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Prism
Dec 22, 2007

yospos

Covok posted:

What does that word mean? 'Ephebophilia'?

If it actually matched the Greek root it was derived from it would be 17-ish year olds at the youngest. (And only males.) It's adolescents, but an ephebos in particular was one eligible for military service.

Whenever anyone says it online they mean 'teenagers'. Often young teenagers. So yeah, basically pedophilia again.

Prism fucked around with this message at 23:11 on Feb 19, 2017

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sweart gliwere
Jul 5, 2005

better to die an evil wizard,
than to live as a grand one.
Pillbug

Covok posted:

What does that word mean? 'Ephebophilia'?

You know how some types can read Nabokov's Lolita and sincerely think of Humbert as the victim?

And others look at the traditional iron-age or stone-age marriages with younger brides and think "huh, looks like :biotruths:"

And others just really wish that age-13 policy for email or website memberships, also applied to Tinder?


The word means :sever:

Covok
May 27, 2013

Yet where is that woman now? Tell me, in what heave does she reside? None of them. Because no God bothered to listen or care. If that is what you think it means to be a God, then you and all your teachings are welcome to do as that poor women did. And vanish from these realms forever.
So, it just means pedophile.

fishmech
Jul 16, 2006

by VideoGames
Salad Prong

NLJP posted:

Basically still loving kids but at least they're 12-13+, something like that. Ephebophilia is basically 'attraction to someone who is at least going through puberty'.

It's a distinction people make to make themselves feel less like scum, i.e: they're old enough and their minds are matured enough to consent. These people tend not to consider power dynamics and coercion from an older person to a younger one as a problem.

The ironic thing is that claiming you're into that is worse: it means you're attracted to people with adult sexual features, but you insist on getting them as young as possible.

Like, actual pedophiles have poo poo wrong with them where they only want undeveloped bodies, and there's not much for them to do other than try to get a bunch of therapy to keep them from acting on it. Someone who tells you they're an ephebophile, they're saying "I need victims". Because an ephebophile would be someone who could live their life just fine and be attracted to full adults, but they're intentionally trying to get with the very young because they're knowingly creeps.

Spacedad
Sep 11, 2001

We go play orbital catch around the curvature of the earth, son.
Exactly - they are creeps who seek people they have a severe imbalance of power over. They are pretty much the reason why statutory rape laws protect teenagers.

So it's still super-wrong as gently caress but has different poo poo going on for why it's wrong and hosed up.

Spacedad fucked around with this message at 00:38 on Feb 20, 2017

Davethulhu
Aug 12, 2003

Morbid Hound
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TB9fwJDweaU

The Muppets On PCP
Nov 13, 2016

by Fluffdaddy

NLJP posted:

It's a distinction people make to make themselves feel less like scum, i.e: they're old enough and their minds are matured enough to consent. These people tend not to consider power dynamics and coercion from an older person to a younger one as a problem.

speaking of

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBYM0dQ4zUU&t=426s

ded redd
Aug 1, 2010

by Fluffdaddy
https://twitter.com/mschlapp/status/833485576431079424

They're seriously going forward with making the advocate for pederasty a speaker at CPAC.

ToxicSlurpee
Nov 5, 2003

-=SEND HELP=-


Pillbug

Covok posted:

So, it just means pedophile.

What's an ephebophile? A pedophile with a thesaurus.

Guy Farting
Jul 28, 2003

has vegetable salty
lol here's the whole unedited video. it's still awful, milo is awful

https://twitter.com/ReaganBattalion/status/833485040944156673

HackensackBackpack
Aug 20, 2007

Who needs a house out in Hackensack? Is that all you get for your money?

NLJP posted:

Basically still loving kids but at least they're 12-13+, something like that. Ephebophilia is basically 'attraction to someone who is at least going through puberty'.

It's a distinction people make to make themselves feel less like scum, i.e: they're old enough and their minds are matured enough to consent. These people tend not to consider power dynamics and coercion from an older person to a younger one as a problem.

They're This guy, basically.

(NOTE: This is a link to a video from a guy who was on TV Tropes at some point, who got into a fight with a goon over statutory rape laws.)

Kubrick
Jul 20, 2004

NLJP posted:

“I thought when we elected a black president, we were going to get a black president. You know, this [BP oil spill] is where I want a real black president. I want him in a meeting with the BP CEOs, you know, where he lifts up his shirt so you can see the gun in his pants. That’s – (in black man voice) ‘we’ve got a motherfu**ing problem here?’ Shoot somebody in the foot.'” - Maher


tl;dr old smug 'liberal' (who isn't really) actually huge bigot and assumes he's always right because he's convinced he's too smart not to be.

I get that a lot of people hate Maher, but this is some weak evidence that he's a huge bigot. You can do better then the lovely opening jokes his staff writes.

Jazerus
May 24, 2011


Office Pig posted:

https://twitter.com/mschlapp/status/833485576431079424

They're seriously going forward with making the advocate for pederasty a speaker at CPAC.

wouldn't be the first time i'm guessing

PhazonLink
Jul 17, 2010
Reminder Purity Balls.

Donnie got the vote of the surprising large block of white fathers that want to gently caress their own daughters.

Mr Ice Cream Glove
Apr 22, 2007

PhazonLink posted:

Reminder Purity Balls.

Donnie got the vote of the surprising large block of white fathers that want to gently caress their own daughters.

joepinetree
Apr 5, 2012

Office Pig posted:

https://twitter.com/mschlapp/status/833485576431079424

They're seriously going forward with making the advocate for pederasty a speaker at CPAC.

This stuff with college campuses is indicative of both the cognitive dissonance of the right and why the current right wing is so lovely. Stephen Miller's entire career is basically being automatically given a space on student publications and government for being conservative. David Horowitz's main source of income is being paid by colleges to tell colleges he is discriminated against.

Which sets up the current situation. Want to get involved in the conservative movement as a college student? Dont spend any time trying to come up with novel arguments or researching stuff. Instead, try to get your student newspaper to publish your "homosexuality is just like bestiality" editorial and keep pushing your student government to spend student fees to bring the least qualified right wing troll to campus. And if they do give you that opportunity, keep doubling down until you get any minor pushback, because that is when you can get someone like Bachmann to come on campus and launch your career (that is literally what has happened to Stephen Miller). The dishonesty is so great that once Horowitz claimed to have been banned from Emory because the Emory student government association refused to pay for a second visit by him within an 8 month period.

pentyne
Nov 7, 2012

Prism posted:

If it actually matched the Greek root it was derived from it would be 17-ish year olds at the youngest. (And only males.) It's adolescents, but an ephebos in particular was one eligible for military service.

Whenever anyone says it online they mean 'teenagers'. Often young teenagers. So yeah, basically pedophilia again.

"Young" being 13-15 and not usually older. Most often you see people arguing about age of consent and so on by pointing out places where it's lower then 18 oh and by the way its literally never any adult woman arguing it should be fine for them to bang 14 year old boys. Just straight men saying being attracted to a 14 year old girl is perfectly normal or a gay man saying there's nothing wrong with a 15 year old boy and a 30 year old man.

Kubrick
Jul 20, 2004

joepinetree posted:

This stuff with college campuses is indicative of both the cognitive dissonance of the right and why the current right wing is so lovely. Stephen Miller's entire career is basically being automatically given a space on student publications and government for being conservative. David Horowitz's main source of income is being paid by colleges to tell colleges he is discriminated against.

Which sets up the current situation. Want to get involved in the conservative movement as a college student? Dont spend any time trying to come up with novel arguments or researching stuff. Instead, try to get your student newspaper to publish your "homosexuality is just like bestiality" editorial and keep pushing your student government to spend student fees to bring the least qualified right wing troll to campus. And if they do give you that opportunity, keep doubling down until you get any minor pushback, because that is when you can get someone like Bachmann to come on campus and launch your career (that is literally what has happened to Stephen Miller). The dishonesty is so great that once Horowitz claimed to have been banned from Emory because the Emory student government association refused to pay for a second visit by him within an 8 month period.

This is also how you become a Trump surrogate on a major news network.

Pirate Radar
Apr 18, 2008

You're not my Ruthie!
You're not my Debbie!
You're not my Sherry!

A Fancy 400 lbs posted:

I know I was the one who attacked Maher first, but this is like one of the few things he's right about. If you wanna argue against it, come out here and live in a farm town and then tell me it isn't true. It's obviously not everyone and it's slowly changing as the older generations die off but that stereotype exists for a reason.

Whether or not you think it's true is different than whether or not it's an effective strategy, to be fair.

Jurgan
May 8, 2007

Just pour it directly into your gaping mouth-hole you decadent slut

pentyne posted:

Most often you see people arguing about age of consent and so on by pointing out places where it's lower then 18 oh and by the way its literally never any adult woman arguing it should be fine for them to bang 14 year old boys.

Rebuttal.

beatlegs
Mar 11, 2001

Jake Tapper is all over the Milo pedophilia thing on Twitter right now & he's pissed. This is likely to blow up big tomorrow.

NLJP
Aug 26, 2004


Kubrick posted:

I get that a lot of people hate Maher, but this is some weak evidence that he's a huge bigot. You can do better then the lovely opening jokes his staff writes.

Point taken bout that one being a little weak (though still dumb and racist) but mainly the fact is that there is a pattern of him certainly not being a 'progressive' at best and being a lovely bigot at worst.

His religious stuff is the most egregious and obvious but there's certainly a whole lot more out there.

PJOmega
May 5, 2009
I always thought the ephebophile (thank you spell check for refusing to accept that as a word) thing was an artifact of the fact that Reddit and such was populated by 13-18 year olds. The duality of kids being attracted to people their age while simultaneously pretending at being older/more mature online than their actual ages.

Is it actually argued in seriousness by people verifiably not kids playing at being older?

Republicans
Oct 14, 2003

- More money for us

- Fuck you


If Milo was serious about becoming a mainstream figure now is the perfect time for him to renounce homosexuality and claim all the pedo stuff was just how all gay people are so he couldn't live that way anymore.

BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


Lipstick Apathy

PJOmega posted:

Is it actually argued in seriousness by people verifiably not kids playing at being older?
Absolutely, yes. I remember a moderator in this forum who did it and was then run out on a rail.

Crabtree
Oct 17, 2012

ARRRGH! Get that wallet out!
Everybody: Lowtax in a Pickle!
Pickle! Pickle! Pickle! Pickle!

Dinosaur Gum

Republicans posted:

If Milo was serious about becoming a mainstream figure now is the perfect time for him to renounce homosexuality and claim all the pedo stuff was just how all gay people are so he couldn't live that way anymore.

Too bad the current administration has emboldened his ilk to basically opening demand paiderastia and present it as some sort of job they could possibly get paid for, if Milo or any other rear end in a top hat ever felt like it. Y'know, so they don't have to just go to the Philippines all the time!

Groundskeeper Silly
Sep 1, 2005

My philosophy...
The first rule is:
You look good.

PJOmega posted:

I always thought the ephebophile (thank you spell check for refusing to accept that as a word) thing was an artifact of the fact that Reddit and such was populated by 13-18 year olds. The duality of kids being attracted to people their age while simultaneously pretending at being older/more mature online than their actual ages.

Is it actually argued in seriousness by people verifiably not kids playing at being older?

Back before it was verboten here (or wherever), it certainly seemed like it was non-kids using it, not kids lying about their age but refusing to lie about who they're attracted to.

CubanMissile
Apr 22, 2003

Of Hulks and Spider-Men

PJOmega posted:

I always thought the ephebophile (thank you spell check for refusing to accept that as a word) thing was an artifact of the fact that Reddit and such was populated by 13-18 year olds. The duality of kids being attracted to people their age while simultaneously pretending at being older/more mature online than their actual ages.

Is it actually argued in seriousness by people verifiably not kids playing at being older?

There's a reason why like half the porn out there is girls pretending to be in high school.

Spacedad
Sep 11, 2001

We go play orbital catch around the curvature of the earth, son.
Milo's bullshit (and Breitbart's/Bannon's in general) starts to make more sense when you realize he's a white nationalist catholic extremist of the 'lets subjugate everyone not like us and instigate new profiteering crusade in the middle east by any underhanded means necessary' variety. Which is a type of catholic extremism that lends itself to being a selfish profiteering narcissist or a self-hating deviant. (Or even a straight-up fascist.)

It's also a brand of catholic extremism that is at odds with the current pope; which is why Bannon is trying to pull some game of thrones type poo poo with his allies in the vatican.

Schizotek
Nov 8, 2011

I say, hey, listen to me!
Stay sane inside insanity!!!
Milo advocates for pedophilia for the same reason he loudly proclaims his fetish for BIG BLACK BUCKS, and for the same reason he writes about how gay people need to be forced back into the closet. To legitimize the conservative view and attitude towards homosexuals.

Spacedad
Sep 11, 2001

We go play orbital catch around the curvature of the earth, son.
You are right that he is a 'homosexuals are bad, look at me' gay quisling for the right to use in their strawman attacks on LGBTs - in fact that's literally how he got his start. Writing exactly that sort of thing in a catholic extremist newsletter.

However, I think you're slightly off here in that milo's defense of pedophilia here is more to do with his catholic extremism, and apologetics for pedophile priests.

Shbobdb
Dec 16, 2010

by Reene
It's worth noting that you can also replace "Catholic Extremist" with "Mainline Protestant".

Ragnar34
Oct 10, 2007

Lipstick Apathy
I prefer to assume Milo defends child molestation not because he's a conservative false flag designed to damage gay rights, but because he's a bad person.

Crabtree
Oct 17, 2012

ARRRGH! Get that wallet out!
Everybody: Lowtax in a Pickle!
Pickle! Pickle! Pickle! Pickle!

Dinosaur Gum
Yeah, I'm sure the right uses him as a tool so much as Milo really is a tool and would do this willingly and honestly. The right gets to justify and engender hatred towards homosexuals by letting milo run free to paint them all with his broad brush and Milo gets to be the biggest degenerate he can get away with because lovely conservatism and now potentially even molestation is protected speech.

RasperFat
Jul 11, 2006

Uncertainty is inherently unsustainable. Eventually, everything either is or isn't.

Ragnar34 posted:

I prefer to assume Milo defends child molestation not because he's a conservative false flag designed to damage gay rights, but because he's a bad person.

Why not both?

sweart gliwere
Jul 5, 2005

better to die an evil wizard,
than to live as a grand one.
Pillbug

RasperFat posted:

Why not both?

The ultimate betrayal at this point would be leaked footage of Milo coming home to a plain and modest 37-year-old wife, each drinking a glass of warm milk while they study scripture before taking a 7pm nap.

Vargatron
Apr 19, 2008

MRAZZLE DAZZLE


Ah yes, the old ephebophile defense. That's the same kind of person that watches underage anime porn and says "actually this 12 year old child is a 300 year old vampire!" in all seriousness.

Phone
Jul 30, 2005

親子丼をほしい。
https://twitter.com/kurteichenwald/status/833536751729799168

seiferguy
Jun 9, 2005

FLAWED
INTUITION



Toilet Rascal
Milo's statement:

quote:

A note for idiots (UPDATED):

I do not support pedophilia. Period. It is a vile and disgusting crime, perhaps the very worst. There are selectively edited videos doing the rounds, as part of a co-ordinated effort to discredit me from establishment Republicans, that suggest I am soft on the subject.

If it somehow comes across (through my own sloppy phrasing or through deceptive editing) that I meant any of the ugly things alleged, let me set the record straight: I am completely disgusted by the abuse of children.

Some facts to consider:

1. I have outed THREE pedophiles in my career as a journalist. That's three more than any of my critics and a peculiar strategy for a supposed pedophile apologist.

(a) Luke Bozier, former business partner of Louise Mensch
http://kernelmag.dailydot.com/%85/menshn-co-founder-embroile%85/
http://kernelmag.dailydot.com/%85/%85/3746/luke-bozier-arrested/

(b) Nicholas Nyberg, anti-GamerGate activist who self-described as a pedophile and white nationalist
http://www.breitbart.com/%85/leading-gamergate-critic-sarah-%85/

(c) Chris Leydon, a London photographer who has a rape trial starting March 13 thanks to my reporting.
http://www.breitbart.com/%85/tech-city-darling-chris-leydon-%85/

2. I have repeatedly expressed disgust at pedophiles in my journalism.
http://www.breitbart.com/%85/heres-why-the-progressive-left-%85/

3. I have never defended and would never defend child abusers, as my reporting history shows. The world is messy and complicated, and I recognize it as such, as this furore demonstrates. But that is a red line for any decent person.

4. The videos do not show what people say they show. I *did* joke about giving better head as a result of clerical sexual abuse committed against me when I was a teen. If I choose to deal in an edgy way on an internet livestream with a crime I was the victim of that's my prerogative. It's no different to gallows humor from AIDS sufferers.

5. National Review, whose journalists are tweeting about this, published an article defending Salon for giving a pedophile a platform.

6. I did say that there are relationships between younger men and older men that can help a young gay man escape from a lack of support or understanding at home. That's perfectly true and every gay man knows it. But I was not talking about anything illegal and I was not referring to pre-pubescent boys.

7. I said in the same "Drunken Peasants" podcast from which the footage is taken that I agree with the current age of consent.

8. I shouldn't have used the word "boy" when I talked about those relationships between older men and younger gay men. (I was talking about my own relationship when I was 17 with a man who was 29. The age of consent in the UK is 16.) That was a mistake. Gay men often use the word "boy" when they refer to consenting adults. I understand that heterosexual people might not know that, so it was a sloppy choice of words that I regret.

9. This rush to judgment from establishment conservatives who hate Trump as much as they hate me, before I have had any chance to provide context or a response, is one of the big reasons gays vote Democrat.

10. In case there is any lingering doubt, here's me, in the same interview the other footage is taken from, affirming that the current legal age of consent is about right: "And I think the law is probably about right. It's probably roughly the right age. I think it's probably about ok. But there are certainly people who are capable of giving consent at a younger age. I certainly consider myself to be one of them, people who were sexually active younger. I think it particularly happens in the gay world, by the way."

The links are broken since I c/p'd this from his facebook, but basically it's "everyone else has done bad things related to this too".

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Eggplant Squire
Aug 14, 2003



Kurt Eichenwald would point out your house to the nazis if they were coming for you and wouldn't ask anything in return.

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