I've seen a lot on people in twitter discussing wether people should do "kinks"(?) in pride because they might scar the children for life and other arguments. Also calling people like the youtuber Big Joel pedos for thinking this is not a huge deal.

What happened? Maybe this is an american thing but since when have kids been brought to pride?

  • bruh [any]
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    4 years ago

    Bruh I was a kid brought to pride. There are kids at pride outside of the US. I remember asking my mom why a dude was walking like a dog and her answer being a bit odd. Certainly didn't scar me (but I hate petplay, leather and spandex shit now, for sure, not sure if that was the reason to it) but it was probably painful for my mom lol. It's not to say I didn't think it was odd. To see someone treated like an animal seemed like the opposite of the egalitarian ideals I was raised with.

    I dont see how kinks need to be expressed in the same way sexuality and gender does, however. Kinks don't define us as much as gender and sexuality does, which is why it's seen as such a hedonistic thing not needed expressed. Not very familiar with the kink-discourse tho so there are probably more things to say about that.

      • Huldra [they/them, it/its]
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        4 years ago

        Also sexuality isnt just purely the question about "who" you are attracted to, to frame it that way is basically to just define ourselves by the way that the cishets have oppressed us which is a big mistake.

        Who I am attracted to categorically is just one part of my sexuality, kinks are other parts of my sexuality. If pride is to be a celebration of sexuality and gender it should not be celebrating watered down and essentialized versions of sexuality and gender just cause thats the way we have been categorized by the cishets for centuries, it should be a free and radical celebration of all that IMO.