Re: You missed my point

Freedom for blacks and women have been enforced by the state for a long time, and there is no reason to doubt the same cannot be achieved for youths.

No, sellout blacks and sellout women have grown beholden to the State. The patriarch at home or on the plantation was switched with Big Brother, hardly an improvement. It's no coincidence that the more libertarian and anti-State the feminist, the less likely she embraces the victim narrative with its sexphobia and selective misandry. As you have admitted yourself in more lucid moments, this totalitarian anti-sex victim feminism represents the opposite of female empowerment. You never noticed that the original female liberationists were for free love and anarchy, whereas today Establishment feminists make a mockery of that legacy? Likewise you are seriously naive enough to buy the politically correct State-sponsored bullshit about the Civil War, Reconstruction, and Civil Rights movements. For the most part the African-American community is in horrible shape today. A mulatto president doesn't make up for that.

The point you have been missing for just the past few months is that without the power of the state, there would be nothing to force younger people to adhere to the authority of their mother.

Oh? If so then you should have no problem with my anti-State position whatsoever. You really are making very little sense.

You never agreed with everything I said, and I had no problem with that. Nobody on this board agrees with everything I believe. But you used to agree with me on all the important and fundamental issues of freedom and civil rights. As long as people agree with me on a few fundamental issues, I can be their ally.

I have never been anti-contact or supportive of State discrimination based on age or State prosecution of people with "unacceptable" sexual behaviors. Apparently those issues aren't important or fundamental enough for you though. Like I said, you're not making much sense.

I am not sure how you would expect parental authority--either with the mother alone or both the mother and father deciding jointly--to have any gravitas without a power such as the state backing it up (as it does today).

They will need to enforce their power locally and directly without being able to call on the State for backup. And children who want to be free will have to learn self-reliance rather than expect the State to somehow "enforce" their freedom (a contradiction in terms).