There is a cosmically ironic sort of humor in how people like me have to be like “If I mention that I enjoyed a problematic anime show seven years ago while still recognizing its issues, will people think I’m a pedophile?” etc, meanwhile rich and well-connected cishet men like this guy can literally scream “I WANT THE LEGAL RIGHT TO SEXUALLY ASSAULT CHILDREN!!!” and a bajillion creeps will arf and clap without worry of consequence.
They always dance around the issue too and claim they have attraction to 17 year olds and that it’s totally normal, this is how men did things for centuries, to paper over the fact that the real slippery slope is that it won’t stop with 17 year olds. So miss me with the conservative fever dream that legalizing gay marriage or allowing trans people rights opens up the door to depraved deviancy like zoophilia.
They always dance around the issue too and claim they have attraction to 17 year olds and that it’s totally normal, this is how men did things for centuries,
This ties into a broader thing where under the typical patriarchal view women are depersonalized sex-things to own and use, and so extending the minimum age downwards however much they feel they can get away with is “normal” to them: they only see women as bodies to which they are attracted and which they would like to use, and since every material problem with targeting younger and younger women is about the person being less experienced and less able to exist independently and so more easily exploited and abused[1] they see the problems as a plus because it just reinforces the fucked up power dynamic they believe in.
That’s also why they’re so hellbent on distinguishing between their own desire to prey on teenage girls and “real” pedophilia: they see the abuse they want to do as normal and maybe just a little bit of a vice like gambling or doing cocaine, and they absolutely mald at the suggestion that that’s weird and not normal at all. They believe themselves to be the height of normalcy, the arbiters of normalcy, and pointing at that they’re repulsive predatory freaks undermines the status and power they violently cling to.
Also that having children early is very dangerous and unhealthy, but I almost don’t even want to mention this because it ties back into issue of women being reduced to their bodies. ↩︎
I also think that there’s a parallel between the sexual objectification of progressively younger people, and capitalists’ desire to bring back child labor — as in, these are two sides of the same coin, like one of the main driving forces behind the reproduction of pedophilia in our current mode of production is the mode’s need for a progressively larger pool of laborers who are ideally more easily exploited and abused.
So this is what I’m referring to when I say that “pedophilia is a system”: that all sexuality is in some manner both reproductive and reproduced, and as such pedophilia would not exist without a mode of production already prone to exploit and abuse children in other ways. That pedophilia is not really a product of “defective brains”, but is rather “programmed”, created by these systems of exploitation as a tool to help maintain themselves — and this is just as true of the pederasts of ancient slave societies as the Xitter “lolicons” of today.
There is a cosmically ironic sort of humor in how people like me have to be like “If I mention that I enjoyed a problematic anime show seven years ago while still recognizing its issues, will people think I’m a pedophile?” etc, meanwhile rich and well-connected cishet men like this guy can literally scream “I WANT THE LEGAL RIGHT TO SEXUALLY ASSAULT CHILDREN!!!” and a bajillion creeps will arf and clap without worry of consequence.
Pedophilia Is A System
They always dance around the issue too and claim they have attraction to 17 year olds and that it’s totally normal, this is how men did things for centuries, to paper over the fact that the real slippery slope is that it won’t stop with 17 year olds. So miss me with the conservative fever dream that legalizing gay marriage or allowing trans people rights opens up the door to depraved deviancy like zoophilia.
This ties into a broader thing where under the typical patriarchal view women are depersonalized sex-things to own and use, and so extending the minimum age downwards however much they feel they can get away with is “normal” to them: they only see women as bodies to which they are attracted and which they would like to use, and since every material problem with targeting younger and younger women is about the person being less experienced and less able to exist independently and so more easily exploited and abused[1] they see the problems as a plus because it just reinforces the fucked up power dynamic they believe in.
That’s also why they’re so hellbent on distinguishing between their own desire to prey on teenage girls and “real” pedophilia: they see the abuse they want to do as normal and maybe just a little bit of a vice like gambling or doing cocaine, and they absolutely mald at the suggestion that that’s weird and not normal at all. They believe themselves to be the height of normalcy, the arbiters of normalcy, and pointing at that they’re repulsive predatory freaks undermines the status and power they violently cling to.
Also that having children early is very dangerous and unhealthy, but I almost don’t even want to mention this because it ties back into issue of women being reduced to their bodies. ↩︎
I also think that there’s a parallel between the sexual objectification of progressively younger people, and capitalists’ desire to bring back child labor — as in, these are two sides of the same coin, like one of the main driving forces behind the reproduction of pedophilia in our current mode of production is the mode’s need for a progressively larger pool of laborers who are ideally more easily exploited and abused.
So this is what I’m referring to when I say that “pedophilia is a system”: that all sexuality is in some manner both reproductive and reproduced, and as such pedophilia would not exist without a mode of production already prone to exploit and abuse children in other ways. That pedophilia is not really a product of “defective brains”, but is rather “programmed”, created by these systems of exploitation as a tool to help maintain themselves — and this is just as true of the pederasts of ancient slave societies as the Xitter “lolicons” of today.
But this is just my own view.
Pedophilism
…Is according to Wiktionary a rare synonym of “pedophilia” — what do you mean by this?
Probably pedophilia as an ideology, playing off your “Pedophilia Is A System” line?
That’s what I’m figuring too, but it’s hard to interpret a one word reply.