NY Times advocates for pedophilia

[Balog]

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/06/opinion/pedophilia-a-disorder-not-a-crime.html
 
This is a logical progression of liberal thought. Child molesters are just "born that way" after all, and if you're "born that way" then what you do must be ok, and if you're "born that way" then you're really the victim and there is no status higher to a liberal than being a victim.

[Balog]

DSM-V folks just put this out a little too early. Gotta build up to it.

http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/story/333603/scitech/science/pedophilia-erroneously-classified-as-a-sexual-orientation-in-medical-manual

[Balog]

As usual, European liberals lead the way for our own.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/the-sexual-revolution-and-children-how-the-left-took-things-too-far-a-702679.html

[roo_ster]

Not unexpected.

[MechAg94]

Does anyone really agree that the 1% of males have pedophile tendencies?  That seems awfully high. 

They also refer to the "stigma of pedophilia" as if it is a bad thing.  Liberals seem to universally want to eliminate every social or cultural taboo.  There are good reasons most of those taboos/stygmas exist. 

[Perd Hapley]

They also refer to the "stigma of pedophilia" as if it is a bad thing.  Liberals seem to universally want to eliminate every social or cultural taboo.  There are good reasons most of those taboos/stygmas exist. 

Not all of them. They just want to break down everything traditional or sacred, in order to mold the New Communist Man. Taboos they can use (against racism, sexism, etc.) will be enforced, so long as they continue to serve a purpose.

[brimic]

Not all of them. They just want to break down everything traditional or sacred, in order to mold the New Communist Man. Taboos they can use (against racism, sexism, etc.) will be enforced, so long as they continue to serve a purpose.

Spot on.

[MechAg94]

Not all of them. They just want to break down everything traditional or sacred, in order to mold the New Communist Man. Taboos they can use (against racism, sexism, etc.) will be enforced, so long as they continue to serve a purpose.

That really isn't true.  They have no problem at all with racism and sexism among others.  They just want to arbitrarily pick what is enforced and when.  For example, they have no problem with racism against whites, or sexist preferences favoring women or homosexuals at least most of the time.  And when one of their liberal icons gets caught doing bad stuff, they will defend them or sweep it under the rug.  The ends justify the means after all. 

I think if Monica Lewinski had been 10 years old during Clinton's Presidency, there would still have been a number of liberals trying to defend him. 

[Perd Hapley]

That really isn't true.  They have no problem at all with racism and sexism among others.  They just want to arbitrarily pick what is enforced and when.  For example, they have no problem with racism against whites, or sexist preferences favoring women or homosexuals at least most of the time.  And when one of their liberal icons gets caught doing bad stuff, they will defend them or sweep it under the rug.  The ends justify the means after all. 

I think if Monica Lewinski had been 10 years old during Clinton's Presidency, there would still have been a number of liberals trying to defend him. 

That's why I said, "as long as they...serve a purpose."

[lee n. field]

  And when one of their liberal icons gets caught doing bad stuff, they will defend them or sweep it under the rug.  The ends justify the means after all. 

I think if Monica Lewinski had been 10 years old during Clinton's Presidency, there would still have been a number of liberals trying to defend him. 

Oh **** yes.   

"it's not 'rape rape'."

[Balog]

Woody Allen, Roman Polansky, Marion Zimmer Bradley.

[roo_ster]

Woody Allen, Roman Polansky, Marion Zimmer Bradley.

Well, they are different!

[Hawkmoon]

Woody Allen, Roman Polansky, Marion Zimmer Bradley.

Marion Zimmer Bradley? I hadn't heard that before.

[Viking]

Marion Zimmer Bradley? I hadn't heard that before.

http://www.armedpolitesociety.com/index.php?topic=44704.0

[KD5NRH]

Does anyone really agree that the 1% of males have pedophile tendencies?  That seems awfully high.

Acted-upon tendencies?  Restrained with some effort tendencies?  Completely suppressed without conscious thought tendencies?

I suspect a lot more than 1% of men have the latter, to some extent.  Realistically, if all penalties were suspended for a day and some girl just under your state's age of consent threw herself at you, and you reacted with anything other than disgust, then it could be said you have pedophile tendencies.  Not quite the same as pitching a tent every time you walk past the kindergarten playground.

Of course, realistically, if all penalties (including the eternal ones - assume a no-bag-limit license signed by God) for murder were suspended for a day, I'd have to take out a loan to cover the ammo.

[Balog]

Pedophilia is attraction to pre pubescents not to those under the age of consent.

[Strings]

That's a VERY common error people make, Balog. Forget what the term is for attraction to pubescent (but not adult).

"Pedophile" has become a shorthand slang for "attracted to underage". Kinda like "Kleenex" is slang for "facial tissue"

[MillCreek]

That's a VERY common error people make, Balog. Forget what the term is for attraction to pubescent (but not adult).

"Pedophile" has become a shorthand slang for "attracted to underage". Kinda like "Kleenex" is slang for "facial tissue"

"Ephebophile"

[Jamisjockey]

That's a VERY common error people make, Balog. Forget what the term is for attraction to pubescent (but not adult).

"Pedophile" has become a shorthand slang for "attracted to underage". Kinda like "Kleenex" is slang for "facial tissue"

Jailbaiting.

[Balog]

That's a VERY common error people make, Balog. Forget what the term is for attraction to pubescent (but not adult).

"Pedophile" has become a shorthand slang for "attracted to underage". Kinda like "Kleenex" is slang for "facial tissue"

Which is stupid, given that age of consent varies by state. "In VA you're a pedophile for being attracted to her, in WV it's totally cool."

I feel like it waters the term down a lot when people call someone who is attracted to a girl who is physically indistinguishable from an adult a pedophile.

[MechAg94]

In Texas, I always thought that was called statutory rape.  Other states may be different.  I know when they were talking about the death penalty for pedophiles, it was under 12 I think (before the SC went stupid).