Someone has just said this to me in passing:
”So Andrew has sex with a 17 year old girl and he’s a predator, the young girl is a victim, but an older woman supposedly humiliates and takes the virginity of a 17 year old Harry and it’s all made into memes and jokes?”
I was in a rush and couldn’t carry on the conversation but it’s thrown me a bit!
Im sort of sat here thinking about it, and aside from the legality of course because these incidents took place in different countries with different laws, what’s the moral implication? Are we seeing Harry as a victim too? Or do we say well 17 year olds have free will to do what they want? There’s a lot of murkiness around whether Virginia was there by choice too, and that’s not even getting into the massive face that Epstein was essentially running a child sex trafficking ring.
I don’t know, it’s made me pause a minute and think ok wait a minute, the jokes about Harry the stallion seem really crass and we would never say those things if the words were coming from a young woman.
Anyway, would appreciate your input! I’ll no doubt bump into this person again soon and would quite like an intelligent response to hand! My brain is working at about 4% capacity after a night up with teething babies!