Children are symbols of innocence. They cannot have the blame shifted to them but they also cannot take agency or demand their voices be prioritized as victims. That’s why these people insist on blurring the lines between people molesting young children and epstein hiring teenagers as sex workers as well as the constant insistence that teenagers not be given any agency or autonomy. In many ways this is the abortion debate but with sex crimes added.

Hell, when they care about sex crimes against adult women they infantilize us and use it as a cudgel.