While that's definitely what happened often the legal definition of "rape" in a state explicitly requires penetration with a penis. So a lot of things that a normal person would consider rape are classed as sexual assault and have to be reported as such in the media. You can see this in the recent E. Jean Carroll suit against trump. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/aug/07/donald-trump-rape-language-e-jean-carroll

If you call everything rape, the word loses all meaning. Obviously there is a difference between violent physical sexual assault and sending nudes to someone, and ages and context matters.

You are not being "brave" by pretending that the world is 100% black or white, and it's getting ridiculous with this echo chamber where everybody is competing over who hates rape the most, it's fucking childish, talk about the least controversial opinion one could possibly have.

Like wow, are you against pedophilia too? That is SO very bold of you!

For the same reason it’s illegal… while there might not be a huge difference in age between someone 22 and 14, there’s a vast difference in maturity, experience and vulnerability to manipulation. While I’m not a psychologist, it seems like for some people, it’s based on opportunity (easier to manipulate a younger person) and others it’s based on a psychological impairment regarding their own sexual development. For this lady perhaps it’s a combo.

I did time in prison for growing mushrooms and had the unfortunate privilege of living with pedophiles for two years.

I'm sure some don't give a fuck. But I know a few who are basically children mentally due to trauma or mental disability. They believe children are sexual beings and basically project their attraction to kids, onto kids.

In other words, they justify their actions by believing children want to have sex and take innocent things like an affectionate kiss on the cheek, as flirting.

From what I understand for some it's just the tools they have at their disposal to get affection or sex in a very low effort or ego flattering way. To a teen, having a car, a place where there's no parents calling the shots and any kind of income is a huge and enviable power gap. The person's experience with other relationships means that they don't tend to go all in on the younger partner either the way a person experiencing love for the first time does. So you have someone who remembers that all consuming need to hold onto that first sacred relationship enough to mechanically exploit it so they can either shift all the work onto their younger partner and keep them on the back foot by threatening to end things or push their younger partner to do exactly what they want because to them the relationship is just one of a potential many. That disposition towards relationship fungibility means you have solid leverage.

Youngsters also don't have any real experience with autonomy. A kid is used to being told what to do and accepting inequity in power balances as normal. Rebelling in the face of adult authority structures also means there's a lack of seeing adults as peers to whom they can seek advice and benefit and trust their experience and more as just unfair weilders of social power that need be avoided so to transgress means you ditch the social structures that are the most able to spot the red flags.

There’s a huge difference between 12 and 22. The power imbalance means there can’t be meaningful consent.

Idiot didn't follow the golden rule

Only one crime at a time.

OH MAN THAT'D BE SO HAWT WHY COULDN'T THAT BE MEEEEE

I assumed they meant she posed as a kid who is home schooled

Actually my godmother does this so I know a bit about it.

It does sound sort of confusing at first but there's more than one reason to homeschool someone usually it's done if the kid requires special handling.

Useful for when they're even massively ahead or massively behind other children. It can be helpful in both cases for them not to actually have to be in a class with other kids and that way the lesson can go at whatever pace they're comfortable with whether that's accelerated or slowed down.

Or sometimes they have a medical issue that makes going outside difficult or dangerous.

Although I have no idea how it would work in this context since she apparently volunteered her services to children who were the wise wouldn't be to make use of it.

Homeschool parents are often mad as a bag of cats.

They certainly would hire some rando based on a chat about Jesus rather than checking actual qualifications.

If you are partners that is silly. There is no need to ask for permission for everything as if the other is some random person. You both know each other etc. and should you not like it, can speak up. Everything else would be really odd in a partnership.

Good! Means you’re normal.

Figured one of the image based platforms.

It is image-based, but it can be used entirely as an instant messaging platform too. My daughter basically never takes pictures with the app, but she chats with all of her friends on it. That is apparently the 13-year-old messaging app of choice, at least around here. From what I can tell second-hand, it's becoming the same mess of features no one asked for and enshittification in the attempt to turn itself into an everything app that every other social media platform suffers from.