Why does everyone keep talking about there’s “pedophilia” WHERE IS IT??? He didn’t...

Right?
How can people have to misunderstand the story
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I came here to read the comments again to see if anyone else realized because I didn't want to be the one to say it lmao. Reading comprehension is not high here.

Bro all stories where a grown adult dates the kid they’ve raised, or in this case been called mom by, are weird and pedophelic yeah even if he gets hard at the idea of being in the moms shoes it’s ok for people to be weirded out that he specifically gets hard when the kid says the word mom

MC never see ML as the child he raised, he see him as ML's dad who MC has unrequited feeling with.
The "Mom" called was him imagining himself as ML's mom position, means MC become ML's dad lover.

It kinda screwed indeed, but MC was broken mentally isn't that hard to understand.

You don’t have to mansplain the “mom” to me I said that in my reply, still doesn’t mean people aren’t allowed to be weirded out by someone getting hard at a child’s word.. no matter the reasoning behind it. You’re right, it’s not hard to understand. But that doesn’t mean anyone hating “doesn’t understand” the story. It’s a weird concept. For a lot of people, including me, an age gap where they meet when one is a toddler does seem a bit pedophelic. Whether it be the character or the author themselves, you can’t deny there are undertones

I think you're still getting super hung up about the fact that the words came from a child to the point it's overshadowing your ability to think about anything else, like what about the fact that it still makes him hard when the kid is an adult? Wouldn't a pedophile be exclusively attracted to children? There's more to the narrative than just "he was attracted to the words of a child", it was that being called mom by the child of the man that he loved made him fantasize about him having sex with the child's father. It's a weird series of hoops to jump through and weird to have child involvement at all I'll admit (I'm not a particular fan of such stories), but I wouldn't go so far as to call it pedophilic. It's just weird.