There's one variety of CL, and it's the "criminalized existence" variety. It seems to prevail. It prevails because it's deeply drenched existentialism at it's core. It's rooted in being a social outcast--not just to particular groups (like homosexuality, women's and civil rights movements) but to all of society, including all of the above.
To love a child, that isn't your own, is to be an outcast of humanity. It means one is prepared to turn their back on the humanity of adulthood to spend time in the inhuman realm of the child. This is why activism is doomed. Unless one can appeal to any children's tribunals to resist the inevitable onslaught of the adult, intensely interested in why you would willingly shun their flashy civilization for the savagery of the child, you do not have a chance of resistance. Children don't have tribunals, they don't have a built-in support structure for you to carry out your movement against western culture. Therefore, your activism will have no ripples outside the life of the child.
Homosexuals, women, and blacks have support structures they can rely on to carry their message (namely, other blacks, women, and human rights groups respectively). The CL only has other CLs, and possibly anarchists--both are pariahs. In the face of despair and defeat, they build themselves up to be stronger than their mainstream counterparts who are reliant on society's acceptance. The weak need something to rely on. Those who are forced into a corner have only themselves.
Existentialism is something that despaired people tend to cling onto once they've lost faith in all the "truth" of the world. If alienation is that prime result of all the dogmatic sentimental extravagance that defines adult life, alienation is precisely what the CL projects back towards society. They serve more as a mirror held up in the face of a society that believes its principles regarding children so true, universal, and ethical, that no alternative can exist, that no harm caused by their ruthless application can be unjustified. In turn, just the sight of their own alienation stuck back in their face causes nothing less than physical weakness. That is the power they give pedophiles over society.
The outcast is the last person to cower in the face of false idols when they fall. They don't run to chase the shade when the sun turns a shadow as it sets. Being neglected so long by those who chase the shadows, they've learned how to stare at the sun and not be blinded.
The thing about CLs is that they are given a bad rap by those who do abuse children. The people that rape and murder children may not be CLs but the stuff that CLs say do seem similar and people will see them as the same thing. Because of the outcry of child abuse, one will trust a CL or any adult with children because society will believe that those adults will abuse children, just like the monsters that the media highlight.
ReplyDeleteActivism for CLs seems hopeless because people will believe that they have a hidden agenda. You can look in every way anti site or any site about pedophilia and it will say that all pedophiles have the hidden agenda to rape a child. Enlightenment to this issue has been done but it will fail because no one will believe that pedophiles were safe. They are considered to be slimy and evil people due to their sexual orientation and in the end, that's what the people fear and that's why things are the way they are.