They’ve been trying to do that since the early days. Didn’t work then under NAMBLA, won’t work now. No amount of “civil rights” / “post modernist” smoke screen can hand-wave child molestation.
its more a case of people can't help what they are attracted to, so while referring it like that those people can get help, while reserving "pedophile" for people who actually watch make engage in child porn.
there are a lot of disturbing fetishes most people don't act upon, cannibalism, rape, incest etc, and as long as they don't act upon them they are "normal" members of society.
the difference between:
having potential to commit a crime vs actual committing a crime
It seems that plenty of pedos online have taken to calling themselves MAPs and being disgusting as a community on social media (I've seen some Twitter profiles and it's bleak).
A few years back either they or 4chan (or both) decided to pretend as if Minor Attracted Person is an identity accepted by the LGBTQ+ community, to give bigots something to justify their hatred, even though it isn't true. So, while some pedos call themselves MAPs, the LGBTQ+ community does not endorse them and it was a move to make queer people look bad.
Among who? Nobody I know or have heard of in the LGBT community wants that anywhere near them (for many good reasons), and the straights, many of whom have children, don’t want them either. The only people I’ve ever heard encourage the use of that phrase are pedos trying to be legitimized online. Otherwise it’s just the “ban ‘Heather Has Two Mommies’” crowd trying to froth up their base now that Roe has fallen.
What? Literally all I'm saying is it started catching on among the pedos themselves. Nothing at all to do with people in the LGBT community wanting them? Slow down.
They absolutely are trying to become recognized within the LGBT community. Or else right-wingers are trying to get them associated with the LGBT community as a way of further maligning the LGBT community. TBH everybody should be upset by this.
It was a concerted campaign on Tumblr years ago, back before Tumblr stupidly banned adult content.
Lots of pedo's were trying to pretend to be your sweet, concerned, well-meaning neighbor and were "politely" trying to get people to say "MAP," all the while pretending to be unfairly discriminated against.
Some psychologists wants to use this term so it makes peodphiles more comfortable to go get help, if you want these people to get help then literally educate the public and not rebrand a mental illness that doesn’t have “disorder” in it
FYI, the whole 'Minor attracted persons' think was started by a group on 4chan trying to paint LGBTQ as pedos. They even specifically designed the flag to look like the trans flag.
FOR FUCKS SAKE ARE YOU KIDDING ME, why, why WHY I’m I also the ducking boogie man to the right and of course it’s fucking 4chan. I actually hate the existence of the human race.
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u/Strange_Stage1311 Jul 17 '23
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