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proudly, yes, because most of these pictures are completely devoid of context and those men aren't actually doing anything inappropriate. they're in cute outfits and she thinks they're cool, its not sexual til you tell her its Weird and Creepy https://twitter.com/dietcoketrashh/status/1273122702031826952
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like, look, imagine for a moment you don't know what any of those outfits are in that second pic. it's a hot day, and oh god a little girl has wandered into a place she was NOT expected

what do you do?
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yell at her to leave? get mad at her? immediately get all awkward and prove to her that it is something WrongBad and that she did a Bad?

or play it off in a child-appropriate "Halloween costume" way?
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the third picture's even more innocuous, all i can see the shoulder harness and some people wear those at comic-cons
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that's not to say *nothing* inappropriate could or might have happened. but from a good-faith perspective? i mean? nobody's touching her. nobody's touching the kids. nobody's having sex. and pup hoods are just furry masks but leather so SHRUGS
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also the first picture is fucking hilarious and i highly doubt any of those are In-Use or Used Dildos so like, seems fine and very silly and exactly the kind of humour i expect from the Pride events that have dick-shaped lollipops
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one of the biggest things we collectively seem to struggle with is a gut response about sex being private and embarrassing and Bad; while my thoughts about public /sex/ itself are complicated, things Around Sex should be fine to be public!
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yes, actually, i do want an eight year old to have it in her head that the men in "scary" leather masks and leashes aren't scary, because if she's ever in trouble later, she'll know they can be safer than the frat boys
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and i do want early teenagers to know that there are places EVERYWHERE you can get condoms for free so they don't have unsafe sex thinking they can't "afford" safety
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and i want kids to know, early, and consistently, that weird is cool and weird is great and the fact that they draw monsters in their sketchbook and cried when Shelob died and have crushes on the 'wrong' people or nobody at all is like, Fine and Good actually
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it's way more relevant for somebody to have this information before it becomes a source of trauma that they didn't have it. seriously.
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