Re: NBA Off Topic Thread
This is where it gets difficult for me because I know 19 year olds who have dated 15 year olds because the relationship started in HS when those guys were juniors/seniors and continued because they graduated while the girls were still in HS..
But yes, a 19 year old actively hanging around hitting on HS girls without that prior history does feel wrong like Pack said. But it doesn’t feel wrong if he was led to believe she was 18+.. which doesn’t seem far-fetched to me. Maybe I shouldn’t word it as “doesn’t feel wrong” but more so “doesn’t feel like his fault”.
I think the sticking point here is her looking young/old.. I don’t think anybody is saying this girl looks old, but she doesn’t have to look old. She only has to believably look like she could be 18, and we all know 30 year olds who look 20, a girl “looking like she could be 18” can range from like 15-25 years old. We can all spot girls who look young, like you said, but **** everyone looks young to us. I work with 25 years olds that I basically view as kids [emoji23]. The difference in some HS girl trying to make herself look older at a club and a college freshman isn’t just as easily noticeable as y’all are making it out to be though. **** I’m not that far from 40 and got carded ordering a drink just a few months ago because I look about 25 still.
It sounds creepy, for us.. but HE is young. It doesn’t seem that way because he’s a grown professional athlete, but he was just 19 years old. Not trying to justify 19 year olds ****ing 15 year olds, but it’s not like she needed to look every bit of 25 to to fool him either. Even if he looked at her and thought she looked a couple years younger than him it’s completely plausible for that person to be his age giving he himself was 19 looking about 16 too. Obviously she knew him though..
Idk whole thing is weird. This whole he found out and broke it off the very next day thing sounds fishy to me. But I could definitely see him believing some girl at a club is the age she told him she was. Legally I’m not sure how much any of that matters still. So who knows where this goes. He might be ****ed regardless. I thought she was 16, and the issue was because Cali is 18.. 15 isn’t legal anywhere, and the 4 year gap between 15-19 breaks any sort of Romeo and Juliet exclusions too.. who knows, I just know it feels like to me it’s only going to get uglier.
I’m just saying it sucks for Josh IF this ends up bad for him and it was all because he believed her age. If it ends up bad for him and he was aware the whole time, well that’s what you get for ****ing kids.
Regardless I still just find it really hard to believe he woulda knowingly taken pictures and videos with this girl if he didn’t believe she was of age. But then again maybe he really is just that stupid so who knows.
This is where it gets difficult for me because I know 19 year olds who have dated 15 year olds because the relationship started in HS when those guys were juniors/seniors and continued because they graduated while the girls were still in HS..
But yes, a 19 year old actively hanging around hitting on HS girls without that prior history does feel wrong like Pack said. But it doesn’t feel wrong if he was led to believe she was 18+.. which doesn’t seem far-fetched to me. Maybe I shouldn’t word it as “doesn’t feel wrong” but more so “doesn’t feel like his fault”.
I think the sticking point here is her looking young/old.. I don’t think anybody is saying this girl looks old, but she doesn’t have to look old. She only has to believably look like she could be 18, and we all know 30 year olds who look 20, a girl “looking like she could be 18” can range from like 15-25 years old. We can all spot girls who look young, like you said, but **** everyone looks young to us. I work with 25 years olds that I basically view as kids [emoji23]. The difference in some HS girl trying to make herself look older at a club and a college freshman isn’t just as easily noticeable as y’all are making it out to be though. **** I’m not that far from 40 and got carded ordering a drink just a few months ago because I look about 25 still.
It sounds creepy, for us.. but HE is young. It doesn’t seem that way because he’s a grown professional athlete, but he was just 19 years old. Not trying to justify 19 year olds ****ing 15 year olds, but it’s not like she needed to look every bit of 25 to to fool him either. Even if he looked at her and thought she looked a couple years younger than him it’s completely plausible for that person to be his age giving he himself was 19 looking about 16 too. Obviously she knew him though..
Idk whole thing is weird. This whole he found out and broke it off the very next day thing sounds fishy to me. But I could definitely see him believing some girl at a club is the age she told him she was. Legally I’m not sure how much any of that matters still. So who knows where this goes. He might be ****ed regardless. I thought she was 16, and the issue was because Cali is 18.. 15 isn’t legal anywhere, and the 4 year gap between 15-19 breaks any sort of Romeo and Juliet exclusions too.. who knows, I just know it feels like to me it’s only going to get uglier.
I’m just saying it sucks for Josh IF this ends up bad for him and it was all because he believed her age. If it ends up bad for him and he was aware the whole time, well that’s what you get for ****ing kids.
Regardless I still just find it really hard to believe he woulda knowingly taken pictures and videos with this girl if he didn’t believe she was of age. But then again maybe he really is just that stupid so who knows.
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