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Today, I want to talk about the Queer Kids Stuff channel that I've seen periodically around Youtube. After looking into it and the creator themselves out of curiosity, I am FUMING.
DISCLAIMER:Β
I am writing my thoughts and opinions about this as a bisexual person who is part of the LGBTQ+ community. I hate homophobia, transphobia, etc. and never will stand for it. Β If the comments get out of hand, I will be turning them off, and if you cyberbully me or other people, you WILL be both blocked AND reported.
This post WILL be triggering for CSA/PTSD survivors, and I will be mentioning topics such as grooming, MAPs, etc. If these themes distress you, PLEASE feel free to not read further. Your mental health is extremely important. If you choose to do so, please read at your own discretion.
Today I watched a video from Blaire White's channelΒ about a content creator named Lindz Amer that creates "kid-friendly" educational content about LGBTQ+ topics and current day issues that pertain to this topic. From taking a look objectively, it seemed pretty innocent, but once I started looking at the titles of the videos, I started feeling that something was off.
I personally think that NONE of these topics are age-appropriate to bring up to little children. Children don't have the developmental capacity yet to understand what all of these terms mean yet and pushing adult concepts on them will only confuse them. There is nothing wrong with educating older kids/early teens when it's time to do SHARE class and learn about puberty/biology, but "educating them" sooner than that feels icky to me.
All kids are and should be worried about is playing at recess, making friends and playing make-believe/using their imagination. Their childhoods shouldn't be tainted with adult topics until they are in their teen years and seem more ready to bring these things up/ask questions on their own.
I'm sorry but titles like "how to be an activist", "what is gender dysphoria" and "if you're a drag queen and you know it" have topics that are COMPLETELY inappropriate for a kid to be forced to "learn about". Kids don't need to be stressing about their gender identity, seeing (SEXUAL) versions of drag queens, and how to be a 'good activist'. I see it as the equivalent to a child being forced to be a parent's therapist and taking on the burden of adult problems they didn't choose to hear about, and that absolutely traumatizes children.
As I was watching Blare's video, she touched on a disturbing TikTok video that Lindz made about kids + kink at Pride. IN HER OWN WORDS, she said "Kids and kink can coexist at pride in...a totally fine way!" WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK. The fact that she thinks this is acceptable is extremely sick and made me think that she's both a MAP and a groomer. Nobody else besides those groups of people would think that this is remotely okay AT ALL. The idea of kids being sexually exploited to sexual topics/acts without being able to consent and potentially participate in those acts is COMPLETELY UNACCEPTABLE.
The worst part about this is that at the end of this, she backtracks on her entire point about kids and kink, and says "Kids and youth voices are VITAL to justice movements because they are a vulnerable and marginalized group on their own." which is complete libtard manipulation bullcrap. The cherry on top of the entire cake is at the end where she states, "I'm not saying that kink is inappropriate for kids, I'm saying they can and SHOULD coexist with each other."Β
"can and SHOULD".
Fucking disgusting.Β
Later on, she postsΒ ANOTHER VIDEO further defending her stance about this. From reading words from her Rainbow Parenting book, she states that "When a kid looks at someone decked out in leather at a pride parade, they probably think they're wearing a cool outfit" AFTER telling us about how leather and harnesses were worn by adults for SEXUAL PURPOSES...and she thinks that's OKAY for a kid to learn about?? They can't even wrap their heads around how fucked up this is.
Β Her emotional expressions didn't look genuine at ALL, looked completely canned, and if you look closer to her body language, she looked prideful as FUCK about her opinion. And the "innocent" fake laughing is awful.
This isn't the only predatory thing she did, she also is planning to publish a children's picture book about pronouns and gender euphoria. KIDS DON'T KNOW WTF THAT EVEN MEANS.Β
Taking a closer look at her demeanor makes me feel even more angry. She is using a baby voice and talking to a stuffed animal JUST like they do in kids TV shows to lure children into watching her videos. I can't believe this.
People like Lindz make me feel absolutely sick, and makes me ashamed and embarrassed to say that I'm part of the same community as MAPs. I can't believe someone who is a public figure is comfortable talking about how much she is for sexualizing CHILDREN in her comfy pajamas on the fucking INTERNET. Sickos like her are why hardcore conservatives are LGBTQ+ phobic, they don't want CHILD GROOMERS around their children!! It never excuses their hate and bullying, but it certainly doesn't help with the stigma our community at ALL.
She deserves to be in jail, and register as a sex offender, and be defamed publicly. I can't believe social media platforms are turning a blind eye to this. So awful.
I could go into more detail about this, but it's just so shocking that I just can't anymore.
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why are you watching blaire white
why do you care? I think she has an interesting viewpoint on lots of different topics. I don't agree with every opinion she has or some of the brash comments she says though. People aren't a monolith
by π»ππΌπΏπΈπ΄ π’πΏπͺπͺππΌπΈ; ; Report
ZombieBeatz
I totally agree with you on the fact that kink shouldn't be at pride, but kids should be learning about LGBTQ+ topics, like, what if a kid in their class has 2 moms or 2 dads. And kids experiencing both gender dysphoria and gender euphoria is a thing. At the ripe age of 7 years old, I was looking at myself in the mirror, thinking about how much I disliked my body and how I wish I was a boy. So idk.
dreamspider
there is nothing wrong with kids learning about gender. When I was a kid my mom told me some girls fall in love with girls and some boys fall in love with boys. She told me that sometimes a boy is born in the wrong body, and really he is a girl. She told me some boys like to dress up as girls, and that it was no different from acting in a play. There's are all easily digestible answers kids understand regarding LGBT. You can't just shelter kids from the realities of the world, you need to be able to offer them an answer when they ask a question or see something they aren't familiar with.
I will say that there is a difference between kink communities existing at pride, and kink happening at pride. Kink communities existing at pride would include, like, a local leather group marching in the parade and wearing leather. Kink is so much more than just the sexual aspect. Kink *happening* at pride would include, like, a kink scene or demonstration happening. That's an important distinction to make, because kink communities are intrinsically tied to pride, and shouldn't be separated from the main event. Pride is literally about having pride in one's sexuality. You can't take the sex out of pride, that would render it useless. But simultaneously, kids are in public, pride is in public. The sexuality inherent to pride has to be balanced with the variety of audiences that are going to be at public events. Really it's no different from a public commercial or ad using sex appeal to sell a product. The advertisers want the eroticism to be blatant to the adults, but go unnoticed by children. If you think that's problematic, well, then you disagree with about 2000 years of art and marketing.
Also this comment is not directed at the YouTube channel you were watching, I haven't seen it. I'm commenting on the points you make.
by dreamspider; ; Report
I totally agree with keeping the concepts of sexuality extremely simple and age-appropriate if the child is coming to you about it and asking questions, but otherwise, I feel like it is kind of inappropriate to target complex and emotionally charged concepts towards children, I think it's off to me and really odd.
by π»ππΌπΏπΈπ΄ π’πΏπͺπͺππΌπΈ; ; Report
And I get the viewpoint about the leather thing, but if it's an all-ages event, there needs to be some level of discretion in terms of including sexualization in events because all-ages ALSO means children. Kink at a 18+ pride event would be totally acceptable, but to me, it is the same thing as forcibly showing a child pornography, which is straight-up abuse.
by π»ππΌπΏπΈπ΄ π’πΏπͺπͺππΌπΈ; ; Report
What do you mean by some level of discretion?
by dreamspider; ; Report
By discretion I mean keeping the sexual part of it as minor as possible and not outwardly raunchy
by π»ππΌπΏπΈπ΄ π’πΏπͺπͺππΌπΈ; ; Report
12 juin 3049
Okay, genuine question and I mean no ill intent, but what do you mean by "kids shouldn't be stressing about their gender identity"? I'm interpreting this statement in various ways but I'm not sure which is the way you meant it in.
Well I mean it in a sense of keeping the innocence of their childhood because kids don't have a clear sense of themselves and the media they are exposed to will over time cause them to be stressed about having a concrete identity, and it could hurt their mental health.
Not to say that children DON'T have mental health problems, because I've had anxiety/ADHD since I was 5 or 6, but the last thing I needed as a child was being exposed to more deep and adult concepts when I already was suffering enough living day to day. I'm grateful that I didn't have exposure to a lot of media with biased viewpoints because I can't imagine how shitty that would make me feel.
by π»ππΌπΏπΈπ΄ π’πΏπͺπͺππΌπΈ; ; Report
i see. ty for the explanation, and i understand that! /gen
by 12 juin 3049; ; Report
BELLZZ<3
I fucking hate the idea of people teaching kids LGBTQ shit, they should be taught how to play video games and playing on their kindle not being taught how to twerk, none of that innapropriate shit, its INSANE how some ADULTS would teach kids what trans, lesbian, or any LGBTQ shit is or WHATEVER tf it means. And some of the adults are teaching them how to give bj and how to pole dance. It's sickening..and i HATE when FULL GROWN ADULTS act children.
THANK YOU. I feel refreshed at the fact that there is someone else that agrees with me because honestly I was worried that I was gonna be spammed with hateful comments considering all the rage-bait posts going on
by π»ππΌπΏπΈπ΄ π’πΏπͺπͺππΌπΈ; ; Report
Moufy
ive said this before and ill say it again, kids should be building legos and playing Minecraft wondering about weather going to have chicken nuggets or spaghetti for dinner not worrying about what pronouns they want to use that day or what gender they want to switch to, kids should be kids and they shouldn't be exposed to stuff like that
im not saying this is exclusively in the LGBT community but there is definitely a problem with predators doing these things to children, forcing them to see things they shouldn't see causes many problems later in life which has had many different studies backing it up, children should never be exposed to things like this, get older and be legally an adult and i see so problem they can do whatever but as a child there are many things wrong with this, its the dumbass woke mfs that are taking over these kids brains bruh istg
by Moufy; ; Report
FACTS.
by π»ππΌπΏπΈπ΄ π’πΏπͺπͺππΌπΈ; ; Report
SAM !! :P
dude i remeber watching them when i was SEVEN on YOUTUBR KIDS.
omg that's crazy.
by π»ππΌπΏπΈπ΄ π’πΏπͺπͺππΌπΈ; ; Report
[AUTOPLAY] PUPPET_MASTER
That's so fucked up honestly what?? Kids shouldn't be exposed to kinks at all that's fucking insane. Yes kink should be allowed but it should be allowed in a different space than children are. They can't (and shouldn't coexist IN THE SAME SPACE!!!! Jesus Christ that's so messed up
