An0nkn0wledge? I realize that I have just walked into the lion's den, but I do have to speak up on this issue. While the quality of your writing itself is highly commendable, I still have to agree with Pawnuts in his contention that Kevin Spacey's actions had nothing to do with pedophilia. Nowhere in your article did you mention about Spacey preying on a prepubescent child. Anthony Rapp was a teenager in 1986 when he had his sexual encounter with Spacey. The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-5) specifies that a pedophile is someone 16 years of age or older who is sexually attracted to a prepubescent child younger than 13 years of age (younger than 11 years of age under certain circumstances), who is five years younger than them. I'm not trying to put angel wings on Kevin Spacey, but nobody can call his actions something that they are not despite how wrongful they may be. I find it admirable that you are a journalist for three different agencies, but keep in mind that news agencies have a bad habit of allowing their journalists to take writer's license with the definitions of "pedophile" and "pedophilia." The Wikipedia describes the common misuse of the term "pedophilia" and its harms. I'm not trying to antagonize you, but I also don't want you to fall into the same circumstances that Elon Musk did after he indiscriminately used the term "pedophile" against someone and that same person slapped him with a defamation lawsuit.

Now, did what Kevin Spacey do to Anthony Rapp in 1986 constitute attempted rape? It would certainly appear to lean in that direction inasmuch as Spacey jumped on top of Anthony Rapp when he attempted to get with him sexually. However, that would be something that a court of law would have to determine. Each and every state jurisdiction has its own definition of what rape is and is not.

There was one incident in your article that you did mention that did constitute pedophilia, and that was when Woody Allen raped his own daughter when she was 7 years old. Even if it hadn't been pedophilia, it still would have been clearly wrong. In any event, what that incident brings to mind is a point that I have made to you in the past regarding the defective inheritance laws in our nation. Jose Menendez cut his two sons out of his will after he sexually abused them for years. A Dupont heir in Delaware sexually molested his own two kids, but the children's mother still had to take him to court to ensure that he could not deprive his two kids of his estate upon his death. No abusive parent has any right to disinherit their children as far as I'm concerned; and like Jose Menendez and the Dupont heir, Woody Allen should be obligated by law to keep his daughter, Dylan Farrow, in his will despite any tensions that may have flared between them as a result of Dylan Farrow blowing the whistle on her father. At the end of the day, we need laws in this nation that prohibit parents, especially pedophile parents, from disinheriting their children under any circumstances. Figuratively speaking, child advocates need to put less energy into raising the statutory age of consent to 25 years old in every state and more energy into passing laws that would prohibit parents from disinheriting their children under any circumstances.