well, all the better, my children will see lots of smiling and laughing people then ^_^ Way better than the daily-routine-zombieness look so common nowadays.
Yah, right. More like your phone will be ringing off the hook and your door getting beat down by CPS. And rightfully so.
Probably get stalked by pedos too. Why the hell would you invite that on innocent children? If you like pedos, fine, but you have no right to invite all that trouble and danger to kids.
Nothing funny about pedos especially when it comes to your OWN kids. Hopefully you never breed, that's just so ignorant.
Should we ban dead baby jokes, then, because real dead babies aren't funny?
I doubt it would invite attention from actual pedophiles. The type of person to do that to a kid isn't going to care what kind of stuffed animal they're holding, they're going to do it regardless, prompted by their own fucked-up internal reasons. They're not going to look around for anything that might possibly be construed as a go-ahead.
Dead baby jokes aren't funny, anyway, what's your point? Seriously, they are the dumbest 'jokes' ever made. No, don't ban dead baby jokes, because it makes it easier to weed out the morons when they laugh at that shit.
My point was that pedobear is just as harmless. No one hears a dead baby joke as an invitation to kill the nearest baby, and no one sees pedobear as an invitation to molest anybody.
YOU don't get it...people know pedobear, and if you're out in public then you don't know who may see it and what they'll do. I'm not saying it will more likely attract a pedo, I'm saying it will more likely attract concerned people who think you're advertising your kid to pedos. That's just how people are. When you HAVE kids, you realize you don't take chances like that. CPS is a NIGHTMARE and will come at you for the smallest reason. Why chance it? It's not a 'funny joke'. People who have kids, that they love and want to keep, don't take dumb chances just to be what they think is 'funny'. All it takes is ONE person who sees it as sick and bye bye kid.
You don't take those kind of chances with your kids. If YOU want to carry around a pedobear, then do so but don't give your kids one, you'll find trouble that you may not be able to get out of.
Cool, it's something only parents and some unfortunate kids may know...it's understandable. I understand many people here are young and don't have kids, so they have no concept of such things.
are you serious? -_- pedobear is FUN. He's not an emblem of pedophilia, he's an instrument of ridiculing it.
I think some kids names(i am not listing to not offend people) are a lot more associated with e.g. being homosexual. Now living in a homosexual relation i obviously don't see homosexuality as something negative, but i'll avoid "branding" my child in such a way. Thats something were consideration comes in, may be reasonable and understandable. Just as much as i wouldn't dress up a son as princess for halloween(unless he expressly wishes that)
There's lot of parents out there that are REALLY cruel. Go hate on people who do beauty shows with their 3-year-olds.
But i believe you are reading a bit too much into plush toys. What, if a mum accidently buys one of those and gives it to her child, pedo's will line up and stalk them? I'm glad i don't live where you do. Here the most you'd see is some smirking or smiling.
Point is, it's NOT the kind of attention you want to bring to a child. Even if ONE person sees it as sick or as an invite, then why do such a thing? You're asking for trouble....not necessarily from pedos, but from concerned citizens who find it sick and don't know it's your idea of a 'cute joke'. BTW, it's NOT a cute joke. Dumb shit like that can get you investigated and get your kids taken away. Hopefully you'll learn that sooner rather than later.
Because i will always be WITH my child anyway, at least in a age where it ill have such a plushie with it in public? As said, there's lots of sick things going on, i simply fail to consider it as being on the same level as those. Again: I am very glad i don't live where you do. I'm in central europe, and "concerned citizens" in that respect don't exist here. If someone recognizes pedobear, he will 90% understand and laugh, or 10% wonder and STFU. For those that don't recognize him, nothing to worry about. What i do know, however, is that it takes some serious stuff happening to get child services to even come over, let alone take action.
As said, i believe you are seriously overreacting to this, in a way of "i don't know what exactly pedobear is, but there's pedo in its name so it MUST be something absolutely awful".
Let me tell you that my partner and her little sister had dark experiences with their stepdad. With a real pedosexual(not using "pedophile" on purpose here, i've known pedophiles and they have nothing in common with the beasts that rape children). She has no interest in dating or having sex with men, ever, but she can still laugh about pedobear. Not without a bitter note, but natural and truthful. If she doesn't have to make him into a symbol for something that he's not, i wonder why some people are so insistent into making him into something negative.
I mean, jeez, in several third-world countries kids have to help doing heavy and unhealthy work, and sleep at night in the same room their parents have sex in. On the other hand, a New York Mum is hated on by a nation because she let her 8-year-old ride the subway alone. OMG how irresponsible! Makes you think it's a black&white world out there. Here kids go alone with the subway all the time, even a lot younger. Guess what? No one is snatching them away and abducting them. They are also often asked to help in the household, or try summer jobs. Guess what? The kids see that as normal, and it doesn't go overboard.
I want to have children, not pets. And what constitutes a "cute joke" here will most likely not be the same as a "cute joke" in, say, Texas, USA or Myanmar, South East Asia. While in Texas it may be normal to have guns at home, be a NRA-member or, some places, even acceptable to be part of the clans, that same stuff will have you seen as a dangerous individual here(why do you have guns? That will get you investigated over and over), while being in a clan-like organization will get you sent straight to prison for quite some time(a lot longer if you have guns as you are deemed more dangerous). Sexual stuff: No big worrys. Weapons: Very concerned. Violence or extremist politics: Out of the question. Remembering "nipplegate" and liberal gun laws, thats already a lot different just over in US. So please try to not apply your own personal and locally based standards on a global scale(US really likes doing that, now that i think about it).
Way better than the daily-routine-zombieness look so common nowadays.
Probably get stalked by pedos too. Why the hell would you invite that on innocent children? If you like pedos, fine, but you have no right to invite all that trouble and danger to kids.
Nothing funny about pedos especially when it comes to your OWN kids. Hopefully you never breed, that's just so ignorant.
I doubt it would invite attention from actual pedophiles. The type of person to do that to a kid isn't going to care what kind of stuffed animal they're holding, they're going to do it regardless, prompted by their own fucked-up internal reasons. They're not going to look around for anything that might possibly be construed as a go-ahead.
My point was that pedobear is just as harmless. No one hears a dead baby joke as an invitation to kill the nearest baby, and no one sees pedobear as an invitation to molest anybody.
You don't take those kind of chances with your kids. If YOU want to carry around a pedobear, then do so but don't give your kids one, you'll find trouble that you may not be able to get out of.
No biggie.
pedobear is FUN.
He's not an emblem of pedophilia, he's an instrument of ridiculing it.
I think some kids names(i am not listing to not offend people) are a lot more associated with e.g. being homosexual. Now living in a homosexual relation i obviously don't see homosexuality as something negative, but i'll avoid "branding" my child in such a way.
Thats something were consideration comes in, may be reasonable and understandable. Just as much as i wouldn't dress up a son as princess for halloween(unless he expressly wishes that)
There's lot of parents out there that are REALLY cruel. Go hate on people who do beauty shows with their 3-year-olds.
But i believe you are reading a bit too much into plush toys. What, if a mum accidently buys one of those and gives it to her child, pedo's will line up and stalk them? I'm glad i don't live where you do. Here the most you'd see is some smirking or smiling.
Again: I am very glad i don't live where you do. I'm in central europe, and "concerned citizens" in that respect don't exist here. If someone recognizes pedobear, he will 90% understand and laugh, or 10% wonder and STFU. For those that don't recognize him, nothing to worry about.
What i do know, however, is that it takes some serious stuff happening to get child services to even come over, let alone take action.
As said, i believe you are seriously overreacting to this, in a way of "i don't know what exactly pedobear is, but there's pedo in its name so it MUST be something absolutely awful".
Let me tell you that my partner and her little sister had dark experiences with their stepdad. With a real pedosexual(not using "pedophile" on purpose here, i've known pedophiles and they have nothing in common with the beasts that rape children).
She has no interest in dating or having sex with men, ever, but she can still laugh about pedobear. Not without a bitter note, but natural and truthful. If she doesn't have to make him into a symbol for something that he's not, i wonder why some people are so insistent into making him into something negative.
I mean, jeez, in several third-world countries kids have to help doing heavy and unhealthy work, and sleep at night in the same room their parents have sex in. On the other hand, a New York Mum is hated on by a nation because she let her 8-year-old ride the subway alone. OMG how irresponsible! Makes you think it's a black&white world out there.
Here kids go alone with the subway all the time, even a lot younger. Guess what? No one is snatching them away and abducting them. They are also often asked to help in the household, or try summer jobs. Guess what? The kids see that as normal, and it doesn't go overboard.
I want to have children, not pets. And what constitutes a "cute joke" here will most likely not be the same as a "cute joke" in, say, Texas, USA or Myanmar, South East Asia. While in Texas it may be normal to have guns at home, be a NRA-member or, some places, even acceptable to be part of the clans, that same stuff will have you seen as a dangerous individual here(why do you have guns? That will get you investigated over and over), while being in a clan-like organization will get you sent straight to prison for quite some time(a lot longer if you have guns as you are deemed more dangerous).
Sexual stuff: No big worrys. Weapons: Very concerned. Violence or extremist politics: Out of the question.
Remembering "nipplegate" and liberal gun laws, thats already a lot different just over in US. So please try to not apply your own personal and locally based standards on a global scale(US really likes doing that, now that i think about it).