The fact is, people are far more likely to take you seriously if you are willing to confront them in the open.

Jack did. Lindsay did. Kevin did. The Dutch school did. Neither was taken seriosly. Unless you argue that the attacks against them are proof that they were taken VERY seriosly and that if they had slipped for one minute, then we'd all be having a big orgy right now.

You have their experience to teach you, but still if you did the same, you'd be treated the same.

I am out, but I don't go around proclaiming my sexuality everywhere I go. There's nothing rude about what I do as an out MAP. I am a (more or less) silent representative of what MAPs are really like,

Because your goals are more modest, you can fulfill them this way.

My goals are, and have always been, wider. I am, have been, and will continue to be involved in several issues about children and minors. Most of them, if not all, I have already mentioned at least once over the last 10 years. Many of them are at best tangentially related to sex. None of them I would be able to continue doing if I was publicly out. And even previous work may start to be questioned. By people like Ethan according to whom my support for those other issues is because I am thinking with my dick. If I was sure I wouldn't have any well poisoning, I may have already come out publicly; at least I would have given it a serios consideration already. As it is, I am happy to only be out to a few friends and to my girls and their families. They get it. They do not poison the well.

Yes, I would like to go on talk shows like the aforementioned did, and that I can only achieve by being out. But the loss in everything else doesn't compensate that gain.

So, I would think, if you really gave a shit about the values you so zealously claim to hold, you would want to come out and provide a different representation of MAPs than I do.

I wouldn't risk real gains in education reform, child labor, minors' civil rights, and charity for poor/vulnerable children; and still hypothetical but realistically possible gains in other issues; for the promize that after I am out, magically everyone will decide the AOC is wrong. Oh, and that nobody will question my involvement in any of the other issues. Because of course I was only thinking with my dick.

It's utter bullshit, and you know its utter bullshit,

Is it?

Join any of those causes, or even ask me for other causes I can think of. Post at their forums. Speak about those causes elsewhere. Even make a meme or two for them (hey, you're the visual guy)! After that, come out. Make sure the enemies of that cause know you came out, just for good measure.

Then come and tell me how bullshit that is.

Jimmy Savile gave not just decades of his life and hours of his work; but a lot of his own money, all of his fame; and raised even more money, time and fame; to poor, deprived, and ill children.

But because he was a p[a]edophile, everything that he ever did is now questioned.

The only comfort I can get from his story is that at least he is dead so he is not being personally dragged into this atrocity.

I am no Jimmy Savile. Yet. But I would like to be. And I would be nipped in the bud if I was outed.

Jimmy Savile is the no-longer-living proof that you cannot be out if you care about children.