What is wrong with this show and the parents in general? Like wow, so its ok for your 16 year old daughter (ok so she is almost 17 who cares) to be trying to bang a 28 year old? Really? Not creepy at all?
Even when they first met and he was like "oh i thought you were 21" and she says "no im 16" hes just like ok thats cool, lets bang. Come on syfy....
Yeah there is another thread on this but it's creepy.
shareagreed
Dana still very much mentally and physically resembles a 'child.'
It was forced and unnecessary. Referring to her as ma'am, that was odd. Intellectual knowledge is not the same as adulthood. Her fangirlish behavior stood out. Healthy/normal young men would be aghast by the infatuation by Dana.
i agree it's pretty gross. and the dumb "WELL IT'S THE APOCALYPSE AFTER ALL. SO PICKENS ARE SLIM" excuse from some on this board is pretty ick as well. lol.
shareI was on the Walking Dead board and someone was talking about how hot they thought Enid was (she is like 16 on the show) and I said something like if you are over 25 it's kinda like being a pedophile drooling over her and I was massacred and told sex with 16 and 17 year olds was ok no matter the age of the other person as long as they were the age of consent. I think it's becoming more and more acceptable these days. I'm not even that old but have an 11 year old girl and I would kill any 28 year old who tried to have sex with her when she is 16. I guess I am now old fashioned. Or maybe it's because most of the people on the site were 25ish and I was telling them no. Maybe when they grow up they will feel different.
shareI was on the Walking Dead board...
I think it's becoming more and more acceptable these days. I'm not even that old but have an 11 year old girl and I would kill any 28 year old who tried to have sex with her when she is 16. I guess I am now old fashioned. Or maybe it's because most of the people on the site were 25ish and I was telling them no. Maybe when they grow up they will feel different.
"When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years."
Quote attributed to Mark Twain, but not proven.
Regardless, it speaks the truth no matter who said it.
I don't think times have changed at all. My mom started dating my dad when she was 15/16 years old and got married to him a week out of high school - he is 9 years older than her. I know it isn't 12 years but at that point it really doesn't matter. Nothing was said against it, my grandparents apparently didn't care and even wanted them to get married. If anything it seems as if people are more concerned about hat type of thing now than they were back in the 70's. They did get a divorce about 10 years later.
However, when it is the end of the world people probably aren't as concerned because you know, the world is ending. Although I can't imagine I would be ok with it.
I agree. In fact, I think modern laws are much more clear and penalties are much more severe than the 'old days'.
Also agree on the priorities of morality at end times; killing people without remorse makes lowering an age threshold by 15 months an easy thing- you could die tomorrow, and many often do.
What you're missing is that the age of consent differs depending on the country. The people you spoke to who think 16/17 is OK were probably British.
shareIn the US the age of consent differs by state, but is between 16 and 18 across the board. In some places however, civil and criminal laws within the same state conflict with each other (that's the real problem here.)
Want a list?
16: Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Connecticut, Georgia, Hawaii, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Vermont, Washington, West Virginia
17: Colorado, Illinois, Louisiana, Missouri, New Mexico, New York, Texas, Wyoming
18: Arizona, California, Delaware, Florida, Idaho, North Dakota, Oregon, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Wisconsin
Let's see. The show takes place in Washington, where the age of consent is 16. Case closed.
Texas is listed twice.
shareyes 16 is legal age in the UK but over 20 is very creepy.
shareSo a 28 year old and a 16 year old is bad. But a 38 year old and a 26 year old is fine?
Same age difference.
Maturity isn't connected to biological age. A 16 year old can be more mature than a 26 year old in many regards. Plus, at 16, boys and girls are biologically fully developed.
By the way, a 16 year old, in some US states, can operate a motor vehicle on public roads, in some EU countries they can vote. But they can't have sex with someone above 20, because that person above 20 is a pedophile, and a 16 year old sleeping with a 20+ year old is "bad"?
What if one party is 16 and the other 21? I mean, it's only 5 years in difference, would that still make 20+ a "pedophile"?
All I see is pseudo-morality based on arbitrary numbers. It gets even more ludicrous when considering the 16 year old having sex is your big beef, when the show is full of violence and outright murder.
Classic America. Murder is fine, but sex?! OH TEH NOES! SEX IS EVIL!
By the way, "pedophile" is not the world you're looking for. A 16 year old is not a child, not by any reasonable and/or scientific standard.
Pedos tend to prey on victims that have no sexual maturity at all.
[quote]So a 28 year old and a 16 year old is bad. But a 38 year old and a 26 year old is fine?
Same age difference. [quote]
A person who is 28 has almost 60% more life experience than a 16-year-old. A 38-year-old isn't even a third older than a 26-year-old so the misbalance is a lot less. As they get even older, twelve years will represent a smaller and smaller portion of the younger person's life, so that's why 38/26 is considered less creepy than 28/16, and why no one bats an eye when an 80-year-old marries a 68-year-old.
Judging by your post,you are one of those people who support this kind of behavior.
As long as its love,there's nothing wrong with it..I mean seriously?
I hope some day,you have daughter and on her 12th birthday she brings home a boyfriend, motorcycle gang member,who is 40 years old by the way.
You guys do realize that it wasn't so long ago that women as young as 14 married men in their 20's or even 30's. Personally as long as they had feelings for each other and the relationship was real; thenni see no problem with it. Is the magical number of 18 supposed to be all that different. Some people mature faster than others. Stop being such prudes and yes in a World gone mad; finding someone to love could anchor you.
sharePedophile alert
shareSigh.
It's only pedophelia if the person is not sexually mature. You have to be attracted to children to be a pedophile. And by children they mean prior to developing secondary sexual characteristics.
This is statutory rape, which is based on having the maturity to consent with understanding. It's a fuzzy line, which is why so many places put different ages on it in order to create a subjective standard.
If you're going to ride in on a moral high horse, at least know the crimes you're ranting about. Based on the stupidity presented in this thread, most of you aren't wise enough to consent to having a debate on the existence of Santa Claus.
Movies are IQ tests; the IMDB boards are how people broadcast their score.
This is statutory rape...
False, it's not statutory rape.
The show begins in Washington, where the age of consent is 16. It's perfectly legal.
Technically speaking, the only truly illegal action here is yours. Your statement constitutes slander.
shareYou guys do realize that it wasn't so long ago that women as young as 14 married men in their 20's or even 30's. Personally as long as they had feelings for each other and the relationship was real; thenni see no problem with it. Is the magical number of 18 supposed to be all that different. Some people mature faster than others. Stop being such prudes and yes in a World gone mad; finding someone to love could anchor you.
I think 2 differences between now and in the past is that for one, people didn't live as long, so maybe it was ok to marry earlier. And two, people didn't have sex before they married like they do now. So you want to get some, you have to marry lol. Maybe those reasons have nothing to do with it but times def were different so it's harder to compare.
shareYou guys do realize that it wasn't so long ago that women as young as 14 married men in their 20's or even 30's. Personally as long as they had feelings for each other and the relationship was real; thenni see no problem with it. Is the magical number of 18 supposed to be all that different. Some people mature faster than others. Stop being such prudes and yes in a World gone mad; finding someone to love could anchor you.
I'm no expert and have never had a reason to do the research but I'm assuming it's legal for a 28 year old to have sex with a 16 year old in some of the states
You shut the *beep* up, *beep*
Either contribute to the conversation or leave.
Age of consent in the US: between 16 and 18, with most states having it at 16.
Age of consent in European countries: between 14 and 17 (18, if we count Turkey.)
Age of consent in Japan: 13 (though prefectural law generally states 18.)
So your entire argument is nothing but a whine.
The mental and physical difference between a 16 and an 18 year old is trivial.
They didn't marry out of love.
He needed a wife and be the mother to his children.
She needed to be taken care of.
Even when they first met and he was like "oh i thought you were 21" and she says "no im 16" hes just like ok thats cool, lets bang. Come on syfy....
"What is wrong with this show and the parents in general? Like wow, so its ok for your 16 year old daughter (ok so she is almost 17 who cares) to be trying to bang a 28 year old?"
That's pretty normal age difference when volcanoes explode, earthquakes reshape the coastline, feverheads are going on killing sprees, said plague kills 1/3 of humanity, a meteor wipes out a town, shapeshifters roam the Earth, flesh eating parasites eat people, demonic possession becomes an everyday occurrence, weird Polynesia water spirits visit your home, portals to nowhere open up in the middle of the sky, and the sky is falling.
When end the world things happen, the old social mores go out the window. Survival and fleeting happiness take over.
Fictional example, the show Falling Skies had a 16 year old male banging a 30 year old women. No one gave a damn. Of course both characters were partisans fighting off an alien invasion.
'Go get an education, learn to talk you first language, lerarn to spell countries names' nidii-76417
Fictional example, the show Falling Skies had a 16 year old male banging a 30 year old women. No one gave a damn. Of course both characters were partisans fighting off an alien invasion.
The oldest son and Maggie.
'Go get an education, learn to talk you first language, lerarn to spell countries names' nidii-76417
The oldest son and Maggie.
The actress was in her mid 30s when the season ended. Plus, 21 or 22 doesn't explain how she went through highschool, survived Cancer, and moved on with her life.
'Go get an education, learn to talk you first language, lerarn to spell countries names' nidii-76417
Where i live (Northern europe) 16 is legal age, so didn't think anything of it.
shareWell, these people are correct, nobody under eighteen in America ever has sex unless they're preverts, even when the world's ending and there probably ain't no tomorrow. That these young women are almost twenty doesn't matter to these people. Still, these numbnut Dr. Phil prudes should rest assured that the perverted men both died. That'll teach 'em!
shareWell, these people are correct, nobody under eighteen in America ever has sex unless they're preverts, even when the world's ending and there probably ain't no tomorrow. That these young women are almost twenty doesn't matter to these people. Still, these numbnut Dr. Phil prudes should rest assured that the perverted men both died. That'll teach 'em!
Last I checked, which I admit has been a while, the age of consent in the United States was usually 16.
It does vary State by State.
In Delaware, it used to be 7. That's right, you didn't misread it. It was seven years old. But I think they changed it not too long ago.
It's 16 in most US states as well. The people here are just too lazy to look it up and rather cling to emotional hyperbole and hysteria rather than fact.
America, eh?
Technically, this is not called a pedophile. This is called an Ephebophile.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ephebophilia
They're typically attracted to persons between the age of 15-19, thereabouts. Not quite as reprehensible as true pedophiles, who prefer prepubescent children.