Literally I've already seen discourse from a few years back that decried inflation as pedophilia based on the fact many people got into it from That One Scene from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.¹ Any of us who've been on Twitter in the past few years have probably seen the dreaded spinal curvature chart. As it turns out, people will just put words in any order they like to start nonsensical discourse about kinks they dislike - just because they gravitate more towards connections that seem plausible² doesn't mean anything else is safe.
1. I mean I was already into that sort of thing well before I saw that movie, but.
2. As long as you don't bother to actually think about them for more than like, three seconds.
i've even seen a flat-out seriously made argument that "inflation fetish is pedophilia because balloons are for kids"
and it's like. both the absolute dumbest argument alive, but also the most joyless. it's as if that type of person where that argument doesn't sound ridiculous to them sees a balloon and goes "i cannot find joy in this object because it is "kiddie shit""
it genuinely cannot be restated enough that there is no end to the puritanical slippery slope. they will say any damn combination of words that loosely resembles a sentence to yuck somebody's yum.


