How exactly does something being just a fantasy make it not pedophilia? Are you saying that is the one group of people that does not experience fantasy? Are you saying someone who's not a pedophile would have fantasies about themselves being a pedophile? This literally makes no sense.
Child molestation is the state, pedophilia is the trait, it is not as if they cease being a pedophile whenever they're not actively committing a crime at that moment. Learn words better!
Also re: People saying they hope she gets help, the thing is there's not really any sort of help that actually gets people with those inclinations to stop having them. It's pretty much just a matter of doing whatever can be done to make sure they're less likely to ever do anything. Also literally nothing they or their friends are saying to supposedly excuse or explain this actually makes it any better! Everything they're saying just comes off as agreement that this is indeed exactly what it looks like and a mere assertion that it's all somehow totally okay.
It is not, in fact, okay.
And the fact of both possessing these inclinations and choosing to indulge them in public with no shame whatsoever makes you not just a person who happened to do some bad things, but actually a truly bad person as a matter of the stuff you are made of. Saying that these were all just somehow mistakes on her part does nothing to acknowledge that she's demonstrated the capacity to continually commit a pattern of horrifying and shameless "mistakes" with no apparent awareness of her own wrongdoing right until this very moment. It makes it very difficult to find it credible that she's somehow now going to stop doing this or that she even actually believes that the things she's done are horrific and inappropriate and wrong. Just because she and her associates can claim that this is the case doesn't mean the rest of us are obligated to accept this or find that assertion to be believable at all.
The right thing to do would be not having done any of these horrible things in the first place. And once she has? there's not always going to be some way to navigate out of a situation and make everything be okay for you. That is just how it is sometimes when you've done something, or many things, that are really really bad! life will not always afford you the capacity to recover from the choices you might make, and the choices she made over and over and over may be the unrecoverable kind.
How she seeks any kind of redemption from this, let alone actually manages to find it, is simply not our problem. The rest of us don't owe her understanding or second chances or the possibility of forgiveness, and in fact, we don't owe her anything at all.
We don't have to be okay with a person who did these things, and we would be entirely justified in looking at what she did and saying no, that is quite enough, we are going to walk away from this and not come back.
Jesus Christ also like, the fact that literally in the middle of all this happening she still can't refrain from posting "little girl" shit and hasn't deleted a ton of *recent* gross tweets? that's such a lack of judgment and self-control it's *alarming*, especially about THIS. And her partner posting a bunch of bland shit about how she "made a mistake" or "crossed a line" excuses nothing, because most people don't make these kinds of "mistakes", ever, in their entire lives, in a million years.
If someone literally cannot tell when they are doing something wrong - if they genuinely don't know they're doing something bad when it comes to something like *this* - that person sure seems pretty fucking dangerous! And the reason they seem pretty fucking dangerous is because, given their pattern of behavior, we don't know what their next """mistake""" might be other than potentially pretty fucking evil and destructive and horrific.
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