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've worked with sex offenders.
I think you are seriously overthinking this.

You can't be serious. Exactly how old do you think this "boyfriend" is? 52?
He will be about 5, same age as her
Jesus fucking christ give your head a wobble!!

Why are you so outraged by this? Is it triggering something for you?

This is not a rational response

You're the weirdo op

Normalisation of what? You sound like you need help, there's nothing offensive or worrying about this clip!

@TotalDinosaur this is just the "cute filler" news item.
If it hadn't been a child being cute it would have been a dog in a silly hat or something.
Chill. Seriously.

You’re a nutter. Little kids often declare they have boyfriends/ girlfriends or husbands/wives. My 5yo son keeps saying that I’m his wife because he loves me! They literally have no understanding of what it means.

And it’s not paedophilia unless the boyfriend is an adult, which he clearly isn’t.

Age 5 in the infants class, me and all my friends were in love with one of the little boys. We worshipped him. We used to play kiss chase at playtime and ran after him. We never caught him, he was too fast!!
There was nothing sexual about it because we didn't know what sexual meant, we were just innocent little ones having fun
That is all

My parents absolutely did not encourage me in my love affair age 5. It was Matthew and I who wouldn't shut up about it.

If you are out there Matthew (with your home counties house with 4 tennis courts) I'm still here for you.

It's not on the bbc front page but there is something about Shania Twain wanting to ride a horse.

Well here's a simple question - why did the BBC put it on the front page of their News website?

@TotalDinosaur probably because at that moment in time it was a cute story.
As more news comes in it will drop away.
Don't you remember the comedy "Drop the Dead Donkey"?
It's filler news until something else more important/interesting comes along and then it will drop away.....

It's strange, the only person I can see trying to sexualise this child or her comments is you.

Says more about you that that's where your mind went.

Drop The Dead Donkey was about filling the last bit of the live news.

Websites are different. There are thousand of actual adults turning up to Glastonbury.

But hey, a five year old girl and her 'boyfriend'!

Can you all seriously not see this.

@TotalDinosaur you seem to be the only one seeing something that isn't there.

It was on the front page.

@TotalDinosaur yes but it isn't now.
You are seriously overreacting about this.

Are you actually reading any of these responses?

And what is it about this five year old girl, what did she say or do that makes you think it is sexual?

I agree with others that you are reacting over nothing.

Here's something to actually react over:

https://metro.co.uk/2024/06/26/convicted-child-rapist-set-represent-netherlands-olympics-21111467/amp/

1. Why is he referred to as a 'child rapist' and not a paedophile groomer?
2. Why is he competing at the Olympics?

(I admit this is a derail and should have its own thread.)

Op, you are the only person who thinks this item is anything to do with peadophilia. Nobody agrees with your outrage. On mumsnet, probably the most sensitive forum to child abuse in the country. Why do you think that nobody agrees with you?

I am fairly certain that your real aim is to associate the BBC with something negative. There is a concerted effort to give the BBC a kicking. The NHS is all but destroyed and our economy and politics a laughing stock but the BBC is the one British institution, which is still respected around the world. And yet, there is an organised campaign to discredit it. It’s totally irrational, the BBC is not perfect but it really is viewed as the highest quality and most unbiased broadcaster globally.

I wonder who or what is behind this anti BBC campaign? Who gains from it?

Since we all can’t see it, maybe consider that there’s nothing to see, except in your fevered imagination?

It’s a cute and funny ‘silly’ filler story. It’s not some giant conspiracy to persuade adults that five year olds make viable girlfriends. It’s such a stretch I’m surprised you haven’t done yourself an injury,

Agree. Although I am fine with the term child rapist. I think it's a good description and doesn't sound exactly good.

I’ve worked with sex offenders, and now work in child safeguarding, and I think “seriously overthinking” is an understatement.

OP, what do you think about the reactions on this thread?

I know what you mean OP, 10 years ago I would have thought it was entirely innocent but now I am on hyper alert