i don’t really find the term weird, but it maybe a language thing. “underage” to me means “juvenile”, as in not yet of age to be tried as an adult in court, e.g. 18. “woman” in this context to me signals that they are refering to someone who is over the age of consent, which is usually 15. so between 15 and 18. however, from the news i can surmise that the definition i built from this one post does not hold.
on the age difference, at least here it’s still illegal if the partner is a certain number of years older, i think the age gap is three or four years. so not much help for the rapist pedophiles there.
i don’t really find the term weird, but it maybe a language thing. “underage” to me means “juvenile”, as in not yet of age to be tried as an adult in court, e.g. 18. “woman” in this context to me signals that they are refering to someone who is over the age of consent, which is usually 15. so between 15 and 18. however, from the news i can surmise that the definition i built from this one post does not hold.
on the age difference, at least here it’s still illegal if the partner is a certain number of years older, i think the age gap is three or four years. so not much help for the rapist pedophiles there.