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daddysprop247 -> RE: MSNBC to catch a preditor (2/15/2007 8:49:08 AM)
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this series infuriates me. the vast majority of these so-called "predators" are far from it, but rather just average, typical (tho perhaps stupid) men who are hoping to take advantage of an opportunity that is tossed in their laps. these "decoys" use very explicit language, and will even be aggressive, in order to lure these poor guys into this Dateline/Perverted Justice trap. also we have to remember that these are not naive, innocent children we are talking about here, but adolescents and teenagers. we are also not talking about anything approaching nonconsent. my grandfather married my grandmother when he was 26 and she was 14...according to Dateline, that makes him a "predator." the fact that our modern western society infantalizes (sp) young people to the point where they're considered drooling, mentally and emotionally incompetent babies until they hit 17 or 18 is the true crime. it wasn't so very long ago that a person of 13, 14, 15 years old was expected to be mature and responsible enough to handle hard physical labor on a farm, tending and raising livestock, cleaning and maintaining an entire household, working an outside job to contribute to household finances, taking care of younger children, and in some cases had families of their own. now young people of this same age are viewed as doe-eyed innocents who need constant protecting from the big bad world. it's mind boggling. the sad thing is that there truly are child predators out there, a great many of them, but they will never find them so long as they continue to focus on these clueless average joes. i speak as a woman who was violently sexually abused throughout my childhood, starting at age 5. He scarred me for life, physically and emotionally, to the point where i'll likely always be broken. He is a true predator against children. but you will not find him online being seduced by the aggressive flirtations of some 12 year old. that is not the M.O. of his kind.
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