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Diamond_Dog

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3. I used to think these older men were just sick in the head

Reply to usedtobedemgurl (Original post)

Tue Feb 24, 2026, 09:40 AM

13 hrs ago

But gosh it sure seems like there’s an inordinate number of them, and it’s nothing new.

I got cat-called when I was 10, 11, 12 by creepy older men driving by as I walked down my street or if my mother sent me into a store. I always felt so disgusted.

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I do not understand an attraction to children. [View all] usedtobedemgurl 13 hrs ago OP

Most people don't understand it. It's just something maga like to call the people they hate. Walleye 13 hrs ago #1

MAGA is completely infected with people who self hate. They hate the kids they BComplex 12 hrs ago #7

It's an addiction to hate and anger. Which are easier than trying to understand things. Walleye 12 hrs ago #9

It's about power over someone, the weaker the better. Some feel it's their god-given right travelingthrulife 13 hrs ago #2

I used to think these older men were just sick in the head Diamond_Dog 13 hrs ago #3

It's like rape Abstractartist 12 hrs ago #4

I think also Diamond_Dog 10 hrs ago #14

True Abstractartist 2 hrs ago #18

They get to hurt young women with sex - think it makes them look /feel virile because they have only hate in them. lark 12 hrs ago #5

I'm a 78 year old male and I don't understand either. OLDMDDEM 12 hrs ago #6

I'm thinking it may be because children won't say "no" as often Wednesdays 12 hrs ago #8

Republicans, the wealthy and other nazis attack the weak and powerless. usonian 11 hrs ago #10

The physical pain for these young girls must be horrific. Most girls that young... 3catwoman3 11 hrs ago #11

The more forbidding the fruit, the better it tastes multigraincracker 11 hrs ago #12

Exactly. It's the taboo that is the attraction. tinrobot 1 hr ago #19

Here: PCIntern 11 hrs ago #13

It's attraction....like a hunter to prey purr-rat beauty 10 hrs ago #15

Tons of boys and girls have been molested by family BigmanPigman 8 hrs ago #16

There are different sorts of pathologies at play (ugh need a better word) Coventina 8 hrs ago #17