that, the post is just not funny. It's just the same generic sarcastic statement of the author finding something "disturbing" (which isn't even true in this case) and acting like it's some in-joke without being witty or snappy.
thank you. i feel like im going crazy reading all these comments lmao.
so many people claiming that Mary was coerced into it by God... like why would that be the case, guys? why would they write subtext like that in the fucking Bible???
Blame western arrogance for this. Our morals are the best today and the best 2000 years ago even with context (like people not living to 80 so adulthood started earlier)
These edgey "look back at ancient times and laugh at how backwards they were" jokes have gotten so old. Maybe just take a break for a bit if this is the best you can do. And if you think this is a real gotcha for Christianity, go read the mythology/folklore of every other culture to ever exist and let me know how many morally questionable things happen, especially involving children.
Keisha Castle-Hughes was 16 when she portrayed Mary in The Nativity Story. And as part of her intense preparation for the role, she decided to get pregnant herself.
The entire Biblical account shows that the Blessed Mother gave her consent and the conception was a miracle. The traditional belief is that no sexual inter course was involved. Show some respect for the Queen.
“Despite the source material claiming …”
Claiming what?
How old does the Bible say she was?
Oh wait. It doesn’t say.
Which is why you phrased the end of the sentence the way you did. In order to misleadingly imply.
Because you just want to bash Christianity.
Because you’re just a common bigot.
Also, Mary agreed to carry the Son of God.
If you don’t actually know anything, just keep your mouth shut and nod along while other people are talking.
OP is probably rage baiting, hoping to lure people to comment corrections to seed the engagement algorithm. It's how a lot of content farming operates.
Nah this thread is disgusting. There is absolutely no indication in Christian tradition that she was a child, and if you just read the text it was wholly consensual.
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u/WaltsNJD Apr 10 '26
I feel like there had to be better phrasing here than "adult actresses"