If we’re to believe the legacy media, “groomers” are nothing more than a hateful, right-wing conspiracy against gay people. Which might be news to the gay people who’ve formed lobby groups such as “Gays Against Groomers”.
But, no, the media insist: it’s not only a hate conspiracy, it’s a complete and utter myth. There’s no such thing as groomers. There’s definitely no widespread campaign to sexualise children and normalise paedophilia. Any such thing you might happen to see is just a figment of your imagination.
Nosiree: grown men dressed as women, waving their fake tits and real penises in front of children? Not grooming. Academics and activists openly arguing that paedophilia is a harmless sexual orientation that should be legalised? Definitely not grooming. Media that sexualises children and encourages even the youngest children to be exposed to ‘kink’ and accept extreme sexual perversion as normal? Absolutely, positively, no way known is that grooming.
Who are you going to believe? The media, or your lyin’ eyes?
Fact-checking Twitter’s absurd Balenciaga conspiracy theory
June Nicole Lapine, better known as @shoe0nhead, took to Elon Musk’s Twitter to imply that the luxury fashion label is conspiring to exploit children – a baseless claim.
High Snobiety
Except that Balenciaga has not only apologised for its latest ad campaigns, but announced that it intends to sue the ad agency responsible.
The company has since announced the intention to sue the ad creator after further scrutiny revealed that disturbing court documents from a case which made virtual and fake child sex abuse images legal in the US were used as a prop in a separate ad.
The story began late last week when a woman shared screenshots on Twitter of the disturbing photographs of young children holding teddy bears dressed in bondage gear. The images were taken from the Balenciaga website, but have since been deleted.
Little girls with bondage teddies were just the start, though. Maybe – maybe – that could be dismissed as a pratfalled attempt at being ‘edgy’. Although just one out of six not featuring bondage gear seems more than a coincidence.
But hiding a strange library of pro-paedophilia material in its photo spreads is a lot harder to gloss over.
The photographs of the children were sufficiently unsettling to trigger an outpouring of outrage on social media, but then the plot thickened when it was pointed out that in a separate ad, court documents from a Supreme Court case regarding child sexual abuse materials were used as a prop in a photograph advertising one of the brand’s luxury handbags.
Those court documents related to a First Amendment case that determined that computer-generated depictions of children engaged in sex acts were protected free speech, and not child porn.
It quickly got worse. A lot, lot worse. As eagle-eyed sleuths soon spotted, another photo showed a businesswoman in her office – and on the desk was a book by Michael Borreman, whose book Fire From the Sun is full of grotesque and disturbing paintings of naked children. A third photo also featured a framed document with a coded paedophilia reference.
If you’ve ever worked in the ad industry, you know that things don’t get in heavily set-decorated photo shoots by accident. Especially not material so obscure as the text of a court ruling on child porn.
Tucker Carlson pointed out that whoever staged the photograph with the court documents “made certain to include the portion of that opinion that used the word sex or sexual four times”, which he believes was not an accident.
The Post-Millennial
In a final twist, Balenciaga recently deleted its Twitter account, claiming it as a protest against Elon Musk’s takeover. It’s surely just coincidental that one of the first orders of Musk’s business was to seriously tackle child abuse material being shared on the platform.
But, sure – it’s all just a remarkable chain of coincidences. Nothing to see here.
