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What about when it's your 13yo daughter getting railed by a 40yo man? Let's see how you feel about that.
I may have been a little kid in the '80s, but I don't remember Jr High being an acceptable part of the general dating pool. I also don't remember any major changes in the '90s to how acceptable relationships between adults and teenagers were.
Then why was it illegal even back then?
10 states have a minimum marrying age of 17; 20 states have a minimum age of 16; two states have a minimum age of 15; and four states don’t have a minimum age specified at all.
So it's not really illegal. You just need to be married first.
It is one thing for a perverted man to say this, but for a woman to say this so she can get some fake maga points is just disgusting.
Pickmes are the WORST
Her grandma's time also had polio, that doesn't mean it would be okay for it to happen again now.
Girl, no, we practically share a date of birth, and I remember distinctly that 18 has always been the age of consent, including many places outside the US. I was shocked to find out some places had lower legal limits.
To the americans in the thread, I'm sorry to break it to you, but your entertainment industry fosters this kind of behaviour. The beauty pageants, the sexualisation of every young female singer, the obsession with high school movies, the fact that roles in movies have a much younger woman depicting an older character, your pop singers being all very close to being too young and singing about sex, it's everywhere. You're made to think that youth is a sexy thing. It seems Hollywood is full of vampires. I'd go as far as to say that this is a problem with your culture in general. I have never seen this kind of behaviour anywhere else that wasn't already influenced by american media. I'm sorry.
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I think that back then, people defined pedophilia in terms of the perpetrator's attraction, not in terms of impact to the victim. Essentially, "is it weird for the adult to be attracted to their body?" more than, "would the young person be harmed, physically or emotionally, by sex?" Now we are more evolved.
Back when I was a kid, pedophilia meant what she said - attraction to a prepubescent child. If someone was an adult who thought a physically developed 15-year-old was sexy, that was just logical. Because their bodies had secondary sex characteristics. (It wasn't considered a good idea to actually have sex with them, at least from what I could see. Maybe in Azalia's experience it was considered OK.)
But if an adult thought that a flat and hairless child was attractive, that was messed up on their part. The same way people think that furries or scat play or other fetishes were messed up. But even more so. There was just nothing to consider sexy about an actual child.
Now, we consider the impact to the victim. Pedophilia is defined as attraction to a victim under the age of consent. Because their brain is not fully developed, their body can't handle pregnancy, they are socially able to be manipulated, and a host of other reasons.
I am not trying to be accused of being an apologist, but from someone who grew up in the 90s, I find it strange that we use the same word for someone who rapes a toddler, as someone who "statutory rapes" (as it would be called) a 15-year-old. They are both wrong, but it seems to me that one is much worse than the other. Both because of the attraction (or I guess power fantasy) on the part of the adult, and the impact to the victim.
I think Azalia is wrong to say it was always totally fine. But she is right that it was considered right or wrong for a different reason back then. The definition was different.
Pedophilia is defined as attraction to a victim under the age of consent.
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.
This is that lady who killed so many chickens in her hallway closet in the name of "witchcraft" that she had to use a sander to get the dried blood and offal out of the floorboards.
A girl having a child at 12 is different when the dad is say... anywhere from 12-15 vs when the dad is 40.
Throughout her career, Banks's social media presence and outspoken views, especially on U.S. politics and race, as well as disputes with other artists, have attracted significant controversy. Banks has been accused of homophobia, transphobia, and xenophobia towards multiple nationalities. Complex noted in 2014 that "she gets more attention for her public feuds than she does for her music".
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azealia_Banks
it sounds like the controversy and negative attention is the point, and this post just further rewards the behavior
outrage is its own reward for some
Man she us all over the place with ages there.
14
12
15
15
15
10 (Too young)
13
How many times do you think they thought about what age they were comfortable going down to when the right answer was none of this?
So she thinks being a 15 yr old horning on 40 yr olds because of daddy issues is the same as 60+ yr olds raping kids being ‘given to them’ by another 40 yr old stranded out on an island?
The fuck ? this person needs to be held in a padded room away from children please. And please slap the drugs out of her dumb face. She’s fucking cooked enough.
Yeah, as societies we don't tend to ban things that nobody does. Civilized societies have banned sex with underaged people because it's harmful for the kids and because people are driven to do it.
Ah yes, the “things were worse in the past and we’re still here, so it should be worse now too” argument.
It’s a conservative favorite to justify fucking kids, fucking over minorities and women, and generally seeking to ruin the people you were told to hate.
Wacky cunt.