An odd question motivated by recent events.
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First the disclaimer, Judge Roy Moore creeps me out … and I’m certainly no apologist for older men who hit on teenage girls. Period.
That said, two comments got me wondering.
First, a Clinton apologist was on TV saying that Bill deserved a pass for his sexual transgressions and abuses because “things were different in those days.”
Say, what? Different how?
Separately, a friend bad-quipped about the sterotype of Southern girls marrying young – often in their early teens.
So, I started to wonder: what were things like in “those days” – specifically,in Alabama, when Judge Moore is alleged to have been hitting on teenage girls.
What I discovered certainly doesn’t make Moore any less creepy or exonerate him, but it is interesting.
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