I'm not talking about the world as viewed by paranoids. I'm talking about the world as viewed by normal people. ;)
--- On Fri, 5/22/09, Michael McIntyre <morbidsymptoms at gmail.com> wrote:
> From: Michael McIntyre <morbidsymptoms at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Irish priests beat, raped children
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Date: Friday, May 22, 2009, 9:00 AM
> But the pedophilia panic peddlers
> conflate these two all the time. Think of
> the whole weird hoo-hah over female teachers who have slept
> with their
> pubescent male students, starting with Mary Kay Le
> Tourneau. Dateline rakes
> in the cash by presenting shockumentaries portraying these
> women as sick and
> twisted. Leno rakes in the cash by making jokes about
> how lucky the boys
> are. And then we hear stories like the one about the
> "sex offender" in
> Texas who was convicted for sleeping with his 17-year-old
> girlfriend when he
> was 19 (the girlfriend to whom he is now married), and who
> remains on the
> public registry of sex offenders. I don't believe for
> a second that this
> moral panic is driven by good, normal, decent people who
> would never think
> of having such desires being repulsed by the
> preternaturally repulsive doing
> repulsive things. This is driven by people who can't
> deal with their normal
> share of kink who need to conjure the monsters of their own
> imaginations in
> order to convince themselves that the weirdness is all
> outside them.
> MM
>