Trent touching the scar: Pedophilia or acknowledgement
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lolatzu — 18 years ago(April 26, 2007 08:35 AM)
Thanks for your input and diplomacy.
You were right in that the friendship became more but he knew he had to draw the line. As the adult, he took that responsibility which is a good thing.
As we saw with people like Mary Kay LeTourneau and Woody Allen, not all adults draw the line. -
lolatzu — 18 years ago(May 08, 2007 08:11 PM)
Then why did he sue the school system and the police department unless he was being used.
He doesn't have an education and he has two kids. What other choice did he have but to sell his story and stay with her?
How many teenage girls want to go out with a guy who has two kids?
She shut his options down.
I noticed you didn't say anything about Woody Allen. Is it okay because he is a man? -
lolatzu — 18 years ago(May 10, 2007 08:00 AM)
He didn't even graduate high school. He has no education. The reason he sued the school system and the police station was because the money that he received from the tabloids had dried up because he and his mother did not know how to manage it. He said that himself after they lost the case.
He has two kids and barely in his early 20's. Most girls want someone single whom they can enjoy a courtship with at that age. They aren't looking to become an instant mother to someone else's kids.
Mary Kay Le Tourneau molested him! That is not love.
Psychologists call it the Stockholm Syndrome. It is when a victim becomes emotionally attached to the person doing the victimizing.
Furthermore, why is it that when a woman molests a boy, it's love but when a man does it, he is a pedophile?! You haven't addressed the Woody Allen thing! He was taking pictures of her naked when she was about 12 or 13!
They aren't in love with each other. -
Icthus381376 — 18 years ago(June 30, 2007 10:05 AM)
I grow tired of people who see an adult male befriending a girl child in a movie or real life and jump to the conclusion it is pedophilia, a word whose definition is debated. Trent and Devon's relationship was one of friendship. Unfortunately, given the world we live in, nothing good was going to come of their friendship.
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InUrFridge — 18 years ago(July 07, 2007 06:36 AM)
Who the **** is this josephinelilac?
You go around accusing people of being peadophiles but it is obviously you who have some sort of problem for you to be so bitter.
You say that no adult in their right mind would want to befriend a child unless they were a peadophile. So are you saying that when children go on trips with their Dads the Dad is merely going out of parental duty? That if when someone takes their children out somewhere they have a good time and enjoy the company of their child they must be a peadophile?
However you might argue that that is different because they are the parents of the child. What about youth workers and teachers then? Did you never talk or (god-forbid) joke with your teachers? Scout leaders, for example, although they also supervise they join in games and activites and have fun else they wouldn't be in that job.
Anyone who thinks that befriending a child can only be sexually motivated is obviously so scared of being branded a peadophile themselves that they have never spent enough time with children to know that they can have just as much to offer to a friendship as any adult.
Tsk
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Niknack — 18 years ago(January 22, 2008 02:06 PM)
Back to the original post
I didn't come away thinking that Devon had a crush on Trent. I thought it was just that she was looking for company, and she felt comfortable with Trent, rather than with the pretentious community she was living in.
And I thought that when she asked Trent to touch her scar, she was telling him that she trusted him completley. She wouldn't let anybody else touch, or even see it. And his (reluctantly)touching it was an aknowledgment of their friendship, rather than pedophillia.
That's just what I thought. -
fran-emily1 — 17 years ago(June 16, 2008 10:44 AM)
it was clearly a friendship,some people are to cynical to understand that,
obviously in real life there are situations that are less innocent.
but everyman that has contact with a child that is not there own should not be considered a peodophile, some people are just nice.