Posted on 11/24/2017 3:27:39 PM PST by little jeremiah
He said he remembered her from a dance recital she was in at age 15 when he met her again when she was 23!
That you for a great summation of the real facts in this situation.
Thanks. You are the first person I’ve seen who has explained the relationship between male/female human animals. It seems that the Lord made women’s child bearing age begin around 14 years (some younger), and young men become capable of pro-creating at around the same age. Parents try to keep their young under their guardianship as long as possible. The drive to procreate is impossible to stop of course. So men compete with each other to cull out their preferred female. Historically, they are competing with older established men who can offer financial and protective security. The helicopter parents have been winning against the natural selection process, which has prevailed since the beginning of time. I dated a lot of young boys from age 13-14 but at 19 I married a man 8 years older who was positioned to “take care of me.”
As a person who dated a 31 year old man at age 18/19 in Alabama in 1981 I can assure you that I was the one who pursued him.
We were also not an unusual couple in our circle.
Mall manager says that never happened.
The young American teen girls I grew up with were far more aware of the nature of male/female interaction, (which is not to say, strictly, sex) than the boys their age, and even those a few years older. And that maturity wasn't even confined to the girls one would assume were more used to male attention.
Or perhaps I was just uniquely naive.
He never met her until she was 23. He had seen here in a dance recital when she was 16 or 16 and remembered her name.
Please stop repeating lies about the man.
The age of consent in most states is 16, including Alabama.
Think he did 2 stints in Nam.
Name a percentage.
A "thing for innocent teenagers"?
I don't know how old you are but I am close to Judge Moore's age. When I graduated from high school in 1971, it was not unusual in the 60s and early 70s for girls to get married a few months after graduating. And when I say it was not unusual I mean that you might be invited to 3 or 4 weddings that first summer after graduation. And, she might marry a guy 10 years older than her. This means that they were dating for at least two years before they married which means they were 16 when they started dating.
So, he was not a perv for dating someone in their late teens. Also, in those days young women were a bit more mature than they are today and they looked more mature.
Another thing, before the sexual revolution the vast majority of girls honored their virginity.
Don't make the mistake of applying today's standards to those days because they cannot compare.
“thing for innocent teenagers.”
I would have let him date my daughter under the right conditions. He would have been a good catch for her. West point, Nam Vet, Lawyer. You are making way to big a deal of him dating younger women. 17 and 18 are not little girls. It would not keep me from voting for him.
By all accounts he is a good husband to his wife. His wife by the way was not a teen when they married.
I don’t see that as a flaw.. sorry.
Any 30 year man is interested in a 17 and 18 year woman. If not, he’s a homosexual. That he was chasing 14 year olds I don’t believe for a second.
When my grandmother married she was a teen - I think 16 but definitely an even number, in my recollection, and not 18. She married a widower whose son survived the illness which carried off his mother and sister. I don’t know how old my grandfather was, but it obviously would have been 25 at the least.I read about Ireland that the reason they were known as “the fighting Irish” was that men didn’t marry until they inherited their fathers’ farms - and thus, functioned pretty much like adolescent boys into their 20s and beyond. And in those circumstances the men would - very ordinarily - marry women ten or more years younger than themselves.
It would certainly seem to be a recipe for the women to routinely be considered immature, when compared to husbands so much their senior in age . . .
Roy Moore is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being I’ve ever known in my life.
Elvis met Priscilla when she was 14 and he was 24. He married her 7 years later. Guess where she lived before the marriage? She moved to Graceland when she was 17. Four years later they were married. Never heard anyone call him a pedophile. Prince Charles first met Diana when she was 16 and has has said he knew he wanted her to one day be his wife. He got his wish when she was 20 and he was 32. No one ever insinuated that I know of that he was a pedophile for being attracted to a 16 year old.
I’m good with that. :-)
Are you really that stupid, or are you just pretending?
Yaelle is an ignorant POS on this subject.
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