the discourse 

I am all for kink at pride but maybe keep the "puriteen" thing out of it? once your argument becomes "actual children feel uncomfortable here" that's uh a very different thing than people exaggerating sex acts and hyperventilating about shit het goths wear to no modern comment

the discourse 

lemme maybe elaborate/make things worse

kink at pride is a bad faith argument

it is always about some hypothetical person somewhere who might be offended by some hypothetical thing crossing some hypothetical line, not an event that actually happened

if something actually did happen that made actual children uncomfortable... that's not automatic cause to stop, but it's no longer a bad faith argument

I feel we shouldn't confuse this with intergenerational culture war bs

re: the discourse 

@nisima Like, that literally never happens because pride parades have designated kink areas that they made sure to leave kids out of. So like, if a kid ended up at the kink section, someone must have gone out of their way to put them there, in which case, what the fuck were their parents thinking?

re: the discourse 

@FreyaManibrandr right, exactly

and by the same token, implying that it's primarily kids complaining about it is kind of weird and unhelpful

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