Posts by flipside_valentine@pleroma.miria.love
(DIR) Post #A7ObbjvPZ8XsPI4soi by flipside_valentine@pleroma.miria.love
2021-05-19T03:58:27.901075Z
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@Tepid_Tapir The kind that shouldn't be this tedious to apply to.
(DIR) Post #A7PfpWie3VpwTitc48 by flipside_valentine@pleroma.miria.love
2021-05-19T16:38:48.417174Z
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That job I applied to has yet to give me a time and location for my "audition"... I'm starting to think they're not going to hire me, and I can't tell whether I'm relieved by that.
(DIR) Post #A7QbsK2HSlVvLt7Mga by flipside_valentine@pleroma.miria.love
2021-05-20T03:26:21.957009Z
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Telling an innocent person they're doomed to hurt a child is evil.
(DIR) Post #A7RZdmByUTZFaEY3QO by flipside_valentine@pleroma.miria.love
2021-05-20T14:19:45.908546Z
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A friend sent me this. Curious what others think of it.https://nsuworks.nova.edu/cps_stuetd/136/
(DIR) Post #A7Rc8a084B3Weup7Uu by flipside_valentine@pleroma.miria.love
2021-05-20T14:23:54.606399Z
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@miria If I'm reading the abstract right, it seems to me like they basically just found the same results that Rind did in 1998... but then are trying to play it off like it's unique to the college sample?
(DIR) Post #A7Rc8aop1hbbC8XbVo by flipside_valentine@pleroma.miria.love
2021-05-20T14:37:08.276677Z
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@miria Still, since this is recent, surely it's positive that they came to the same conclusion.
(DIR) Post #A7Rc8bgLogQJs9aLwm by flipside_valentine@pleroma.miria.love
2021-05-20T15:02:00.407902Z
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@miria All the more reason for there to be more studies like this so the empirical facts become more and more undeniable to the scientific community.
(DIR) Post #A7Rc8cJLThcDp5pUjA by flipside_valentine@pleroma.miria.love
2021-05-20T15:09:12.831895Z
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@miria Fucking morons. They literally have proof right before their eyes that these relationships aren't harmful, yet they still maintain this dumbass mentality."Evidence that certain children have positive experiences..." What, you mean the vast majority of them? And "deeply held values and principles about equality and self-determination..." Who are you to speak of equality and self-determination, when you maintain that children aren't equal to adults and don't have the right to determine who they want to have a relationship with?
(DIR) Post #A7RcpL2bYzDKiHN1uK by flipside_valentine@pleroma.miria.love
2021-05-20T15:17:16.456162Z
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@Madcowboy3812 @miria That is exactly what they're saying. They're all but admitting outright that scientific evidence is meaningless to them, and that all that matters are irrational cultural taboos.
(DIR) Post #A7dopTx72MrtdqT0Pw by flipside_valentine@pleroma.miria.love
2021-05-25T23:39:58.296867Z
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These past few days away from social media have been good for me. They've given me the chance to better understand myself, and what being a child lover means to me.I'd begun to feel uncomfortable with how preoccupied many MAPs, myself included, are with the topic of sex. I still have a lot of internalized negativity towards the topic, and admittedly it's hard not to feel a bit gross when that's the only thing on my mind. But sex isn't all there is to love, not by a long shot.My desire is to fall in love, to share a precious closeness with someone I care dearly about. That wholesome, gentle relationship is my life's dream. Sex is subordinate to that. I still wholeheartedly support the sexual aspect of adult-child relationships, but for me personally, that's not even close to what matters most to me. I want to embrace that self-image as an honest and true child lover, who loves every part of their special someone, not just the sexual aspects.
(DIR) Post #A7dopUyDFlLInXzOls by flipside_valentine@pleroma.miria.love
2021-05-26T00:05:40.528434Z
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@halos I completely agree, sex gets over-represented by antis (and frankly by many MAPs as well), and the romantic aspect very often gets brushed aside. This just helps the antis more, in portraying MAPs as predators whose only interest is hurting children.Sadly, this extends to pedo-themed media, too. You wouldn't believe how hard it is to find wholesome child-love romance stories, even in the generally pedo-friendly Japan.
(DIR) Post #A7e5V9BsDb38g9GDQm by flipside_valentine@pleroma.miria.love
2021-05-26T15:34:46.497404Z
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@cum @halos @hoakelenli @nahotakamiya Is there any chance we could stop discussing this...? I didn't want my post about love to turn into a thread about killing people.
(DIR) Post #A7e8HZyk7hx3ZMLBkO by flipside_valentine@pleroma.miria.love
2021-05-26T13:03:18.754147Z
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@nahotakamiya @hoakelenli @halos I don't think going to change the way they think about us, it will reinforce it. People will say we're demanding to be allowed to have sex with their children at gunpoint.
(DIR) Post #A7e8HarKqjcWIfsmq8 by flipside_valentine@pleroma.miria.love
2021-05-26T13:25:35.245861Z
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@nahotakamiya @halos @hoakelenli It's not just our enemies we need to worry about. The entirety of society needs to accept us, which I don't think they'll do as long as they still think of us as violent deviants who would hurt their children.
(DIR) Post #A7e8HbfJqtbQnhGhkW by flipside_valentine@pleroma.miria.love
2021-05-26T13:41:35.368826Z
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@nahotakamiya @halos @hoakelenli I don't want to seem like I'm saying self defense is wrong, I just think we should avoid going from that to armed conflict. We're a movement of love, so I think we should fight with love.
(DIR) Post #A7e8HcP36sBN5WfE1o by flipside_valentine@pleroma.miria.love
2021-05-26T15:55:01.768259Z
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@miria @halos @hoakelenli @nahotakamiya Like I said, can we just drop the topic of violence? Please?
(DIR) Post #A7e8HdCK9fb7YLiZpg by flipside_valentine@pleroma.miria.love
2021-05-26T15:59:24.196052Z
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@miria @halos @hoakelenli @nahotakamiya I don't care what you do, I just don't want to discuss it on this thread anymore.
(DIR) Post #A7e8He117C9C5ZR3qa by flipside_valentine@pleroma.miria.love
2021-05-26T16:06:17.245299Z
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@miria @halos @hoakelenli @nahotakamiya Then at least answer me this much. If what we're fighting for is the right to have relationships with children, then in what way do you see a violent movement as accomplishing that? How will violence not make people even more determined to keep their children as far from us as possible?
(DIR) Post #A7e9GZjxclKEUiVmmO by flipside_valentine@pleroma.miria.love
2021-05-26T16:11:00.730407Z
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@miria @halos @hoakelenli @nahotakamiya I'm not saying that by a long shot. I'm just trying to see realistically how fighting back will affect both us and children in the long run.
(DIR) Post #A7e9GadcHpqRHKYEWu by flipside_valentine@pleroma.miria.love
2021-05-26T16:16:36.674634Z
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@miria @halos @hoakelenli @nahotakamiya But I feel like that still only addresses MAPs and not children.