RE: Say NO To Pedophile-Panic Propaganda!
Did this girl just seriously compare ephebophilia to pedophilia? ephebophilia which is generally ages 15 to 19. She just really went there? It makes me weep on the inside at the sheer lack of knowledge and misinformation I pray that not many people took this at face value. also funny the way she speaks of adult/adolescent relations and claiming that they are not sexual at all when at the time she wrote all that she herself was still an adolescent only merely 18. There is so much wrong with the things she wrote I don't even know where to begin. Also what is it with this power imbalance I keep hearing of? Like what damn power imbalance? as if every couple out there has such a thing. As far as I see it if you are in a good standing relationship no matter it be adult/adult, adult/adolescent or adolescent/adolescent there is no power imbalance the moment you two step in together you are equals. And I say that for every good standing couple out there as for the bad ones well okay fair enough.
Ikr. She is supposed to be a college student who excels in journalism according to administrators at her school, but yet she doesn't take the time to perform the research that she needs to do in order to produce anything beyond a blatantly biased opinion editorial. Supposedly the school she is attending is a reputable learning institution in Illinois, but nobody in the faculty seems to oversee her work as they should. My second cousin attended Bradley University there in Illinois to get her degree; but if she were to read Marielle Devereaux's article, she would roast her left and right for misreporting and misstating the facts therein. It scares me to think that Ms. Devereaux may someday be working for one of these major news agencies in the press or the media.
In cases of hypergamy, supposedly community property laws protect the young woman who is either poor or middle class whenever she marries a rich man, and these laws are supposed to make such marriages equal. The only problem is that not every state jurisdiction in our country has community property laws. Of course, I'm not a big fan of hypergamy. Nevertheless, I agree with your point insofar as power imbalances can be leveled out to make adult/adolescent relationships ones of equal strength if the adult partner really cares about the adolescent partner. For example, even though the adult partner may occupy the higher ground financially than the adolescent partner, he can still make the relationship one of equal strength by paying to put his teenage girlfriend through college after she graduates from high school. I once read a true story about a 30-year-old man who protected his 16-year-old girl from a violently abusive 16-year-old ex-boyfriend. Also, if an adult boyfriend does not push his adolescent girlfriend into doing anything that she does not feel ready for, then I would have to say that he is balancing out the difference in power dynamics to put them both on an equal wavelength.
Femi-Nazi extremists always seek to believe the worst about adult/adolescent relationships, because, for one reason or another, they feel personally threatened by them. I honestly don't believe that they care about the teenage girls involved in them. For that reason, people like you and I need to call them out on their nonsense whenever we come across any article on the Internet like the one that Ms. Devereaux published back in 2018.