I remember very well what it meant to be a 14 year old girl.
I remember being in school with 14 year old girls.
Just because a 14 year old is experiencing physical and hormonal changes, doesn't mean she is an adult.
No it does not mean that. And it does not mean that if what this woman says is true that Moore did not do anything wrong.
But at the same time, a 14 year old is not a small, prepubescent child either, and Moore is not a pedophile.
That's all I've been saying. One can say that what he is alleged to have done is wrong, without losing ourselves in witch hunts and hyperbole.
Also, it happened 38 years ago, if it happened at all. That's a long time. The society has forgiven much worse proven wrongdoing from that long ago.
Just because a girl looks like a woman, doesn't mean she is a woman.
No it does not. But at the same time, it is also possible that she was receptive or even initiating sexual contact. If the allegation was about a boy and a 30 year old woman, nobody would think that the boy had to lack any sexual initiative just because he was 14. Even if we know that a 14 year old boy is not a man yet. So why the double standard? Especially since girls tend to mature sooner than boys.
When I was in 8th grade I caught two of my classmates, both 14 or so, going at it like two rabbits. So yeah, 14 year olds are not adults but they are not little children either. They are in-between.
And it doesn't matter what they do or did in other cultures past and present.
I think it does matter. Not legally of course, but it does offer a counterpoint to the whole "pedophilia" nonsense that many countries, including developed countries like Italy, have age of consent set at 14.
Historically women were treated as chattel, with little say in regards to who they could marry or have a relationship with. We're not talking about other cultures or the past. We're talking about something recent historically, something that decent people would not find acceptable.
Do you think Italy treats women like chattel? I think "treating women like chattel" is not positively correlated with low age of consent.
Nobody is trying to send Moore to prison for this violation of the law since it was 38 years ago.
I've heard people say that.
His actions just say a lot about his character.
And being a terrorist in the 70s says a lot more about character, but that did not stop Bil Ayers, Bernadine Dhorn et al from being embraced by academia.
He wasn't an immature teenager when he sexually intimidated the girl. He was a grown man who held a powerful position in his community. This is just one more piece of evidence that he doesn't have the character to serve in as a Senator.
You are assuming it went down exactly as she described. That's a big if.
It's one thing to talk about the actions of two immature teenagers, but this was a grown man who knew better, forcing himself on a young, inexperienced girl, who most of us would consider to be a child. Perhaps we should ask the parents of 14 year old girls how they would feel if their daughters were victims of this man's predatory behavior.
Again, I am not saying what he is alleged to have done is right.
But at the same time, she was not a prepubescent child either. Even if the allegations are true, Roy Moore is not a pedophile.