Did you even hear about a thing called ‘age of consent’? In case you didn’t, minors can’t consent, laws of which existed long before yankees decided to write a book about it, which is 18 if you didn’t know. Besides, in some parts of Japan it was 13 until recently, not to mention Nigeria, so why don’t we make it lower then? I don’t care for the age gaps if the people involved are adults, it can be 25 and 125 for all I care for, but pedophilia is when an adult is attracted to or doing inappropriate stuff with a minor(as in under 18); which is the case here, this is not downplaying anything, by your logic, we should absolutely ignore any hint of pedophilia and let worse stuff potentially happen. I’ve got a lot better idea, let’s just throw all the pedos to prison and let them be dealt with by prisoners, in most cases it’s very effective.
You know there is a difference between the people being 4 years apart, and both teenagers and like a 40 year old and a 12 year old right? It downplays how terrible pedophiles actually are by calling everything pedophilic. And the power argument doesn’t really make sense as plenty would argue that male individuals have power over female individuals and they were both kissing one another. This is like calling shoplifting the same thing as robbing, they might both be stealing but it undermines what robbing is by comparing them in such a manner.
Second of all, your comment is just largely incorrect. Plenty of places have age of consent laws (which apply to sexual relations, by the way) that are below 18. Most of the US has one at 16. Vietnam’s is 15 and PRC’s is 14. This is culturally dependent. Actual pedophilic behavior is awful and one of the worst crimes possible, that’s why I have an issue with you calling this pedophilic behavior because it undermines the gravity of the crime.
If it was 20 and 25 or 25 and 35, I wouldn’t care. Why? Because both are adults and can consent. Calling something what it is isn’t ‘‘downplaying’’ anything and you should stop using that word because it undermines actually creepy non-rape shit pedos do. If someone was beaten or got a fist to the face once out of the blue, is it ‘‘downplaying’’ one of these by saying that both are assault? Yes, shoplifting and robbing are both stealing yes, at least you should know that.
In Japan it was 13 until recently, does that mean that it should be 13 everywhere? In most countries it’s between 16-18. Pedophilia is being attracted or doing that stuff with a minor, this doesn’t mean just outright rape, it includes touching, inappropriate kissing and yes, you guessed it, showing your tongue down someone’s throat.
I’m not saying what should be or shouldn’t be legal or acceptable. It can be wrong but that doesn’t make it correct for you to use a term that clearly has different meaning than this professionally and commonly. It dilutes the meaning and does undermine the cultural perception of the severity of pedophilia by calling other things, right or wrong morally, the same term. Even if you argue that it’s a slippery slope, it still dilutes the meaning. From your legalistic perspective, it would make it morally right or wrong depending on location while simultaneously taking a position based on our modern perceptions of past events. I’m not saying that this is correct, just that it makes the term lose its severity, which I think is a very significant thing.
It is correct. Pedophilia-being attracted and/or doing any inappropriate stuff with a minor, this DOESN’T have to be only outright rape and intercourse, it can be anything I stated, it is pedophilia, that’s the fact, you can’t call it murder, bombing or evading taxes or whatever because it isn’t, it’s fucking pedophilia. As for various places, incest is legal somewhere, that doesn’t make it ok. ‘‘Basing on modern perceptions’’ is the exact thing reactionaries say every time when someone talks about their racist idols from 19th century as if that makes it completely alright. You can’t use the term terrorist for example for pedo, you have to call it what it is, and not excuse it. I bet my ass if it was a male adult reactions would be completely different.
Except that just fundamentally isn’t what being a pedophile is, socially or professionally speaking. You are the one trying to take past events into the present and connect them to our morality so I would argue that your actions much better mirror that of those reactionaries, since I am not arguing for any connection to our present times.
Fundamentally, I think you are arguing against a straw man that doesn’t exist. You keep bringing up points I haven’t made. Fundamentally, this action isn’t pedophilic from any definition of the word. Other actions may be or may not be. That isn’t relevant. I just think that by conflating this with actual pedophilia, you work to undermine how awful it really is.
That’s not what I meant, I meant that reactionaries DEFEND their idols by saying that we take into account modern times and that we shouldn’t, when being racist, and in this case pedophile is bad no matter the time, be it Middle Ages or today and can’t be excused.
In case you didn’t know, let me explain: if an adult shoves it’s disgusting tongue down the throat of a MINOR, that action is DEFINITELY pedophilic.
That’s a purposefully ignorant interpretation of it. You deciding to use the term in way that it isn’t normally used bastardized the term and downplays how awful being a pedophile actually is. The whole thing seems like you are commenting in bad faith with that interpretation
It isn’t interpretation, it is literally what it is and was captured on camera. Pedo is pretty universal word and everyone knows what it is, it’s just that some people like to go leaps and bounds about technicality and trying to downplay it in cases where rape didn’t happen. But especially since the perpetrator happened to be female who looks good to some people and not a male looking like a Nosferatu, it’s completely ok.
Did you even hear about a thing called ‘age of consent’? In case you didn’t, minors can’t consent, laws of which existed long before yankees decided to write a book about it, which is 18 if you didn’t know. Besides, in some parts of Japan it was 13 until recently, not to mention Nigeria, so why don’t we make it lower then? I don’t care for the age gaps if the people involved are adults, it can be 25 and 125 for all I care for, but pedophilia is when an adult is attracted to or doing inappropriate stuff with a minor(as in under 18); which is the case here, this is not downplaying anything, by your logic, we should absolutely ignore any hint of pedophilia and let worse stuff potentially happen. I’ve got a lot better idea, let’s just throw all the pedos to prison and let them be dealt with by prisoners, in most cases it’s very effective.
You know there is a difference between the people being 4 years apart, and both teenagers and like a 40 year old and a 12 year old right? It downplays how terrible pedophiles actually are by calling everything pedophilic. And the power argument doesn’t really make sense as plenty would argue that male individuals have power over female individuals and they were both kissing one another. This is like calling shoplifting the same thing as robbing, they might both be stealing but it undermines what robbing is by comparing them in such a manner.
Second of all, your comment is just largely incorrect. Plenty of places have age of consent laws (which apply to sexual relations, by the way) that are below 18. Most of the US has one at 16. Vietnam’s is 15 and PRC’s is 14. This is culturally dependent. Actual pedophilic behavior is awful and one of the worst crimes possible, that’s why I have an issue with you calling this pedophilic behavior because it undermines the gravity of the crime.
If it was 20 and 25 or 25 and 35, I wouldn’t care. Why? Because both are adults and can consent. Calling something what it is isn’t ‘‘downplaying’’ anything and you should stop using that word because it undermines actually creepy non-rape shit pedos do. If someone was beaten or got a fist to the face once out of the blue, is it ‘‘downplaying’’ one of these by saying that both are assault? Yes, shoplifting and robbing are both stealing yes, at least you should know that.
In Japan it was 13 until recently, does that mean that it should be 13 everywhere? In most countries it’s between 16-18. Pedophilia is being attracted or doing that stuff with a minor, this doesn’t mean just outright rape, it includes touching, inappropriate kissing and yes, you guessed it, showing your tongue down someone’s throat.
I’m not saying what should be or shouldn’t be legal or acceptable. It can be wrong but that doesn’t make it correct for you to use a term that clearly has different meaning than this professionally and commonly. It dilutes the meaning and does undermine the cultural perception of the severity of pedophilia by calling other things, right or wrong morally, the same term. Even if you argue that it’s a slippery slope, it still dilutes the meaning. From your legalistic perspective, it would make it morally right or wrong depending on location while simultaneously taking a position based on our modern perceptions of past events. I’m not saying that this is correct, just that it makes the term lose its severity, which I think is a very significant thing.
It is correct. Pedophilia-being attracted and/or doing any inappropriate stuff with a minor, this DOESN’T have to be only outright rape and intercourse, it can be anything I stated, it is pedophilia, that’s the fact, you can’t call it murder, bombing or evading taxes or whatever because it isn’t, it’s fucking pedophilia. As for various places, incest is legal somewhere, that doesn’t make it ok. ‘‘Basing on modern perceptions’’ is the exact thing reactionaries say every time when someone talks about their racist idols from 19th century as if that makes it completely alright. You can’t use the term terrorist for example for pedo, you have to call it what it is, and not excuse it. I bet my ass if it was a male adult reactions would be completely different.
Except that just fundamentally isn’t what being a pedophile is, socially or professionally speaking. You are the one trying to take past events into the present and connect them to our morality so I would argue that your actions much better mirror that of those reactionaries, since I am not arguing for any connection to our present times.
Fundamentally, I think you are arguing against a straw man that doesn’t exist. You keep bringing up points I haven’t made. Fundamentally, this action isn’t pedophilic from any definition of the word. Other actions may be or may not be. That isn’t relevant. I just think that by conflating this with actual pedophilia, you work to undermine how awful it really is.
That’s not what I meant, I meant that reactionaries DEFEND their idols by saying that we take into account modern times and that we shouldn’t, when being racist, and in this case pedophile is bad no matter the time, be it Middle Ages or today and can’t be excused.
In case you didn’t know, let me explain: if an adult shoves it’s disgusting tongue down the throat of a MINOR, that action is DEFINITELY pedophilic.
That’s a purposefully ignorant interpretation of it. You deciding to use the term in way that it isn’t normally used bastardized the term and downplays how awful being a pedophile actually is. The whole thing seems like you are commenting in bad faith with that interpretation
It isn’t interpretation, it is literally what it is and was captured on camera. Pedo is pretty universal word and everyone knows what it is, it’s just that some people like to go leaps and bounds about technicality and trying to downplay it in cases where rape didn’t happen. But especially since the perpetrator happened to be female who looks good to some people and not a male looking like a Nosferatu, it’s completely ok.