And I'm pretty annoyed that Americans shriek that "it's just a minority!" in denial when it clearly isn't, just like with the plague of Black-on-everyone else racism going on even at street/community level.You know, it gets really old the way you constantly trot out this stereotype.
Like a lot of stereotypes, the issue is mostly a small minority of extremely loud people. There's a reason some states specifically have laws saying 'it can't count as statutory rape if a 17 and a 16 year old are in a relationship, and he suddenly turns 18,' etc, etc.
Would you like it if people constantly ragged on Brits for forcing Opium on foreigners?
It's hardly a "small, vocal stereotype" when there are Americans, and many different Americans mind, spout this shit across various platforms the moment a sniff of an age-difference or age gap relationship is mentioned; or how they react the exact same fucking way when a sixteen year old is dating someone who is nineteen or twenty with a thirty-six year old fucking a thirteen year old girl. It's not a "small, vocal stereotype" when Americans go batshit insane in new articles' comments sections over bait pieces like this.
Hell, your own fucking archaic laws can easily be weaponized to destroy someone's life for a basic age-gap relationship (such as teens being seventeen and fifteen) that wouldn't even be blinked at in another country.
Much like how Black-on-everyone racism had its veneer torn off in recent years, this is a thing embedded in American culture. It's a stereotype that's true and one deserved.
Also, unlike Americans being Americans, I have seen zero people from the UK or even various Asian countries (even China) on soc-med or in real-life talk about the Opium Wars or those utter cluster fucks outside of mentioning them in a historical context or as a prop for Chinese nationalism (and even then it's more of a historical thing). False equivalence.
In that case the priest should've reported it, and it was a bit of a cover up.If it is Tennessee Age of Consent is 18.