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it makes me upset that gay people want film representation so bad that they’ll overlook a film (call me by your nam.e) that’s clearly pedophilic because like they want to look past it and it’s going to bother me the entire time people are talking about it because people are absolutely going to make justifications for it and think a relationship between a 17 year old and a 24 year old is okay when it isn’t. it’s not okay with a straight couple, and it’s not okay with a gay couple.
yeah i’m going to be annoying and fight this at every step because i know it’s going to be a great critical success and all that shit
aaand i forgot that it already is a critical success so yeah this is a huge problem
… I was 17 when I entered a relationship with someone who was 23. We had known each other for a while though, and the relationship lasted 3 years. It was the best and most respectful relationship I had ever been in. I’ll probably be hung for this comment, but yeah. I understand it can definitely be or lead to something bad, but not every single case?
Yeah, this. What is up with American Tumblr throwing a huge fit at a 17 year old and a 24 year old dating? Is that really so scandalous in American culture? To the point of accusations of pedophilia? What? Like, it is an age difference but its not exactly a huge unacceptable age difference by the standards of most European countries. Over here it’s pretty widely accepted that a 17 year old can make their own choices like this if there are no other red flags that the relationship is unhealthy. So to see US Tumblr flip out over this Italian film is just weird to me.
17 is underage in half our states.
It’s statutory rape in half our states.
We’re not ‘flipping out,’ we’re uncomfortable celebrating a film that celebrates a relationship that half our country has decided constitutes rape lmao.
Um, most of our states Age of Consent is 16 or 17, you know that right? Only 11 states sees the age of consent as 18. Also none of you ppl on tumblr know what pedophilia is so
& like, I hate the words ‘statutory rape’. The concept of calling all consentual sex that is illegal due to the age difference ‘rape’ is fucked up in itself. It totally undermines all consent based education.
Like, how can you teach a seventeen year old that all the loving, consentual, happy, feeling-good-about-this-forever sex they had with their early-twenties partner is rape and then act surprised when that same seventeen year old does not know how to speak up for themselves when someone actually really rapes them?
That is a horrible way to teach teenagers what rape is and to deny their ability to trust their own experiences. That is so so so fucked up.
