"I would rather people not feel unsafe criticizing us but that would be a nice silver lining."

"There are things I really don't think you'd want them to feel safe saying."

"Like what, or should you not say in front of the sprog?"

Oh, you know, that they probably sexually abuse their children, that kind of thing.

She winces. Granted. Outright slander isn't the same thing as negative opinions of things that are actually true. Also, ew. Why.

I think the assumption is that there's well-ordered sex - with your spouse of the opposite gender - and then there's disordered sex, which is everything else - so if you're a homosexual you're probably also attracted to children and a rapist, and if you don't mind doing Wrong things you don't mind doing any wrong things. 

Whhhyyyy are these people so bad at logic. Are you all secretly bisexual, actually, that would explain a lot.

Most people supposedly don't experience desire until they fall in love. I am not sure how much that's - seems to mostly just result in people insisting they fell in love very fast, but...

You have a culture of supposedly-demisexual people who are taught that attraction equals love. Augh. When we get in contact with my world again I am so tempted to hire your collective species every therapist I can find.

I dunno how they work but it doesn't sound like a terrible idea.

Well, convincing people they need therapists would be the hard part. Psychiatry doesn't work when the patient is uncooperative.

Our people are very loyal and will definitely obey an order to get therapy, or is that no good either?

...Maybe? I'm not a therapist.

We'll worry about that post-godhood. 

Yeah. Don't have to worry about it yet.

"I am succeeding at not reading your minds," the smol huffs.

"Thanks, Edie. We were discussing how to fix my universe's assumptions about who can be in love and be a parent. Our gods have some silly ideas."

"Your gods are dumb and bad," she nods sagely. "People shouldn't listen to them."

"People should listen to them, not doing that goes badly. People should listen more skeptically."

"Why would not listening to them go badly?"

"They are powerful and can enforce their laws."

"That's bad."

"It's on the list."

"Okay so people should pretend to listen to them up until Odette fixes it."

"Great idea."