*someone posts selfie* wow they’re kinda attracti—
*remembers teenagers are on this site*
*checks op’s bio, they’re a minor*
what a sweet kid…a cute bean… you deserve only good things…be happy and safe little muffin… I wonder if I could pull off that eyeliner…
hey gaudy? you’re a cool adult.
#and this is why the ‘but they looked 18/21’ excuse is such utter bullcrap#you check#you ALWAYS check#and you NEVER get to use a young person’s appearance to justify your own inappropriate behavior
reblogging again for the tags because this holds so much value to me as a minor and i think it’s really important that y’all understand this.
#adults have a responsiblity to keep kids safe #no matter how old they are
When I was sixteen, my family visited Hawaii, and I had a cute new swimsuit. I was a pretty busty teen, with the vocabulary of an AP English student, and while I was out swimming, a couple of college guys started flirting with me. Nothing gross, just pleasantly casual hey-you-look-great-how-are-you-enjoying-the-beach stuff.
After a minute or two of this, one of them asked if I was there with friends, and I said no, I was with my family. “Wow, you still travel with your family?” one exclaimed. “That’s cool…”
“Well, I am sixteen,” sez me.
Reader, they blanched. They flustered, they apologized, they assured me that they’d thought I was also in college, they wished me a good vacation and they bounced. All within about a minute of realizing they’d been chatting up a minor.
I was mildly mortified at the time, but now? I look back and think, Ah, what good men. What good young men.
Fun fact, this happened to me when I was, I shit you not, twelve years old. I had a comically deep voice for my age and gender, and I was well-spoken, so I regularly got mistaken for an older girl in spite of my babyish face.
Long story short, one fateful day, a university student started talking to me (somewhat flirtatiously) at a Harry Potter meet-up and when he asked what university I was going to to I had to explain that I was, in fact, in the sixth grade. Both of our souls left our bodies. He was great about it though, he asked me about my classes and if I was ready for high school and shit, and I got to ask him about college which was cool cause I didn’t get to interact with many college students!
It’s not a crime to misjudge a person’s age, it happens all the time. It IS a crime to willfully ignore someone’s age and sexually harass them!
This is also who Minors should NEVER lie about their age, when I was in high school (17 Turing 18 in a few months) I dated a girl who told me she was 18, her Facebook said she was 18.
I found out a couple of months after we started dating that she had lied, she was 14, this made me sick. I felt violated, we may not have had sex or been very intimate… But still, I spent several months in a relationship with a girl who couldn’t legally consent to me touching her.
Had we been intimate in any way her family could have had me charged with Stachitory Rape.
Because she lied to me about something so important I could have ended up in so much trouble, but more then that- because of her lie I am now constantly paranoid about if someone is lying to me.
If I go out with someone and they look even remotely younger then they’ve said I will find a way to get them to show me their ID (usually I say I wanna compare photos)
Kids, please never lie about your age, it can hurt you and other people in ways you can’t even imagine.
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