Even when they’re not doing it/projecting, they’ll still support an environment for it.
I mean, look at like how in the 90s-00s, you see teens getting sexualized 24/7, but having a consensual same-sex relationship in media crosses the line.
Look at all those drama films and subplots that romanticize adults grooming teenagers.
Or for another thing, look at how Rowling in the Harry Potter series acts like rape and sexual assault are harmless jokes, even as far as painting Merope as an innocent victim.
Not to mention, even when Trump is exposed for the inappropriate behavior and allegations, people still voted for him, and it gets gross and disturbing when you realize people find him relatable…
Even when you take out the gender double standard, at the end of the day a poor kid is getting molested and raped by an older predator, whether it be a girl getting picked up by a older creepy dude or a “lucky” boy getting it from a creepy older woman.
And before you bring up the 70’s French excuse (they saw them as the same thing), just remember that they’ll still immediately go to pedophilia first.
Like, i have not talked about this for a long time because of the societal stigma, but i must honestly say that i absolutely don’t get it when people say things such as “when you’re having a consensual relationship with a 17-y/o, that’s pedophilia and you should go to jail for life for that”, like what even is in people’s minds? that was considered normal for like 99,7% of the time that humanity has even existed, it only became a problem in people’s eyes somewhere around 2000, afaik.
apart from that, i don’t know what these people’s problem with trans is, honestly, either.