Pedophile Vs MAPS Is More Than A Matter Of Words
By Bob Small
Thanks to Scott from Vermont — who just transitioned to Pennsylvania — for the information about the change in semantics where pedophiles are now called “minor attracted persons” or MAPS.
In the–now-removed– promotion material we have the statement “Most of all, it’s a time for us to feel fully accepted as we are and for us to feel pride in who we are. ‘ Maybe there’s a new phrase we’ll be hearing ‘MAPP pride.”
Of course, this redefinition has an academic source and that would be Allyn Walker a former criminology and sociology professor at Old Dominion University.
Walker wrote A Long, Dark Shadow: Minor-Attracted People and Their Pursuit of Dignity. He mentions his organization B4U-ACT and explains it uses the term MAPs, rather than the term ‘pedophile,’ to “decrease stigma against this group.” He adds. “the fact of children’s inability to consent to sex is irrelevant to the application of the term ‘sexual orientation”
After leaving Old Dominion, Allyn was hired by John Hopkins University. Allyn is a member of the transgender community.
And Dr. Frederick Berlin, founder of the sexual disorders clinic at Johns Hopkins Hospital, says those sexually attracted to children should learn not to feel ashamed of their condition.
Obviously, not everyone thinks this change in semantics is a good thing. Though there’s one perspective here,
“I believe, as is so often done, this is the first step toward normalizing abnormal behavior,” says Joyce Krawiec
Returning to B4U-Act , some of their aims are laudable. Promoting services for self-identified pedophiles to seek assistance before they act on their urges is a good thing, for instance.
It’s the concept of normalization that gives us pause.
How one feels like this may depend on how you regard a movie called The Mark (1961) about a man seeking to recover from this condition.
Pedophile Vs MAPS Is More Than A Matter Of Words
Let me be exceedingly clear here. There is NO place in the civil society for child molesters.
Death to ALL pedophiles.
I can imagine that years ago there were “trannies…transvestites…”
I imagine this was presented as a harmless and important shift to “transgender” in consideration of people mattering etc.
While these individuals are presumably not hurting others, I also imagine that alarm bells were raised at that time…insisting what was to come! Claims of schools allowing or even encouraging children to change their identities, their genders, their names, and all without their parents permission or even knowledge. Claims of grown men using the same bathrooms as little girls.
I imagine these claims were met with derision and insistence of overreaction and bigotry.
EXCEPT…it’s here. Children today, can and do change their gender, change their names, and parents are not included in these decisions or informed of them until they are completed. Parents are accused of being unsupportive and even abusive if they do not fully and blindly comply. Bathrooms ARE shared by ALL. Some are specified by gender but ALL GENDER bathrooms exist and in our children’s schools.
We are living the fears once voiced and blown off.
What fears then exist surrounding pedophila? Take them seriously. Changing the name is just the start to accepting the actions.
Personally, some of my favorite people are not living as the gender they were at birth. They also are not pushing for a removal of gender, changed bathrooms, hormones/medications, for minors, etc.
Words matter. We must take our concerns seriously and before we are living them.
To Judy. Agreed. What world do we want our children to live in?