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We don't get to choose who and what we are attracted to. 🤷🏻♂️ However, that does not absolve one of immoral actions.
... Imagine saying this regarding a male teacher aged 30/31 who groomed a 15 year old and 16 year old student, and got the 15 year old student pregnant.
(This woman got pregnant by the 15 yo student she groomed... and she had that child.)
"Oh I dunno, I guess some people are attracted to kids! 🤷 Its a bad thing to do though."
What the fuck.
No, its a lot more than just a bad thing, merely immoral actions. Its three innocent lives massively damaged, thrown off course, poetentially fucked up for life, because of the manipulative and selfish actions of a person in a position of trust and authority absuing that trust and authority.
And yeah its three lives, not two, because there's no way this doesn't massively negatively affect the life of her baby.
https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/real-life/news-life/former-maths-teacher-rebecca-joynes-banned-from-teaching-after-grooming-two-school-boys/news-story/0fe2070f15e4694d585491d7ea183cdb
... this woman is a serial sexual predator, who pursued the second relationship after being investigated for the first one and more or less getting away with a slap on the wrist.
Thats not just 'immoral actions', it's basically downright evil, which, according to the judge of the most recent trial, was carried out with "breathtaking gall" and "astonishing arrogance."
Downplaying the magnitude of how fucked up this is, is itself fucked up.
"MAP" type excusatory bullshit, fuck off. Pedophilia is not a sexuality because "child" is not a sex or gender expression.
I don't understand how that comment was excusing anything. They explicitly said that it was inexcusable.
Yeah, but prefaced it by saying you can't help who or what you're attracted to. Right out of the MAP playbook. The thoughts and attraction in itself is a problem and requires counselling because "children" are not a sexuality. You can and should help what you're attracted to when that what is a child! If you're having suicidal thoughts, you should see a counsellor. If you're having thoughts about harming others, you should see a counsellor. If you're having thoughts about diddling kids, you. should. see. a. counsellor.
Do you accept that people can prefer partners older or younger than them? If so, do you really think that's something that can be dealt with by some kind of "conversion therapy"?
Nonononono NO.
Child rape teachers are knowingly taking advantage of social trust in order to exploit kids. Absolutely nothing in the ball park of "pedos can't help it". Rape is not a kink, fetish or identity, it's a selfish, harmful, devastating crime with decades of repurcussions.
Please, I implore you to please never use this type of LGBTQIA acceptance language for pedophila. Child rapists are light-years away from two queer consenting adults and conflating the two only harms the innocent.
Do you have an issue reading entire comments?
No I agree that I don’t want to hear pedophilia talked about as a form of sexual attraction. It is inherently predatory and should not be mentioned as just what some people happen to be attracted to.
*you know, even with an asterisk at the end to say that sure it’s wrong
When discussing attraction to children is the cope of pedophiles. I don't buy this shit.
You're trying to make space for pedos by weaponizing queer acceptance. Fucking stop it.
Gross. "map" is just pedo apologia.
No, and no, Fuck you and fuck your pedo friends trying to pretend that your predation on children is anything near the same thing as queer acceptance. You're sick and actively doing harm to LGBT communities and acceptance by trying to equivocate the two. Having a kink for raping kids isnt a sexuality, quit pretending that it is.
Oh come on mods, there was nothing objectionable in my comments.
Anyway, you're making a lot of assumptions there. I never said anything like that. I just mentioned that a lot of MAPs are supportive and often part of the queer community, as part of their gender identity, bisexuality or the likes. The equivocation comes from your own interpretation. And I'm not pretending that it is a sexuality, I could call it a "paraphilic disorder" if you like, perfectly fine with me. I could go on about why it's not simply a kink like that, but I guess that would be too much intellectually honest discourse for .world, so I'll leave it at that.
So, they do choose who they're attracted to?
Question was asked & answered. Not liking the answer doesn't make it less true. Deal with it.