pedos who “date” 17-year-olds
Stop watering down the term. Yucky? Sure. Pedophile? No.
Pedophilia (alternatively spelled paedophilia) is a psychiatric disorder in which an adult or older adolescent experiences a sexual attraction to prepubescent children. Although girls typically begin the process of puberty at age 10 or 11, and boys at age 11 or 12, psychiatric diagnostic criteria for pedophilia extend the cut-off point for prepubescence to age 13.
Emphasis mine. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedophilia.
I'm not protecting anyone, that is not my intent at all. Hell, I couldn't care less about American celebs or whoever this guy is.
My issue is literally in the first sentence. Watering down the term doesn't help victims of actual child sexual abuse. I'd argue it's actually harmful.