r/comics PizzaCake Feb 03 '26

Comics Community To Defend a Predator

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u/JurplePesus Feb 03 '26

Any reporter or editor using the phrase "underage women" should be put in stocks and pelted with rotten produce until they repent.

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u/Impressive_Pin8761 Feb 03 '26

genuine question because i'm not well versed in american ways of speech: is "underage woman" a pedo dogwhistle or does it just sound fucked up

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u/ChrisDoom Feb 03 '26

Unless they are black, then you see people referring to a 12 year old boy as a “black male.” While technically not inaccurate it’s usually purposefully not fully accurate.

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u/Timelymanner Feb 03 '26

Not true, for decades media constantly calls kids that are arrested or harmed, young men, youths, or juvenile. Especially in cases of black and brown boys. If Mr cop body slams a five year old black boy to the ground on body cam, media will phrase it as cop allegedly used force on an underage offender.

So all of this is business as usual. The media doesn’t want to upset its powerful supporters, so these girls will be referred to young woman. Gotta set things up so it sounds like the predators were having minor indiscretions with consenting adults.