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“What I never understood is why a pedophile organization would use a symbol related to that? Isn’t it just inviting scrutiny?”

Scrutiny? About what?

We who aren’t part of this would not - and did not - even begin to connect the dots because for us they were just dots!

When I see a stop sign I think “stop”. That’s it. Will I find out tomorrow that some freak uses intersections with stop signs as a message for other freaks?

Heck, I could have bought jewelry with these symbols on them and had no idea that some people would have thought I was *messaging*!

Hearts, butterflies, little triangles - what normal person would have gone there? None! Because most normal people had no idea about these symbols.

They’ve been doing this right under our noses! We had no idea because it was so far outside our experience that we would not and could not have imagined such a thing on our own.

Compare FReepers’ reactions to learning about this to the five stages of grief, for example:

1. Denial and isolation
2. Anger
3. Bargaining
4. Depression
5. Acceptance

I’m not saying that the general reaction at FR matches this perfectly, but I’ve seen a lot of comments reflecting 1, 2, and 5.

This is a huge, sickening shock for most of us.

It was easy for them.

They knew there would be no scrutiny because it’s their secret, indecent language and we don’t speak it.

We’re decent - not perfect, but decent- and they’re not.