What is this if not grooming.

[Angryresister]

pride.gift/30e24

This is really worrying on so many levels

I'll just hang around here for a bit until someone does a clicky link

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www.pride.gift/30e24

Thanks.

Sorry. How do I do that?

Oh, fucking hell, that's dodgy AF. Grim.

(Who was the twitter person who was saying similar?)

Is this not just inspired by the man that gave out 700 hugs to young gay people that hadn't been supported by their parents? The 'free dad hugs' guy.
Still a shit t shirt either way

Just disgusting 🤮

Why will the shit actually have to hit the fan before people will see this?

Angryresister
You add these before and after the link.

It seems nothing has been learnt from recent events involving safeguarding issues.

OTOH they say it's the last day to order (poss untrue), they seem to have all sizes and colours available still and the price is reduced. Selling well then?

But it’s not just offering hugs of support. “I’m your dad now”. Creepy as fuck. I just see that bear and think of David Challenor.

It's exasperating that people cannot see what is right in front of them. Even if this specific T shirt is not part of a sinister agenda it feeds the agenda that is sinister and normalises children seeking support from strangers.

How can that be considered anything other than dangerous?

Why do we learn nothing from history?

I can't imagine anyone wanting to wear that. Seriously weird.

Oh God I just opened my FB page and got a big ad for lots of Pride t-shirts, including "Free Mom Hugs". Those ads are super-fast

Given the whole bear/cub thing in various gay male subgroups, the choice of a bear is not neutral. The whole 'I'm your dad' now thing is extremely creepy. I cannot imagine a lesbian wanting to say 'I'm your mum now'. We're your gay brothers, perhaps, that has at least the suggestion of a non-power based familial style relationship, brothers and sisters gives to an image of support, of mutuality.

Oh, and 'identity', even more nonsense.

What sort of person wants to steal children from their parents?

Oh.. hold on...

If I saw someone wearing that out in the wild I would be watching them. Very. Carefully.

I don't know. I saw a blog or something the other day saying they'd been at a Pride march, and the mum of one young person was giving hugs to the kids whose parents wouldn't accept their kid as gay. Apparently it was really moving and meant a lot to the kids. I think I'm a teensy bit wary of jumping to a conclusion, just because that blog made me think.

Gross. Even the graphic is kind of sinister, no? The huge “bear” looming over a small “cub.” Agree with PP, bear/cub are used by adult gay men in a particular way so seems an odd choice here.

That's really sinister. Without the bear and the "I'm your dad now", it would be better, but I can't unsee that imagery .I can see how someone who meant well and genuinely wanted to help kids might wear it in genuine innocence, but it just screams "predator".

the mum of one young person was giving hugs to the kids whose parents wouldn't accept their kid as gay. Apparently it was really moving

It's hugely inappropriate to physically hug a child who has never met you, especially one you know to be emotionally vulnerable. It's just all sense of wrong.

Is this not just inspired by the man that gave out 700 hugs to young gay people that hadn't been supported by their parents

That was also wildly inappropriate

One rule of safeguarding is even if you think you are a safe person, you don't act in an unsafe way, as it leaves children less able to spot or describe inappropriate behaviour.