bringing up pedophilia out of nowhere to say that a relatively mundane thing is worse than seems like it might be a sign that someone is a pedophile

  • JayTwo [any]@hexbear.net
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    5 months ago

    I still don’t think I know what it is. At least not the “con” part. I thought it was a convention for the loli pedos.

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      5 months ago

      IIRC the etymology of the “con” suffix is from “complex” as in “oedipus complex”, which is to say it means someone is attracted to whatever group makes up the first half of the word. The oedipus complex in particular would be translated as “mothercon”. Again IIRC, the “loli” in lolicon comes in a roundabout way from Lolita, the book by Vladimir Nabokov about a pedophile.