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sure, if critical race theory were child abuse, and if the author were a Russian aristo who fled to the US when the commies won. I suppose any logic can be applied to anything if we ignore what’s actually being discussed.

It really isn’t puritan to dislike Lolita and I think if you think that connection you’ve made through you’ll see why.

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Fans of that book, or the literati, always say that, and yet its very popular with child abusers. No doubt there are those who read it and were disgusted. Most people however don’t need an elaborate fantasy novel to tell them that kind of thing is very very bad.

If I’ve misunderstood the message, and others have too (it isn’t generally well liked, except in certain circles, usually called at least ‘controversial’), then we can be sure that anyone writing such material shouldn’t be a teacher, and certainly children shouldn’t be exposed to it - and the way communities work, children at such a teacher’s school would be well aware of any controversial publications they might have made. Personally, I think it is a literary trick (like the ‘poverty porn’ genre) to justify the promotion of dodgy material to a certain class for titilation, so I’d do a lot more than sack such an author.

Well I disagree with what they’ve said, and I don’t think they’ve explained it at all, rather just accused me of being a puritan or similar. Could you try, in your own words?

I think the claims that have been made by others against me or my position that weren’t simply lazy smears, I’ve already refuted (that what a teacher does publically is no business of the public, and that because military teachers/recruiters are allowed in schools so too should this, that there is any relation to trans people or drag queens to this issue, that teachers being fired for being pornographers means sex work is consequentially immoral). I certainly don’t feel that anyone’s said anything in contradiction that’s caused me to even consider that my stance might be incorrect, but I’m willing to consider a reasonable and good response - I don’t want to have brain worms after all.

could you explain why, I feel that I’ve explained my position in various comments (but I can reiterate if you’d like) and I’d like to know why you think it means my brain is wormy?

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No, but it is sexualised, actually sexual, content being advertised by somebody who works with children, and that may be accesible to those children. That isn’t the case with somebody who is visibly trans and teaching, unless for some reason they decided to become a pornographer.

thanks, and likewise

Yes, because they’re the responsible adult, by virtue of their job and you’d hope their age and experience, and its their actions that allow it to become a possible risk. Children of course should be taught properly, but they’re also impulsive and not wise and lack education, so we don’t treat them as responsible for their actions (with caveats) in the same way we do adults.

Small children can have older siblings or friends who might show them that, and sometimes parents aren’t responsible or good parents, sometimes children themselves are innapropriate because of harmful upbringing - this might be unusual or unlikely, but with children (and an institution entrusted to care for people’s children) any small risk must be treated very seriously.

No problem

It might well remind you of that, but being visibly trans isn’t sexualised content being shown to children. I’m not surprised the arguments seem similar - its why right wingers use those lines, because it resonates with people, and if you conflate sexualised content (that people fundamentally will have an issue with for the reasons I’ve given elsewhere) with simply being trans, you can persuade people that being trans is an issue.

I used the analogy because of how people (parents especially) feel about war, and because its a thing that carries great risks of harm and exploitation, being a soldier. Of course there are circumstances where a parent, out of desperation usually (sometimes out of greed) - as a matter of survival - would be ok with it. But generally speaking, people who aren’t desperate don’t want their children to be soldiers, they want them to be happy, prosperous, not maimed, not violent and so on, so there has to be a lot of incentive and propaganda around it to convince people - and even then it finds a lot of resistance from people.

I know that soldiers are romanticized, and so is violence, but I don’t think that because that occurs, education of children should be a free for all - gambling is another example, because its something that children (and adults of course, but that’s a different though related issue) are vulnerable to taking a bad lesson from exposure to, that can lead to harmful consequences for them and others.

Sex is cool, but it can also be harmful, in and of itself or as an aspect of a relationship with others. War is similar - if a soldier is defending out of necessity their people from violence or theft, that’s cool, but there is a lot of scope for it not being cool. Things like this, that have a great potential for harm and risk of harm, for individuals and communities, need to be treated very carefully and cautiously when it comes to children (and really, adults of course, but especially children). Despite sex being (usually) cool, its not I don’t think an issue to request that teachers of children, as role models and authority figures, should not be pornographers - just as they should not be soldiers.

I don’t feel good about it at all, and I think it should be banned! The presence of one bad thing doesn’t make other bad things ok, though.

We are our experiences, our environments, and with children they’re in a stage where learning lots is more important than learning or experiencing critically, and they don’t have much wisdom or experience to be properly judgemental or to contextualise or understand what they see or hear, so we have to treat them differently. Development is also a process over time, so we need to make sure the learning content is appropriate for the age or developmental stage (including social development), and also not all taught at once but rather gradually, depending on their current capacity.

I’m unsure why you’d think its a necessary question to ask, given the comment you’ve responded to, but I hope you’re satisfied with the answer.