You have a terrible habit of putting words in people's mouths, it seems.
Well, look, you're trying to pass off groping as no big deal, or something that's not
as bad as actual penetration. Even when underage girls are the victims.
I'm saying that's a pretty shitty distinction to make and doesn't help your cause because it ends up making
you look like a monster as well...mansplaining what is rape and what isn't.
People can decide for themselves what they believe to be acceptable and what they believe to be crossing a line. If we considered groping to be the same as rape, then anyone who ever blacked out and got handsy would be a rapist. Which would probably constitute a solid 30 - 40% of the adult population, including a sizable chunk of women. Anyone with a lick of common sense can see how stupid that would be.
No. People don't get to make that decision for themselves. That's not how it works. And if you're saying that 30-40% of people grope each other, then you're making the argument that it's
institutional. Is that your intent?
Uh, what?
No. Seriously. Go back and read again. It feels like smashing one's head into a brick wall, trying to get through to you.
No, what's happening is that you're finding your position is become less and less tenable as you defend it, so that manifests itself in the acts of Dunning-Kruger like you're trying here.
I'm not the problem...the problem is your flexible and fluid morality. Don't blame me for your argument's shortcomings.
My argument is quite simple.
Groping is one thing.
Rape is another.
Both become sexual assault IF REPORTED
Rape is far more serious than other sex crimes.
Here's what I want you to do. Sit down with one woman who had her ass grabbed at the bar and another woman who was viciously gang-raped in a dark alleyway. Then tell them, "You ladies both suffered the same thing. You were both raped."
And then tell me how the woman who was actually raped reacts to that statement.
The underaged/child part takes it to yet another level of seriousness, but that's not what I'm talking about. The question was, did Roy Moore rape anyone. The answer is, no he did not.
What you are finding so difficult to understand about this is beyond my mortal ability to fathom.