Re:The Balenciaga Controversy
by incrudible on Tuesday November 29, 2022 @02:32PM
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Fair enough, we could give the benefit of the doubt. We could look at BDSM culture as something that's central to gay culture (which I think is a cliché) and then deduce that because homosexuality doesn't start at age 18, it's not inappropriate to have children dress in fetish gear. Oh, and by the way, if you disagree that makes you a homophobe.
Personally, I believe that road leads down to the normalization of pedophilia, which is a stated goal of certain queer activists. I think we need boundaries, it's not actually helpful to "look the other way" and perform extravagant mental gymnastics to convince ourselves that it's not pedophilia when it looks like pedophilia.
> which is a stated goal of certain queer activists.
None that I'm aware of. Given your own stated recalcitrance to actually search for resources and information about these things, I suggest (as gently as possible) that you're way off base here.
Re:The Balenciaga Controversy
by incrudible on Tuesday November 29, 2022 @03:18PM
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I gave a Youtube link in the opening comment, I suggest you watch it.
I'm not exactly a member of either community, but my understanding of drag is that it's performance art. My understanding of the leather community is that it's (1) a cornerstone of gay male culture, and (2) the polar opposite, in terms of sexual preferences, of the things people normally see as child-abuse-adjacent.
You're entitled to whatever opinion you have about the age appropriateness of "preschool leather daddy," if that's a thing that has ever even existed. But I see no reason to enshroud that opinion in the same old tired fearmongering tropes about gay people.