Convicted paedophile lusts over Desmond (the amazing one) [trigger warning for obvious reasons]

[OrchidInTheSun]

Tom O'Carroll, former chair of PIE, has written a piece saying how sexy he finds Desmond. I note that our old friend Peter Tatchell is tagged too.

But of course there's nothing wrong or weird with a kid dressing up and dancing in gay clubs.

At least he's not pretending it's not sexualising childhood I suppose

[DuMondeB]

Teen Vogue are now promoting sex work as work: mobile.twitter.com/TeenVogue/status/1140372239537377280

So I think we have a paedophilic full house.

And no, TeenVogue, it isn’t. It’s abuse.

[SarahTancredi]

Unless you are a child, or a lesbian or a woman without a penis

[SarahTancredi]

Then no one cares about a safe space

[NeurotrashWarrior]

Just thinking about the parents though. Autism has a very large genetic component - it is likely that his parents are vulnerable adults too.

Good point. But still no excuse.

[NeurotrashWarrior]

Blaire White on teen vogue.

I see TV popping up a lot; starting to get spider senses about them. Several red flags.

[FermatsTheorem]

Good point about why no-one says "child labour is work", "sweatshop labour is work."

I always say this on these threads, but the crucial thing is to keep turning attention from the women and back onto the "invisible men" who use them.

Who benefits from the happy hooker narrative? It sure as hell isn't teenage girls, who ought to be being encouraged to become engineers, writers, lawyers, medical professionals, architects, business women, scientists, charity workers.

Not being encouraged to aspire to becoming receptacles for men's masturbatory fantasies.

[OrchidInTheSun]

In a clumsy attempt to be more R0wantrees, see this thread: Network Autism thinks gender id develops in foetus (title edited by MNHQ) www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/3589202-Network-Autism-thinks-gender-id-develops-in-foetus-title-edited-by-MNHQ

And this one:
Foster children (3 and 7) transitioning. Times article www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/3583675-Foster-children-3-and-7-transitioning-Times-article

for more on Vicki Pasterski and Melissa Hines

[OrchidInTheSun]

Oh and this one: Jay vs Secretary of State for Justice -- getting a GRC on appeal after panel says 'no' three times www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/3481765-Jay-vs-Secretary-of-State-for-Justice-getting-a-GRC-on-appeal-after-panel-says-no-three-times

[FermatsTheorem]

Oops wrong thread - that was meant for the "Teen Vogue thinks prostitution is a great career to aspire to" thread. Sorry!

[LordProfFekkoThePenguinPhD]

Hmmmm seems to be a thing these days (from a Metro story about an 8 year old personage drag kid)

Sparkle, who uses the pronouns ‘they’ and ‘them’ was described as ‘born fabulous’ by their supportive mother

[Goosefoot]

I am a little unsure, do they claim he is gay? It sounds like it says so in the OP link but I've not seen it said right out anywhere though they imply it.

[calpop]

Desmond? His parents state very clearly that he is gay and they have known since he was 2. Baloney of course but that's what they say. I say he's autistic, possibly, and either way, far too young to have known he was gay at 2, though it will no doubt now be a self fullfiing prophecy since everyone around him has been telling him hes gay for 10 years. If he's actually straight, I'm sure they'll decide hes trans instead.

[Goosefoot]

Ah, I had thought they had just said that he was a "drag kid" at 2.

I agree it's not a good idea to be telling kids that they have a sexual preference at that age. I see it around a lot though, not usually at two, but my daughters elementary school for example was very big on their school group for LGBT+ kids, there seemed to be a big push for kids to label themselves before they've even really reached puberty.

[LordProfFekkoThePenguinPhD]

Poor kid. Should be trotting around museums looking at dinosaurs, watching cartoons, and playing on slides - not shimmying in gay bars for dollars and hanging out in highly sexually charged environments (and posing next to random naked men).

When is he a kid?

[hipsterfun]

Creepy doesn’t begin to describe that video with Alig. Every aspect of it has the creepy-meter maxed out.