Personally, I wouldn't date a 16 yo girl (I'm 25 btw).
But I've always had issues about this topic. For one, pedophilia is a sick attraction towards little kids. Not teenage girls who are post-puberty. Feeling an attraction to KeKe Palmer and feeling an attraction to a first grade student is obviously not the same
Its old ass
women's way of shaming men not to look at young beautiful females, so they constantly group these WIDELY different things together.
For two....according to this viewpoint we have today, 90% of men throughout history were pedophiles because it was common for 15 and 16 year old girls to already be married and usually to older men.
For three.....
HOW CAN SOMETHING AS SICK AND GROTESQUE AS PEDOPHILIA not have the same criteria across the board
If I'm a thief in America, I'm a thief in Japan. If I'm a murderer in America, I'm a murderer in Italy. If I like to beat up on women, I'd be convicted of assault and battery in America just like I would in most other developed nations. But.....if you smash a 16 year old girl in Toronto, London or Paris....you're a considered a normal person. It's legal. If you smash a 16 year old girl in California, you're a sick twisted pervert who likes little children. That makes no sense
Basically the United States is calling every man in Canada, England, Japan and France pedophiles.