These days, we can’t let kids be kids, and we’re refusing to hold most adults accountable for their actions. Our culture has a weird fascination with infantilizing adults and sexualizing kids, even though doing so harms both groups.
We know that adults are obsessed with quote-unquote “adulting,” but does that mean they’re actually doing it? Not necessarily. With the way most Millennials and Zoomers post about their declining mental health online – while simultaneously wielding their vaccination cards like participation medals and claiming moral superiority over the rest of us – it-s getting harder these days to distinguish between self-aware, hard-working adults and individuals who act more like children in adult bodies…
Then, there’s Allyn Walker, a transgender professor of sociology and criminal justice at Old Dominion University, who wrote A Long, Dark Shadow: Minor-Attracted People and Their Pursuit of Dignity. In recent years, many activists have decried the term “pedophile” in favor of a more politically correct term like “minor-attracted person,” allegedly because the people in question have no control over who they’re attracted to – even if the object of their attraction is young, vulnerable children who don’t understand the implications behind these debates. In remarks posted to the internet, Walker promotes the term MAP instead of pedophile “because it’s less stigmatizing.” Walker later resigned from ODU, saying the remarks were “mischaracterized” by the media. Read more…
