Why don't we fight for our rights?

Most MAPs [Minor Attrackted Persons] haven't even reached the stage of supporting change for the better, never mind coming together to work towards it. Just as most women in traditional patriarchal societies thought it was natural, inevitable and right for men to be in charge of everything, and even for women to be beaten for disobedience, so most MAPs think it is natural, inevitable and right that a fierce taboo suppresses even the most loving sexual intimacy with children - a taboo that now even turns children themselves into "sex offenders". The unquestioning conservatism of some MAPs is almost like slaves supporting slavery, and that happened too.

Such beliefs take time to change: it took a century of consciousness-raising for women to get the vote, and they aren't even a minority. It has been quicker recently for gay and trans people: they have benefited from the gender-role questioning pioneered by women. Even if we MAPs were united and well-organised our cause would still be hopeless in the absence of a perception that something is wrong with society in a much bigger way. Change can only come when it dawns on the majority that generational segregation and body negativity are harmful to children, not just to MAPs.

So we should probably stop worrying about our political incompetence. Those of us with a taste for activism, who write books, run websites, etc, have a role perhaps like that of the dissidents in Soviet Russia with their samizdat texts. Those refuseniks, sent to the gulags for their pains, must long have thought the all-powerful tyranny would never collapse. But it did, with the help of great forces far beyond their own modest influence. Their time came. No guarantees, but so might ours.

source: Reaction from Tom O'Carroll to article 'Why don't we fight for our rights?'; Article by 'oneordinaryman'; oneordinaryman.wordpress.com/2016/09/30/why-dont-we-fight-for-our-rights/; oneordinaryman; Article: 30 September 2016; O'Carroll's reaction: 13 October 2016