Guest post: Pedophilia doesn’t bear a stigma randomly
Originally a comment by Nullius in Verba replying to the question “Why did a guy who seemingly wanted to diddle kids join an organization that wanted to mutilate them?” on Wearing the mask.
I’d say it’s because sexuality is inextricable from the transgender package. A transgender person is a sexual being, and so a transgender child is a sexual child. Narcissistic AGPs use the concept of the trans kid to validate their own fantasies by making their fetish an intrinsic, unalterable character trait. Pedophiles, on the other hand, use the sexuality of rainbow subculture to sexualize children.
Pedophiles get their jollies from this even if they never once meet a trans kid. They get vicarious thrills by setting up children to be abused, as well as the thrill of being in control of a child’s sexual life, after the fashion of a pimp. They get to hear trans kids talking about sexual things and even get to talk with them about sexual things in public. They get to sexualize children in public. And the fact that there’s not a goddamn thing most people can do about it without being labeled some sort of -ist or -phobe gives a rush of power.
Why wouldn’t a pedophile support transing kids?
And seriously, anyone who falls for the idea that destigmatizing pedophilia would help in any way to reduce instances of child abuse needs to be slapped. Pedophilia doesn’t bear a stigma randomly and spontaneously. We revile pedophilia because it’s the emotional component to something we revile: sexual activity with children. Someone who has the desire or urge to do something is, all else being equal, more likely to do that thing than someone without that desire or urge. Obviously. So we stigmatize that mental state in the interest of child safety. And that’s assuming we restrict pedophilia to meaning only the sexual attraction to or desire for children, which isn’t actually the case. Like with so many of these Critical Theory-derived rhetorics, the strategy is to temporarily deny a meaning, then forget that denial when advantageous. In this case, they deny that pedophilia refers to sexual activity with children, as though the words “engage in” never appear in front of “pedophilia”, “necrophilia”, and the like.
I agree with what Nullius has written in the threadstarter above.
But I would go further, having found myself uninentionally in the seat next to a pedophile in a movie theatre I used to go to on my own in my early teens.
It started with this pedo while never taking his eyes off the screen, gently brushing my inner thigh with his hand, and gradually increasing the strength of the motion. I quickly moved to another seat as far from him as I could find. But looking back, I realise that such an adult-child relationship in the context of a darkened theatre has low detectability, and high deniability if reported. The younger the child involved, the less likely and credible and will the reporting be. Moreover, as a power relationship it is on the far extreme. Adult-stranger child is about as extreme as it gets.
Which leads me to the conclusion that pedophiles are the ultimate cowards. They can try on children things very dangerous for them to try on strangers; whether their targets be adult women or men.
Omar, I agree. My first experience with a pedophile was an uncle. He was given charge of me when we went through one of those dark, floating “fun” houses. I had to ride through the dark with his hand in my pants. I couldn’t say anything; who would believe me?
Years later…more than a decade later…I discovered I probably would have been believed. This same uncle tried to molest my older sister (only 9 when he died). He also tried to molest my mother, so apparently he wasn’t just keen on kids. He quickly learned my mother was not to be messed with…when I learned that, I wish I’d said something. She’d have believed, and she would have taken some sort of action to at least help reduce the trauma.
iknklast: We have no option but to live, and lto earn, and to regret (albeit with the wisdom of hindsight.)
learn; that too.