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holyastronauts: ciscrimes: herbackrowkings: lalondes: >teenage actress’s private nudes get leaked >teenage actress is reviled as a slut and a whore and a bad role model >james franco asks a seventeen-year-old girl if he can meet her in a private hotel room >james franco gets to go on saturday night live and… THEY MUTUALLY ENGAGED IN CONVERSATION! SHE IS CAPABLE OF HER OWN THOUGHT! IT IS NOT ILLEGAL!! AGE OF CONSENT IN NEW YORK IS 17!!! HE CAN DO THAT! SHE HAS CHOICE! HE DIDN’T FORCE HER TO SPEAK TO HIM!!! HE DIDN’T HARASS HER OR THREATEN HER IN ANYWAY!! SHE IS NOT AN IGNORANT 10 YEAR OLD! DONT YOU DARE TREAT THAT GIRL’S CHOICES LIKE A 10 YEAR OLDS! AGE OF CONSENT IN NEW YORK IS 17!!! And the age of consent in Saudi Arabia is 9… whats your point? Just because something is legal doesnt make it morale, it doesnt make it not an outdated law. gay marriage is illegal in most states I suppose you support those laws too? Are you comparing the choices of a 17 year old to a 9 year olds? Are you telling me that a 17 year old isn’t able to appropriately converse with an older person because they are 17? She wasn’t disturbed or bothered by their conversations at all. She actually enjoyed them. Are you telling me that a 17 year old is mentally unable to decide who she can talk to? Ok. Keep belittling women. *spit*, u people make me sick, I can’t even believe that you tagged this rape. You are most likely a feminist. You disgusting people continue trivialize rape and other forms of violence. It’s so nice to know that you believe women are the most fragile creatures on this earth and that’s it’s “abuse” and “rape” if an older man engages in a legal, consented, and appropriate conversation with them. Are these words I really need to type to an MRA? Really? Okay then… A CHILD CANNOT CONSENT TO SEX! There is NO WAY a child has the mental development and maturity to take on those kind of decisions at that age. Do you have any idea how impressionable a teenage girl is? Especially when being groomed by a CELEBRITY!? The human brain is not fully developed untill at least 21… THAT’S WHY WE HAVE AGE OF CONSENT LAWS! They are not there just to stop you getting laid, you know, they are there specifically to STOP PEOPLE IN POSITIONS OF POWER ABUSING THE NAIVITY OF CHILDREN IN ORDER TO RAPE THEM! *Barfing forever…*

If you’re talking about strictly age of consent laws, you first need to understand that those are placed in accordance to the society that holds them. Every society has a different “social clock”- speaking in psychological terms. The social clock is the time, determined by a certain society, in which they believe that an individual is ready to handle responsibilities. The social clock reflects the growth, or maturity, of individuals in a certain society. Society and biology work together to play a part in someone’s development. Biology doesn’t determine all when it comes to cognitive behaviors. Look more into it if you care. I’m not trying to justify the disturbing ages some children are forced into marriages, I’m just trying to explain a factor in age of consent laws and how they can differ from state-state or country-country.

I’m not an MRA, but i do fight for the rights of both men and women equally. I am an egalitarian.

If a society determines that they have raised their people in a way that they lower the social clock of consent to 17, then so be it. YOU DO NOT DECIDE THAT EVERYONE HAS THE SAME MENTAL STANDING! EVERYONE IS DIFFERENT! Also the girl is from scotland and was only in NYC- where she met franco- for her 18 birthday. THE AGE OF CONSENT IN SCOTLAND IS 16. As in, her conversations (which included NO talk of sexual activity) was completely fine by her. Let me say this again. Franco did nothing wrong but flirt with a girl who was legally and mentally able to consent to his flirting. She didn’t tell him to stop massaging her. He didn’t harass her or as her for sex or any sexual activity. The were both legally consenting adults texting eachother. Just because you don’t like the fact that she was just turning 18 when they started texting each other doesn’t mean shit. You don’t decide when someone is old enough to do something. She isn’t your kid and the laws (of NYC and Scotland) have already decided that for her. In both instances she is a legal consenting female texting another man.

We aren’t talking about a 9 year old here hun, we’re talking about a 17 almost 18 year old girl who was raised under a different social clock than what you’re used to.

You don’t get to decide a society’s age of consent darling, only they do. Goodbye.

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