Barely Legal is 18, Not 15

At this point, you've probably heard this from Megyn Kelly:

"I know someone very close to this case...Jeffrey Epstein, in this person's view, was not a pedophile...He was into the barely legal type, like he liked 15-year-old girls...He wasn't into like 8-year-olds, but he liked the very young teen types, that could pass for even younger than they were, but would look legal to a passer-by...There is a difference between a 15-year-old and a 5-year-old."​

This, coming from anyone, is vile, but coming from a woman, one who was sexually harassed herself, is reprehensible. These are young girls we are talking about here, girls who were not much older than Megyn's daughter is right now. What kind of lesson is she teaching her daughter? As long as she is "barely legal" at 15, it's okay for grown men to harass, rape, and traffic her.

Let's set the record straight: Barely legal refers to the period when a child has just turned into an adult, which in the US is 18. It does NOT mean a child reaching the age of adulthood (which still wouldn't be 15). It doesn't matter if the child is 5, 8, 15, or 17. Under the law, a child under the age of 18 cannot legally consent to sexual acts with an adult, and therefore, it is illegal, as an adult, to perform sexual acts with them.

If I break down Megyn's comments, here's what I see:

1. ​Someone who is supporting a pedophile, but who doesn't want to take responsibility for supporting a pedophile. Otherwise, why use the guise of "someone I know" to state these "facts"?
2. Barely legal is a term men gave girls who finally reach the age of 18. It is soaked in misogyny. There is a reason why there is a whole porn sub-genre called Barely Legal. This tells me that Megyn's "someone I know" is a man whose "close to the case" status should probably be looked into.
3. "Would look legal to a passer-by." In other words, admitting that the 15-year-old is actually not legal, but didn't want to get into trouble, so needed her to look legal (meaning 18) to the public.
4. The only difference between a 15-year-old and a 5-year-old in the eyes of the law is 10 years. Otherwise, they are treated the same in child sex cases.

​Megyn and the woman she was talking with on her podcast should be ashamed of themselves for perpetuating a male idea of teenage girls being "barely legal" and therefore can be taken advantage of. 

What happened to this country? When did it become acceptable to publicly support,  make excuses for, and defend pedophiles? "A child is defined by when they hit puberty", like what?! I'm sorry, but a child is defined as not being an adult, which in the US is legally defined as being 18 years old. A 15-year-old can't even drive at night or without a licensed adult in most states. Additionally, a licensed adult is defined as one who is at least 18 years old.

Let's be clear here: this is a fight for adult men to be able to control and groom young women. If an adult woman had sex with a 15-year-old boy, she would be called a pedophile. There are literally child bride laws in some states that allow men to marry teenagers. Like, come on. This is not about all children. This is about girls. 

What I don't understand is: Clinton gets a blow job from a consenting 22-year-old adult, and the House GOP impeaches him the moment he's exposed. Trump has been all over the news about his involvement with Epstein and underage girls since he got into office, and there isn't even talk from the House GOP about impeachment.