Id excuse it if he was like 19 and she was 17. But this dude self admitted he was mid 30s chatting up a teenager. Even if it was innocent, the perception is still creepy, and all content creators need to have hard do not interact rules with anyone under 18 if they want to avoid shitfests like this.
It is creepy and skeezy, but a lot depends on what he knew, what he did, and when he did it. If he stopped it when he found out that's one thing, if he knew and did it anyways, that's entirely something else. Still a piece of shit, we're just working on what kind of piece of shit.
The problem is that the little mountain path on the hill to enlightenment here is guarded by “actually it’s ephebophilia” man and “don’t you know, statutory rape is good actually” guy
Literally every woman I know has a story about men over 18 hitting on them when they approached the boundary, most fucked off when they realized they were underage, and most of those women don’t have any hard feelings for “guy who quickly apologized and left”. I think in this case it’s unique because we don’t actually know what happened and he’s famous.
Yeah, lolberts are retarded with making it autistic. An actual child is woodchipper level, an adolescent is still bad though and a 30 year old shouldn't be going after that and deserves a "conversation behind the church" with concerned male relatives and blunt objects. The issue what exactly happened, which we don't know for certain and I'm not inclined to give the benefit of the doubt to Twitch employs playing stupid games. Or streamers.
It's been expanded to 'wants to fuck someone under age' which is the natural evolution of language. One word tends to become dominant for an idea and consumes all the words around it. I'm more concerned with people wanting to argue hebephilia is different to pedophilia and 'if there's grass on the field, play ball" mentality they promote. There is always something very wrong with those people.
As a streamer you shouldn't be engaging with your fans sexually and having a living record in it is a time bomb waiting to pop. A modern problem we've yet to solve is teenage girls like this knowing it's illegal but trying to bait their e-celebrity crushes into engaging with them. Good parenting prevents it but there's too many bad parents and any engagement except immediate rejection will get you fired from your job.
It is a natural evolution, but I don't like it expanding because I want pedos to be forever associated with raping children. I feel like there's potential for expanding the definition to be used to give cover to those preying on actual children. We're in a world where "A Child can consent to change their gender, they can consent to sex," is an argument that's either seriously been made or could be. It is not the time to muddy the waters or drift the language, we should be wary about that.
>muh slippery slope
Literally nobody is saying you’re a pedophile if you’re attracted to a 24 year old
I had a woman I've known for over a decade recently make a comment that she was dating a 30 year old when she was twenty and now that she thinks about it, that was basically grooming because the brain doesn't finishing developing before 25, and when I commented that I'd have to let an ex who is a few years older know she was a pedo, my friend thought there might be something to it. Tiktok and reddit are vectors to spread this brain cancer and they are spreading. And after the last twenty years, Slippery Slope isn't a good argument. Bake the fucking cake, bigot.
