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?
My only contribution is to suggest Jeamie Loftus' Lolita Podcast. It details how an overtly anti-pedophilia book was more or less franchised into serving the opposite purpose, and it makes a surprisingly good lens for looking at America's tolerance for sexual predation
I am not googling that
Lolita the book is actually good and cool and does not in any way condone or endorse pedophilia. Kubrick did the opposite. Stanley Kubrick as an aside but huge part because of this is a guy I would love to see torn down. He put out a fee good films but as far as his approach to film making goes and especially turning Lolita into pedo sympathy thst has tarnished the whole thing forever, he's shitty to actors cause he doesn't know how to direct and center framing is how your parents take photos. I love 2001, Strangelove, Clockwork Orange, The Shining and Full Metal Jacket and really like Barry Lyndon but holy fuck do I hate Kubrick.
Yeah, I read the book in high school, I just don't want that in my search history
I had to defend Nabokov somewhere in this thread and it was an opportunity.
it's such a perfect microcosm of how we collectively think about CSA. even thinking about or describing it or anything adjacent to it is experienced as unconsciously supporting it, so for moral self-preservation we maintain strategic blindspots that allow the problem to fester.
Lola Sebastien does a great video essay about it . It's like other people making the abyss gaze back at you when the novel is having a look at the abyss if you get my odd metaphor.
I am! :confused-glee:
Chuds found the very bluest of curtains there :kombucha-disgust: