I usually try not to call people idiots, but people have *somehow* managed to interpret this tweet as though I support pedophilia?? Where the hell is the reading comprehension?
And this question (and others like it) is really important, because this *has happened before*. 1/
And this question (and others like it) is really important, because this *has happened before*. 1/
https://twitter.com/Aella_Girl/status/1462957981914603523
There actually *is* a tribe where the pedophilia thing is normal: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sambia_pe…
And this is great fodder for a billion questions around morality, trauma, how influenced we are by cultural norms, etc. I can't believe people know about this and just shrug it off! 2/
And this is great fodder for a billion questions around morality, trauma, how influenced we are by cultural norms, etc. I can't believe people know about this and just shrug it off! 2/
And it's not just that tribe - culture across the world and history has been chock full of behaviors that we today find abhorrent, but at the time were not perceived as harmful. The implications of this... this is like one of the *most* important things to think about. 3/
Both because it has a *lot* of implications for how we process harm today, and because it illuminates ways have justified harm to others. I can't adequately communicate how much I want to point at this constantly. It impacts everything. 4/
So yes I constantly think about stuff like what if I was on an alien planet where pedophilia was seen as healthy, and I'm so confused why everybody else doesn't also constantly think about this, and even more how in the ever loving fuck they think *I'm* bad for thinking about it!
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