🏳️🌈🖖🏽
Across right-wing media, the hateful word of choice these days is “groomer”—which wrongfully implies children are the targets of not just the LGBTQ+ community but of anyone seeking to educate around questions of gender identity and sexual orientation.
Today on #TheBigPicture, we tackle the critical task of unpacking this recent trend and propose a way to fight against this harmful rhetoric: https://thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/groomer-lgbtq-slur-fighting-back
@georgetakei very good post, though I wonder if we should avoid using using the word groomer to describe assault rifle users and religious bigots passing those views onto their children (to be clear, I do think this is a bad thing). That seems to go against the argument earlier in the post that the word has a real meaning w.r.t. manipulation for sexual abuse.
