Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Sep 14, 2023

Regardless of the applicability, I'm taking issue with the clickbait headline and use of culture war-charged divisive rhetoric e.g. "grooming". 🤬
Shape up, CBC - try to adhere to a higher editorial / journalistic standard. 🤨

@CBC 🇨🇦

Man who sexually groomed 12-year-old B.C. girl sentenced to 32 years in U.K. prison
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bc-grooming-sex-abuse-uk-sentence-1.6967002

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Man who sexually groomed 12-year-old B.C. girl sentenced to 32 years in U.K. prison | CBC News

A man convicted of sexually abusing and grooming a number of young girls, including a 12-year-old from Surrey, B.C., has been sentenced to 32 years behind bars in England.

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Show threadVictoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️

Addendum 1:

I'll expand on my post.

At the end of the day, "groom*" is a word in the English language. Times change, however.

In 2023 h/e - amidst a societal tsunami of polarizing anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric / legislation / violence - and as a trans person I take exception to the CBC normalizing the use of that word.
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Show threadVictoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Sep 15, 2023

A1 cont'd

"Transvestite" used to be a common word to describe cross-dressers; today the use of that word is discouraged as being derogatory.

Regarding the CBC: in previously providing a forum for TERF Meghan Murphy, CBC lowered the bar under the guise of free speech. That's not a history to be proud of; hence my added concern over their editorial practices.
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Providing a forum for "free speech" is the same timid response that taxpayer-supported organizations like the Vancouver Public Library give when providing a forum for Meghan Murphy (who profits from that speech).

Ditto notorious transphobe / far-right troll / pseudo-intellectual Jordan Peterson, who's been provided venues to speak at universities.

The "E" in TERF is "exclusionary:" Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminist. Peterson likewise employs populist rhetoric to divide.
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Regarding "free speech," LGBT supportive persons/groups can of course leverage the same media / venues. However, LGBT groups almost universally (as far as I know) are by nature inclusive, even of non-LGBT allies.

Therein lies the fundamental difference, in my opinion. Providing forums to TERFs like Meghan Murphy and pseudo-intellectual populist trolls like Jordan Peterson enrich and empower them to the detriment of a significant, vulnerable proportion of our population.
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Show threadVictoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Sep 15, 2023

A1 cont'd 4/

This post meandered a bit f. my orig. objection viz-a-viz CBC; hopefully provides add. context (at least from my point-of-view).

There are historic & topical concerns in the use of language; word choice matters.

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Show threadVictoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Sep 16, 2023

A1 cont'd 5/

Postscript. Another issue that I have with the term "grooming" is an implicit understanding that the victim (gen. a juvenile) is compliant i.e. a willing participant. They are targeted victims - mentally, psychologically, emotionally, financially - who are preyed upon by those with power and influence. There is a majority/minority inequality that the pedophile / sexual predator / child abuser leverages to their advantage (psychological control), with no concern for their victim.

Show threadDoug 🌈🇨🇦 Sep 16, 2023
@persagen it also implies that sexuality is a choice. Conservatives just can't get beyond the 1970s