thread: welcome, pandemic maps!

## thread: welcome, pandemic maps!

#### 11 April 2020
from twitter and bluesky threads

### bly

| Advice based on three years of social media maptivism. Have you been driven plumb crazy by Coronavirus distancing and finally decided to create a MAP alt account on twitter to campaign for #mappositivity? Awesome! A few words of advice, if you want them, from one of the MAP accounts that seems to have survived unsuspended for the > > last few years (though by no means the longest-serving). 1. Anime avatars look cute but are a cliché and activate the disgust of teiliophiles. If your aim is to help destigmatise MAPs, then choose something less provocative. 2. The same applies to publishing your aoa > > in your profile. 3. MAP flags are favoured by some, but aren't especially popular with the LGBTQ+ community. 4. If you're under 18, then it's great if you make use of resources and support for MAPs. I'm really sorry there isn't more of it at the moment. Bear in mind that > > as a minor you are vulnerable on this platform to people with ill intentions. Don't give away personal information, don't engage sexually with anyone and generally try to prove that MAPs can behave responsibly online. Because we can, you know. 5. Debate, yes. Make the case, > > but be aware that our opponents want to trap you into reportable behaviour. Meet cussing with reasonable arguments; meet trolling with facts; meet suicide-baiting with reports. 6. Don't sexualise kids on this platform. It's rightly against the rules, and definitely don't > > post material that sexualises minors, either openly or in DM. This is not what anti-contact MAPs do (and a lot of pro-contacts avoid it too). 7. Look out for and be kind to allies. These are people who are not MAPs themselves who out of generosity are here helping us argue > > for destigmatisation, support and the things we need that don't involve harming children. 8. The same arguments come up over and over and over, because most people haven't had a chance to think this issue through, and because there are many prejudices against us which are > > unthinkingly backed up in the mainstream media, even by otherwise very thoughtful people. Take time to read threads and articles on the subject - understand the traps that antis try to force us into to make us look bad. 9. Don't do this alone. Visit @virpeds > contact @MAPSupportClub and check out @ProstasiaInc. This is a moment in history when, for whatever reason, we suddenly have a voice and a chance to explain ourselves to a sceptical world, and to reach out for support and understanding. Let's not waste it. 10. Welcome! :: About the author: I have been writing and talking about the experience of being a pedophile since 2017. Once on twitter until my account was banned in 2020, I co-led Virtuous Pedophiles from 2021 to 2025. I now continue to look for ways to improve the lives of pedophiles, but never at the expense of harming children. I have never viewed illegal material, and never sought or engaged in sexual activity with any child. The rest of my life is countryside walking, friends, Radio 3 and feeling doleful about ageing. |

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