Meaning of pedophile-phobia | Babel Free

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“Thanks for posting this, it pretty much confirms my perceptions. I've been surprised by the amount of venom on this NG [newsgroup] toward Paula Poundstone. Is it knee jerk pedophile-phobia, homophobia or Celebrity-o-phobia?”

“> Perhaps, in these days of homophobia, and pedophobia, ANYONE associated I have problems when you put those two words together in the same sentence as "equivalents" (although pedophile-phobia is what you perhaps evidently meant). They are not equivalents by ANY stretch of imagination. One is slowly being eliminated, the other has to be quickly strengthened and issues like child sexual abuse by close familiy members/friends included in the whole gamut of "phobias".”

“The pedophile is then both pre- and posthuman, united with the machine and also with the original evil that spawned humankind. Within this paradigm, child sexual abuse is the alpha and the omega of humanity, and in the context of evolution and teleology, the beginning and the end. From this, we see how fears over the “spiral” of child sexual abuse equate with fears concerning Armeggedom and the total destruction of humanity. The fear of observation by pedophiles leads to further observation, the fear being the fear of control by machinery, an aspect of pedophile-phobia being technophobia. Significantly, in both the novel and the film, The Pledge has the perpetrator of the crimes being punished by a freak accident, not by humans—machines are the judge, jury, and executioner. […] The films analyzed next lead to encounters with child sexual abuse that are, in the main, products of male fantasy. They concern obsessive behavior and varieties of crises in masculinity brought on by old age, poverty, or madness. Aspects of pedophile-phobia are exposed as technophobia.”

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