Unfortunately many adults like to pick on teenagers because it makes them feel powerful and smart and they can tell themselves it’s for the kids’ good. It’s why even nearing 30 I generally support a form of youth liberation. Tempered from my 16 year old desires to do whatever I wanted, but hardened by my witnessing the sheer idiocy of over sheltered 20 year olds making decisions that would’ve been much less damaging a few years younger.

They aren’t scared, they are just assholes.

It sounds like a lot of projection. They worry about indoctrination but that’s a staple of religions and the existing culture. They worry about people dressed in drag molesting kids, but as the article said, more molesters wear a black robe and collar or sweat pants and a whistle than clothing of the opposite gender.

Though the projection goes deeper than that for some of them. They worry about indoctrination because that lifestyle sounds appealing to them but they’ve already convinced themselves it was wrong and might even be jealous of kids not having to live like that after they did. They worry about people in drag molesting kids because they get uncomfortably turned on when they see that and might even be jealous that kids today might be free to explore that if they want to when they “weren’t able” to themselves.

They probably are segregationists, too.

Many of us already see them that way.

I just wished we could eliminate bigotry or at least reduce its prevalence by a few orders of magnitude.

Reader mode worked for me on the main page.