I was at a Starbucks and I saw a guy around my age holding hands with a REALLY young girl. "She's probably just his daughter" I thought to myself, but something about they were standing was off-putting, so after I got my latte I sat at at a table near them, just to keep an eye on them. They kept touching each other, more intimately than a father would usually touch his daughter. At this point it was clear it is not a father-daughter relationship. Then they started kissing each other on the lips and I thought "This is not ok."
I stepped outside, called 911 and told them my location and that there is a man inside who is kissing and inappropriately touching a child. I am going to testify before a grand jury on Tuesday. Turns out the guy was 34 and the girl is only 16, young enough to be his daughter. Luckily, in my state the age of consent is 18, but the horrifying part is that in some states, the age of consent is 16, and this pedophile would have been able to get away with it. There really needs to be a law that consent cannot be given if there is a large enough age disparity, even if they are above the age of consent. I remember when I was a 16 year old girl and I definitely was not ready to consent to a relationship with an older man.
[–]Dreamwaltzer 15 points16 points17 points (6 children) | Copy Link
You have serious reading problems.
Father's don't go around kissing their daughters on the lips, or being touchy feely with then.
And the police did do something because the girl was not age of consent in that state, and the poster is going to appear before a jury.
I mean there are plenty of situations where people over react to men being with young girls, and that's not OK.
But in this situation, it wasn't a over reaction, it was a man being inappropriate with a underaged girl.
[–]azazelcrowley -1 points0 points1 point (5 children) | Copy Link
It's absurd to consider 16 underage for sex and frankly it smacks of the American puritanical streak from your society being founded by all the people who felt Europe just wasn't batshit fundamentalist enough. 16 year olds are capable of socially-sanctioned and state funded killing and violence but orgasms are beyond the pale? Clearly not. This kind of hysteria, because it isn't actually rational, is always going to be targeted more at the outgroup (Men). A woman engaged in this behavior with a young man would not raise objections.
[–][deleted] 5 points6 points7 points (0 children) | Copy Link
If you want equal treatment, you're going to have to start throwing women in prison. It just won't work the other way.
[–]Downvotesohoy 2 points3 points4 points (3 children) | Copy Link
You're not wrong. 16 isn't too young for sex. Which most of the progressive civilized countries have realized. The USA is actually behind in that aspect. In like 99% of Europe it would have been fine. The USA is the odd one out when it comes to ages of consent.
[–][deleted] 1 point2 points3 points (0 children) | Copy Link
The US is fine with their worthless daughters being sluts at age 16, btw.
[–][deleted] 0 points1 point2 points (1 child) | Copy Link
Changing the age of consent isn't a men's rights issue. Applying the law equally is. More women need to be thrown in prison for this.
[–]user_miki 4 points5 points6 points (0 children) | Copy Link
Translation:
That guy was my around age and good looking chad.Why is he choosing a young girl over me?He must be a pedophile.
[–][deleted] 1 point2 points3 points (0 children) | Copy Link
This isn't Britain. You can't make out with 16 yr olds.
Kind of weird how our culture encourages underage teens to fuck eachother and potentially get pregnant, though. Neither of them will have the resources to raise their bastard children.
[–][deleted] 1 point2 points3 points (0 children) | Copy Link
Virgin airlines used to have a rule that children under the age of 14, traveling alone, could not sit next to a male passenger. Obviously we're all pedo rapists.
[–]mrwhibbley -1 points0 points1 point (5 children) | Copy Link
I have to wholeheartedly disagree. I 100% side with a woman who found a possible sex offender taken advantage of a little girl who is under 18. Yes, girls have sex when you're under 18 but with other boys their own age. This man was a predator and deserves to go to jail. We can't start having a double standard just because there might be a possibility that a man who is underage being taken advantage of Buy an older woman would have gotten away with it. Unacceptable is unacceptable and in this case it's on acceptable. He deserves to be punished and go to jail and I hope she gets whatever help she needs if she is indeed in any sort of trouble emotionally or otherwise. One of the things that this movement is doing is fighting double standards which means that we cannot allow hypocrisy to encroach get our belief system. Wrong is wrong is wrong is wrong
[–][deleted] 2 points3 points4 points (4 children) | Copy Link
If they're below the age of consent, they shouldn't be having sex with anyone. It makes no sense to encourage this behavior.
[–]mrwhibbley 0 points1 point2 points (2 children) | Copy Link
Yes I'm not saying to encourage it but what crime is being committed if two 15 year olds have consensual sexual contact? Do you prosecute both of them? Because the juvenile courts will be filled in a day.
[–][deleted] 0 points1 point2 points (0 children) | Copy Link
"You're below the age of consent"
"You can have sex"
Pick one.
I'm not talking about that.
I'm saying that you retards keep telling teenagers they can fuck eachother while saying they're too young to consent. You can't reconcile those two ideas.
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If you really wanted to you could prosecute them.
You could also take preventative measures like separating the sexes at public schools(like how they do in prisons) and use public humiliation and shame. The number of teenagers fucking eachother would fall drastically if you just kept them away from eachother.