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Coming up on today explained, you've heard of OK Boomer, but maybe not OK groomer?

In the last couple of months, conservative politicians and conservative media personalities and

various social media accounts and influencers have been pushing the idea that liberals and

queer people and queer allies and trans people and trans allies are quote unquote groomers.

This idea really got started around the public debate over four and as don't say gay bill,

and then it started popping up all over social media, it started popping up during,

for example, confirmation hearing for Justice Brown Jackson.

And I think from there, it's kind of become almost memified except that people are taking it very

seriously. The bizarre, though very serious accusations being lobbed online and one particular

Twitter account doing a lot of the lobbying ahead on today's explained.

Today explained, I'm Sean Ramos for him and just a heads up today's show, features,

discussion of pedophilia and sex abuse. That is what this whole groomer thing is really about

Asia. Romano has been covering the story for Vox. What exactly does it mean to be a groomer,

Asia? The idea of grooming has a couple of definitions.

The most literal definition refers to a person who's in a position of power over someone who's

much more vulnerable than them. Either a small child or a teen or sometimes a much younger adult.

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