Comments by "Mat Broomfield" (@matbroomfield) on "The Cody Ko Situation Is Disgusting..." video.

  1. Your framing of the age of consent was as ridiculous as it was disingenuous. There's no absolute state of physical or emotional maturity that occurs at 18, and contrary to your claim, most of the civilised world has age of consent 2-4 years lower. It's only America that wants to treat its citizens like children into adulthood. Same with alcohol laws. The reason (among others) that America sets the number at 18, is that ABSOLUTELY NO-ONE is still undergoing puberty at 18, but 99% were not at 17, at 80% were not at 16 (indicative made up numbers). Having the cut off at 18 instead of 16 does NOT make things simple - it penalises any person who falls in love with a 16 or 17 year old. Why 16 as a cut off? Because 99% of people have gone through the main stages of sexual maturity by that stage, including puberty. The fact that you had to check what the age of consent is in HIS STATE, proves that you are not concerned about the morality of the number, just whether it transgresses an arbitrary line. Yet in spite of that, you called it "wrong" as though there was some ethical transgression. Your problem is not with her age, but with the 8 year age differential. It makes you feel icky because there is the assumption that it must be exploitative. In that case, attack all of Hollywood, because they frequently partner people with a 20-40 year age gap. I thought you were smarter than this.
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