Yes, I subscribe to many feminist beliefs. Men can be feminists, and it's not all about angry women who think all men are pigs and that nonsense. Not trying to put those words in your mouth, but that is the common view of it.

In my opinion, regardless of it being a politically or religiously motivated to keep AOC laws high, it is beneficial to keep them at around 17. It may seem like a ridiculously strict government mandate to some, but to others it seems like a safeguard on the naive nature of young ones. I'd be alright to argure this more, but not here in a comments page. Last word goes to you.

And yes Chuft, it seems I did used AOC and marriage age as the same thing, when I should have been using marriage age. But in taht regard, it applies to my argument. The push was for a higher marriage age, because a low marriage age made it institutionally okay to have sex with young girls. This is all from a feminist view point, which I am going off of.

In case I haven't conveyed this correctly yet, I think the surge of women's rights resulted in pedophilia being depicted as a more villainous act in our society by way of raising the AOC, thus keeping marriage from putting a moral face on marrying and sexing young girls.Pedophilia is not directly an oppression of women's rights, but it seems that as a result of those rights, pedophilia was vilified here. You point to a more global scale, and I think we are most likely not on the same page in this argument.

I think that women wanted that to change, but due to no rights, it was not possible. I could be wrong there, but I think 13 year olds weren't too excited about marrying 30 year olds. So here is where I see the link; early AOC laws protected the reputation of people with pedophilic urges (IMO), it pretty much made pedophilia normal. With women having no rights, they had little access to change that, but eventually did. I don't have internet sources atm, but I was going on Sociology 104 notes.