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Jerry Seinfeld’s Teen Girlfriend Saga Resurfaces After Duke Walkout (www.thedailybeast.com)
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[–] 32 points 2 years ago (48 children)

I know this won't be popular, but it's for a few reasons:

  1. It wasn't and isn't illegal.
  2. Most people would look at her and see a hot woman and understand it.
  3. This whole puritanical BS that if you are over 18 and find someone under 18 attractive, that makes you a pedophile, is a modern a theme. Back then people were free to admit that they found young women attractive without being labelled by so many to have a mental disorder.

I speak strongly about this because I think we are doing great damage to mental health to repeatedly claim it's a mental disorder to have a completely normal and common biological attraction.

But don't get me wrong, I 100% support protecting minors from predators. I agree these laws should exist, I just wish people would stop pretending that there is something wrong with the attraction itself.

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  • [–] 24 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    I don't really have an issue with a 16 year old dating an 18 year old. They're close enough that the age thing wouldn't be an issue, but 17 and 38 is a bit different.

    I also don't really have an issue with adults being attracted to... people below the legal limit so long as they don't act on it. It's very difficult to have this discussion when most people can't grasp that desires don't always lead to actions and have problems separating fiction from reality. There are people with rape fetishes that find healthy, consensual ways to simulate the act, something that the mainstream can't really cope with.

    But that's not really the discussion we're having. Jerry Seinfeld had a teenaged girlfriend when he was 38. Celebrities using their positions of power isn't acceptable.

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  • [–] 17 points 2 years ago

    Romeo and Juliet laws show we absolutely have some tolerance for adults dating teenagers. And nobody I know is saying a 17 year old can't be sexually attractive. The problem is they essentially unarmed against the average 30 year old. And I'd much rather draw a line somewhere than the actual puritanical practice of marrying teenagers to a 40 year old man who happens to have the most money available.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Yep. Picking the bear.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago* (1 child)

    Imagine responding to an actual thought out, reasoned argument with some braindead thought terminating snark. Saves the effort of trying to actually engage in conversation or uncomfortable thoughts I guess but that's about it.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    Still picking the bear. Your reply, and all the other salty misogynist replies are exactly why.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Ok, have fun I guess? Congratulations? Not sure what response you expect.

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  • [–] -2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I didn't ask

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

    Posting publicly on the internet means people can respond to you.

    Responding to a relatively well-formed statement and rationalized statement with a 1 sentence meme-response is lazy and braindead and contributes nothing but go off if it makes you feel like you're doing something I guess. Certainly easier than actually engaging with a topic.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    To me, it's a distraction. I think it's legal in just about every state for someone to marry a child under the age of 15 with the approval of their parents.

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