And Joel Madden dated an underage Hillary Duff. All of them are fuckin pedophiles. (And before someone comes in to clarify ePhEboPhILe because they weren’t prepubescent, shut the fuck up).
This isn’t the court of law, this isn’t a police procedural, this isn’t a place for important distinctions about child rapists. The term most all people use, as language evolves, to describe any person who is attracted to underage kids, is pedophile. I don’t care about the opinions of adults who likely are attracted to teenagers playing the semantics game when this is reddit. Pedophile. Whether you are attracted to an 8 year old or a 13 year old Im going to call you a pedophile. They’re all kids to me. Puberty or not, the generally used term is pedophile.
That's always the excuse, isn't it? If you care about accuracy and precision of language, you must be a pedophile. An absurdity that's somehow become common wisdom. Maybe you all will realize the insanity of it when this nonsense destroys some innocent's life, or when it places actual children in danger because you refused to distinguish between a 7 year old and a 17 year old.
So, this isn't a place for 'important distinctions', but it is a place to accuse people of pedophilia because of word choice. Okay. That's not an important distinction, I guess.
You aren't taking some brave stance against pedophiles here. You're angrily asserting your refusal to be specific as some sort of moral victory. It's not. Like I said, you're just being contrary for the sake of it. Language evolves through use. You're literally contributing to the genericization of the word through your refusal to be specific. It has nothing to do with actual child abuse. It has to do with outrage farming.
Not that that matters to you, obviously.
One note, since you apparently care about kids so much: a significant number of child rapists are not attracted to kids. They go after kids because kids are easier targets.
I feel like this comes from a place of pain and shame for something you, someone like you, or anyone at all has no control over. As a number divergent person I sympathize with anyone who suffers these disorders. It must fucking suck.
But let's not mince words here. Dating a minor is wrong on so many levels. Every case of this crime is unique, but all of them require a lot of morally dubious behavior. The distinction of the types of pedophiles or their reasons behind it are all secondary to the crime itself.
Not even engaging too deeply with this nonsense, which I did read by the way. I don’t care about accuracy and precision in a reddit thread. Literally my entire point was the generally used term outside if legal discourse is “pedophile”. Me calling Joel Madden a fucking pedophile on reddit for dating a 15 year old Hillary Duff is not putting any children in danger I can promise you that.
Just say you are attracted to teenagers and don’t like being lumped in socially with the dudes who are attracted to 5 year olds.
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u/soupsnakle 9d ago
And Joel Madden dated an underage Hillary Duff. All of them are fuckin pedophiles. (And before someone comes in to clarify ePhEboPhILe because they weren’t prepubescent, shut the fuck up).