Women were also the first to be outraged about the crime of rape directed at women, and about spousal abuse. Should we have kept silent and allowed the victims to suffer alone?
Red herring. Try and stay on topic. That being said, if you're so eager to deviate, we can address your failure to respond to my presentation of the likely validity of evolutionary theories of rape.
Sniggering at our gender and our role in life, particularly when you have no experience as a parent isn't a very good tactic towards developing a solid argument.
False.
This is why I tell you not to make assumptions about other posters here, but you're evidently too dense to understand that.
I will not dismiss the experiences of young people. But those of you who are young and have never been parents should not dismiss our views simply because we're over 30 and not to be trusted.
Primitive cliche and stereotype of youth that itself functions as a form of bias.
You lack the same experiences, as well as the longevity of life that allows you to see how actions play out over time. Furthermore, young people also often lack humility because they haven't fully experienced the weight of adult responsibility. The fact of the matter is that I've been a teenager and worked with teenager for 20 years. My feelings on child sexual abuse evolved from THOSE experiences, but were only complemented by my experiences as a mother. You've never been a mother, so you simply don't know what the experience is like, and how it might change your perceptions of what matters.
There is no functional difference between your ad hominem attack and my own. Your ad hominem attack consists of the claim that youth (specifically myself), are unable to comprehend the consequences and effects of extending civil rights and liberties to youth because they lack experience. You thereby are able to bypass the burden of offering rational criticism of advocacy of youth liberation. Mine is a simply observation that women view sexual interactions in a far more emotional and romantic context than men, and that your thinking therefore may be clouded by this matter. There is no functional difference between the two except for the fact that mine permits a possibility for you to be correct.
I've posted multiple sources that state that male rape victims experience SIMILAR emotional trauma to female victims, without the support from the community, peers and others to help them cope with these complex feelings. The fact that you are still hung up in gender bias says more about you than it does about the trauma and damaged caused by adult/child sexual relations.
Previous "studies" and "sources" posted by you have been of a spectacularly shoddy quality, and I expect the same of future posts. Regardless, you ignore several critical elements of this phenomenon. namely that concern for the emotional well-being of youth must take into account the evolutionary fact that males are more prone to view sexual activity in a recreational context, and females are more prone to view sexual activity in a romantic context, as a result of early males being able to "spread their seed" as far as possible in order to ensure the survival of their offspring, and early females needing to be picky about their mates so that they could select one trustworthy enough to guard them throughout their pregnancy and nursing period. As a result, there is a higher likelihood that females will experience a greater deal of emotional fallout from a negative relationship than males will, a fact that cries out to be taken into account.
Similarly, you ignore the fundamentally obvious fact that adolescent males typically possess a greater amount of physical strength than adult females, so while an adolescent female's physically weaker condition than an adult male may exacerbate the hierarchical parameters of their relationship, an adolescent male's physically stronger condition than an adult female
alleviates it. And of course, that operates on the assumption that adolescents in general are not capable of making rational and informed decisions in the same manner as legal adults, which itself is worthy of challenge on the basis of evidence to the contrary.
