Can yall learn that specific crimes have specific names and the rape of an adult, even with neuropsychological issues that halts them in a mental age, is not pedophilia and you do more harm to both subsets of victims by lumping them together??
What the omega does is not pedophilia, but could be classified as another disgusting crime nonetheless. One that you could learn the name and raise awareness instead of whatever performative outrage this is. Words have power and calling it by any other name just makes it less likely to be known and properly addressed.
I know that legally (and semanticlaly, socially and psychologically) no country would charge the omega's actions as pedophilia, that's just not what the word is for so don't wear it out and dilute it's meaning.
I don't know how it is called in every other country, but where I'm from it's called abuse of vulnerable. Pedophilia always comes accompanied by the concept of abuse of vulnerable, but this here would go with two charges if reported (abuse of vulnerable and rape).
Not just for those with neuro issues like this, but some shades of intelectual disability, also takes into account elderly too, like ppl with alzheimer.
All these conditions (and more) are aggravating factors in court and even if the vulnerable person gives their consent it is not taken into consideration (like how consent from 14 and under is non-valid because we are sensible enough to know that someone that young cannot fully understand to what they are allegedly consenting to). So it's like, rape + the aggravation of doing so against someone who could not defend themselves or understand what was being done to them.
Now. Reading fiction with no depiction of real people does not configure a crime and has no implications on the morals of the reader so, really, unless it was a portrayal close to real life, trying to sell the harm as good (which is less common than you'd expect with how often rape is featured in yaoi), which is a crime in some countries! (Apology/advocating for rape) I don't usually talk about how these fictional characters would/should be tried.
BUT I had to talk about this difference because lumping it all together as being the same thing is a tactic used by aggressors to diminish the gravity of their crimes. Saying it's pedophilia when the victim is an adult cause harms both to the fight against pedophilia and against the abuse of the vulnerable. Put too much in the same bowl and everything gets muddled and nothing can be addressed properly.
Also! This term can be applied in court for abuse against ppl with physical disabilities that renders them dependant on someone else for basic living necessities, so it's its own crime. It is not applied to kids because it is understood that kids are the vulnerable so, like, parental negligence of a kid is just called that, but of an adult with, lets say, Down syndrome, it goes with the abuse of vulnerable, etcetera etcetera.
Yeah? That's the whole point of the comment? That it's fucking weird and therefore shouldn't be lumped under a different name and, instead, properly addressed for what it is?
Can yall learn that specific crimes have specific names and the rape of an adult, even with neuropsychological issues that halts them in a mental age, is not pedophilia and you do more harm to both subsets of victims by lumping them together??
What the omega does is not pedophilia, but could be classified as another disgusting crime nonetheless. One that you could learn the name and raise awareness instead of whatever performative outrage this is. Words have power and calling it by any other name just makes it less likely to be known and properly addressed.
I know that legally (and semanticlaly, socially and psychologically) no country would charge the omega's actions as pedophilia, that's just not what the word is for so don't wear it out and dilute it's meaning.
I don't know how it is called in every other country, but where I'm from it's called abuse of vulnerable. Pedophilia always comes accompanied by the concept of abuse of vulnerable, but this here would go with two charges if reported (abuse of vulnerable and rape).
Not just for those with neuro issues like this, but some shades of intelectual disability, also takes into account elderly too, like ppl with alzheimer.
All these conditions (and more) are aggravating factors in court and even if the vulnerable person gives their consent it is not taken into consideration (like how consent from 14 and under is non-valid because we are sensible enough to know that someone that young cannot fully understand to what they are allegedly consenting to). So it's like, rape + the aggravation of doing so against someone who could not defend themselves or understand what was being done to them.
Now. Reading fiction with no depiction of real people does not configure a crime and has no implications on the morals of the reader so, really, unless it was a portrayal close to real life, trying to sell the harm as good (which is less common than you'd expect with how often rape is featured in yaoi), which is a crime in some countries! (Apology/advocating for rape) I don't usually talk about how these fictional characters would/should be tried.
BUT I had to talk about this difference because lumping it all together as being the same thing is a tactic used by aggressors to diminish the gravity of their crimes. Saying it's pedophilia when the victim is an adult cause harms both to the fight against pedophilia and against the abuse of the vulnerable.
Put too much in the same bowl and everything gets muddled and nothing can be addressed properly.
Also! This term can be applied in court for abuse against ppl with physical disabilities that renders them dependant on someone else for basic living necessities, so it's its own crime. It is not applied to kids because it is understood that kids are the vulnerable so, like, parental negligence of a kid is just called that, but of an adult with, lets say, Down syndrome, it goes with the abuse of vulnerable, etcetera etcetera.