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20 Apr 2025, 3:27 pm

All I think when I see a small child with piercings is "ouch!"

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20 Apr 2025, 3:30 pm

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^I don't really see how it's different to say this or that way? If it means the same?

It doesn't mean the same. Calling them underage boys carries more implications than calling them boys or kids.

Explicitly labelling them underage makes it sound like his interest in them is inappropriate. Underage for what? Not for piercings because they can get piercing with their parent's consent.

I don't assume he actually has inappropriate interests in the children he's commenting on, but it's not a good choice of wording.

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20 Apr 2025, 3:36 pm

Mmm... That kind of came across as "I prefer my underage boys unadorned"

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20 Apr 2025, 3:40 pm

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Mmm... That kind of came across as "I prefer my underage boys unadorned"

Yes. Exactly.

And it sounds bad to have preferences about how people you'd describe as underage should appear, because they're only underage to adults who might have age-inappropriate interest in them.

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20 Apr 2025, 3:46 pm

It's a learning curve innit

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20 Apr 2025, 3:56 pm

funeralxempire wrote:

blitzkrieg wrote:

I got the impression that AA doesn't like underage boys wearing earrings, because he doesn't like seeing gender norms being broken by younger people.

That probably offends some people, but I'm pretty sure that is what he is thinking.

They're not underage boys, they're just boys.

I think he meant underage to mean someone who isn't an adult. In my country, although there is no national law against piercings for younger people/kids, businesses can place restrictions on who they allow to be pierced on their premises. Some businesses allow only 16 year olds or older to have piercings.

So it isn't surprising that some people feel that there may or should be an age limit applied to who should be eligible for that sort of thing.

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20 Apr 2025, 4:00 pm

funeralxempire wrote:

Underage for what? Not for piercings because they can get piercing with their parent's consent.

Whilst it may be legal, some people feel as though they wouldn't be comfortable with say, a younger relative having piercings. I do think AA used the word underage in relation to piercings, specifically.

I give him the benefit of the doubt.

I used the word to echo AA's thoughts and for no other reason.

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20 Apr 2025, 4:03 pm

blitzkrieg wrote:

funeralxempire wrote:

blitzkrieg wrote:

They're not underage boys, they're just boys.

I'm not commenting on what he actually meant, I think we agree he didn't mean anything squicky.

I'm just explaining why it sounds kinda squicky and how it's a poor choice of wording because of implications.

You don't need to defend him or explain he didn't mean anything creepy. I know he didn't. If I thought he was intentionally being a creep I wouldn't bother trying to explain why it was a poor choice of wording.

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20 Apr 2025, 4:05 pm

I think AA complained in another thread that he had been attacked, so he seems to be upset about your comment.

I am merely coming to his rescue, as a do-gooder.