Double standards

[ripmeister]

You're kidding, right?

I don't think he is. Now we are down to 8 years old as to when one is a woman.

[ripmeister]

Everything Mister V said about puberty is a biological fact. Although the average age of onset for puberty for girls is around 10-11 years, it can begin as early as 8 years of age. The use of the word "women" is merely a synonym for a biological "adult".

There is a distinction between "biological age" and emotional age. That is the point.

[Ethereal]

I don't think he is. Now we are down to 8 years old as to when one is a woman.

Puberty is the biological distinction between a child and an adult. Sometimes, puberty begins as early as eight, so their body is technically progressing into adulthood at that point. That is just a biological fact. What this biological fact implies or suggests about the legal status of such individuals is another matter entirely.

[Ethereal]

There is a distinction between "biological age" and emotional age. That is the point.

You're the ones failing to make that distinction though.

[Mister D]

Emotional age and legal status are also entirely arbitrary and unscientific.

[Tahuyaman]

There is a distinction between "biological age" and emotional age. That is the point.

Correct. An eight year old can never be considered a woman. In every case she is a little girl. Period. While I have seen 13 year olds who are more mature than others both physically and mentally, they too are not mature enough to be considered a woman.

The fact that any male adult can look at a girl between the ages of 8 to 13 and consider her a "woman" is disturbing to say the least. That man has issues.

[Tahuyaman]

Emotional age and legal status are also entirely arbitrary and unscientific.

People mature both emotionally and physically at different rates.

I know a professional athlete who is 33 years old and if you talked to him, you'd see that he has the mental maturity of the 15 or 16 year old.

[ripmeister]

Puberty is the biological distinction between a child and an adult. Sometimes, puberty begins as early as eight, so their body is technically progressing into adulthood at that point. That is just a biological fact. What this biological fact implies or suggests about the legal status of such individuals is another matter entirely.

I think that is the point that some of us are trying to make. Some have seemed to rationalize Moores purported hits on a 16 year old as ok because in Alabama that is the age of consent. Others seem to put the bar at when a female is a biological adult as justification for them being legitimate marks. That's nonsense. The other thing is these data as to "biological age" is that these are means, definitions of populations at large not individuals.

[ripmeister]

Emotional age and legal status are also entirely arbitrary and unscientific.

I'm not sure about that. One can discern anothers emotional age pretty readily. Certainly, there are psych profile metrics to at the very least be in the ballpark as to an individuals emotional age.

[Ethereal]

I think that is the point that some of us are trying to make. Some have seemed to rationalize Moores purported hits on a 16 year old as ok because in Alabama that is the age of consent. Others seem to put the bar at when a female is a biological adult as justification for them being legitimate marks. That's nonsense. The other thing is these data as to "biological age" is that these are means, definitions of populations at large not individuals.

So what, in your esteemed opinion, is the magical moment when someone becomes capable of consenting to a sexual relationship?