doesn’t matter, just because it’s only a year or two older in the US doesn’t mean that we also do not like THAT. actual adult people who want to fuck teenagers are gross.

You: 18 and 15 isn’t that bad
Also you: The law should be half your age plus seven.

I remember being a 15 year old boy and feeling I was “competing” with 30-something men for 15 year old girls. I’d be talking up a girl my age, then some older guy would come along with promises of booze, clubs, having a car and not being a adolescent doofus.
At the time, I just presumed it was normal because 1) At 15…

Or raise your hand if you thought you were one of those mature girls when you were 15 and would flirt with your teacher and relish in the attention he gave you. But now looking back realize he should have shut that shit down.

Exactly. Just settting the limit at 15 without corresponding Romeo/Juliet restrictions just says “hey creepy 45 year olds - just make sure she’s 15 before you start rubbing her back and telling her how mature she is for her age.” *shudder*.

Raise your hand if you were a 15 year old girl who was constantly pestered by older men. The fathers of the kids you babysat for pouring you a drink. Your friends’ fathers staring at your tits or walking in on you in the shower. Your male teachers dropping hints. Strangers pulling over as you walked home from school.

Sane polities have Romeo and Juliet laws to decriminalize just those cases. 

Yes, but exceptions can be written into age of consent laws that take into account a short (e.g., 3-5 year) age gap between the older and younger parties. I believe they’re called Romeo and Juliet laws.

Ugh, 15 still seems really young. I can’t believe the age of 13 was being considered. :(

I don’t see this as necessarily “moderation”, but more a process of chipping away these problems in manageable parts, which increases the likelihood of overall success. It DOES mean you have to actually continue the work.

There is a difference between the response of a private citizen and President. Obama attempted to always present a measured balance approach to racial issues in the attempt to appeal to the basic decency of white people. I would have liked an unapologetic militant Obama but I am not a naive disingenuous person who…

There are a lot of school shootings in the US, every year, and most of them are majority white schools. Why are people drawing the line here and listening to these particular white kids and not some previous group of white kids? People are getting sick of the violence and starting to come around and are ready to give…

She’s pointing out that what he did to them would be cruel and unusual punishment so she couldn’t sentence him to that.

I can’t blame her; it must be one of the most draining and exhausting jobs there is; it’s basically having to go to war and battle the religious right wing on a daily basis.

Hillary/Cecile?

Sorry, but that’s some master race level bullshit. Jews intermarried just like everyone else; they are not a “pure master race” of people. There is no such thing.

That’s just silly. The Jewish people who settled in Israel (most after WW II) were not indigenous; they came from all over the world and are of every nationality and race.

Wait a minute, Gal Gadot is Israeli; of course she is pro her own country and it is a legal requirement for every Israeli citizen to serve in the military. You are being deliberately disingenuous and obtuse by acting like those are war crimes.

At least she had the good sense to step down.

This.

I was gender non-conforming as a young kid (totally gender-conforming once I hit puberty, got huge boobs, and suddenly felt more comfortable in a dress). My parents were excellent at letting “me be me” but my extended family seemed to use any form of coercion imaginable to get me to act “like a girl”. It did…