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seeing a lot of takes recently (and this was popular during john green’s time here too) that adults who make content targeted towards kids or teens are automatically, not just cringe, but suspect? which is such an insane thing to believe because like…..who else would be writing books for 8-year olds? other 8-year olds? learn to just admit you don’t like someone or their work without implying they’re a pedophile, my god
Fucking thank you!
Reminder that one way to isolate minors for more easy abuse is to teach them to fear and suspect all other adults. Because adults are supposed to be responsible for helping kids in trouble, and many of them will do so given the chance. So if you want a kid to “accept” (be unable to escape) abuse, then you don’t want them to have any other trusted people to describe what’s happening to, because then you risk those adults interfering.
Don’t trust anyone preaching this philosophy.
The safest kids have a wide, trustworthy, safe social net, with lots of options for someone noticing if something is amiss if something is infact amiss.
I’ve recently seen people say, across social medias, that they automatically distrust anyone who’s going into nursing, teaching, social work, etc. I’m starting to think that all of this “abusers gravitate toward positions over vulnerable people!!” talk may have done incredible harm without nuance.
Your big life and world philosophy cannot be unmitigated, completely unprocessed anxiety and trauma. You’ve just turned “all people of x type/group bad” woke. No good will come from always searching for ways to validate your crippling trust issues.
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