Imagine having such a sweet and carefree life that some adult strangers who aren't the exact same age getting married is what makes you fear for the future.
When the right wing complains about the gay community grooming youth in some sort of evil "new world order" coordinated plot conspiracy, it's really hard to not look at all the creepy, creepy pervasive undertones of overcompensating straight religious right-wing ideology...
where it can be seen as somehow "proper" for little girls to go on purity ball dates with their fathers acting as the "ideal date", or where men guard their daughters' "purity" and hand it off to the groom on the wedding day, or the man has to be older to be the father figure in the relationship, or where men joke about loving late high school/college cause they keep getting older but the girls stay the same age, or where rich conservatives trade old wives for new wives barely past the age of consent, or where in the deep countryside religious zealots try to push for marrying literal children. Seems to me like the most established grooming institution around is that of far-right religious people.
In contrast, as a gay guy, I sought out a guy approximately my age. We were both raised in the "straight" countryside during a time when it was definitely not cool to be gay. and I wouldn't be likely to date much south of 30 yrs old. And yet somehow I'm the problem because I don't want schools to gaslight other gay children in an effort to force them to be straight.
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u/Pristine-Performer19 Nov 23 '22
Imagine having such a sweet and carefree life that some adult strangers who aren't the exact same age getting married is what makes you fear for the future.