On October 3 and 4, a conference was held in Limoges entitled: "Misopaedia: Adult Domination in Contemporary Discourses." The usefulness of such a conference cannot be overestimated, as it reveals that there is something more invisible than the invisible: their children. Who cares about the children of a black transgender lesbian woman? No one. However, they are victims of the dominant adultism, which only allows one point of view to prevail: that of the adult, regardless of the color of their skin, their gender or their sexual orientation.
If only one proof of this exclusion were needed, one need only consider the many cases of daronalgia, this structural tendency that adults have to complain, if not about their children, at least about the constraints that they cause them. Yet, who is more oppressed than a child who did not ask to be born? It is, thus, with an inaugural constraint that the child's life begins, and which will never be denied again. From "tidy your room" to "do your homework", the injunctions to become a perfect, if not exemplary, child abound. What adult would bear to undergo such an intrusion into their very privacy? The private life of children is quite simply contested, flouted, crushed by the merciless heel of an adultism all the more assured of its power because it ignores its very existence.
It is high time to make this culture of misopedia visible with the hashtag #touchepastongosse. It is urgent to demand parity in all bodies where the future of children is decided: no thesis on childhood should have less than 50% of jury members aged 12 and under. The fight against misopedia should become a major national cause, while a High Council for the Rights of the Child against adultist tyranny, also composed of a majority of under-12s (12–16 year-olds constituting the other members of the Council) would have the task of flushing out misopedia wherever it is found, including in teachers' grades, who must be prohibited from giving grades below 12 in order to avoid any situation that would demean the child. It is also necessary to promote the use of encouraging words in the comments of the quarterly bulletins, strictly supervised and validated by the High Council (thus "can do better" would be replaced by "on the road to excellence").
But let's not forget that it is first in the domestic sphere that aggressions take place, and that every parent is an unwitting tormentor. This is why it is appropriate to impose, from nursery school onwards, parental benevolence and de-adultization courses (defined as specific violence towards children), renewable several times throughout schooling. This requires, since the National budget is under discussion, the creation of a specific envelope for the fight against adultism, intended to promote paid courses led by the children themselves, in order to better ensure that the specific oppression they suffer is understood. These will aim to awaken parents and, beyond that, all adults, to the toxic relationship that pushed them to have children without asking their opinion.
