It is as the name suggest, I am that Dr EM of the twitter stir.
Irish feminist - thank you for your kind comment. It was a lovely change to some of the nastiness I have recieved. (You can confirm it is me - coffee, panini and watching the door from our hideout). Who knew that exposing a paedophile's self declared tactics would be deemed so bigoted and ignorant? That opposing child abuse would warrant and incur such anger and accusations?
As to the veracity of the source (which is now linked to on my page) I was using an 8chan text dump hosted on archive but significantly the same text is listed and reproduced as a resource on a genuine website for paedophiles. They are taking it seriously and proposing to act on it, so we should.
In regards to comments that I am inadvertently promoting paedophilia, I had to balance the need to bring this to wider attention with that idea of promotion. I hope I have done it in a critical way and made it clear that I find it abhorrent. If we can not talk about the problem or their tactics, can we safeguard? Would denying it and covering it up, hiding these things and this useful information make the world safer? Or would our knowledge and ability to prevent and stand against child abuse be hindered? I feel like I have been in their war-room and taken some of their secrets to those wishing to defeat them. I did not want to link to these sites because of the notion that I could enable a predator to access this information but alas, as people tried to discredit the information my hand was forced.
If you find information online please report it to the Internet Watch Foundation.
Protecting children from abuse for me comes above any personal politics. I am still grieving the loss of my dearest friend from suicide because of child abuse. I genuinely, in contradiction to some willfull distortions by RedHoodGirl who feels she knows my inner thoughts and motivations, tried to seperate the two issues - trans and paedophilia - out. I can only use the evidence in the text which proposed a conscious co-opting and abuse of policies being lobbied for. Anything else would have been a deliberate distortion. Maybe someone else should have done it, it would have come from a better voice, but does that mean I should not oppose child abuse because I am a radical feminist? That my voice should not be heard anymore? What are the implications of this concept? If it was proposing using feminism, my own cause, I would have posted it up. It does in fact co-opt the language of feminism in sections. Do I therefore believe that all feminists are paedophiles? No.
This horrible text also serves as a warning to protect Lesbian and Gay rights as once again predators are trying to cloak themselves in the rainbow. The author specifically outlined ways to manipulate their cause.
As a historian, the idea that we may not speak of history or parallels would entail that we are forever starting from scratch and underprepared.
A side note, a plea not to dismiss history: Imagine how different now would be if all children were taught the achievements of women as well as men.
Thank you for the women of Mum's Net for discussing this and associated issues.