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30. Ah, got it. Thanks!

Reply to pnwmom (Reply #28)

Wed Feb 5, 2014, 05:08 PM

Feb 2014

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Before giving Woody Allen a pass for dating an "older" teen/ young adult, read this: [View all] hedgehog Feb 2014 OP

This OP is incoherent and horrifying cthulu2016 Feb 2014 #1

Wow. BainsBane Feb 2014 #5

You have completely misread the OP. What she is saying is that people pnwmom Feb 2014 #19

Link to list of priests tried for consensual relations with 19 year olds? cthulu2016 Feb 2014 #21

Link to priests guilty of incest? pnwmom Feb 2014 #22

I thought Soon-Yi's adopted father was another guy, not Allen arcane1 Feb 2014 #27

From Ronan's perspective, his father was having sex with his sister. pnwmom Feb 2014 #28

Ah, got it. Thanks! arcane1 Feb 2014 #30

when a man is with a woman fro a decade and adopts three children with her and is father, seabeyond Feb 2014 #29

Mia, Woody and Soon-Yi have all said that he was not a father figure. tammywammy Feb 2014 #32

i can get that and still, he is not outside of that role. seabeyond Feb 2014 #35

Maybe this is my youth showing... DemocraticWing Feb 2014 #2

True, but what most won't do kcr Feb 2014 #3

Who do you see here defending Catholic priests who have sex with people in their late teens? n/t pnwmom Feb 2014 #20

Alrighy then, maybe the solution is to raise the age of consent to 25 quinnox Feb 2014 #4

I'm still waiting for you to tell me what is so funny BainsBane Feb 2014 #7

You will be waiting for a very long time then. That's the thing with humor, its impossible to quinnox Feb 2014 #8

Perhaps you can tell me why you find it funny BainsBane Feb 2014 #10

Its impossible to explain it quinnox Feb 2014 #11

If I don't think child rape is hysterical that means I have no sense of humor? BainsBane Feb 2014 #12

I think you need a new schtick quinnox Feb 2014 #14

Okay. Tell me then BainsBane Feb 2014 #16

ya. how come? nt seabeyond Feb 2014 #18

Incorrect. Captain Stern Feb 2014 #39

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

yeah, it's more "tough shit Liberal!" crap from the libertarians here. bettyellen Feb 2014 #24

I've seen this tactic used with racist, homophobic, and other types of 'humor'. redqueen Feb 2014 #13

People have some strange interpetations of this OP BainsBane Feb 2014 #6

You got it - we all need to be careful not to excuse or accuse based hedgehog Feb 2014 #17

This is the crux of my problem with this discussion. There is an assumption that Squinch Feb 2014 #31

There are in fact two discussions entwined - whether or not the act happened, hedgehog Feb 2014 #33

I actually don't believe there is any way to know whether the act happened. Squinch Feb 2014 #37

I actually think the priests are an exception BainsBane Feb 2014 #34

Don't get me wrong on this. Squinch Feb 2014 #38

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

Read this BainsBane Feb 2014 #42

That changes my opinion of the situation quite a bit. Gravitycollapse Feb 2014 #43

It seems clear the public has been fed a bill of goods from Woody's publicity machine BainsBane Feb 2014 #44

I wonder if there were no laws about age of consent Whisp Feb 2014 #9

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

Interesting how... RichGirl Feb 2014 #40

I've trashed about 50 of these threads, but let me ask a question, here. Egalitarian Thug Feb 2014 #45

I think you raise an entirely different issue worthy of its own thread - hedgehog Feb 2014 #46

Thank you very much for the answer. So if I understand, the issue is the issue, Egalitarian Thug Feb 2014 #48

Trash Bin nadinbrzezinski Feb 2014 #47