#mapmisia

[heartsakee]

i hate the rise of mapmisia that has been plaguing nearly everywhere especially online. no I am not comparable to the likes of fucking Epstein because I have an attraction and it's ignorant to think that of any map when most of us aren't even close to being in the same class privilege as that predator

(mind you, these usually are the same people that use Epstein/Diddy as jokes and care more for harmless fictional content over actual child victims, but whatever, I'm the evil one ig)

[anthropologistfromentropy]

Decided to share some things for mapmisia awareness day. Not my art, just stuff I have collected over the years.

[a-crook-and-his-wealth-journey]

I was asked to post this.

[cartographer-riz]

I think a lot of good could be done for people with POCD if experiencing minor attraction was not something to fear or be disgusted with oneself over. There would be no reason to scrutinize one's sexuality and have anxious death spirals over "What if I'm a pedophile and I don't know?" if being a pedophile or other form of MAP was not something viewed on a wider scale as inherently immoral, unethical, or otherwise disgusting.

When I was younger (in my mid-teens), my approach to my POCD after experiencing CSA and then subsequently interacting with the online MAP community out of curiosity was counteracting the thought with "So what if I am? Why is that a bad thing if I'm not hurting anyone?" and repeating that mantra ultimately helped (and, as it turns out, I am, and who cares?). In a vacuum, without MAPmisia and general paramisia tainting one's view of oneself, the anxiety about potentially secretly being minor-attracted simply would not exist.

Not sure if I'm onto anything with this, but it might help someone.

[robizmywitness]

I’m struggling to decide if I should pick this battle or not

I am out as radqueer adjacent to one friend and one friend only. My friend of a decade who I trusted more than anyone on this earth. I confided this in him because being transharm is a part of my identity that has grown to being really important to me. When I told him I was very clear in what I support and don’t support, and I thought it was okay, he seemed fine at least

Now, I sent him a tumblr post made by a radqueer acc the other day because it looked like something he’d like. He apparently browsed through the tags and just sent me a voice message saying he’s grossed out by it. That I was coddling predators, the whole mapmisic speech, that he’s concerned about how safe I actually am to be around. It was a pretty long voice message too

Now. I love my friend. He’s very dear to me and that’s the only reason I didn’t went straight to blocking him. That being said, I have never been so inclined to bitch slapping him. I’m so confused and I’m pissed and I’m hurt

My friend is para. He’s BEEN para for a really long time. My friend also knows I was raped as a kid and how much I stand against any kind of child abuse. I don’t get where all of that came from and I just want to cry because I don’t think my friendship with him will stay the same, I don’t think I have enough trust in him anymore

Any advice at all is welcome, I’m not thinking straight

[a-crook-and-his-wealth-journey]

“Dni “maps” (pedos)” is so funny to me. Clear display of someone who lacks nuance and thinks map is supposed to replace pedophile as a term (it’s not a replacement, it’s an umbrella term).