ANALYSIS: RUSSELL BRAND & THE MEDIA’S DOUBLE STANDARDS ON AGE OF CONSENT
Mainstream media’s two-faced approach to the age of consent revealed
They vilified Russell Brand for a consensual sexual relationship with a 16-year-old while promoting sex with 16-year-olds in the past.
Across the US and Europe, the legal age of consent ranges from 14 to 18 years old.
In the US, there are 34 states with 16 years old as the age of consent (the rest have 17 or 18)
MEDIA AND AGE OF CONSENT
In 2000, the UK media argued the age of consent should be lowered for gay couples.
On Sept 23, 2009, a Cambridge professor who called for the age of consent to be lowered to 13 was invited to BBC’s national radio station.
The professor was eagerly supported by Peter Tatchell, a gay rights activist popular with the media, who, in a video recording, condoned a NINE-year-old having sexual relations with a grown man.
The media has been celebrating such storylines for decades.
Here are 2 examples:
1) ‘Call Me By Your Name’ features a 17-year-old boy who had a gay romance with an older man.
The media's response:
- Gorgeous gay love story seduces and overwhelms (The Guardian)
- Call Me By Your Name will make you swoon (BBC)
- Golly, this is magnificent. An exquisite romance, a nuanced coming-of-age tale (The Times)
2) ‘Thirteen’ features a 13-year-old girl who engages in sex, drugs and petty crime:
- This is exciting, hyperactive film-making with tremendous performances (The Guardian)
- ‘Thirteen’ Is Twenty Years Old — But More Powerful Than Ever (Rolling Stone)
Compare the above celebration to the outrage now displayed by the media, and tell me you don’t see DOUBLE STANDARDS!
They weaponized the age of consent to portray Brand as a sexual predator, but when he was the media sweetheart, his sex life was paraded across all media.
I don’t know if he’s innocent or guilty, and neither does the media. The courts make such decisions, and until then, everyone should treat him as INNOCENT UNTIL PROVEN GUILTY.
Does the media have the right to attack Russell Brand based on the information we currently have?
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