Unwittingly had ‘sex’ with a child, realised it was a child, had ‘sex’ a second time.
And wrote a song about it. And then wrote it into his autobiography.
How this man apparently skated through the #MeToo movement unscathed is truly baffling.
Unwittingly had ‘sex’ with a child, realised it was a child, had ‘sex’ a second time.
And wrote a song about it. And then wrote it into his autobiography.
How this man apparently skated through the #MeToo movement unscathed is truly baffling.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolescence
There is a meaningful difference between these stages of life, and conflating the two to call someone a child molester weakens credibility and minimizes actual child molestation. I don’t fully understand this extreme desire to redefine “child” as “anyone under 18” but it doesn’t really seem like the goal is protecting children.
I remember being a teenager, and I remember being a child, and the two were quite a bit different when it came to sexuality. If you want to equate the sexual abuse of an actual child with consensual teenage sex, ask yourself: which of these would you choose if you had to pick one?
Officer, this one right here.
the goal is to take away self-determination laws from teenagers so their parents/church/wannabe representative can control them better.
it actually starts to make a whole lot of sense once you realize these laws are literally targeted to control people. if you can’t meet people because you can’t go out alone because you need a fucking car to drive anywhere, and if you can’t be in romantic relationships with other people who might show you other ways of seeing the world, you’re essentially making sure that your child grows up in a controlled, christian, or whatever, neighborhood. it’s to keep the “dangerous” ideologies (such as anarchism) away from teenagers, because otherwise they could learn to see the world differently and might start questioning the authorities who always told them what to think, do and want.
Teenagers cannot consent to sex with adults. Especially not rich and famous adults with careers they idolize. It is not a matter of what I would prefer, this is unacceptable, period, end of story. What he did was rape not sex. This person was not capable of informed consent with him.
according to what proof?
What he did was statutory rape, which is legally and ethically distinct from rape and child molestation.
I just think the distinction matters, and that the latter are clearly much worse.
Its only distinction is that it is a worse version of both those things.
Jesus Christ buddy… Whatever is happening in your life, reevaluate some shit.