Please help. BBC PIE

[TotalDinosaur]

I don't have a bit X/Twitter following.
This is on the top of the BBC News website.
Peadophilia in plain site.

"Adorable moment girl, five, declares on air she has a boyfriend"

Adorable moment girl, five, declares on air she has a boyfriend - BBC News

I saw the actual clip. The kid says it herself. I wasn't really concentrating but it went something like - cute kid, what do you like best about being at Glastonbury? Kid - I like my boyfriend best. Cue merriment all round.
Totally innocent.

Yes, lovely clip. Results in a headline on the BBC News site that says
"Adorable moment girl, five, declares on air she has a boyfriend"

"On air"? "Declares"?

There thousands of people - adults - arriving at Glastonbury today. But the BBC news website chose to headline a five year old girl talking about 'having a boyfriend'.

Are you ok, OP?

Explain why you think this is paedophilia???

OP, you're overthinking this to a worrying degree.

Eh? It's a fluff piece. It's cute and amusing, and entirely innocent. I think anyone who has your kind of reaction to this has some issues around children and sexuality that need exploring in therapy. You sound hypervigilant, which is not a healthy state to be in - is there unresolved trauma causing you to react like this?

So many batshit threads on here today. Must be the heat.

It's normalisation, is what it is.

It hasn't started yet. This is the most interesting thing to happen so far. The rest is all people putting up tents.

So why put a five year old on the BBC News front page? Talking about a "boyfriennd"?

How do I get rid of these weird emojee pop ups?

Because people going to Glastonbury is the story of this week. A colleague of mine is there. We spent most of our check in team meeting this morning talking about it and that was mostly speculating as it transpires none of us had asked him who he was going with and what his plans for camping are!

Normalisation of what

Of 6 year olds having boyfriends? Are you concerned that as a result of this article, adults will think it is acceptable to date young children?

The BBC has had an interesting history with paedophilia inc the the likes of GG JS RH SB... this isn't. HTH

Yes. Exactly that. Have you really never heard of "MAPs?
And what they are trying to normalise?

"Normalisation" of children having sexual attraction.

Do you people not read anything?!

Yes I have heard of MAPs.
I'm not sure you need to worry about this article promoting paedophilia. I think it is quite clearly a child talking about an innocent relationship with another child that is in no way sexual. As other posters have said, it is pretty common for young children to have 'boyfriends' and 'girlfriends', it really doesn't mean anything.

Look OP the posters here are really not stupid and a lot of us are really tuned in to issues around child abuse and grooming etc. But you are massively misinterpreting what you've seen, presumably because you are viewing it through a traumatic past of your own. I'm really sorry that you are so upset and deeply sorry that you obviously have a history that makes you vulnerable to a perception like this.
But this is innocent. It really is. It's random, and the BBC thought it would be amusing, so they used it. That's it.

Having a "boyfriend" or a "girlfriend" doesn't always mean a sexual relationship.
Even with adults.

Just when you think MN couldn’t possibly get any more hysterically batshit. 🙄

It’s a bit of fluff about a cute kid at Glasto. So let’s try to get a grip, shall we?

This is a very normal Glastonbury story. The reporters stop a couple of festival goers and give them a chance to say something about themselves. This time it was this cute little girl - no issue here.

I had been "married" TWICEby that age. The reason why young children talk about boyfriends, or marrying their teacher, or get "married" to multiple husbands/wives isn't because they understand more than they should. It's precisely because they Don't understand what adult relationships are. That's why it's cute - because it's completely innocent. And why paedophiles who talk about children "understanding" what they are doing are subhuman scum. But it's normal for normal people to go ahhh cute. I do think adults who encourage small children to talk about "boyfriends" are cringe. But it's not pedophilic.

@biscuitandcake yes the average Reception class everyone is paired off and marrying each other by half term.
These marriages usually fizzle out by Christmas.

To be fair the reactions to this poster seem reassuringly sane. We need someone to start a thread on toilet brushes to restore the batshit-nonbatshit cosmic balance.