That was a tough read. It’s a circle very difficult to square to see Aimée (fuck I found the acute!) wholly as victim...but given the father... but then you remember the abused West children somehow not ending up revolting abusers themselves. Yeah it’s hard to judge
I had an online mate on another forum - old gay bloke - who was UTTERLY incensed when I posted a photo of old blokes at Pride in toddler costumes with dummies in their mouths and suggested this was a red flag...
Sorry to hear that, Kate. Never easy to lose a friend. He should have been incensed at the fetishists trying to infiltrate his movement (and their enablers), not the ones pointing it out.
I'm fairly sure he’s just an ordinary gay guy who nonetheless disapproved of my "kink-shaming" - he said people should get their jollies whatever way they can. I really doubt he was including paedophilia in that though. Others chimed in saying all they saw were three men in fancy dress...and where’s the harm in that?
I ended up thinking I must just have spent too long in the darker parts of twitter to have become so jaded. No not really, it’s the systematic breaking down of boundaries inch by inch. And those "pups" in their dog masks and bondage gear being petted by tiny children, don’t get me started. Bring back kink-shaming I say...
That was a tough read. It’s a circle very difficult to square to see Aimée (fuck I found the acute!) wholly as victim...but given the father... but then you remember the abused West children somehow not ending up revolting abusers themselves. Yeah it’s hard to judge
I had an online mate on another forum - old gay bloke - who was UTTERLY incensed when I posted a photo of old blokes at Pride in toddler costumes with dummies in their mouths and suggested this was a red flag...
We ain’t mates any more ☹️
Sorry to hear that, Kate. Never easy to lose a friend. He should have been incensed at the fetishists trying to infiltrate his movement (and their enablers), not the ones pointing it out.
I know that photo. I don't wonder he was angry about it. The thing they hate most is proof.
I'm fairly sure he’s just an ordinary gay guy who nonetheless disapproved of my "kink-shaming" - he said people should get their jollies whatever way they can. I really doubt he was including paedophilia in that though. Others chimed in saying all they saw were three men in fancy dress...and where’s the harm in that?
I ended up thinking I must just have spent too long in the darker parts of twitter to have become so jaded. No not really, it’s the systematic breaking down of boundaries inch by inch. And those "pups" in their dog masks and bondage gear being petted by tiny children, don’t get me started. Bring back kink-shaming I say...
Thanks so much for this. Here is link to Meghan Murphy's podcast with Helen Joyce posted today, November 13, 2020:
https://www.feministcurrent.com/2020/11/13/podcast-helen-joyce-on-doing-journalism-in-the-gender-identity-era/utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+FeministCurrent+%28Feminist+Current%29