The Impact of Referencing Academics Who Have Defended and Exercised Pederasty
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Participants
2.2. Data Analysis
3. Results
3.1. The Incoherence of Some Academics Generates Social Mistrust
To continue considering them as a reference discredits and smears the reputation of the profession: research, politics, cinema, etc.(Leo)
If these people who are important are not condemned and are still being used as a reference, this provokes a separation between the person and their discourse, this changes the trust towards ethics and morale. If people make intellectual and philosophical discourses about ethics and morale and their way of acting is completely contradictory, this can generate a very deep relativism or change at the social level.(Carlos)
It generates a problem of credibility towards the institutions, organizations, movements that have them as a reference, and this generates a very strong loss of trust and, therefore, a huge decrease in the positive influence that these movements have for society.(Carlos)
3.2. Normalizing and Promoting Pederasty: “Anything Goes”
What can happen is that the society we are creating understands that everything is possible and that we can do whatever we want. This is what happens when you normalize certain attitudes.(Rocío)
News about cases in the family or within the church continue to deserve general disapproval. I imagine that the fact that the victim is a defenseless and a minor being before his harasser will have something to do with it.(Miguel)
Disseminating the public image of someone who has defended these issues ultimately gives prestige to these practices [pederasty].(Jorge)
This means normalizing and trivializing very serious behaviors that can be reproduced with great impunity when, even if they don’t have social support, they do have some permittivity or justification, especially when it comes to authors who have certain prestige in their scientific, artistic, political, social… field.(Maria)
3.3. Victims Are Silenced and Revictimized
It is a problem for people who have been victims of these situations, when someone has legitimized such violence and hasn’t been condemned, this also harms victims.(Carlos)
This generates fear. Imagine someone who has been a victim, how scared they have to feel thinking that people who have an influence in the law consider that what happened to them is not so serious or bad.(Marta)
I consider that it plays down this type of abuse and crime, and that it makes people who defend these supposed academia and politicians see their crime as “less” harmful, because of who is the abuser. In this way, it creates victims of “first and second class”.(Leo)
4. Discussion and Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Conflicts of Interest
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Pseudonym | Profession | Gender | Age |
---|---|---|---|
Jorge | Teacher of language and literature | Male | 38 |
Rocío | Retired early childhood teacher | Female | 63 |
Julia | Retired kindergarten teacher | Female | 65 |
Aurora | City council technician | Female | 42 |
Miguel | Retired worker in the Ministry of Roads and Transport | Male | 67 |
Leo | University professor of education | Male | 37 |
Luisa | Feminist theorist | Female | 54 |
Alberto | Wall painter | Male | 60 |
Aitor | High school teacher | Male | 57 |
Maria | Retired lawyer | Female | 70 |
Clara | School director | Female | 42 |
Laura | English philology professor | Female | 27 |
Pablo | Professor of adult training | Male | 53 |
Andrea | Sociologist | Female | 48 |
Carlos | Historian | Male | 32 |
Marta | Head of human resources of a multinational company | Female | 53 |
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Joanpere, M.; Puigvert-Mallart, L.; Valls-Carol, R.; Melgar, P.; Álvarez-Guerrero, G.; Flecha, R. The Impact of Referencing Academics Who Have Defended and Exercised Pederasty. Sexes 2024, 5, 275-284. https://doi.org/10.3390/sexes5030021
Joanpere M, Puigvert-Mallart L, Valls-Carol R, Melgar P, Álvarez-Guerrero G, Flecha R. The Impact of Referencing Academics Who Have Defended and Exercised Pederasty. Sexes. 2024; 5(3):275-284. https://doi.org/10.3390/sexes5030021
Chicago/Turabian StyleJoanpere, Mar, Lidia Puigvert-Mallart, Rosa Valls-Carol, Patricia Melgar, Garazi Álvarez-Guerrero, and Ramón Flecha. 2024. "The Impact of Referencing Academics Who Have Defended and Exercised Pederasty" Sexes 5, no. 3: 275-284. https://doi.org/10.3390/sexes5030021