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We saw this happen with racism. As long as I’ve been alive, it’s been bad to be racist in America. But over the decades, the minimum definition of racism went from something like “hating people on account of their race†to “having a private preference for one’s own group over others†to “supporting policies that have a disparate impact on a protected minority†to “not actively struggling to make yourself antiracist.†Nobody ever wanted to be the guy to stand up and say we’re overrating the problem of racism, or that given its power we should define this word very narrowly.
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As a result, we got the madness of the Great Awokening throughout the 2010s, culminating in the Summer of Floyd and the events of the next year or two before things subsided and the backlash kicked in. We see something similar happening with the concept of pedophilia. In recent days, I’ve been arguing that it is of course ridiculous to call Jeffrey Epstein a pedophile, and a lot of responses are along the lines of “you may be technically right but why die on this hill.†I’m convinced, however, that these distinctions are quite important. Is this pedophilia? Right now, Jeffrey Epstein allegedly having sexual contact with underage girls two decades ago is the main issue dominating Congress. While it once looked like nothing could ever break apart the MAGA coalition, Republicans have finally revolted against their leader on an issue he cares about. The idea is that having sexual relations with post-pubescent but underage girls is such a war crime that the possibility that powerful men might have known about or been involved in this is more important than health care subsidies or anything else we could possibly be debating. As Michael Tracey has pointed out , many of the Epstein accusers were well above the legal age when they met him, and the fact that nobody cares to point this out is just another sign of how irrational this entire scandal is. It’s easy to recognize a moral panic when everyone else realizes it’s gone too far. To support someone willing to take a stand when there is still a risk of doing so, please consider subscribing. There is no way to call attraction to 17-year-olds pedophilia without also stigmatizing attraction to women who are slightly older than that. We have an age of consent, and it used to be recognized that it was an arbitrary line that we have to set somewhere. But before the last decade or two, there wasn’t this idea that men whose sexual preferences did not exactly line up with the legal minimum in the jurisdiction that they happen to live in were disordered or somehow abnormal. This is a bizarre idea that is frankly inconsistent with people being able to develop realistic understandings of sex differences and human biology. If men who are attracted to 17-year-olds are disordered, on what basis can those who like 20-year-olds be considered normal? I’ve noticed that most of the women who are mad at age gap relationships are aggressive middle age types who seem to have a deep personal interest in the issue. Megyn Kelly, for example, has talked a lot about Leonardo DiCaprio’s girlfriends, expressing anger that “He’s just going to keep banging teenagers the rest of his life.†Until recently, no one thought that there was anything unusual about such a preference. Powerful and successful men were supposed to respect the age of consent laws in whatever jurisdiction they happened to be in. But there was nothing evil about their decision to prefer women who were from a biological perspective the most attractive adults they could find. In my experience, the people who have the broadest definitions of “pedophilia,†and are outraged that men might be attracted to 17 year-olds, also do not look too kindly upon older men who date 20-year-olds either. The New York Times is trying to stir up a storm over the fact that the age of consent in Massachusetts is only 16 . Yet if we imagine a world in which every state sets the age at 18, what exactly prevents people from starting to call for it to be raised even higher? After all, we don’t let kids drink until they’re 21. Is having a beer a more consequential decision than having sex? Before long, college kids will be considered victims of pedophilia. This has already happened to some extent culturally, as we can see in a recent story in which a group of young people were arrested for setting up a “pedophile sting†in which the supposed victim said she was of age in the state they were in. Read this story , which sounds like it comes out of an alternative universe. A report filed by campus police said a 22-year-old active-duty military service member connected with a woman on Tinder in October and was invited inside a basement lounge. Within minutes, “a group of people came out of nowhere and started calling him a pedophile,†accusing him of wanting sex with 17-year-old girls, according to the report. The man told police that he broke free and was chased by at least 25 people to his car, where he was punched in the head and his car door was slammed on him before he managed to flee. Campus surveillance video shows a large group of students, including the woman, “all with their cellphones out in what seems to be a recording of the whole episode,†the police statement said. They are seen “laughing and high fiving with each other†in what appeared to be “a deliberately staged event,†and there was no evidence to indicate the man was seeking sexual relations with girls, the police report said… Todd said a review of the conversation on the Tinder app shows the woman says she is 17, soon to turn 18. The man says “that’s fine, you’re in college.†Recently, six law enforcement agencies in Minnesota came together and carried out an operation that resulted in 16 men being arrested for talking to a non-existent 17-year-old online. The Bloomington Police Chief had a press conference in which he showed the men’s pictures and played “I’m a Creep†by Radiohead. There’s obviously a deep desire here to grandstand on this issue and publicly humiliate alleged perverts. Law enforcement in this case went as old as they could go to create criminal charges, and one might question whether this is the best use of government resources, and also whether pedophilia is a major problem if you needed the imaginary victim to pose as seventeen in order to find enough people to arrest. It’s true that, as far as I know, no serious person has advocated raising the age of consent to 21.
Article about women who date much older men:
We saw this happen with racism. As long as I’ve been alive, it’s been bad to be racist in America. But over the decades, the minimum definition of racism went from something like “hating people on account of their race†to “having a private preference for one’s own group over others†to “supporting policies that have a disparate impact on a protected minority†to “not actively struggling to make yourself antiracist.†Nobody ever wanted to be the guy to stand up and say we’re overrating the problem of racism, or that given its power we should define this word very narrowly.
➤ â–º ðŸŒðŸ“ºðŸ“±ðŸ‘‰ Click here for women who date much older men
As a result, we got the madness of the Great Awokening throughout the 2010s, culminating in the Summer of Floyd and the events of the next year or two before things subsided and the backlash kicked in. We see something similar happening with the concept of pedophilia. In recent days, I’ve been arguing that it is of course ridiculous to call Jeffrey Epstein a pedophile, and a lot of responses are along the lines of “you may be technically right but why die on this hill.†I’m convinced, however, that these distinctions are quite important. Is this pedophilia? Right now, Jeffrey Epstein allegedly having sexual contact with underage girls two decades ago is the main issue dominating Congress. While it once looked like nothing could ever break apart the MAGA coalition, Republicans have finally revolted against their leader on an issue he cares about. The idea is that having sexual relations with post-pubescent but underage girls is such a war crime that the possibility that powerful men might have known about or been involved in this is more important than health care subsidies or anything else we could possibly be debating. As Michael Tracey has pointed out , many of the Epstein accusers were well above the legal age when they met him, and the fact that nobody cares to point this out is just another sign of how irrational this entire scandal is. It’s easy to recognize a moral panic when everyone else realizes it’s gone too far. To support someone willing to take a stand when there is still a risk of doing so, please consider subscribing. There is no way to call attraction to 17-year-olds pedophilia without also stigmatizing attraction to women who are slightly older than that. We have an age of consent, and it used to be recognized that it was an arbitrary line that we have to set somewhere. But before the last decade or two, there wasn’t this idea that men whose sexual preferences did not exactly line up with the legal minimum in the jurisdiction that they happen to live in were disordered or somehow abnormal. This is a bizarre idea that is frankly inconsistent with people being able to develop realistic understandings of sex differences and human biology. If men who are attracted to 17-year-olds are disordered, on what basis can those who like 20-year-olds be considered normal? I’ve noticed that most of the women who are mad at age gap relationships are aggressive middle age types who seem to have a deep personal interest in the issue. Megyn Kelly, for example, has talked a lot about Leonardo DiCaprio’s girlfriends, expressing anger that “He’s just going to keep banging teenagers the rest of his life.†Until recently, no one thought that there was anything unusual about such a preference. Powerful and successful men were supposed to respect the age of consent laws in whatever jurisdiction they happened to be in. But there was nothing evil about their decision to prefer women who were from a biological perspective the most attractive adults they could find. In my experience, the people who have the broadest definitions of “pedophilia,†and are outraged that men might be attracted to 17 year-olds, also do not look too kindly upon older men who date 20-year-olds either. The New York Times is trying to stir up a storm over the fact that the age of consent in Massachusetts is only 16 . Yet if we imagine a world in which every state sets the age at 18, what exactly prevents people from starting to call for it to be raised even higher? After all, we don’t let kids drink until they’re 21. Is having a beer a more consequential decision than having sex? Before long, college kids will be considered victims of pedophilia. This has already happened to some extent culturally, as we can see in a recent story in which a group of young people were arrested for setting up a “pedophile sting†in which the supposed victim said she was of age in the state they were in. Read this story , which sounds like it comes out of an alternative universe. A report filed by campus police said a 22-year-old active-duty military service member connected with a woman on Tinder in October and was invited inside a basement lounge. Within minutes, “a group of people came out of nowhere and started calling him a pedophile,†accusing him of wanting sex with 17-year-old girls, according to the report. The man told police that he broke free and was chased by at least 25 people to his car, where he was punched in the head and his car door was slammed on him before he managed to flee. Campus surveillance video shows a large group of students, including the woman, “all with their cellphones out in what seems to be a recording of the whole episode,†the police statement said. They are seen “laughing and high fiving with each other†in what appeared to be “a deliberately staged event,†and there was no evidence to indicate the man was seeking sexual relations with girls, the police report said… Todd said a review of the conversation on the Tinder app shows the woman says she is 17, soon to turn 18. The man says “that’s fine, you’re in college.†Recently, six law enforcement agencies in Minnesota came together and carried out an operation that resulted in 16 men being arrested for talking to a non-existent 17-year-old online. The Bloomington Police Chief had a press conference in which he showed the men’s pictures and played “I’m a Creep†by Radiohead. There’s obviously a deep desire here to grandstand on this issue and publicly humiliate alleged perverts. Law enforcement in this case went as old as they could go to create criminal charges, and one might question whether this is the best use of government resources, and also whether pedophilia is a major problem if you needed the imaginary victim to pose as seventeen in order to find enough people to arrest. It’s true that, as far as I know, no serious person has advocated raising the age of consent to 21.