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[emmagrant01]

There's an interesting discussion going on over on wickedcherub's LJ about the morality of adults ogling and squeeing over pics of adolescents. My thoughts are here.

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[primroseburrows.livejournal.com]

I think that recognising that a handsome young man is, well, handsome, is normal and natural for everyone. I really have no problem with minor droolage and tongue-in-cheek Bad Place stuff. If it goes further than that (like the poster on who used the word "molest"), it's over the top. And. I'm speaking as not just someone in the fandom, but as the mother of a not-quite-fifteen-year-old son.

If someone came up to me and told me that my kid is attractive and grown-up for his age and boy, is he gonna be a handsome man someday, and that if she/he were fourteen she/he would be mad over him, I'd probably take it as a compliment. If this same person told me that she/he wished my son would "molest" them, no matter how humourously it was said, I'd be horrified.

There's a line here, and maybe it's a fine one, but. As a parent, I can tell when it's been crossed when I read it, no matter how tongue-in-cheek it was meant.

That said, Daniel's a very grownup-looking handsome young man, and my inner fourteen-year-old has a mad crush on him. *G*
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[emmagrant01.livejournal.com]

That said, Daniel's a very grownup-looking handsome young man, and my inner fourteen-year-old has a mad crush on him.

Mine too! You know, when I was 13, I was completely and utterly in love with John Taylor from Duran Duran. I had posters of him all over my walls, and my friends and I talked and squeed over him and the other boys in the band. I even wrote NC-17 Mary-Sue fanfic about the band (starring me and my friends, of course), and passed it around in a notebook at school! He was at least twice my age then, and I knew that if I ever met him in person, absolutely nothing would happen. He was a completely safe guy to have a crush on, and to practice falling in love with. Little girls do that, and big girls occasionally like to remember what it felt like to innocently squee over a gorgeous guy.