• UnhingedFridge@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Still remember my middle school girlfriend brag about cheating on me and fucking guys that were buying her beer. Would have been nice to get authorities involved if I had anyone to talk to and wasn’t being neglected and abused at home. Kind of wild to lose hope in people at the age of 12.

    Bad times.

  • Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works
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    2 months ago

    At college, there were 16 and 17 year old girls with boyfriends in their twenties. Even at the time, I thought that was weird.

    At least I never heard about anything younger than that.

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    2 months ago

    One of the dudes in my gay group tonight:

    “My momma cleaned hunter’s cabins and those hunters were real nice men if you know what I mean.”

    He was talking about a time when he was early teens.

    So it’s not just girls who get this treatment! If that makes you feel any more egalitarian.

  • MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca
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    2 months ago

    I accidentally ended up with a very young lady. I know how this will sound, and all I can do is assure everyone that, at least for my part, everything I say is the absolute truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

    I went to college late, I was 23 by the time I applied to college, and turned 24 shortly after starting classes. My birthday is in the first quarter, or so, of the year.

    Anyways. I think I was in my second year of college when I met this girl, I don’t even remember how I met her honestly; it wasn’t a dating app, those things barely existed at the time and I haven’t ever used one; I just haven’t seen the need… Anyways, everything seems cool, she’s telling me she’s 17 and has a bday coming up. At this point I’m 24/25, and I’m thinking that’s a bit young, but since she’s basically 18 at this point, I don’t really see a problem with it… Anyways, birthday happens, Yay, and life goes on. After a few months as things get more and more complicated, as happens in most relationships, I come to find out that her birthday, was her 17th birthday, she was 16 when we met. I’m suddenly very not ok with everything.

    It didn’t last super long after that. She was also preggo with her exes kid and never told me. The relationship was only like 5-6 months long. She lost the kid, I believe it was a miscarriage, and I’m sad for her that happened, but too much weird bullshit and deception was happening so I called it off.

    She wasn’t a good person. She’s on a short list of exes I don’t talk to anymore. Most of my exes I still consider good friends, even if I haven’t seen them in a long time. I’m in a stable, long term relationship with a more age appropriate partner, for… Gosh, it has to be 10 years now? Time flies. There’s… 6? ish years between our ages, and we met when I was 30-something… I’m much happier now. Heh.

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      This just sounds like you were misled and it was awkward. I don’t think you intended to chase young women.

      When I was in high school in the 80s it was not uncommon for high school girls in higher grades to have adult men as boyfriends. One of my teachers in fact did it, and got put on leave for a while LOL.

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    When I was a kid, in 7th grade science, I overheard a boy asking a girl out. She rejected him, he wasn’t her type. He asked what her type was, she mentioned a guy she was seeing, and casually mentioned he was 22. At the time, I was thinking this poor kid was woefully outmatched and would never have a chance. A few years later, it dawned on me just how fucked up that whole situation was.

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        Yeah in my high school, a girl I knew got into serious trouble for trying to bring her 25 year old boyfriend to junior prom, when she was 16. 😩 For some reason, the district allowed it. 😭😭

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          16 is the Age of Consent in most places, that doesn’t make it right, but I can only guess the district thought “Well if it’s legal…” without thinking if it was appropiate.

          It definitely wasn’t and it endangered the other students

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            16 is the Age of Consent in most places, that doesn’t make it right, but I can only guess the district thought “Well if it’s legal…” without thinking if it was appropiate.

            That’s not how age of consent works you uninformed denizen softening the ground for pedos.

            Educate first, then loud blab on the internet.

            Ref: https://lemmy.world/comment/18382947

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              Your reference is your own comment? Shouldn’t somewhere down the chain there be a link explaining this? It would be nice for you to be right, but I don’t think you are.

              If it were only about activities with other shouldn’t be of age people, then it makes no sense. Either they are allowed and it’s legal or it’s illegal for both of them but neither can be considered criminally responsible because neither can legally consent either.

              There are stories constantly about someone older having relations with someone way too young but the jurisdiction has age of consent to make it ok.

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                My god, this place is overrun by petulant children who can’t do their own research and are criminally unaware of the laws surrounding this.

                You want a link, here’s a link

                also this

                TLDR; it is immensely complex, varies country by country, but as a general rule of thumb, having sex with a minor whilst you yourself not being a minor will almost everywhere land you in trouble. As it should. ^applies to regular joe without powerful friends in powerful places only.^

                Topic highly unsuited for one line response mediums like this new reddit.

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                  Why do you start every comment with an insult? Their question was reasonable and they didn’t treat you the same. That really doesn’t make you sound as smart as you think it does, especially when you’re referencing yourself in your original comment, and the comment of your own that you referenced doesn’t actually clarify anything, it’s just another example of you insulting somebody and telling them that they’re wrong.

                  Besides, age of consent laws differ in how they work based on what country you are in, and not everyone is from your country. You’re expecting people to know shit they’re not reasonably expected to know, and you’re mad at them about it and being a child about it.

  • AnarchistArtificer@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    In school, when I was 13, one of my friends was “dating” a 19 year old. I vividly remember how cool we all thought this was. Reflecting on it makes me feel sick.

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    My husband kicked me out once he realized flashing his money at 19 year olds worked. The teenagers didn’t ask him to stop playing FIFA and walk his dogs.

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      What an idiot.

      Has he put himself on the poor house yet by spending all of his money to appease the young women he wanted a booty call from?

      Because that kind of behavior seems to be rather expensive.

  • lukaro@lemmy.zip
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    Don’t hang around so many republicans and the competition would thin out.

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      While rape culture is huge among Republicans and dating young women is more popular among them, this issue is far more vast and definitely involves men across the political spectrum.

      Until this obsession with youth=beauty and women under 130lbs being the beauty standard changes, this will still be a problem.

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        I’m not giving democrats or anyone a pass on this. I just really hate republicans.

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    I remember how creepy it was to see that once the girls in my class got boobs (around 8th grade, 13-14 yo) full on adults would start hitting on them. I recall seeing a few class mates in a local park, all 3 were 13 I think, they still looked like little girls, it’s just that now they had boobs and wore bras. So I see these 3 girls, each sitting in the lap of an 18-20 yo dude, and making out…

    As a kid I recall seeing it and thinking “wtf is wrong with those guys?”

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      I live in a country where the age of consent is 14, and this shit is still pretty common. I voted Fidesz because I thought they’d fix the situation, by rising it. They added a close-in-age exception, so if you’re 17, you can prey on 12 year olds.

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        Wtf? You voted for Nazis?

        Fuck that, they distract you while demonising everyone that criticises them as “LGBT pedos” (when the LGBT people are the most threatened by the actual creeps, ie Fidesz, and his fat oaf Orban).

        But seeing as you don’t anymore… How come you changed views?

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          Got my face eaten by the leopards (was a college student at that time, now I’m in their “communal work program” for half the minimum wage so their voters can say “at least he works”), so I read up about all the evils Orbán and co wanted to protect me from.

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            Hmm, I see. How’d you radicalise at first?

            That said, I’m glad you realised their true faces, comrade. Now if only the rest of Hungary did so too…

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    Not really, because guys that age are 100% INVISIBLE to females. All you got is zits and a curfew, which you can’t even violate because neither you, nor any of your friends have a driver’s license.

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    The thing about 13yo guys ia that you are on the beggining of your puberty process and most boys are ugly and awkward