So, the first publication that went with the "actually, hebephilia is not pedophilia" hot take was The Stranger but that piece was re-tweeted by Jon Kay of Quillette so I think this poll was vindicated.pic.twitter.com/O20NpgWgU2
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You use an awful lot of words to avoid saying that the fact that his victims were as young as 14 is irrelevant. Using the last sentence of your article to say “but maybe that’s worse” doesn’t excuse your erasure of his clear attraction and abuse of, specifically, underage women.
hold the fucking phone dude. You tweeted about the hebophilia/pedophilia distinction, now you're saying that wasn't the issue. How's the mirror look? And seriously, have some heart and stand up for what you said. The record's here for everyone to see.
It seems that you are implying that by using language like “regular old abuser” Herzog is not taking child sexual abuse seriously. That was also the implication, as I read it, in the original poll. Such accusations are in context are clearly not true and really disrespectful.
I feel like this happens a lot to you where you stop reading something about half way down
... Those seem like comfortably overlapping terms. "Abuser" is not a euphemism. The article stresses that E's victims were young teenagers--does that only count if it's bundled together in a noun phrase like "abuser of minors"?
Or is it "regular old" that offends you? Because the point of the article is that "regular" abusers are *worse* than "pedophiles" per se. Again, that's not how euphemisms work.
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