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I enjoyed the episode, truly. I was just joking about how while entertaining it's also demoralizing. I also don't care what consenting adults do but I do care when they broadcast it or proselytize. It's really a slippery slope from "who cares what you do in the privacy of your bedroom" to "Why do you care I'm teaching about diaper fetishes to school children, bigot!"

I'm into weird stuff too but I'm never talking about it openly. Not necessarily even because I'm ashamed but because I know no one wants/needs to hear about it.

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I think we agree. While I don’t think shame is a productive emotion, there is a such thing as privacy.

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It really... isn't? Like no one thinks that there's no need to design a sex-ed curriculum that's age-appropriate-- that would make no more sense than designing a math curriculum that's not age-appropriate.

But the mere existence, without more, of gay and trans people is never age-inappropriate.

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