That is a child

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Anonymous sheepie 2w

It’s essentially the world’s BIGGEST RAGE BAIT comment you could ever ever ever make.

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Anonymous sheepie 2w

Without explaining yourself there and RIGHT there in bold, highlighted, italicized, underlined and lamenated.

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Anonymous #1 2w

Agreed

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Anonymous #1 2w

also agreed

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Anonymous #2 2w

If I wanna be autismo here like “🤓,” I could say no, words mean stuff. The root word pedo means pre-pubescent. But please please PLEASE read what i wrote down below

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Anonymous sheepie 2w

It stops being technically correct when its being used to defend and normalize that behavior though, 15 year olds aren’t “barely legal” it’s just straight up illegal

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Anonymous #4 2w

No I literally agree with you 400%

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Anonymous sheepie 2w

Because there’s a time and a place and pulling the “Erm, akshaully 🤓” in this isn’t the right time or place. Yes, the words have a different nuance, but that’s not how they’re used colloquially.

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Anonymous sheepie 2w

like yeah from a paraphilia pov this is true but a legal pov it’s not, like how the legal definition of intersex isnt the exact medical definition. so good educational moment but also these people def would say hes not a ephebophile either

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Anonymous sheepie 2w

pædo- literally comes from the greek word for child, and there is nothing about pubescence that qualifies it

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Anonymous #6 2w

I literally know and understand this fully

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Anonymous #8 2w

My apologies. The root word means child, and the modern clinical usage means pre-pubescent

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Anonymous sheepie 2w

you can see a pediatrician in the united states until you’re 25, and even if that were the case, pedophilia is a legal and not clinical issue

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Anonymous #8 2w

I-..know this. I’ve never disagreed with a single comment in the comment section.

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Anonymous sheepie 2w

also there is no explicit age number cutoff for experiencing puberty? this is just a really weird hair to split when you’re focusing in one one interpretation of something that has many definitions, as most words in the english language do

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Anonymous sheepie 2w

Why is this getting downvoted??

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Anonymous sheepie 2w

because it is not only technically incorrect but also an argument in defense of terrible people, hope this helps

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Anonymous #8 2w

That’s actually fair. The only argument I was making was that the reporter was technically correct only in that a 15 year old (isn’t likely) to not have experienced puberty, at least by the strong average.

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Anonymous #8 2w

It’s technically correct. A 15 year olds are typically at least most body-wise via secondary sexual sex characteristics developed. Please please PLEASE if anyone is reading to acknowledge I’m not downplaying pedos, groomers, or anything of the such, only semantics of the language. That’s literally all this is.

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Anonymous #8 2w

Oh yeah, the dude is def a fucking creep and freak, I won’t dispute that. Dude should probably ACTUALLY get his hard drive checked, cause the chance that he was actually making a semantic argument and not just accidentslly telling on himself, is as slim as a needle.

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Anonymous sheepie 2w

Bailiff, check this man’s hard drive

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Anonymous #5 2w

Huh? Bro I just said that about the guy, how you gonna flip this on me?💀

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Anonymous sheepie 2w

it is technically incorrect in that the occupational standard for news reporters is to follow the AP stylebook, which follows the mariam webster english dictionary, which defines pedophilia as “sexual attraction towards children”

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Anonymous #8 2w

This is interesting, I didn’t know this. So which is more valid then I guess is what this comes down to. Is it the arbitrary line or definition derived from the Marion Webster, English, dictionary, or clinical psychology use about the specific definition compared to hebephilia and ephebophilia?

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Anonymous sheepie 2w

it’s not an arbitrary line; it’s literally written in the manual that is the occupational standard for people reporting the news that hundreds of news reporters contribute to the updating of every year. this is why standards and practices organizations exist.

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Anonymous #7 2w

No they wouldn’t call him that because that would be social suicide, paraphilia-wise correct or not. And I guess.. because as you said, assuming you have more info on this than I, that they report by the AP.

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Anonymous #8 2w

The arbitrary line I was saying, wasn’t something I said it’s what another comment I just read said. I was trying to soft agree to what they said. You can probably find it here. Talking about some arbitrary line that puberty starts. I’m not in disagreement with you, and I’m happy to be updated on what I guess that reporters legally have to go by standard-wise

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Anonymous sheepie 2w

the professionals in the industry who govern the industry standards all get together and decide we’re all going to call things the same thing every year explicitly so that people like you can’t take things they say to mean something entirely different, and then every person in that industry references that to make sure they’re saying what they mean on the air so there’s no confusion.

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Anonymous sheepie 2w

most reasonable people don’t comment when their education is insufficient to cover the scope of what they’re discussing. the minority at least do some research before doing so. but you’ve come here today to argue for the sake of arguing, in defense of some of the most harmful people on the face of the planet, whether you say that’s what you intend or not. and when corrected, you still expect others to do the research for you and serve you a pretty little explanation on a silver platter.

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-_- I can see you’re easily rage baited, and I didn’t even attempt to rage bait this time. You’re getting an emotional reaction over me arguing over semantics. The whole “IM NOT GONNA READ THAT BLABLABLABLA HAHA OK PEDO” act is mega cringe and anti-intellectual. You’re moral, fuck yeah, but you’re also mega cringe

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Anonymous sheepie 2w

Then you know why you’re being downvoted, because you’re STILL doing the same shit.

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Anonymous #6 2w

But I’ve agreed with everyone that he’s likely a creep

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Anonymous sheepie 2w

If you know and understand it, why did you feel the need to comment that anyways?

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Anonymous #1 2w

Because when I state things that are true, I get downvoted

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Anonymous sheepie 2w

Being a pedant doesn’t make you look better here, it makes it seem like you’re trying to make it more palatable.

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Anonymous sheepie 2w

You just go “it’s ephebophilia actually” without sounding like a pedophile

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Anonymous sheepie 2w

You know he has victims under 15 right? When we agree that megan kelly is using this terminology to downplay his behavior and you say “well technically she’s not wrong” how do you think you come off? As someone also on some level downplaying it or as someone that stands with the victims?

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Anonymous sheepie 2w

they don’t owe you an explanation as to why you’re technically incorrect when they can see one has been provided, and you’re still arguing. no one is going to stand here and this patiently explain why you’re wrong in the real world, as you’re not entitled to this extensive of an explanation just because YOU failed to educate YOURSELF. you’re just going to get fired/expelled/hurt and that’s going to be that. you’re in for a rude awakening.

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Anonymous sheepie 2w

being “technically correct” by a technically incorrect standard for the industry you’re discussing is not being technically correct, is morally wrong, and would not hold up in a court of law. you made a mistake, and it’s the type of mistake that directly and indirectly harms survivors of some of the most heinous acts known to mandkind. admit it and move on.

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Anonymous sheepie 2w

"marion webster" lmao you dipshit

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Anonymous #2 2w

My bad bruh🫣

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Anonymous #2 2w

Yeah, I’m really pretty dang smart, like maybe top 6%, but my general found of knowledge is assflakes

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Anonymous sheepie 2w

fund*

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Anonymous #8 2w

I can admit that is likely true. It can certainly lessen when we speak about the actions or people, as it seems or will almost certaintly make the crime seem lesser, which in turn would harm victims of abuse

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Anonymous sheepie 2w

so why are you still here doing it? god damn

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Anonymous sheepie 2w

You can downvote my comment when I say I’m intelligent, you certaintly don’t know me so you can’t speak for anything other than the account of the argument I have made in this comment section

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Anonymous #2 2w

What?? Have I not admitted the harm it would do? What are you upset over this time?

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Anonymous sheepie 2w

there are standardized neuropsych evals done by a licensed neurologist to measure that. you don’t just get to make it up and then say source: me 🤣 have you learned nothing about nothing from this entire conversation? the point is that there are reference points for things, not whatever you made up on the spot.

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Anonymous #8 2w

It isn’t what I made up on the spot. I can google it and it will tell me what an ephebophile is. Typically a sexual attraction or paraphilia to 15-19 year olds

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Anonymous sheepie 2w

based on what? an ai response scraped from non-professionals?

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Anonymous #8 2w

Mannnn, now google ephebophilia.

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Anonymous #5 2w

Damn, you’re right. Common sense had left me I guess.

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Anonymous #4 2w

I don’t know enough, or tbh anything about the case, I barely recognize the name Megan Kelly at all. If you look early on, I clarified to my grave that as I am 99.925% sure that person was just a creep mentioning that it wasn’t pedophilia, that it technically wasn’t. I should’ve tried even harder to clarify that it was something else instead of doing what I did, which in turn made me come off sus as effing f

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Anonymous sheepie 2w

google doesn’t frontpage this definition with the define: and -ai commands, because it’s not widely accepted in most general english language dictionaries, but this is the most reputable thing i found. two terms can apply to something at the same time, note the similar terminology between the definitions.

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Anonymous #8 2w

That term is supposed to be Hebephilia, the definition you read above. But maybe this is confusing as shit because somehow now people are putting it into two categories instead of three or one?? Ugh, yes by colloquial definition, doing things with someone would make them a pedo.

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Anonymous #8 2w

ephebophilia, although not recognized by most general english language dictionaries, is a type of pedophilia by the few definitions that exist, and you’re just wrong and furthering the legitimacy of creep-protectors. learn when to hang it up, kid.

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Anonymous sheepie 2w

it’s not just the colloquial definition if it’s literally any dictionary definition anyone can find! you’re calling (1) the standards and practices industries for the applicable industry being discussed, (2) the APA, which is the standards body for all adjacent industries? and (3) the two most widely-used english language dictionaries of all time incorrect so that you can win a silly little argument! please seek professional mental health treatment!

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Anonymous sheepie 2w

you wouldn't have needed to clarify anything if you didn't take a fucking weird ass "erm actually" stance to begin with. you literally scrolled past my comment preemptively calling out whoever would be annoying enough to make a post like yours on your way to do just that

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Anonymous #8 2w

gang he wasn’t defending it 😭 you have to chill tf out. also, Merriam-Webster defines woman as “an adult female person” so can we not act like they’re the paragon of truth?

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Anonymous #8 2w

you can fault him for not having situational awareness, but acting like he is intentionally defending Epstein is genuinely insane behavior. please log off.

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Anonymous #7 2w

i didn’t say intentionally anywhere or epstein anywhere? it becomes intentionally or unintentionally lending validity to megyn kelly’s predator protection when multiple people have explained in multiple ways that the ‘technically correct on an obscure loophole’ nonsense is not technically correct in context, and they kept arguing instead of admitting their mistake could contribute to harmful rhetoric or simply leaving.

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Anonymous #8 2w

There is not a loophole because their actions are still illegal and really bad. I think acting on those attractions is really really REALLY bad, maybe more despicable the younger down you go, but still bad. Also, I don’t know who this Megan Kelly person is. I want defending SHIT

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Anonymous sheepie 2w

I wasn’t***

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