On July 27, an image of a poster reading “Pedophiles Are People Too” and “Love is Love” over a rainbow background reminiscent of the LGBTQ pride flag started making its way around social media. Actor and Pro-Trumper James Woods even tweeted it out to his 1.64 million followers.
Portland television station KATU confirmed that this sign was briefly posted near a school, Williamette Primary School in the city of West Linn, and that it was removed shortly after it was noticed by area residents.
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The sign is probably the creation of alt-right trolls who are attempting to spread propaganda that the LGBTQ community is trying to embrace pedophilia under it’s umbrella.
And so it begins… pic.twitter.com/ku6FQpBbAO
— James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) July 31, 2018
“It’s just very clear that this message was meant to stigmatize and stereotype LGBTQ people,” Cameron Whitten, executive director of the Q Center in Portland, told KATU. “At a time when we are facing homophobia, transphobia, it is not helpful for these kinds of harmful messages to be disseminated out.”
This poster isn’t the first attempt to spread this fake news.
In December, 2017, 4Chan users concocted a false rumor that a “P” (for “Pedosexual”) was being added to the well known LGBTQ initialism. 4Chan users were encouraged to spread a Photoshopped flyer bearing taglines such as “love is ageless,” a more on-the-nose version of the tagline seen on the Oregon poster, “love is love.”
A similar ruse was circulated on Tumblr in June, 2018. An image supposedly showing a pride flag for MAPs (Minor Attracted Persons) was shared along with baseless rumors about pedophiles’ supposedly “rebranding” themselves in an effort to gain acceptance into the LGBTQ community.
The myth that pedophilia and homosexuality are linked has been debunked numerous times by actual science.
A 1994 study, led by Carole Jenny of the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, surveyed 269 cases of children who were sexually molested by adults. In 82 percent of cases, the alleged offender was a heterosexual partner of a close relative of the child, the researchers reported in the journal Pediatrics. In only two out of 269 cases, the offender identified as being gay or lesbian.
“The empirical research does not show that gay or bisexual men are any more likely than heterosexual men to molest children,” wrote Gregory M. Herek, a professor of psychology at the University of California at Davis.
barkomatic
Ugh. I thought we had moved past the point where people wanted to believe that homosexuality was equivalent to pedophilia. It’s like the 80’s and 90’s all over again.
Mack
Do you expect anyone on the extreme right to be smart? James Woods is just another extreme right idiot like the one we have in the White House.
TomG
James Wood, like EVERY Alt-right hypocrites maybe aren’t on the outside, but on the inside they are disgusting examples of human beings. And being that they usually wave the Bible (A fairy tale at best) the may call themselves “Christians” but that is in name only NOT practice !
Mark Lucius
Well, studies also have shown that CSA isn’t linked to pedophilia, since 86%(!) of offenders aren’t pedophiles. In cases which involve physical force that’s even 97%.
And also >98,5% of pedophiles don’t offend.
So, why shouldn’t there be a place for those that just feel an attraction.
Brian
Stop.
Vince
Ha. Nice try.
leauxbeaux
There is a place for those who “just feel an attraction” and it is usually covered by insurance. For those who ACT upon that attraction the other place is covered within the prison budgets!
Juanjo
Right, sick troll.
Heywood Jablowme
“And also >98,5% of pedophiles don’t offend.”
Citation for that? I don’t necessarily doubt it, it sounds plausible, but where did you get that statistic?
NOUHAVENT
Republican trolls hard at work. You’re disgusting.
TomG
Funny thing is that MOST pedophiles are straight men going after young girls. That’s a PROVEN fact !
dwes09
Pedophiles: those that have sexual attraction to pre-pubescent children are generally attracted to both boys and girls. Those who prefer neo-pubescent individuals generally show more preference to one gender or the other.
That said the notion that childhood sexual abuse is not linked to pedophilia is ridiculous. By definition those who sexually abuse pre=pubescent children ARE pedophiles. Can you really be that dull?
The place for those who “just feel an attraction” is therapy.
The place for those who force sexual acts on children who cannot under any circumstance give real consent to an adult is prison.
DCguy
The fact that you are working so hard to hide the actual meaning of what you’re saying pretty much shows that you know the actual topic of your post is wrong.
Vince
James Woods has a street named after him in downtown LA. I cringe everytime I pull into it. What were they thinking?
jcoberkrom
Poor Woods. A has been wanting some attention
Ryuun12
I love the fact that all he did was point out a poster promoting pedophilia. Nowhere at all did he mention anything about gay people. So not sure where you’re getting how this is antigay.
Also, do you think its bad that he is against pedophilia? You seem to have a problem with him not liking the poster. Should he like media encourage child molestation?
gerrfelt1
“you LOVE the fact all he did was point out a poster promoting pedophilia”–you love that–troll.
“..nowhere did he mention anything about gay people!!!”
no,really, he just used the universally recognized rainbow flag…with a pedophile leading a small child by the hand..you love that. Which equates the LGBT WITH PEDOPHILES…YOU LOVE THIS!!!!THAT IS HOW IT IS ANTI-GAY. HOPE YOU HAVE A LONG LIFE!! do not feed the trolls,do NOT FEED THE……….
Juanjo
Delusion. Poster with a rainbow flag and the words, “and so it begins” doesn’t act as a dog whistle? Do you think we are stupid? We remember all the arguments about how if gay people exercise their civil rights then next they will want pedophilia recognized as legit. So screw off
aaparker
If you actually believe your comment, then you are utterly clueless.
theafricanwiththemouth
Airhead. You lack the ability to read between the lines. The picture spoke a thousand words of homophobia.
Even the “and so it begins” is Anti-LGBT enough. But a dolt is a dolt, is a dolt.
Ryuun12
God you all are dumb. Is he the one who put the poster up? No. So he’s not the one equating pedophilia with the gay community. Pedophiles are the ones latching onto the LGBT movement.
Can you explain how what he said specifically referred to gay people? The ‘it’ he is referring to is just pedophilia being pushed into acceptance. He didn’t make the poster, he didn’t put up the poster. He saw it and was bothered it is now attempting to be socially acceptable to be a pedo. You guys just look for homophobia anywhere.
Vince
@Ryuun12. So your answer is just to double down on being a dumb ass. James Woods has said many homophobic things. Just google it. Safe to say (at least if you have a working brain) that he most definitely meant to equate the two.
theafricanwiththemouth
A dolt is a dolt, is and always will be a dolt.
Besides his homophobic past statements and actions, this guy puts up a poster mashed up with the most iconic LGBT symbol (a rainbow) and a pedophile and then captions it with “and so it begins”, yet you lack the brain power to decipher the fact that his tweet insinuates that pedophilia, if being accepted, is a birth child of the acceptance of gays, lesbians and trans people…
You don’t get that his tweet only implies the age old Anti-LGBT argument that the acceptance of LGBT folks will only result in the acceptance of the actual wicked and sick acts (such as pedophilia, bestiality)?
Lol, i don’t even know why i’m stressing myself. As stated before, you come off as an airhead, so i understand.
dwes09
His post and comment is obviously indicative of him buying into the notion that gay people are pedophiles, and “so it begins” acknowledges the regressive belief that we want to normalize that activity.
Learn to think!
DCguy
Oh look, one of the Anti-LGBT screenames is here trying to claim that Woods putting up an anti-LGBT poster comparing being lgbt to child molesting was nothing.
Thanks, you trolls aren’t even trying to hide anymore.
CarrieV
Quite the irony here, as “MAPs” (Minor-Attracted Persons) overwhelmingly identify as Right-leaning Libertarians who wish to see laws regarding age of consent abolished.
Also quite a few years back, that Duck Dynasty patriarch got himself into a wee bit of trouble saying that girls should be married off by the time they hit puberty, as this would solve most societal problems. His [right-wing] base tried to excuse his sentiments and went so far as to calling the lefties, the feminists and the SJWs the *actual* ?erverts, as those were the people seeing something sexual in Duck Moron’s ramblings.
Heywood Jablowme
Indeed, there’s an ex-Libertarian* pedophile running for Congress in a Virginia district (suburban Washington DC). He lives in his parents’ basement, lol. The Washington Post had a disturbing article on him about a month ago. He’s heterosexual and contends — in typical “incel” fashion — that “incel” men should have sexual access to underage girls.
*The Libertarian Party actually expelled him from the party. Not easy to get kicked out of that clown car.
Vera Delmar
Maybe James Woods should be the poster child for a new organization called NAMYGLA for North American Man Young Girl Love Association since he loves young women.
Kangol
Exactly. He’s psychologically projecting, like the Trump-adoring Q Anon legion of cultists.
Kangol
Don’t accept this right-wing, anti-gay psychologically projecting frame. Most pedophiles and ephebephiles are heterosexual, as multiple statistics on the topic underline. Hetero pedos and ephebos have been able to get away with legitimating it in some societies by lowering the age of marriage and using religion as an enabler, but children cannot consent to sex with adults, so whether these adults wrap it up in marriage or religion and call it OK, it’s clearly wrong. The people behind these stickers are trying not only to slander LGBTQ people by superimposing the pedo image on the rainbow flag, but they’re also signaling their own interests. Someone should keep an eye on them and keep them far away from children.
ShowMeGuy
A real dingbat of a woman shared a table in the breakroom at my job with me a few weeks ago and she thinks the B in LGBT stands for Bestiality.
People are really stupid and the dumbest people do a lot of breeding.
So it would be really easy to convince some dumbasses that the P in LGBTQAIPF stands for Pedophilia instead of Pansexual.
DCguy
Report her to H.R. bigotry should be expensive.
woodroad34
Given that heterosexuals have a higher rate of pedophilia than gays (yes, a few gays are pedophiles), wouldn’t the arguments of James Woods, et al. include that heterosexuality is a gateway to pedophilia? Hide yore children from straight people.
garybw
If population is gay 10% and 90% heterosexual, statistics have to be 90% of pedo’s are heterosexual.
If 90 % of Republican’s are hetero, 90% are pedophiles- based on Has been B list actor James Woods logi.
nitejonboy
James woods shot a movie in my hometown. I can tell you firsthand, he’s a piece of shit.
johnnymcmxxx
James Woods IS a pedophile. An old ugly hetero pedophile, just like a significant majority of all pedophiles.
DHT
Percentage wise though there are many more “gay” pedophiles than “straight” pedophiles. What is really different and upsetting is the way that pedophiles can hide so easily among the other predators in the gay community and how many in the gay community are totally accepting of their behavior. If your unfortunate enough to have been a gay child molested by a gay pedophile, then as far as the predators are concerned you are owned and your life will be hell. What is important to remember is that a pedophile is a pedophile, they are neither truly heterosexual or homosexual and we should exclude them the same way the heterosexual community does.
Tête Carrée
You’ve never met a gay person in your life, have you?