- You are making it up! – my friend shouted at me, convinced I was spreading some rubbish gossip, as nobody in their right mind would have invented anything like this. And she didn’t believe that it was possible to see those “toys” in the picture. That such games could be offered to children – for the sake of their good and development. And yet!

Neither she nor many others remembered the terrible damage were caused in this matter by the so-called “merry month of May”, i.e. the Paris May of'68 whose leaders after several years were still promoting – and implementing – insane theories about such sexual freedom that included children. People like Daniel Cohn-Bendit (a longtime MEP of the Greens, representing France and Germany in various terms of office), Bernard Couchner (an outstanding doctor and social worker, co-founder of the Doctors Without Borders and Médecins du Monde charity organizations, minister in various ministries, including foreign affairs) or Olivier Duhamel (at one time also a French MEP from the Socialist Party) should remain a symbol of perversion, depravity and hypocrisy at that, which made them act as “eagles of the revolution” while they were mere scoundrels. Filip Memches recently wrote about it in our pages, in the feature entitled: „the legacy of May '68 has a dark side: the praise of paedophilia”, because it is a must to remind it and to warn against phenomena that have since grown considerably.

Schools are no loger ours

Similarly, only a few years ago, the first information about supposedly educational organisations – I am deliberately not naming them, because why would I want to publicise them? – which wanted to promote the so-called healthy sex education in schools and kindergartens, this information was received with incredulity and even laughter. Without parents’ knowledge and in the absence of teachers, because, after all, “teachers can make us feel uneasy”. So go on, boys and girls, we'll tell you about the pleasures of life, just don’t tell anyone what we are talking about here!

But ordinary children just talk about their day in the evening. To mom, for example, or better yet, mom and dad. More and more parents, however, raised their heads – smelled the danger – and tried to speak out. Demands, above all, the right of parents to “raise their children in accordance with their own convictions. This upbringing should take into account the child’s level of maturity, as well as the child’s freedom of conscience and religion and his or her beliefs”. And this is a constitutional law, our fundamental law, Article 48!

As a young mother whose child had just started school at the height of the fall of the Polish People’s Republic, in 1985 or 1986, I appeared in the pages of the then “Tygodnik Powszechny” with a defiant – and so right – postulate: the school is ours. The school – i.e. its core, meaning the pupils, our children – doesn’t belong to the state or the education system, no, it is ours, of us, parents. And we, the parents, are responsible for them. And that is why the school is to be ours – I wrote – and I did not mean private, Catholic or other independent schools, but state schools. I was young and saw only the advantages of dream school self-governance, parents’ citizenship and their supposed involvement at the time. What are we talking about! Today, we hear more and more about homeschooling, because parents, but also pupils, do not want a school that is “not ours”. For some, it teaches poorly, for others, it does not educate. If the parents cannot afford a private school while the child is talented and hardworking, and no one pulls him up at school, then let him study at home! I know a boy who is just passing a very complicated school-leaving exam – due to his choice of subjects and extensions – and he is after two years of learning in this mode and is very happy that no one messed with his head with “gayosis” or any other metamorphosis.

Sex modalities have spilled out

Now there is nothing to believe or not to believe. The situations described at the beginning are real, they happen, they enter our homes. There are many, many more risks. However, this time I will skip the absolutely ubiquitous television with its millions of channels, including porn, and I will skip the internet with its trillions of possibilities, including the dark net. I will omit – for the moment – eroticized, also ubiquitous, advertisements and cinema along with the theater, the offer of which has shrunk so sharply that you really don’t know where to go with children, not to encounter sexual overtones or raging erotica, now almost obligatory with a hint of homosexuality. This does not mean that I disregard them, on the contrary. But I will show others.

One of the greatest threats, because it directly affects the identity of a teenager or even an older child, is the loudly promoted campaign: “Are you in doubt about whether you are a boy or a girl? We’ll help you”. Of course, formally there is no such campaign, but informally it is going on in various fields The thoughtlessly initiated sex change (transition) procedure and its dramatic effects were described in our pages a few weeks ago by a young man – still young, yet deeply experienced by the manipulations of people who simply make great deals in this “business”. Professor Lew Starowicz, after all the favourite sexologist of the progressive media, is already warning against their procedures and methods.

For a long time there has been a certain fashion among teenagers for “demonstration of otherness”, which I put in quotation marks, because – not disregarding the weltschmerzes typical of adolescence and the real suffering of young werthers – fashion has always been and is a determinant of adolescent lifestyle. A young person, in frequent hardships, discovers the secrets of their intellect, their body, their emotions and learns to be themselves – and at the same time they want to be like others, they want to keep up with trends, they wants to be like the “coolest”, whatever that means at the moment. And now the trends show that you should be “different” – maybe gay, maybe lesbian, but you definitely shouldn’t be a great boyfriend or a cute girl that great guys are looking for. And so pairs of girls embraced tenderly like Juliet and Romeo weave beneath blooming chestnut trees, and in cafe gardens, overly elegant – simply refined – boys eat morsels from one plate, discussing loudly about participation in Peruvian art workshops, sending each other tender glances and handshakes.

The astonished street does not know how to look at it. Is it still a prank or is it life itself? Are they pretending to be someone they’re not or are they trying to be that someone? The astonished street does not believe that we suddenly have so many homosexual young people and rightly sees it as a fashion! But what will be left when this fashion is gone?

SIGN UP TO OUR PAGE But also how these beautiful – and at the same time passionately disfiguring – girls are supposed to develop and strengthen in their girlhood, then femininity, since their mothers and fathers are full of reluctance to their life roles. They don’t want to be mothers and they shout about it – they even scream – at demonstrations where they take their children dressed in leotards with lightning bolts. Fathers don’t want to be fathers, just lovers, maybe even gay. How is a positive model of masculinity to be shaped in a boy if there are no role models around? The patchwork family with four husbands of the mother and five wives of the father is a model where you want to wail rather than hail. And if this is not the sexualisation of children and adolescents, what is?

The world is increasingly promoting a twisted model. To what extent is it also fashion, and to what extent is it a civilizational disaster? Again: if it’s just a fad, what’s left of it when it’s over? Because probably not only spacious, oversize “unisex” sweatshirts and pants, which are now everywhere?

Verba docent, exempla trahunt. I will not insist that everything depends on the family home, although in fact everything begins at home, in the family, in the first four, five, six years of life. No one will replace the house. No laws and regulations will solve the real patterns that only mature parents can provide – but laws are also needed to protect the family against the invasion of left-wing activists, originators and other organizers of our lives. Because we won’t all be able to switch to “homeschooling”.

– Barbara Sułek-Kowalska
– Translated by Janusz Wąsowicz

TVP WEEKLY. Editorial team and jornalists