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In a now deleted tweet, weirdo Azealia Banks shares that "fucking 14 year old girls was really only made a social taboo in the 1990s"
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this post was submitted on 27 Jul 2025
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No age of consent varies from place to place. Pedo is a medical term with a precise meaning that doesn't vary from jurisdiction and carries the same definition you originally listed.
We impose restrictions both legally, ethically, morally and socially beyond the minimum has has hair and boobs because we care about people being emotionally healthy first with legal penalties and then social ones.
In many places a 40 year old could interact with a 17-18 year old legally without going to jail but would experience shame social consequences and friction designed to encourage people not to be assholes.
Sometimes this even works.
They were taking about pedophile being used colloquially. Medical definitions and social definitions often differ.
When the word is a medical, technical, or scientific word the actual definition is the only definition and anyone else using it differently is just wrong.
Language is constantly changing, buddy. You're fighting a losing battle.
No for example your lung will never mean your kidney even if the majority of people failed anatomy technical terms mean what experts say they mean not what others say
Right, that's an anatomical body part, not a word used to categorize people.