Call Me Whatever Names You Wish, But I Think This Is A Much Better (and Healthier) Attitude Than Anyone

Call me whatever names you wish, but I think this is a much better (and healthier) attitude than “anyone under 18 should never be allowed to see any sexual imagery ever”

(For reference: this was at the Tom of Finland exhibition, containing actual, queer, kinky af pornography. There were definitely some young people there, perhaps in their late teens. There was even a parent with their baby who was probably too young to understand anything at all. And guess what, all those people are probably going to be fine.)

[ID: a sign saying “Please note: there is no age limit, but the exhibition is not recommended for children due to the explicit sexual imagery it contains. Parental or guardian discretion is advised.”]

Afterparty

Happy Birthday Sonic! 💙💙💙

Nah but when I was in elementary school people used gay as an insult too lmfao

I'm glad things are improving!

the thing about working in childcare these days is that I'm blown away by how open minded and genuinely curious these kids are. there are multiple openly queer kids, who are aware of the intricacy of the queer community and the multi-faceted nature of queer identity.

none of that was around 10 or 20 years ago. queerness wasn't even necessarily taboo during my childhood experiences, it just,,, wasn't taught or talked about, even from one child to another. I just didn't know it was a thing. but these little kids know about intersectionality!!!

and then when I was in high school, kids used 'gay' as an insult, but these kids at my job don't even blink differently when I told them the little queer flag pin on my messenger bag was the aroace flag. some of them ask what it means, because perhaps they've only heard of gay lesbian and trans. (and they've heard of gay lesbian and trans!!!!) I explain my flag and what it means, and it makes sense to them. that would have been alien for me as a ten year old.

some of these little lesbian girls and aroace and bisexual boys, the pan, poly, demigirl and nonbinary little ten year olds are the best friends that little me needed.

it's refreshing and heartwarming to see that the young ones of today are the kind of people this world needs.

PROTECT QUEER KIDS!!!! EMPOWER QUEER KIDS!!!!

soft like the month of june ✨

I mean yeah no shit they hate trans people, they're just using kids as a scapegoat. It's an easy facade to pull off in front of the ignorant: 'We care about kids! We want to protect them from [scary buzzword]!' but they really don't care about the 'mutilation' of kids unless it suits their narrative. Circumcision? Surgeries on intersex kids? That's fine, that's NORMAL! Meanwhile it's fuckin weird but as long as it fits THEIR narrative, they see nothing wrong with altering the genitals of literal infants.

if trans people getting gender affirming care is "mutilation" yet intersex babies getting surgeries (aka getting mutilated) isn't a big deal, you don't care about children, you just hate trans people

Extremely dangerous how "grooming" in the context of child sexual abuse went from being a very specific pattern of isolation and trust-building with the aim of abusing someone to "telling children anything that contradicts their parents' ultra-conservative worldview is grooming" to "selling rainbow flags in a store is grooming" to "literally anyone I don't like is a groomer".

These days the word seems to most often be used by people who don't care about what it actually means and just want an easy "this person is irredeemably evil, kill them now" button.