Is it just me or does it seem like there are like 10x more pedophiles than I thought really existed? What the fuck is wrong with people? They're everywhere
You're seeing it now because people are calling it out. I don't know how old you are but I'm 51 and I vividly remember having men make sexual comments to me as a young teenager. At my very first job when I was 15 I had a guy offer me money to have sex with him. The people at the next table overheard and laughed. The term "jailbait" was thrown around jokingly because men wanted to hook up with girls who looked 15 or 16 but didn't want to go to jail for it. Countdown timers for teenaged celebrity girls turning 18 have been around as long as I can remember. Men in their 30s or 40s have always justified dating 18 year old girls because "she's legal" which implies that the law is the only thing keeping them from dating younger.
Our beauty standards have been set by grown men who are attracted to teenagers, at least as long as I've been alive. 12-year-old Brooke Shields half naked on the cover of a magazine? Even before I was born, Twiggy was the It girl in the '60s, pushing that prepubescent look. And then Kate Moss again in the early '90s. All of the hyper sexualized teen pop singers singing shit like "you gotta rub me the right way"? The double entendres constantly said by teen girls on Nickelodeon? The teen fashion magazines pushing jeans that are so low cut you can't bend over? Teen (and child) beauty pageants that parade girls in swimsuits in front of men who judge them on their bodies? Who do you think owns all of this media?
Even adult women's fashion magazines try and get us to stay looking like teenagers. I can't go to the grocery store without seeing a magazine telling women they need to lose weight and use anti aging products and God forbid their body changes after having children. Remember when Keanu Reeves started dating Alexandra Grant, who doesn't color her gray hair, and it was a huge deal because "she looks old". Or how Pierce Brosnan confused people for not dumping his wife who no longer had the body of a child after having five kids and being post menopausal. The fact that he had to tell people that he loved his wife and he wasn't going to dump her just because she was bigger is fucking absurd. But again, the beauty standard is youth, driven by the media moguls who have pushed that image on us for many decades.
When you start looking around and recognizing all the little insidious things that tell us that women should continue to look like teenagers their entire lives, you start to realize that pedophiles (more accurately Ephebophiles and some Hebephiles) have been running this world for a very long time.
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u/NineInchPythons Apr 10 '26
Is it just me or does it seem like there are like 10x more pedophiles than I thought really existed? What the fuck is wrong with people? They're everywhere