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41. Gadsden doesn't have to be rural for this mentality

Sun Dec 10, 2017, 02:16 PM

Dec 2017

It simply has to apply to the minds of voters in rural areas who generalize their experience to other areas of the state. And yes, I find it creepy to the max, but I've spent most of my life living in suburban areas. I did spend nearly fifteen years in a rural area on the Olympic Peninsula of Washington state, even though I lived in the incorporated cities of that region, and I saw a lot of "us-vs-them" mentality when it came to country folks and city people. There were a lot of folks wary of me because I came from a suburb of Seattle before moving to a timber town with a plywood mill.

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Fox News guest: Seducing 14-year-olds may not have been that unusual 40 years ago [View all] TomCADem Dec 2017 OP

Maybe about 10,000 years ago or more. 40?!!! Roland99 Dec 2017 #1

In the 1800's Yupster Dec 2017 #13

Before the 1920's Revanchist Dec 2017 #20

Still happens here Kilgore Dec 2017 #30

Not according to mall security guards lame54 Dec 2017 #2

The day folks here actually defend it BootinUp Dec 2017 #3

shame on these craven lunatics spanone Dec 2017 #4

40 years ago I was a college sophomore lapfog_1 Dec 2017 #5

Spring breaks latest menace? Horny old men TomCADem Dec 2017 #6

it was creepy 40 years ago too... lapfog_1 Dec 2017 #10

I was 34 years old in 1979 Dale Neiburg Dec 2017 #22

Calling those you seduced liars years later for political gain IS a major character flaw Freethinker65 Dec 2017 #7

OMG. Yes it was unusual! They called them perverts and for good reason! nt ginnyinWI Dec 2017 #8

Ted Bundy was a young 30-year-old Republican 40 years ago too Generic Other Dec 2017 #9

And your father probably would have been locked up Mariana Dec 2017 #15

I'm not sure it would have stopped him Generic Other Dec 2017 #16

The fact remains that nothing much was done. Mariana Dec 2017 #18

No due process for the *victims*, that's for sure. KitSileya Dec 2017 #24

What stands out is that the girls banded together Generic Other Dec 2017 #32

I wasn't near Gadsden, so I never heard about him. Mariana Dec 2017 #35

Didn't Jerry Lee Lewis kill his career by marrying a young'un? shraby Dec 2017 #11

It was a big scandal but it didn't permanently ruin his career TexasBushwhacker Dec 2017 #21

There is absolutely nothing. Snackshack Dec 2017 #12

If it was so common, Grammy23 Dec 2017 #14

Maybe forty years ago customerserviceguy Dec 2017 #17

My great great grandmother was 14 when she married in 1874 Mariana Dec 2017 #19

Actually, just this morning customerserviceguy Dec 2017 #36

Gadsden is not rural now and it wasn't then. Mariana Dec 2017 #37

Gadsden doesn't have to be rural for this mentality customerserviceguy Dec 2017 #41

The fact remains that he tried to avoid the girls' parents most of the time. Mariana Dec 2017 #48

Agreed customerserviceguy Dec 2017 #50

This message was self-deleted by its author Mariana Dec 2017 #45

It is not rare today - a good percentage of early teen pregnancies involve men in 20s and 30s FarCenter Dec 2017 #23

They're trying to pretend what Moore did was socially acceptable. Mariana Dec 2017 #38

The only problem is, the seducing was probably done by other 14 year olds. Oneironaut Dec 2017 #25

WTAF shenmue Dec 2017 #26

The fuck it wasn't unusual. I was around back then. Yavin4 Dec 2017 #27

Sick. Sick that Pedo Roy did it, sick that they are thing to normalize it The Genealogist Dec 2017 #28

Recent personal experience which shocked me Kilgore Dec 2017 #29

Were their spouses in their 30's when they got married? Mariana Dec 2017 #39

No clue, so i asked her Kilgore Dec 2017 #49

Oh Yes It Was ProfessorGAC Dec 2017 #31

nope, no, just no. I was 14 years old in 1979 and it never was OK. all american girl Dec 2017 #33

That's news to Roman Polanski Johonny Dec 2017 #34

2004: Last Civil War widow dies at 97 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2017 #40

Some years ago, I slogged my way thru The Oldest... 3catwoman3 Dec 2017 #55

Vigorously defending Al Franken for putting his arm around someone during a photo op... Iggo Dec 2017 #42

I was 15 in 1977. Any mid 30's guy going after after classmates Thor_MN Dec 2017 #43

I'm about the same age as you. Iggo Dec 2017 #46

Huguette Clark mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2017 #44

What? That's insane. alarimer Dec 2017 #47

Our media needs to ask Rocky888 Dec 2017 #51

I was 14 in Alabama 60 years ago, and if a man 32 dated a girl 14, he was seen Sophia4 Dec 2017 #52

Is that why Roman Polanski is still a fugitive? McCamy Taylor Dec 2017 #53

But wasn't it illegal back then? Beaverhausen Dec 2017 #54

The term "jailbait" dates back to the early 1930s. Dave Starsky Dec 2017 #56