Pedocon theory is a theory like gravity is a theory. Women’s subservience is what they believe in: they’ll just tell you. Children’s obedience is what they believe in: they’ll just tell you. Fathers’ right to rule their families is what they believe in: they’ll just tell you. Pedophilia is the natural outcome of all these ideologies: children are the property of men. MAGA has made a religion of patriarchy. In many cases, this toxic vine is wound deeply through their actual religious practices of fundamentalist Christianity. If that is the theory, pedophilia is the practice. The evidence is there, if you’re willing to look.
“If you’re willing to look.” I’ve used such phrases throughout this essay. That is because pedocon theory is a self-censoring fact: something so profoundly uncomfortable to think about that you instead choose not to. You sweep the evidence away, add up one bad apple after another and pretend you do not see.
Pedocon theory