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In reply to the discussion: Before giving Woody Allen a pass for dating an "older" teen/ young adult, read this: [View all]seabeyond
(110,159 posts)29. when a man is with a woman fro a decade and adopts three children with her and is father,
he is father figure to ALL the kids. that is a reality, that any of us around kids know.
it is that father figure, the power and the trust, that allows him to take advantage of a child. hence our laws and eeeeew factors. cause we have to put our foot down to our children being abused, seeing how they are the vulnerable ones, and it is our responsibility to stand with the children.
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Before giving Woody Allen a pass for dating an "older" teen/ young adult, read this: [View all]
hedgehog
Feb 2014
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when a man is with a woman fro a decade and adopts three children with her and is father,
seabeyond
Feb 2014
#29
Who do you see here defending Catholic priests who have sex with people in their late teens? n/t
pnwmom
Feb 2014
#20
You will be waiting for a very long time then. That's the thing with humor, its impossible to
quinnox
Feb 2014
#8
If I don't think child rape is hysterical that means I have no sense of humor?
BainsBane
Feb 2014
#12
I have heard tht about lyching black jokes, bashing gay jokes, rape jokes- the highbrow defense
bettyellen
Feb 2014
#15
actually, the comedian MEANS to be offensive and expects fools to laugh, knowing it is offensive
seabeyond
Feb 2014
#23
I've seen this tactic used with racist, homophobic, and other types of 'humor'.
redqueen
Feb 2014
#13
This is the crux of my problem with this discussion. There is an assumption that
Squinch
Feb 2014
#31
correct; i've know older men who preferred younger/powerless females; they had some serious
TheFrenchRazor
Feb 2014
#36
Nothing is proven at face value. I would expect you to agree with that sentiment.
Gravitycollapse
Feb 2014
#41
It seems clear the public has been fed a bill of goods from Woody's publicity machine
BainsBane
Feb 2014
#44
there would be very varied opinions on it, depending on what people personally wanted.
bettyellen
Feb 2014
#25
i ahve been told, specifically du2 in a thread about a 12 yr old stripper in dallas, that once hit
seabeyond
Feb 2014
#26
I've trashed about 50 of these threads, but let me ask a question, here.
Egalitarian Thug
Feb 2014
#45
Thank you very much for the answer. So if I understand, the issue is the issue,
Egalitarian Thug
Feb 2014
#48