people who call 20 year olds being w 16 yr olds pedophiles..... do these people realize that an age difference can be inappropriate and/or abusive without it being pedophilia, like, im all for talking about abusers but throwing around the word ”pedophile” is just so weird. and it’s a giant moral gray area because they want to drag the razor sharp line between labelling someone liking 17 yr olds a pedophile, and an uwu innocent minor at age 18 which is a) not how anything works at all ever anywhere and b) a toxic way of thinking of and dealing w csa and abusive relationships between adolecents w a significant age difference.
there’s a difference between saying ”well achtcsually pedophilia is a mental illness and people suffering from it are the victims” when the topic at hand is child abuse where it doesnt ****ing matter if the abuser would actually be diagnosed with pedophilia or whatever and the well achtsually... person is only defending pedophiles, and just being opposed to calling everything and everyone a pedophile because it is ignorant, wrong (both morally and, like, ...really actually factually wrong) and hurts people. i also think that it trivializes ”actual pedophilia” and victims of it, not in a way that those people didnt go through anything as bad but imo it’s just different and the trend of calling everything pedophilia is throwing me off.
anyway op literally interacted with and excused a pedophile several times (during their own abuse but this is a callout post so i wont mention that) but go off i guess :///