>>Strategies For Acceptance: Linguistic
He who controls language controls the debate. Why do you think transpeople insist you use their preferred pronouns? It’s not just semantics, the words you use are *vitally* important and the pedophobe knows this, which is why she often screams about “rape”, “predators” “abuse”, “molestation” and “exploitation” in situations which obviously don’t warrant such terms. Even sneakier is the use of the words “victim” and “survivor”, which imply that most children die from sex.
Call out these verbally violent attacks and shut them down before they get off the ground. They are entirely baseless and offensive- plus they cross the line into hate speech done with intent to defame and attack a minority. Especially when the term “predator” is used, you can joke that kinds want to eat children for dinner and gobble them up. Getting everyone laughing at how ridiculous these people sound will help immeasurably. The only way to do that is through satirical video.
Luckily, we have some “power words” we can use for ourselves.
“Kind” is the most important one, because it has positive connotations while “pedoph***” does not. This is the main reason why gays pushed so hard for people to start using “gay” instead of homosexual, and we need to push even harder. P*do or any of it’s variations must be treated as a slur.
“Pedosexual” is the second most important powerword. Once people get over it’s initial novelty it will cement the fact that pedosexuality is an inborn orientation and cannot change.
“Childhood sexual freedom” is an alternative way of framing the debate, and one that will lead to more success. Instead of looking it at from the perspective of the adult, view things from a child’s perspective. You can then attack pedophobic logic as “ageist” and make fun of bigots for claiming children are too stupid to understand their own bodies. The genius of this approach is that it turns pedophobia into an attack on children’s intelligence, not kinds- which is closer to the word’s original meaning anyway. “Scared of what children are capable of, are you?” “You aren’t the one who gets to make that choice. It’s not your body..”
“Child Victimizer” is the powerword you should use against most of the gauntlet pedophobes throw at kinds on a daily basis. The catch is that *pedophobes* are child victimizers. CVs don’t care about children, only using them as political tools to fuel their self-righteous moral outrage. They take “think of the children” too far and start thinking *for* them while denying their voices.
“Sex Oppressor” can be used in a joking manner to call out those who sincerely believe in juvenile panic switch theory.
“Adult-child sex” must be used in place of the inappropriate term “sex abuse” because it devalues the term. Child rape should be used to denote abusive instances of ACS.
Avoid calling them victims or survivors. Use neutral terminology such as “adults” or “children”.
When it comes to rights, “children’s rights” sounds a bit dishonest (although it’s true), so “kind rights”, “body equality”, “bodily autonomy” “sex freedom/liberation” or even plein ol’ “sex-postivity” should be used instead. Turn the tables and use emotional language to label your enemies. Words like “intolerant”, “childish”, “ageist”, “backwards” , “bigoted” , “prejudiced” , “ignorant” , “hateful”, “hypocritical”, “oppressive”, “maniacal”, “stone age” and similar paint a vivid mental picture. Present your opinion as “common-sense”, “modern”, “21st-century”, “progressive”,”love-affirming” “compassionate”, “provocative”, “liberating” and the like.
Language frames a debate and puts it in a human context. Master it or it will master you.
This is something we can do right now and actually something Mu is encouraging through the use of terms like "MAP", "AMSC" and "PIM".
Recently, I've also taken to using "sexual intimacy" rather than "sex", and focusing on "minor sexual agency and autonomy" (contra protection).
