Yes, you heard me right.
I only slept for about 5 hours tonight. Why? I'll tell you why. Soon.
Racists are bad people, well, maybe not bad people but they sure as hell aren't very bright people. Rapist though, they're bad people.
And where does pedophiles fit in? Nowhere, everywhere they got, they get spit on. Don't get me wrong, they deserve it.
So, yesterday I was talking to my friend, TA, over MSN and somehow we got talking about fake identities. Of course I told him about one I had when I was 16, my alterego and slut, 18 year old Elinore - Ellie.
TA says:
Haha, you're just like me! I have a alterego too! Her name is Amy and she's 12, it's a great way of busting pedophiles.
(Wait, what? Pedophiles? With Elinore I just wanted to show guys that it was never a good idea to show skin to a perfect stranger. My routine was that I would put lots and lots of makeup on, start my cam and look cute in my ponytales then paus the webcam to switch seats with a guy-friend of mine.
Busting pedophiles hadn't even crossed my mind.
Well, not busting since tricking people into doing crimes is illegal in Sweden - I don't know, is that a stupid law?
Anyways, he told me that he pretended to be 12 and when the pedophiles told him the information he needed he started his cam - showing off a not-so-12 fullgrown man waving at the cam and telling them that "I have your address, I have your phonenumber and I can tell your girlfriend all about this!"
The reason TA does this, is to punish the pedophiles in his own way - Leaving them like insomniacs as they know that there is someone out there that knows their true identity and there is noway that they can stop this person)
Suddenly I found myself not being able to sleep, it was past midnight and "Amy" talked to over 6 guys last night - one was busted, though I don't know how that one ended - and I was kind of thinking "Seriously, if they think a 12-year old is up by this time then they deserve getting busted.
But there's a few questions I have.
Pedophiles, are they sick? I mean like mentally sick - Can you get help for stuff like that? How often do you hear about a man/woman getting to rehab because they like under-aged boys and girls?
Not very often.
ReplyDeleteIn some countries the understanding is that paedophiles cannot be rehabilitated and must be punished "for the good of the children".
The paedophiles I know are pushed around the district/city.
And there are several who have intellectual impairment (IQ below 70; adaptive behaviour deficits). I let the DSM and the ICD decide whether paedophiles are mentally ill.
It's the child murderers who fit in nowhere, as do those people who abuse their own children.
Thom Hunter writes Signs of a Struggle which has helped me to have much more empathy and understanding and not see the victim-perputrator-rescuer triangle, which is reductive and limiting.
I suppose the question is: Would you try and help a paedophile yourself? Who is especially attracted to that work, and what qualities do they have?