I know that pedophilia is not a new issue, it has been happening probably since the dawn of time, but it has always been something that has been hidden in the shadows because people know it’s wrong. Nobody proudly says they molest children out of fear of getting arrested. To me it is not something that I want to A) hear about and B) see people joking about. It’s not funny.
As I was going about my day of the usual scrolling on the Facebook home page to look at who is posting what, I came across one post from a page called “United Against RIP Trolls and Cyberbullies” asking people to report a page called “Damon the pedophile canadian.” Without hesitation I clicked the page and read the page description and looked through some of the posts. The description says it’s comedy and that the page owner is not a real pedophile, but I honestly don’t see anything funny about that. I was not amused.
Naturally I wanted to report the page. I clicked the option “I just don’t like it” and it gave me the opportunity to message the admin to ask them to remove the page. Of course I misunderstood that and checked it and typed out a little message. I didn’t read where it said I was messaging them, I just (again without hesitation) clicked the check box and hit continue. Within a minute, literally a minute lol, I got a message back from the page. Here is the email.
I wasn’t expecting to get a response because I thought I was typing that to the Facebook admin, but in a way I am glad that the email got sent to him (assuming the page owner is a male) and that he knew that someone out there was unhappy about his page.
I didn’t go into any detail about what happened to me in that regard, but I shouldn’t have to. All he needs to know is that his page is upsetting to people like me. Although, I was never actually molested, it was an attempt that I managed to escape. I wrote about it in my book in Chapter 18 “Why is everyone doing drugs?”
This is what happened to me. It was my mothers so-called “best friend” who was a prostitute in the 1960’s and 70’s. We had moved into her and her husbands house in 1986 near the end of the school year temporarily because we had nowhere else to go. I went to the kitchen to get a glass of tea and she grabbed me by the crotch and she held onto my balls with a tight grip for at least 5 minutes straight before taking me to the couch and face raping me. She was trying to take off my clothes and that was when I started thinking “have a seizure, have a seizure, for god sake, HAVE A SEIZURE!” I managed to fake one and she put me to bed and then she went to her bed, and I could hear her crying. I was crying too, but she didn’t hear me.
I had grand mal and petit mal seizures as a baby and during most of my childhood and I was having them more during the school year of 1985/86. I was in special ed and had seen other people having seizures, so I knew what to do. I was 15 years old at the time, but I was still a child.
Facebook really needs to clean house. They are allowing people to make pages without needing approval based on the page name and description. Anyone could make a page about anything for any reason and nobody checks to make sure they are being good. It’s all up to us, the community, to keep these pages in line by reporting them to Facebook.
As a page owner, I have to adhere to a strict criteria. I abide by all of the rules and regulations (that I know about), but I also try to abide by common sense, and that means to be a good little boy. Although, as an atheist, I have posted images that are anti-religion, but only because they are exposing how anti-gay certain religious people are. But even if I were a Christian, I would still post those to let people see how anti-gay people are in the religion. It’s basically standing up for myself and my community. What that guy is doing is he is making fun of people who are or were molested as children and it’s not right and we, as in people with common sense, shouldn’t have to put up with those kinds of pages clogging up the Facebook hard drives when there could be more positive role models clogging up their hard drives.
Look, this world is dark enough as it is with all the bullying, senseless suicides of our gay children who were bullied, school and movie theater shootings and with people murdering their families or children (tot mom – allegedly). We need to stop being so negative as a society and start being positive role models. There needs to be more accountability and positivity coming out of the internet inspiring people to be good, instead of inspiring them to commit crimes.
Sorry for rambling. This was my 2 cents lol. Stepping off my soapbox now.
Please follow United Against RIP Trolls and Cyberbullies on Facebook so you can start seeing their posts to report people. There are many more pages that tell people to report pages and when I see them, I usually share the post on my facebook page and ask people to report them as well.
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