Well actually...
Well actually...
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Huge overlaps with the anime community.
B-but she's 3000 years old!
Bro, she looks 8.
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I've never understood the complaints about that. It's not like real children are hurt by those drawings.
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Frieren looks 15, though.
This is basically the current derangement.
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Put Megyn R. Kelly's face on there too
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First off, fuck pedophiles.
But secondly, becoming 18 doesn't suddenly make one any less vulnerable to exploitation than a 17 year old who is 1 day away from becoming 18.
Just because someone is 18 and 'legal', it doesn't make it not gross for a 40 year old to date them. It's an improvement from dating a 15 year old, but gross regardless.
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Eh, yes but no. Just because there's no legal action doesn't mean that there shouldn't be societal pressure to not be a creep and a weirdo. It should be unpopular to have a romantic relationship with anyone with whom you have a power imbalance (and age is definitely a power imbalance): dealing with the raised eyebrows and looks of concern can help keep misguided but well-meaning people from becoming creeps, and it can help the victims of predatory relationships realize when they aren't in a good situation.
The previous commenter was right: there's no magic switch that flips in your brain on your 18th birthday that makes you suddenly able to make adult decisions. Some people are ready, some aren't. Biologically it's uncommon for anyone to be truly grown before they're in their late 20s, but our society decided we were going to set the bar super low; so for people who have trouble clearing even that bar, the societal pressure is a good thing.
I say this as a man who's four years older than my wife, whom I met when I was 21 and she was 17. I knew I wasn't going to date her until she turned 18, but even still, having the push-back of people who are smart and thoughtful, and who said, "hey, you need to recognize what is going on here, and how you're going to mature before she does, and the potential for it to turn predatory even if you don't mean for it to"—in hindsight I really value that warning, and it helped us to keep it really simple and light for the first several years while she figured out who she is and decided whether she even wanted to be with me.
Obviously we still ended up together, and now at 40 and 36 nobody bats an eye at our age difference. But when I think about the hurdles we faced even with only a 4-year difference, and imagine an age gap more than five times that size? I don't think I could ever be in that situation, but even if I could, I'd want those smart and thoughtful people to check me.
The societal pressure doesn't necessarily do the same things as the legal pressure, but it still helps.
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Like saying lime-green isn't green
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I don’t get it. Is this about racism or pedophilia (or both)?
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When you're a teenager, other teenagers are hot as fuck. I guess it makes sense that if you never develop as a person beyond that, then you would find teenagers attractive as an older person. Still gross, mind you.
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I had to search for 'ephebo'. Really regret knowing now and of course, concerned what that looks like to my ISP!
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I like words to have meaning, so… they're right? But also that's still bad! (Unless you manage to go through your whole life being attracted to minors without ever acting on it, I guess. In which case, good for you. Sucks you got dealt that shitty hand but well done doing the best despite it.)
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So much for LGBT being groomers...
Every accusation a confession.
The right is the party of the groomer and pedophile, don't let them forget.
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Next week is gonna be fun…🍿
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Man. I like wraparound sunglasses. They keep the sun out of the corners of my eyes.
My brother-in-law once said to me, rightly, “We gotta find you some sunglasses that make you look less…Republican.”
Conservatives ruin everything.
I'm thinking of getting myself a really unmanly hat, but my head's too big so I can't seem to buy any women's ones.
You need a propeller hat!
From the picture, only a few have them.