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?
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.