You're about to get a lecture on how the United States may be backward and primitive but in the UK, God's kingdom, superstitious ignorance is a thing of the past and parents always act out of genuine well founded concern
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Replying to @arthur_affect @elliotreed and
If you want to know why I'm so "triggered" by this it's the repeated return to the principle that "protecting children = trusting parents" You smug conservative pricks
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Replying to @arthur_affect @elliotreed and
This is a really important point, and more subtle than it seems, I guess.
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Replying to @mssilverstein @arthur_affect and
And I mean, maybe there is some actual subtlety to it. The further removed you are from any actual abusive situation, the more it seems like "normal" is the best possible outcome, so you trust parents and other authority figures and treat children as passive.
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Replying to @mssilverstein @arthur_affect and
But like, you don't need to safeguard happy children from happily families very much at all, except from near-random threats. The actual social issues don't track there.
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Replying to @mssilverstein @arthur_affect and
I think this is very important. A lot of this rhetoric seems to be trying to desperately proclaim a "normal" happy childhood is the default intruded upon by gender recognition and social programs. Acknowledging we need answers for the abusive failure states endangers that.
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Replying to @loudpenitent @arthur_affect and
Yeah, exactly. It's like "children are always happy unless somebody fucked up." That's not true in *general*, but it's also particularly untrue that the someone who fucked up is not a parent.
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Replying to @mssilverstein @loudpenitent and
And good parents, of course, also fuck up! Parenting comes with a lot of challenges, and even people who are fundamentally decent and trying their best will miss things, or just not be in the right place at the right time.
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Replying to @mssilverstein @loudpenitent and
To the extent that there are adults who intentionally harm children: yes, they exist, and it's a problem. But it's a problem in literally every venue where adults and children co-exist, and has no relationship with LGBT+ organizations.
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I would almost be on board with saying "Okay, make it a rule that GSAs are purely student-run with no adults in the room" but they'd get even madder about that
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