It's the whole thing that defines a conservative ideology, that when you have an immediate disgust response you have to trust it, it's what God gave you to keep you safe from corruption and temptation
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Replying to @arthur_affect @HeathBelden and
They just fundamentally don't like the concept of sex ed They don't like the idea of anyone actually educating kids about sex, to them that feels pretty much the same thing as grooming and destroying kids' innocence
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Replying to @arthur_affect @HeathBelden and
They want to live in the world where kids stay innocent until the age of majority and then just "figure out" what they need to know because "it's basic biology", it's instinct Talking about it like it's actually a subject to be learned about consciously is gross, deviant, weird
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Replying to @arthur_affect @HeathBelden and
They know enough to know that being anti-sex ed completely makes you an uncool person, one of those Religious Right people from America, so they claim not to be like THAT, but they really don't seem to think sex ed should consist of more than a conservative idea of "the basics"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @HeathBelden and
"Teach them the birds and the bees! Tell them if they fuck they'll get AIDS and get pregnant and so they mustn't do it! That's all they need to know!" Really familiar attitude
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Replying to @arthur_affect @HeathBelden and
By the way, I did go to the Proud Trust website The "Sexual Health Kit" with the dice was not available to download, and costs 75 Euro, so I'm pretty sure the critics saying they've read it are just baldfacedly lying
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Replying to @arthur_affect @HeathBelden and
But the guides they do make freely available are really fucking good I read through this and didn't find a single objectionable thing The idea that they're grooming girls to become disposable sex objects is a REALLY vicious canard https://www.theproudtrust.org/wp-content/uploads/download-manager-files/digital_TPT%20sex%20rel%20guide.pdf …
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Replying to @arthur_affect @HeathBelden and
I am actually envious that there are kids who get materials like this for sex ed, and trying to remind myself that the UK is or was a cool country with a lot of cool people in it trying to do good things, and the ugly viciousness we're seeing is the angry backlash to that
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Replying to @arthur_affect @HeathBelden and
Much like Germany in the 20s was the most sexually progressive, trans-friendly country in the world, until it suddenly wasn't
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Replying to @arthur_affect @HeathBelden and
Yeah, although what I'm not sure of is this: there plenty of angry, loud, awful British people online. If you're just a person growing up in the UK now, are they that present in your life? Or just the background din.
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I don't know that the issue is even that you'd run into a TERF in your personal life, the issue is that some TERFs are members of the House of Lords and able to get spurious investigations and media moral panics going to try to ruin people who offend them
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