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?
TW: the most disturbing thing I've ever seen: the trailer for "the world according to garp" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmRPh1xwab8
I find this really fucking disturbing. I haven't seen the movie, but regardless of if you use roku, goto IMDB, yt, etc., the trailer is basically the same. After about the 1 minute make you get a slow motion HD closeup of a baby's genitals. It's so fucking gross and offputting. Also ruined that song for me.
When I was in school, I got in trouble for things like gang colors (I don't remember what I was wearing that day), spaghetti straps, dresses not reaching my knees or showing boobcrack, no flip flops. I remember one teacher had a fucking ruler for measuring students clothes and it made me really uncomfortable. If my spaghetti straps didn't one inch they made you go home or wear a huge shirt with the school logo on it.
I think there are a lot of children-involved things we should be panicking about, but all the attention seems to be focused on fake problems like book #11,634 in the highschool library having boymouth to boygina sketches or w/e.
treating children's bodies as inherently sexual is kind of exactly what the problem is. it's a naked baby. that's how they are when they come out of the vag. i think more repression is exactly the kind of psychological condition that enables, rather than prevents the abuse of children.
Perception of this stuff is something that has demonstrably changed over the last hundred years, possibly because of the increased awareness of pedophilia. My grandparents have a photo album and one of the pictures is of kids in Germany playing in a fountain, all naked, because a swimsuit wasn't considered necessary until you were a teenager. That kind of thinking doesn't fly today - all kids are considered sexually vulnerable, and it's a mindset that has been onboarded so completely that even completely neutral depictions of genitals are construed as sexual.
Yeah, I remember that kids up to the age of toddlers used to be nude at the beach when I was a teen (late 00s). Then they all started to wear bottoms. Now they even put tops on the baby girls.
Was not seen as anything but innocent at the time. My favourite picture of myself as a child is me and my brother (both nude) with hats, he was dressed in a cowboy hat and had a toy pistol while I was in a baby bonnet wielding a plastic cow as a gun. Nothing sexual about the picture, but I can see how a nude 4 and 2 year old would raise some eyebrows at this point.
I actually don't find nudism problematic. I do think it's a problem where we live in a society where rated R movies don't show weewees or vanjays but random sitcoms and movie trailers have no issue SURPRISE FLASHING GENITALS IN YOUR FACE with absolutely no warning.
I don't think it's repression. If I were watching a movie trailer and one minute into it, a 60 year old man shows up and starts shaking his dong in front of the camera right up close, am I repressed with psychological condition for feeling violated? After all, he too, came out of the womb naked. It's indistinguishably gross to me. You did actually watch the trailer, right? I do find fully naked babies on TV offensive in the general sense, but this specific example is off-the-rails nuclear next-level "WTF" material.
Flashing, indecent exposure, etc., are categorically sexual assault. I genuinely feel like I was flashed by the movie director just because I watched a fucking movie trailer.
yes i watched the trailer. i assure you we're seeing the same thing. i do not find the human body inherently sinful. i saw a baby's penis and was just okay with it.
oh ok, why don't you become a police officer and tell the next woman who files a police report about a random man flashing her in the street "I do not find the human body inherently sinful. You saw a penis and should just be okay with it.". That's really fucked up.
why don't i become a police officer to tell the next woman who breastfeeds her child in public that she is in flagrant violation of decency laws and needs to cover herself up? You know, a thing that actually happens with some frequency?
I'm sorry, I didn't mean to sound glib about your trauma. I'm just trying to tell you that it is by no means universal, and also a baby is not the same as an adult in that one is sexual and the other is not, and I don't think this is that complicated of an idea.