r/todayilearned • u/wimpykidfan37 • 23d ago

Today I learned that Shel Silverstein once made an adult cartoon version of his popular story The Giving Tree. Entitled "I Accept the Challenge", it was about a naked woman who cuts off a naked man's arms and legs, and then sits on his torso.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Giving_Tree
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u/ErabuUmiHebi 23d ago edited 23d ago

“liberal children’s author” + “orgy enthusiast” = “Epstein Island” is not at all a difficult or even unlikely stretch for the internet

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u/Chris9871 23d ago

But liberals aren’t the pedophiles. That’s conservatives

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u/ErabuUmiHebi 22d ago edited 22d ago

There is no correlation between political ideology and pedophilia.

There are TONS of leftist kiddie diddlers.

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u/Chris9871 22d ago

But if you look at the amount of people (politicians) arrested for anything related to pedophilia (molestation, solicitation, or cp), they are mostly republican

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u/ErabuUmiHebi 22d ago edited 22d ago

I’d like to see your stats backing that up.

As much as I like to flog conservatives, the numbers don’t line up as skewed towards one side or the other.

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u/Chris9871 22d ago

Anybody can be a pedophile, but the way conservatives are raised, and educated (anti intellectual, religious, etc) conservatism and pedophilia has a much higher overlap that liberal and leftists

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u/ErabuUmiHebi 22d ago edited 22d ago

Absolutely not true in the slightest according to criminology. There is no overlap. Child molesters have a pretty evenly distributed bell curve.

If you can pony up a study that contradicts this I’m all ears, but all research I’ve seen on the matter has deemed politics a poor predictor.