the "bop" epidemic
it's scary that this is even a thing and it's normalised...
for the uninitiated, it's basically young-looking/teenage girls who post themselves dancing/taking pics/lipsyncing to songs on tiktok and instagram, which older predatory men call "bops" and "bopettes". usually these girls have a child-like innocent look about them and are flat, petite and short - often wearing braces, glasses, pigtails, or certain items of clothing like shorts or tighter two-piece sets which these men refer to as 'triggers' (things that turn them on)
and it's quite literally everywhere, it seems like. tiktok and twitter in particular are the worst for it. they have hundreds of accounts dedicated to posting these (often underage) girls dancing and labelling them as bops/bopettes/"goonfuel", the more popular accounts having HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF FOLLOWERS!!! and of course, reporting it does absolutely nothing.
with the constant predatory societal need for women and girls to be palatable and sexually attractive to be considered human beings, when does it eventually become enough? when do we finally put a stop to this garbage? why does it feel like nobody cares??