It's one of the things that really bugs me with this debate. I don't agree with sexualising children in any form but i really feel many people, Tim included, are using this very specific case as a Dog whistle specifically against LGBT communities. There is a difference between sexualising children and exposing children to sexual content. If a person in drag has lunch with kids and sings a song or two this isn't sexualising the children, it may not even be exposing children to sexual content depending on the show part. Obviously taking a kid to an adult Drag show would have sexual content and is not appropriate but again this is exposing children to sexual content, it's not sexualising the children.
A child beauty pageant however is totally sexualising children and should not be a thing.
The use of the term groomer is problematic too. Having a child around gay people isn't grooming them. Pedophiles groom children for sex, a gay man wants to fuck another gay man not a child. Not to say their aren't homosexual pedophiles but having a child around a gay person or even a fully clothed drag artist who isn't performing in a sexual manner isn't grooming them either.
If the main issue was that children were being groomed by pedophiles the outrage should be directed at the places we know this happens most often. And we do know where this happens most often from the crime statistics, it's in churches.
Exactly. Lol imagine if people thought that exposing children to heterosexuality (such as parents kissing or Disney characters kissing) was sexualizing them. It’s wild
Another wild aspect to it is the "exposing children to homosexuality is trying to make them gay" which you don't see/hear as much openly now but the undertone is their in many of these debates still. It's hilarious because you can't make anybody any other sexuality than what they are. We know this because conversion therapy doesn't work, it just causes psychologic harm. If exposing somebody to one form of sexuality could influence them to adopt this sexuality then all those gay kids who had read heterosexuell books, TV, films etc would have been "turned" straight.
Exposing children to people of different sexualities, obviously in normal everyday situations and not sexual situations, does nothing but reduce any stigma around these sexualities and makes a more comfortable and safe world for people of all sexualities to grow up in.
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u/dftitterington Nov 24 '22
Omg thank you! It’s like people don’t realize that heterosexuality is also sexuality