I'm sorry to say this, my newest friend, but expecting members of a certain minority group to advocate for their own rights alone and without the assistance or lead of members of the majority in the beginning, is a cop-out that avoids looking at the political reality of the situation faced by these minorities, as well as ignoring all historical movements for civil rights.

The emancipation movement for blacks and women, when the latter minority groups were oppressed as chattel slaves and the property of their husbands respectively, began with members of the white male majority. It was ridiculous to expect black slaves, for instance, to walk around on the plantations with signs protesting their situation, because they lacked the civil rights to assemble and held no political positions in society, and as such, they could be easily removed from their positions of protest, and severely punished afterwards. Also, chattel slaves were raised and conditioned from birth to not see themselves as members of an oppressed minority, but to accept their status as part of the natural order of things. Only a few black slaves were protesting their situation in the early days of the anti-slavery movement that began in the North. It was conscientious members of the white majority who led the way for the early black emancipation movement, and I think you will find very few black people today who would prefer to go back to being chattel slaves if offered.

The same was the case with women back then, as it was only as the women's liberation movement gradually picked up momentum over the decades of the 19th century that a majority of women supported it, as they initially lacked the political power to carry out the movement themselves. Further, there was a good degree of internal opposition to the movement in its early days, because women were conditioned from birth back then not to think of themselves as oppressed minorities, but rather to see their subservience to men as the natural way of things, and even to view it as a charmed, almost carefree existence. But do the majority of the women living in the West and North today yearn for a return to those days?

The same situation is the case today with those we legally deem "minors." A youth liberation movement is underway, and increasingly younger people are independently speaking out and expressing themselves in defiance of cultural and even legal imperatives by using new avenues offered by the online medium, such as YouTube, socnet sites like Facebook, and the blogosphere. They are subject to censorship as much as MAAs are for doing so, as is the case with all unpopular opinions or expressions in a system based on unequal political and economic power. This is very consistent with early forms of defiance of a minority's position in the status quo, and it's to be expected that the youth liberation movement in its present form will require many adult allies because at the present time, minors lack the political power and organization to effect the movement entirely on their own, for the same reasons as was once the case with blacks and women. Yet the emergent youth liberation movement is proceeding much as those other emancipation movements did in their early days, and those examples I mentioned on YouTube and socnet sites, at least, indicate that younger members of the youth community will gradually join it with increasing numbers as time passes.

Note how the system is trying, albeit in vain, to delay this progress by constantly coming up with more excuses to censor and monitor the online activities of youths in the interests of "protecting" them (e.g., the "sexual predator" and "bullying" cliches'), and to make increasing attempts to further segregate them from all contact with "unauthorized" adults, citing such contacts as "inappropriate" and "potentially dangerous" to the younger people (though not mentioning that the main danger is to their continued subservient status, not their safety). Some proponents of the "protectionist" stance claim all sorts of reasons why they believe the youth liberation movement will be the first emancipation movement in history to fail, but as noted above, history is not on the side of such individuals, and the protectionist stance necessitates working against emancipation opportunities.