Bluesky and the revolting push to normalise paedophilia
I don’t care how many syllables you add or how clinical you try to sound. If you are an adult who is sexually attracted to children, you are not a misunderstood victim of stigma. You are a threat that society has every right to reject. You’re a pedophile.
On Bluesky, there are users who openly put “MAP” in their bios. Minor Attracted Person. Typed out proudly. Sometimes paired with long explanations about language, compassion, and how “labels hurt people”.
What they are really doing is laundering something vile.
“MAP” is a conscious effort to move the conversation away from what people instinctively understand and into territory where disgust is framed as cruelty. The reason people recoil at the word paedophile is not because society is ignorant. It’s because society understands exactly what it means.
Calling yourself a MAP instead of a paedophile does not make you safer. It does not make you enlightened. It does not make you part of some brave new conversation. It makes you someone trying to dodge moral judgement by playing word games.
This is not “stigma”. This is a boundary.
Children are not an orientation. They are not a preference. They are not an identity category for adults to build communities around. Any attempt to normalise attraction to children, even indirectly, is crossing a line that should never be blurred.
What makes this especially disturbing is the environment that allows it to flourish. Platforms that pride themselves on being inclusive and progressive often lose the ability to say “no”. Everything becomes a matter of feelings. Everything becomes a matter of language. Everything becomes something that must be “understood”.
But some things do not need understanding. They need rejection.
When people call this out, they are not being hysterical. They are not being reactionary. They are responding the way normal humans do when faced with adults who admit attraction to kids and then demand empathy for it.
There is something profoundly broken about a culture that worries more about the feelings of people who label themselves MAPs than about the clear moral line that protects children.
If you are advertising that label publicly, you are not asking for help. You are asking for acceptance. That is exactly what should never be given.
Some lines exist for a reason. This is one of them. And anyone trying to erase it deserves to be confronted, not coddled.
Pervert.
a person whose sexual behaviour is regarded as abnormal and unacceptable.
I am astounded that these people think that they have a right to have any attention at all except bad press.
They are vile and need to be eradicated from society.
I was unaware of the extent of this sickness until we had one proudly declaring his sexual preferences while standind as an MP in the New Zealand Parliament.
Then, I was astounded at how other MPs supported him and protected him instead of getting the Police involved immediately.
NZ has a very dark history in this area. And children's safety needs to be paramount, not the safety of vile paedophilles.