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Do you think there will ever come a day where Maps will gain the courage to go out onto the street and protest for equal rights and the right to love who they love?

NAMBLA used to take part in pride and I can see a day coming where that happens again. Already some MAPs have decided to attend pride events in 2024 using map pride flags. I saw a few reports on the pediverse and in other places. Mad respect for them.

As for marching as a block? That’ll take a little bit longer. We first need an environment where we feel a little safer, particularly it’d be nice to have an environment where we could feel confident that the police would protect us if we were attacked. It’ll take courage though, whenever we start participating. That’s why we need to build a community focused on activism and advocacy- to build a group with the courage to withstand attack.

mrlolicon93 wrote: ↑Sun Aug 18, 2024 2:22 am Do you think there will ever come a day where Maps will gain the courage to go out onto the street and protest for equal rights and the right to love who they love?

Historical film footage of a small group of adult male NAMBLA members looking woefully out of place at LGBT events, to my mind just reinforces stereotypes and stigmatization.

The most honest and potentially impactful way to protest would be to appear in public as an AAM/MAA couplet. A major difficulty for AAM/MAA couples protesting, at least where I am based, is that Pride impose a discriminatory minimum participation age of 18 – a cunning ploy perhaps by the organizers to exclude invalid sexualities from their sacrosanct event.

It was possible to parade freely to protest our rights on the streets of many European cities fifty years ago, but not so in recent decades. Nowadays, such behavior would be deemed too subversive by onlookers. Any one of a plethora of new laws would allow members of the public to insist police arrive to arrest the perverts on the spot and prosecute them to the fullest extent subsequently, all on the flimsiest of pretexts.

If we get any photographic evidence of MAPs at pride, I will be able to redact and publish it where appropriate. I can be contacted in the footer.

I never been to a pride parade and I probably would if I had the guts but I'm probably afraid too do it

As for marching as a block? That’ll take a little bit longer. We first need an environment where we feel a little safer, particularly it’d be nice to have an environment where we could feel confident that the police would protect us if we were attacked.

Yes, that is exactly right. We have to feel comfortable enough to do so first. I have a PRIDE backpack with MAP button and a BL button on it. I also have a shirt which has the MAP flag alongside the Progress Flag. And another shirt that says I Stand With Children which has a dark figure of adult and child on it with the MAP colors in the background. I Stand With Children is something that the MAP MERCH SHOP has going on where if you buy certain items, you can choose a children charity to send the proceeds to.
Now, when I read or display these items, I expect that one these three things could happen.

1. I catch the attention of another MAP or MAP ally and gain a new friend.

2. I catch the attention of an anti and he/she gives me a difficult time about it.

3. I get the opportunity to educate and/or discuss MAP issues.

So far, nothing has happened. But I am not going to lie. Even small actions like this make me a little nervous sometimes because I never truly know what ( if anything ) is going to happen when people take notice. Some may even think that I am crazy for doing this. But this could just as well be a step in the right direction.

That day is coming sooner than we think. As evidenced by the emergence of female pedophiles into the spotlight. I have a sense that the lengthy prison sentences that have been given to female offenders is meant to high-lite the ridicules nature of all this. It is the women who will be the ones to topple the age of consent laws, not men. I have met 4 female pedos in the last 6 months. My pedolady and I have been together 2 years and she has met several herself. Trust me. Most of us will see the forbidden fruit in our lifetime.

I feel like in the next 5-10 years it will be more normalized like how other LGBTQ people can protest for rights
I'll even bet on it lol!

propedosexparents wrote: ↑Fri Sep 27, 2024 10:56 pm That day is coming sooner than we think. As evidenced by the emergence of female pedophiles into the spotlight. I have a sense that the lengthy prison sentences that have been given to female offenders is meant to high-lite the ridicules nature of all this. It is the women who will be the ones to topple the age of consent laws, not men. I have met 4 female pedos in the last 6 months. My pedolady and I have been together 2 years and she has met several herself. Trust me. Most of us will see the forbidden fruit in our lifetime.

Explain something to me. What makes you believe any of this?