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Megan Kelly follows the "if you're old enough to bleed, you're old enough to breed" playbook.
Her child should be removed from her custody.
It's only paedophilia if it comes from the pedophile region of Alabama. Otherwise it's just sparkling ephebophilia.
Thank God the Right is out here protecting our kids from transpeople. /sarcasm
Let's be real. The right is "protecting kids from trans people" because they think transexuality is socially contagious and they don't want to fuck trans kids.
The rates of rape experienced by trans people suggest you're entirely wrong about that last part.
Sigh. Fair.
Or worse, the trans kids refusing to fuck conservatives. Far as a turdpublican goes, other people exist to be exploited, and a willfully chosen sexual identity can be a roadblock. People developing a personality inherently means having the willpower to say "NO!".
Ah yes, the "social contagion" theory, out here acting like Dawkins wasn't full of shit when he came up with memetics
Ohh okay so now we’re going with the “they’re mature to marry once they hit puberty” thing Somalia does. I feel real bad for Megyn Kelly’s 14 year old daughter.
What a POS
Ah, Megyn, glad it's not some guy spouting "old enough to bleed, old enough to breed" like my drunk uncle at Thanksgiving...
"If there's grass on the field, play ball!" -Megyn Kelly
Lookit that, ephebophile strat went mainstream.
It's like what critters are or aren't "bugs"
Entomologists usually limit it to Hemiptera, or even a more specific sub-order, while colloquially it just means any terrestrial arthropod
Ants, bees, beetles, and butterflies technically aren't "Bugs", but they're still bugs.
Adults who fantasize about or engage in sex acts with minors above the age of 13 technically aren't "Pedophiles", but they're still pedophiles.
Technically dictionaries tend to include multiple definitions because language reflects usage, so technically they very much are.
I got banned from reddit for commenting "woodchipper" on this article next to posts openly supporting violence against young girls. Pretty cool platform to be thrown out of.
I am not going to ask WTF is wrong with Megyn, because she sank well beyond the fuck nut level.
she sank well beyond the fuck nut level
Like Trump on his knees?
Don't you love religion
I mean, technically correct?
People use the term wrong, but people who are ruled by emotion and not facts hate to think things through rationally. Which is the majority of everyone.
Technically Pedarest. Sure. It's still 10 times to Monday illegal and disgusting.
Watch them keep moving the goal post. Next "10 year olds are practically teens!"
"This is why kids shouldn't be dressing like that these days!"
I disagree. Look in the dictionary, or a few dictionaries, and you will see that there are multiple definitions, one of which matches common usage.
This happens all the time with language. Sorry, but you gotta keep an eye on how words evolve!
Technically correct, but media never uses it that way. People generally do not differentiate the two
The fact she is making this distinction, which she has never made before for anyone, tells me she's priming her audience to be okay with rich and powerful men raping underage women
Ding ding ding And this may or may not be her own opinion as well, but right now she's -as per usual- parroting exactly what she's been told, what's she's been paid to say
She's ex fox news, lying for money is her only real skill
The term as used might not be consistent with a specific definition, but I'm pretty sure this wasn't about "technically, that isn't the correct term to denounce his sexual abuse of minors with" so much as shifting the goalposts for what counts as sexual abuse of minors in the first place. It's a shorthand, and both parties agree what it's short for, it's just that they draw the lines for that thing differently.
So no, it's not that people "hate to think things through rationally", because rationally thinking things through makes it clear that the context isn't a scientific one, but a moral and legal one. It's not wrong, you're just emotionally attached to a specific meaning.
I'd add that pedophilia could be the genera and ephebophile the species.
Or whatever the corresponding trinomial nomenclature is.
A teenager is still a kid. Legally, ethically, morally.
She's not having a discussion about semantics.
Yup it's true. He was a rapist and ephebophile.
could be both, we don't know the extent of his depravity.
so… if they releases the files and we know who will be there… you know what will be the excuse…
Regardless of whether or not he was a pedophile, we should not be using that medical term the way we do. Most pedophiles don't molest children. Most child molesters aren't pedophiles. Sexual assault isn't about sexual attraction and being sexually attracted to someone doesn't make you a predator.