@h2_jGX Yes I'm absolutely going to get out my broom and sweep up for this. Several reasons:
1. This bit of gossip is OLD. Several years old. He's already apologized for it and it's even been resolved in court. His wife stayed.
2. It wasn't illegal. He wasn't charged and it sounds like a nothingburger. They must not be that young or it would've been brought with charges. It wasn't. Is it still inappropriate (at best) for a grown man to message a minor on any platform? Absolutely. Should he be shunned and exiled for it? No.
3. I'm not going to get into pedophilia vs ephebophilia but they are 2 different things. 17 year olds are a lot different than 13 year olds and behave differently online. Don't throw words around that are much worse simply because you don't like the guy. A 35 yo being attracted to a 17 yo is much different than a 35yo being attracted to a 13 yo.
4. We've known he disrespected his marriage for years at this point. We all know it's a shit thing to do. Does it really matter if the girl he was flirting with was 17 vs 25? Did you guys really assume this was a woman close to his age he was cheating with? I'd assumed it was some (or multiple) egirls. This shouldn't be a shocker.
5. There's 0 other accusations of him behaving this way. A one off does not constitute being called a "pedophile". Words have meaning and diluting them only services the people who actually are peeds.
It's just like, if we cancelled every dude celeb who's ever been a little sus with young women then we'd have no males in entertainment at all. Maybe that's blackpill talk but moids are gonna moid the second they get big. I'm disappointed but not at all surprised.