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He's right that we shouldn't infantilise teenagers by calling them 'children', lumping them in with prepubescent children as if there's no difference between them.
Sorry but by the article linked above, he whatabouts rape of teenagers with "but they were not children". He may have done a lot of good for free software, but this is not a single poorly worded comment - these kinds of statements can be found by the dozen. And that means he is mentally unwell / mentally damaged to consider them acceptable.
If I recall he was more hung up on the consent part, because he was probably a black and white logic thinker. If Teen consent, therefore OK. I think later he made a statement that he had re-thought it, after people argued that a teen saying yes is not consent because they can't legally consent.
afaict only thing he's re-thought is this:
But as that blog post points out:
As much as people fucking hate when this line gets rolled out and for good reason.
There's a reason chronophilia is a term. Infantophilia, pedophilia, hebephilia, ephebophilia, teleiopholia, mesophilia and gerontophilia. Are all different things.
Actually properly respecting, and using correct terminology can and should be a thing as it prevents unreasonable harm in instances where things are perfectly fine.
For example a 18 year old ephebophile. That's fucking normal, even tho in the eyes of the law it's punished as a sex crime. A 18 year old and a 17 year old with a 6 month gap gets fucked because we don't actually take into account logic when it comes to this topic.
So that 18 year old is now a "pedophile" a term with horrid implications and life defining punishments legally and socially just because we all refuse to actually educate ourselves of the terminology and actual research on the topic.
Because the word pedo has such a huge social negative (for good reason) that we basically just all collectively go stupid as fuck and go straight to the worse punishment we can with out ever considering logic.
It also makes further research into the topic absurdly hard to do and secure funding for. Because of the massive social problems with attaching your name to such research.
Cause even researching it can result in you being attacked. There's been a number of instances iv seen where research on the topic dead ends because no one is willing to actually attach their name to the subject. Or when something gets published it gets dragged through the mud because it's a easy headline.
So we never actually find healthy and effective methods to deal with the problem. We just attack, mislabel, don't think and cause more harm by not actually trying to deal with it. Because the problem is "icky".
At least in my neck of the woods there's a pre-16, 16-18 and 18+ band, so a 17/18 couple wouldn't be straight up criminalal.