this post was submitted on 10 Jan 2024
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Paragons of Virtue Arrested
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It's time to name and shame the self-proclaimed paragons of virtue. Keep it civil, though.
Stories are about those who have been placed in positions of trust, and then abused that trust.
Feel free to add stories of the self-righteous from other walks of life.
New rule: With regard to stories of particularly, but not only, female teachers sexually assaulting students. Any comments similar to "where were they when I was in school" will earn you the right to find another forum.
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Technically not a paedo... that's rape of a pre-pubescent child.
Every time I hear someone make this distinction it makes me think that they are trying to justify that they themselves are not technically a paedo
The point is that a true pedophile is worse than what this lady did and the term shouldnt be diluted. A teacher getting sexually involved with 16 year old is bad, but not nearly as bad as if this kid was 8.
There are already people that will minimize what happened to this kid and say it's not that bad. We shouldn't associate what happened here with pedophilia - which is so, so much worse - because people that don't understand the distinction may minimize it and not realize the awfulness of true pedophilia accusations.
I don't think it dilutes the term to call someone in a position of power taking advantage of someone who is legally incapable of offering consenting because of their age a pedophile and a perpetrator of sexual assault.
This guy said it best
I hope you were expecting to be downvoted when you walked into Lemmy and posted a factually, objectively true statement.
Anyway, here's my upvote.
Yeah, I was 😄 Thanks for your support kind stranger!