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800 Maynard Ave S, Suite 200, Seattle, WA 98134
800 Maynard Ave S, Suite 200, Seattle, WA 98134
One can't help but think of Dead Poets Society when reading it.
Whatever age the kids are, the guy is acting in a predatory manner towards them. It's hardly a stretch to say that this could get ugly if it isn't shut down quickly.
No Shit, the neighbor is aware of the parents' disapproval. He was told By the Parents that they did not Approve of the Gifts.
His being secretive is probably just a "Hey, here's some cigars! Don't tell your parents how bad-ass I am", because there is quite possibly nothing more to this than a 50-something year old bachelor with no kids, a well-rounded income, and an uncle-like feeling towards the two guys next door that he saw be raised from childhood.
And while I hold with treating 18 as adult, 18-20 is a fairly naive, forming your boundaries time that sets off alarms if someone in their 50s looks on it as "Yay now they're legal, just barely, but still so delightfully malleable!"
And of course it could be that he's just lonely and trying to make surrogate family from neighbors, or the parents are kinda nutty and he's just a guy trying to give the kids a sane shelter. And variations, and how to address each is different.
Yes, the parents should call the cops and press charges. All the charges.
The neighbor just seemed creepy and lonely to me. It didn't immediately occur to me that he might want a romance with the boys (especially since there are two of them and they are brothers).
By the definition of Hero Project, every 3rd grade teacher is a pedosexual.
Mom: You know he's queer...?
GMA: Yeah, I know.
End of conversation.
Somehow the word pedophile got from "sexual interest in PREPUBESCENT CHILDREN", meaning up to 12-13 years old to any age disparity.
I have a feeling this idiocy is specific to dumb ignorant Americans.
My brother and I always had older adult friends.
My father told us early on about child abuse and that family and friends pose the greatest danger. But he also understood that children and teenagers can profit from non-sexual relationship with other adults than the one's in their family. And once we were of college-age, my parents didn't intervene with our friendships at all.
I think one part is the fear of child abuse. But there seems to quite some pressure in the US to have only friends of your own peer-group.
That such a stupid response should come from Ms. Amy "I believe porn harms all parties, m'kay?" Dinglebat is hardly a surprise.
I'm roughly the same age as the neighbor, and I will totally own that I lust after college aged guys on occasion. I'm pretty sure that doesn't make me anything like Jerry Sandusky.
Amy, you are a moron.
I did.
By the way, Ms Prudie is at it again. It was not enough for her to suggest that disabled women would be only too grateful to get a man of microscopic endowment. She has moved on to a male LW wringing out his insides in agony because he can't force himself to date his wonderful but unattractive women friends and like it, and who wanted to know what to tell them when they complained about not getting any dates, suggesting that he should match his wonderful but unattractive friends with men who can't "outkick their coverage". She did borrow that phrase from an earlier seeker, but the sentiment is still just as vile.