Re: You are wrong on several points.

This idea that adults seek to suppress the agency of children puzzles me. Their highest priority is what they think is best for the child in the long run[...] I agree that the majority of parents do want the best for their children. That does not mean they will necessarily know the best for their children. Parents are not infallible and truthfully speaking not every parent feels attached to their child, let alone want the best for them. Otherwise, parents who abuse children would not be so common. I just remember shows like Toddlers and Tiaras and the family who ran their child to death because she ate a candy bar. Every time and place has had people who do and do not care about children. And society is engaged with equal fervor in eliminating the exploitative aspects of all those forms of sexuality too. I disagree. While there is work to eliminate exploitative aspects of some sexual situations, as in "affirmative consent", it is not done with equal fervor to all sexualities and this is not the same as what has been done to pederasty. Certain groups of people are punished more harshly for the same sex offenses. That is how it has always been, the hated group gets punished the harshest for the same crime. Also, there is a difference between eliminating the exploitative aspects of a sexuality and treating the entire sexuality like an anathema. That is why Mr. Gibson was treated the way he was, not because he did anything exploitative but because his entire sexuality was threatening.