Republican sobs as she claims LGBTQ+ activists are ‘training’ children to use butt plugs and dildos

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A Republican aide has claimed that LGBTQ+ organisations are training eight-year-old children how to use butt plugs and dildos.

In a recently resurfaced speech, Erin Mazzoni, who reportedly works for the campaign of Franklin, Tennessee Republican mayoral candidate Gabrielle Hanson, alleged that children are being given sex toys by LGBTQ+ activists.

Mazzoni told a meeting of the Franklin Board of Mayor and Aldermen earlier this that she’d moved to Tennessee from Bucks County, in Pennsylvania, after apparently discovering that an LGBTQ+ organisation was teaching children how to use sex toys, which, she claimed, caused the community to “fall apart”.

Between sobs, she said: “It started out as Pride coming in, and I thought everything would be OK. It ended with a Rainbow Room where eight to 12-year-old kids were given butt plugs and dildos and trained.

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Republicans live in a completely different reality.

The problem is they project it onto others.

Like Christians who don't rape and murder because they're scared of hell, assume people who don't believe do it all the time. They're just telling on themselves that if they didn't think Sky Daddy was watching them, then why wouldn't they do horrible shit.

They don't live in any REALITY. They live in a Fox News fever dream.

The one they describe is usually so much nicer, too. Kids getting sex education that isn’t abstinence only or the STD shock image hour? I wish.

These fundamentalists gutted sex ed and now we wonder why STI rates are up. Fuck them and everything they stand for

Fuck them and everything they stand for

Make sure to use protection though

Perhaps with one of those dildos that are being thrown around everywhere

Had a chance to look at Fox news lately? My family turned to it last night and it was ridiculous lol. Look at this

It was all about a parent who was blaming weed for her sons suicide.

Wouldn’t this stuff have to be real in order for it to be a reality?

Butt plug training, stolen elections, no climate change, Hillary Clinton harvesting children in pizza restaurants, etc. The GOP platform reads like fiction self-published on Amazon.

I wish someone had trained me how to use a buttplug. Could have saved myself a huge pain in the ass.

We have actual victims speaking up to let us know that the Catholic Church and other Christian communities are abusing children. If LGBT groups are allegedly doing the same, where are the victims' testimonies? Where are the hundreds, if not thousands of victims coming forward with their own stories that can be investigated so we can bring these alleged gay pedophiles to justice?

Because organized religion is so powerful they can get away with mass sexual assault of children among other crimes. Conservatives don't oppose child abuse, they're afraid the "wrong" people Are doing it

IMHO that's the big picture: Conservatism doesn't want people focusing on the overwhelmingly factual and documented abuses by the church and GOP.

This is a list of confirmed GOP sex offenders and their crimes. It's past 1,100 now.

I don't think I need to point out the well documented history of sex offenses in the church, but here's a quick list of recent travesties:

https://www.npr.org/2022/06/02/1102621352/how-the-southern-baptist-convention-covered-up-its-widespread-sexual-abuse-scand https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/investigation-reveals-widespread-sexual-abuse-and-cover-ups-by-archdiocese-of-baltimorehttps://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/02/us/catholic-church-sex-abuse-investigations.html

So please, FOCUS ON THE GAYS! LITTERBOXES! TRANS TRAINERS! Think about anything but the crimes conservatives and religious pedos please please please.

Projection writ large, across our entire society.

I'm on your side of the argument, but I don't think this is a fair take. We know from history that it's very difficult for victims to come forward in these cases. Your Catholic Church example is a good case of this; the adults we're hearing from were children when the abuse took place. Look at the Me Too incident. Hundreds if not thousands of victims all coming forward years after the fact because they feared the backlash. I genuinely doubt there are groups like the woman described in existence, but if there were, it's understandable that we wouldn't be hearing about it right away.

The Catholic Church has the power and influence to cover those things up and pressure victims into silence. Hollywood has a huge power imbalance as well. Where in the world does the LGBTQ+ community have such power? The only answer these fascists can give is "the Jews".

If there was large scale abuse going on in the LGBTQ+ community, it would have been found out for sure; especially considering how many hateful zealots spend their retirement actively hunting the imaginary abuse. (I'm also not saying there's no abuse because well, humans suck. just that it isn't large scale, organized, and actively defended like churches and corporate hierarchies)

I mean this is assuming that children are rationally considering the amount of power an abuser has over their lives, which is clearly not the case. To a kid, simply being an adult makes them seem powerful.

And yet kids and adults come forward all the time. There would be somebody if the abuse is that wide spread.

The power of the church enables them to influence more than just the kids of course. Also if adults show reverence to priests you bet the kids pick up on that. And also the parents often side with the priest over the kid anyway if the kid actually ever says anything.

Bottom line: the claims of sexual abuse by "tHe gAyS" are unsubstantiated.

Studies have shown that abusers are not more likely to be LGBTQ than straight.

In fact it is statistically the opposite to a significant degree.

So why the claims then?

First, modern right wing Christianity is deeply biased to be anti-gay already and so it is no wonder preachers are dead wrong and spreading bullshit myths as well as classing all LGBTQ people as literally "minions ot Satan"

Second, regressives (right wingers) hate LGBTQ people (because they are different and also because of religion). Spreading damaging myths is an attempt to change culture to be in favor of persecuting and attempting to eradicate LGBTQ people -- or whoever else is in the "out group" to be eradicated.

If a lone person with political motives to damage the Catholic Church's reputation alleged they were abusing children, I'd be demanding the same evidence of victims' testimonies. No one should be believing allegations of sexual assault without evidence, of which victim testimonies are key. Same with the Me Too movement. I'm a therapist and not at all unsympathetic to how difficult it is for victims of sexual assault to go public with their stories, but from a societal perspective, we should all be skeptical of allegations made without evidence. Is it possible these LGBT groups are abusing kids and we won't find out until 15-20+ years from now, when those kids decide to come forward with their stories? Sure. But until then, accusations with clear political motivation should be disregarded, and that's true whether you're talking about LGBT groups or the LDS Church.

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"Lady sobs because she imagined things that don't happen"

This kind of performative rhetoric, invented to assign wicked or demonic qualities to your scapegoat, is not a new thing. It's just a retread of the blood libel, the red scare, the lavender panic, reefer madness, and today's bathroom panics. All of them were lies told to justify violence and the criminalization of things that could be used to persecute their targets.

*things she made up

I'm about 90% sure she's just acting and doesn't believe a word of her testimony.

She's literally that character from The Simpsons that says "won't somebody please think of the children!"

And she didn't take pictures or record these incidents to report to CPS the child exploitation that was happening? No just put it in her back burner to someday tell congress about.... how convenient.... sounds like the case brought before the supreme court of a women who claimed she was being forced to cook cakes orders for gay couples of which those 'orders for gay couples ' later turned out to have never existed....

No just put it in her back burner

Phrasing...

Was that cake orders or websites? The recent case was a woman "forced" to make a website for a gay couple's wedding. Only it turned out that she not only never made a website, but the "gay couple" she cited wasn't really a gay couple.

In fact, one of the guy's is straight, has been married to a woman for years, and doesn't even know the woman who claimed she was forced to make a website for his gay marriage. Basically, she just did a search on some website, grabbed the guy's name and photo, and claimed he was part of a gay couple that demanded she make a website for him.

And yet the Supreme Court ruled in her favor and she hasn't gotten in trouble for perjury.

Honestly I think webpages about cakes for this one.. it's hard to keep up with all the moral outrage conservatives come up with daily now

So, if the past is any indicator, in the next few months we're going to learn she's been molesting kids with butt plugs and dildos.

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This is meant solely to hurt people. At best it’s satanic panic level insanity. At worst it’s an attempt to prepare people to commit atrocities.

The only story I know about using buttplugs on children was that one instance where the child had to use a buttplug from their parents in order to keep the Devil out of their asshole.

Christians are much worse than any drag queen.

It really is amazing how people just believe whatever outlandish story they hear. Had an elderly woman tell our state legislators at a local forum that teachers where I work were literally locking children into closets and teaching them to be gay. Legislators response: "Mumble, Mumble, yeah... we need to do something about these teachers."

Lady, if we had the power to "indoctrinate" children, we wouldn't have any late homework again, let alone tolerance for people different from yourself.

There's a whole segment of the population that lives in a different reality, probably due to right-wing media conditioning.

Show them something well researched, understood, and explained and they're likely to dismiss or reject it. Say something completely bonkers about someone or something they don't like and they'll gobble it up without a second thought.

I love how conspiratorial republicans get when the state is threatened with welfare and humanitarian measures, but when other republicans make insane claims no one asks for a source

Funny they hardly ever cry about any of the children victims who were molested at churches or by GOP politicians.

Or children turned to swiss cheese during school shootings

NRA training 8yr olds to shoot guns? Cool....

Completely fabricated dildo training for kids? Outrage....

Reminds me of those people who dream about their partner cheating on them and then are mad at them for days and demand apologies. These people think up things to be afraid and then demand we take their delusions seriously.

How do these public lies not lead to consequences? Isn't lying while testifying in a public setting perjury?

Applying the law to conservatives in any way is a violation of their constitutional rights. Laws are for conservatives to use against everyone else.

The women pictured would likely have to prove some financial loss to sue for defamation. Juice wouldn't be worth the squeeze.

true, you can't squeeze lemonade out of batshit

There might be some finger shaking and eye rolling down the line for that lady, that's for sure.

Lol this is the first result when I searched this lady's name. Apparently she is a serial liar.

Ah so she is just a trump wannabe. She's probably like, "well the president and fox news lies daily and they make money from it and never get into trouble, guess I'll do it too."

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I remember when I was around 13-14 years old we had sex education class and we had to put a condom on a dildo. We all thought it was great fun.

This isn’t really related to whatever this woman is talking about, she’s probably just making shit up, but it just reminded me of that and I thought I’d share.

Probably?

Definitely, without question, 100% guaranteed.

To give her the benefit of the doubt, (which you shouldn’t - I am a trained pedantry professional, please do not try this at home!) you could imagine that she saw a particularly young looking 14 year old learning to put a condom onto a dildo and being very bad at estimating the ages of kids, thought they were 8, and also misinterpreted the lesson as being about how to use sex toys rather than about safe sex.

Of course, I know fine well that this isn’t what happened. This woman is just spreading anti-LGBTQ+ hate, and it’s also very possible that she’s projecting. Even if she isn’t a pedophile, she is still a danger to kids, especially LGBTQ+ kids.

Hahaha, teachers HATED that day at our school because they then handed out free condoms... Which everyone just attached to car exhausts in the staff parking lot.

Ah, at our school we weren’t directly given free condoms, just told about how we could access them. So of course a bunch of kids got some free condoms which encouraged lively discussion around what flavours were the best before some of them inevitably ended up as balloons.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, so come on Mazzoni, provide said extraordinary evidence!

Odds are that at the most she can manage is evidence of 1-2 pedos being caught doing something vaguely adjacent to it and also claiming to be some flavor of LGBTQ, like how the GOP notion of drag queen story time is shaped entirely by that one library event in the UK (which is probably still the entire top page of Google results for "rainbow dildo butt monkey") and trans people by Jessica Yaniv.

Ma'am, that sounds like an awfully specific word choice for you to be using there...

I feel like when making claims like this, you should be expected to prove that what you're saying...you know...happened.

Surely there's a news article or 2 of people being arrested for child grooming that were in the LGBTQ+ community if this actually happened. Cause if there isn't then she's talking about a crime she didn't actually report.

Or you know, it didn't happen.

My guess is that her "proof" would be a Facebook post and an article from TotallyNotSketchyNews dot ru.

I am just so tired of Republicans and of the way our stupid system gives these crazies outsized influence.

Not one of them should be allowed into office.

I'm so damn tired of all of these idiots doing mental backflips trying to pack reality as it exists into their outdated and tiny worldview. Which they only do because otherwise they would have to ponder the limitations of their own existence and accept the temporary nature of life.

"Excuse me, can you direct me to the aisle with the children's sex toys?" - nobody, ever.

I mean...

Hey kids: if you're using a dildo or any insertable, be aware that that hole is deeeeep. Save yourself an embarrassing ER trip. Make sure your toys have a flared base.

Also, using a condom on your toy is a great way to keep it clean, but you should still go e it a good warm soap antibacterial rinse after every use.

If it's hurting just stop.

Consent always.

Play safe.

And nobody is telling 8 year olds this ffs.

Regressives are twisted inside.

These people are either mentally ill or acting. Maybe a bit of both.

Insanity is the expected norm in the Christian Republican MAGA crowd. They've lost contact with reality completely.

God help me, I made myself watch her act. And those are the fakest crocodile tears I've ever seen.

If she believed this, I'd almost feel bad that mental illness and the rightwing echo chamber did this to her, but no, this person is just straight evil.

Tell me this is an unlikely root cause:

  • closeted LGBTQ+ conservatives fulfill their desires with LGBT porn.

  • in their mind, the most depraved fantasies they fulfill with porn compose the entire LGBTQ+ world. That’s all they know of it.

  • projection intensifies

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nayirah_testimony

The Nayirah testimony was false testimony given before the United States Congressional Human Rights Caucus on October 10, 1990, by a 15-year-old girl who was publicly identified at the time by her first name, Nayirah. The testimony was widely publicized and was cited numerous times by U.S. senators and President George H. W. Bush in their rationale to support Kuwait in the Gulf War.

Do the REPs have a kind of internal championship challenge like "Who can come up with the most outrageous lies?"

Just like QAnon is probably a student hoax challenge on who can create the most unbelievable fringe theory that conservatives still swallow line hook and sinker.

And: I wonder which parts of the darknet she (regularly?) consumes that gave her such ideas?

She seems really stuck up. I know something that could help...

Replacing the stick up her ass with a butt plug?

Literally Satanic Panic.

Can we just skip ahead to the point in humanity when we’re past all this? It’s exhausting.

And then the board and all in attendance burst into mocking laughter that she would never forget for the rest of her life. Right?

People need to do outbursts when people say insane bullshit like this-- along the lines of "WHAT?! ARE YOU FUCKING HIGH LADY??"

And someone to stand behind them with a posterboard that says [citation needed]

If she's training her children with butt plugs and dildos everything is alright. But LGBTQ+ activists!? That's a step too far!

'Oh she would never, a healthy understanding of sex between people who love each other, is against their religion... you are not allowed to enjoy sex ever, and especially if you are a woman... and how dare you as a woman have sex with your husband and not get pregnant...'

so yeah none of us believe her...but I cant understand the people that supposedly do. If I heard allegations of some organization doing all this child sexual assault...Im immediately calling the cops or making sure the alleger has, finding out specifics of organization and people's names involved. Why is it not immediately being treated like a criminal allegation, and instead being used in a political speech?

Because everyone knows she is full of shit, some people just pretend to believe her because it allows them to do what they want: Attack queer people and act like it was justified.

Remembering that every accusation is a confession from a Republican, has anyone checked on any kids she has contact with?

That was quite possibly the worst acting I've ever seen.

And I've watched Plan 9 from Outer Space in its entirety

Well I heard LGBTQ+ people bought children ice cream, and then, out of the blue, they added rainbow sprinkles on them!

And when the children ate them, they were taken away on magical unicorn up in the clouds, And then they came down and had bread, cheese and salads. And. Um.

Anyway, it's a scandal!

Annie, are you sure that's what happened?

claimed with zero evidence and a lot of crocodile tears that...

Can we stop with the satanic panic? Of course we can't, we want our good Christian rules implement and of we have to lie, steal and cheat for that, we totally will, just like Jesus would

This is preposterous and all, but it makes me curious about what kind of training she envisions 🤔

Asking the correct question. As it is projection, there's probably child abuse going on. Child Protection Service should have a look at her house or something.

A Republican aide has claimed that LGBTQ+ organisations are training eight-year-old children how to use butt plugs and dildos.

Yep. This is the buttplug, and this is the dildo. But given that republicans actually do see children sexually, I get why they would imagine something else.

To be honest it's only fair, the republicans train kids with automatic weapons already...

This was just a misunderstanding. Keefe was trying to buy up all the sex toys so that the kids wouldn’t be exposed to them outside of church.

He just didn’t know how to explain it articulately when he was caught with all the sex toys.

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT8jDu2LP/

I mean, somebody has to, right? We can't have our children growing up to be lame.

What's to train? I'm not expert but outside of picking a size what is the expert level of butt plug knowledge

Make sure the base is flared. Stick with reputable manufacturers. Start small and work your way up. Use plenty of lube. If it hurts, stop.

I just read this as kids being trained how to use Republicans.

Reminds me of that one time in Germany when a right wing online groups leaders home got raided by the police and it turned out to be a 15 year old edgelord who acted tough on the internet. He had fully grown men under him, who didn’t know about his age.

A small reminder that the average right wingnut is dumber than a fucking child.

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Oh, are they talking about Oh Joy Sex Toy? Because they're awesome!

Did you read the post? Your comment makes it seem as if the website you linked to is aimed at children.

This feels like a very misguided bot.

Edit: nevermind, I ooked at the profile, and it doesn't seem like a bot. Woof.

That's creepy af lol catnip is my safe word