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The word "grooming"? You're using it wrong.
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Can we please stop with these bullshit rumors e.g. the Salt Lake County School District is "grooming" its students because it has a book about sexual maturation in its library?

The word "grooming" in this sense applies to child predators who attempt to psychologically prepare children in such a way that they will later feel so much shame about what he did to them they can't bring themselves to tell an adult. That's what so insidious about it: In his effort to escape justice, he will cause far worse and more pathological trauma, a long-lasting source of emotional volatility and depression to make years of therapy more interesting when the kid grows up.

Schools do not "groom" children like this. They actually cannot. Schools may educate your child about something you wanted to keep your child ignorant of—which could probably be classified as a different form of abuse—but whatever, for some reason you have the right to attempt to instill your backward values in your own offspring, so you should have signed a slip then, right? Better yet, rethink your antique ideas.

Hollywood does not "groom" children in this way. It may expose children to gratuitous sex and violence at way too early an age, because it's still going by the capitalist formula that "if it sells, how can it be wrong to make money?" But why aren't you more (or even equally) concerned about the violence? If you're not, your values are so screwed up you might as well allow Hollywood to raise your kids for you; much the same result except at least they will have movies to discuss with their peers in a completely relatable and understandable way, unlike whatever nightmares will haunt them after your carrot-and-stick parenting.

Also, if you call people "child molesters" who are not accused or suspected of molesting a child, simply because they belong to a different political party than you, you're an idiot who doesn't understand how America works, and you should undergo electroshock treatment until it makes you change your mind.

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