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"Let's deflower the kid."


Consider, three attractive adult men aged 18-20 seduce and have sex with a 15-year-old girl, and the overall reaction to such a scene is: "Now that is how you lose your virginity!" A small minority of people are horrified by such a depiction of statutory rape, and point it out as such, while everybody else brushes it off, saying stuff like "She consented, so it's all cool," or "She could have gotten up and left any time she wanted," or "Damn, I wish that happened to me when I was that age," or "What a lucky girl! So jealous!"

Then there would be something seriously wrong. But since it's socially accepted, if not encouraged, for adult women to molest underage boys, there's nothing wrong with that exact same scenario as long as the sexes are reversed. Why is it even considered a sex offense when an adult woman has sex with a boy under 18 years of age, when everybody is lining up to high five the kid afterwards? Why do we arrest these women when all they're doing is giving hormonal teenage boys the time of their lives?

What diversity used to mean: Diversity
What diversity now means: Fewer white people

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It was a different time.

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Heck,it might not have even been illegal then.

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You're right. I think the point of the scene was to force Penny to confront her feelings for him that she mostly ignored because of her fixation on Russell. You could see that she was bothered by it.

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Yeah, penny wanted shiny over substance. God I live this movie.

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What y'all seem to be missing is that the "Line" moves depending what country you're in!

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Given the time this was set in it was pretty standard. There are stories of groupies as young as 14 at the time so the reverse definitely did happen.

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