UK: Men live in fear of teenage girls flirting with them

Submitted by Mastodon on Tue, 2014-07-15 10:21

Article here. Excerpt:

'There was a predictable feminist backflash on Twitter yesterday when Tatler magazine published flirting advice for 13-year-old girls to cynically deploy on unwitting middle-aged men.

These “utterly irresponsible” and even “borderline criminal” teen tips encouraged pubescent girls to “flirt with friend’s dads” in return for life’s essentials, such as “swanky” holidays to St Tropez, or invites to “country weekends”.

Naturally, these bizarre, almost otherworldly, “social seduction techniques” were universally decried as “potentially dangerous” for young women.

But, tellingly, absolutely nobody spoke up about what it might mean for the men on the receiving end.

Sadly, we live in an age where the rabid, paedophilic paranoia surrounding Operation Yewtree stalks our land in a way that's reminiscent of how McCarthyism hunted out reds under the beds in 1950s Cold War USA.'

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I do believe one of the first books ever written that we have discovered featured a Nabokovian plotline wherein a girl's friend sets about to lure her friend's dad from his wife.

I'd type out the title but the ISO committee on standardized codesets for web pages apparently forgot about cuneiform. :) (Actually, they didn't!)

Just kidding. Point is, adolescent girls have been smitten with older men for millenia. There is nothing new there. And apparently, it's sort of reversed when the genders get switched; just think of all the school teachers (female ones) getting caught with their hands less so in the cookie jar but more someplace else it they shouldn't be.

Regardless of the sexes, adults have a legal obligation to decline even solicited opportunities to rob the cradle. The greater the age span, the more it's condemnable, provided of course there is someone under the age of consent involved.

My take on this story is that everyone chiming in on this topic may be falsely assuming middle-aged men are hard-pressed not to be able to turn down a smitten teen girl's advances. Hardly. No moreso than an older married woman being hard-pressed to refuse a teen boy's advances. In both cases, the older person must simply say "No". This is not a hard concept to understand. It's like the whole sexual assault thing on college campuses: Call the police if a student complains that a crime was commutted against them. If I believed a crime was committed against me, being a college student or not, I'd call 911. Same thing for adults when presented with the opportunity to rob the cradle in the criminal sense: Say no. And yes, yet even men can do so. Whoa, figure that!

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Submitted by Matt on Wed, 2014-07-16 03:18