> On 01 July 2001 11:59, Robert Holliston
> [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> wrote:
> The fact is that there is nothing you
> can do aside from what
> > you've already done: protest, and raise your
> children not to hate. The
> > former is great (but also frustrating because so
> often it's ineffectual);
> > the latter is imperative (but also perilous,
> because parents seem to have
> > less and less influence over their kids these
> days).
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I have had at least one discussion with my daughters
> about tolerance of
> sexual orientation because they brought up how one
> of their friends had
> teased another girlfriend about "loving girls". My
> daughters are only 7 and
> 9 years old and already they are being exposed to
> bigotry (!) which must be
> coming from the parents or older siblings of the
> child who was doing the
> teasing.
I get very upset when my kids (14 and 10) use the
expression "gay" to mean anything that they don't
like, or that isn't cool. Such-and-such a TV show is
"gay", or one calls the other one "gay" when they're
mad.
I used to ask them if they know what it means but now
I know that they do know what it means. I ask them if
they know so-and-so from my work - he's a really nice
guy, isn't he? and guess what? he's gay. But they
don't seem to get it. My daughter thinks the idea of
two women or two men being in love with each other is
gross. On the other hand, she still finds the whole
idea of sex pretty gross (thank God!)
I know my kids have a pretty good sense of justice and
injustice but I worry when I hear them calling each
other names like that and I tell them to stop. I
don't want to give them a lecture every time they say
something I don't like, but still - I don't want them
growing up to be bigots either.
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