I was finally exposed to Pride Discourse in the wild and like it's not great but also: whomst among us did not have shitty opinions rooted in internalized homophobia at a certain age
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"Pride should be a safe place for queer kids" is true but it's also a reductive place to argue from. Pride is an amalgamation of many smaller spaces and not all of them can (or should) be kid-friendly. And that's FINE.
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and the presence of _signifiers_ of kink—not active sex acts!—doesn't make it an _unsafe_ space for queer kids, either! the whole 
is so frustrating.
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"Hey actually you can be a happy, healthy adult if you're into The Weird Stuff" would have been a really valuable message for me as a kid but I don't think that's a conversation we're ready for
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hell, I think it might be one we were on track 20 years ago to be much more ready for, than we actually are currently. the 21st century's been real backlashy in a lot of ways.
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