I'm not talking about queer people getting called groomers. I know why that's happening. I'm referring more to a more general fear of pedophilia instead of just repackaged homophobia.
I feel like I'm hearing about it like every other week. For instance, parent bloggers noticing that their engagement skyrockets when they post their kids eating hotdogs or in swimwear. Another example is an increasing trend of people on Pinterest creating walls and albums labelled "hot kids."
I know that elite freaks are all pedos, but is pedophilia an actually growing problem among regular people? It seems to me like when suburbanites freak out about any other thing like BLM or immigrants marching through and razing their communities. Or the crime freakout in the 70s/80s.
Am I being naive and we actually need to be on high alert?
Yes and no. I think it's a Dutch film, Are All Men Pedophiles?, came out around 2012 and while I don't think the film itself made much of an impact some of what it points out is true. Definitely part of a larger cultural whiplash about the contradiction of children being simultaneously sexualized while a growing minority of people get increasingly hysterical about unrelated things being pedo. They can't address the reality of it essentially, so they're just inventing a version that they can battle in their heads, maybe? One which conveniently implicates all the types of people they like least, and turn a blind eye to ones they do most.