Young Ones and LGBTQIA

[Anonymous]

Seems like OP is under the believe that their child (or they) can be turned gay.

If only you could do that, because my gay friend would be the PERFECT husband. Let me know how that goes...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I knew I was bisexual by the time I was 10. But because it wasn’t talked about except in hush hush ways I was closeted until adulthood. Don’t think these kids can’t know who they are. Acceptance means it’s a lot easier for this generation.

Could it be a little bit of exploration and trying things on for the sake of fitting in? Maybe. But it’s not harming anything or anyone.

I didn’t know I was queer at 10. I didn’t realize lesbians even existed until I was a few years older and it wasn’t until I was in my 20s that I looked back on some of my teenage crushes and realized they were in fact crushes. My efforts to conform and date boys in high school were so terrible it’s hilarious looking back. I’m so glad teens these days don’t feel like they have to pretend to be straight and have the information available to realize there are other options.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Seems like OP is under the believe that their child (or they) can be turned gay.

If only you could do that, because my gay friend would be the PERFECT husband. Let me know how that goes...

But I've already thought it through
You know there's preachers in America who reckon they can do
Sexuality conversions, I've heard them assert
They can cure a man of trouser love and turn him on to skirt
Well I don't see why they couldn't pull the same trick in reverse

[Anonymous]

Op here. You guys crack me up. Doesn’t take much to trigger you. All a did was make an observation and comment and you’re all ready to tar and feather me. So much for being accepting of “everyone.”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Op here. You guys crack me up. Doesn’t take much to trigger you. All a did was make an observation and comment and you’re all ready to tar and feather me. So much for being accepting of “everyone.”

Are you accepting of everyone OP?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Op here. You guys crack me up. Doesn’t take much to trigger you. All a did was make an observation and comment and you’re all ready to tar and feather me. So much for being accepting of “everyone.”

You need to spend your days helping the 11-year-olds that don’t know how to brush their teeth.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Op here. You guys crack me up. Doesn’t take much to trigger you. All a did was make an observation and comment and you’re all ready to tar and feather me. So much for being accepting of “everyone.”

My observation is that you’re the one triggered by an 11-year-old having a crush on someone else. Wonder why that is.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Op here. You guys crack me up. Doesn’t take much to trigger you. All a did was make an observation and comment and you’re all ready to tar and feather me. So much for being accepting of “everyone.”

My observation is that you’re the one triggered by an 11-year-old having a crush on someone else. Wonder why that is.

OP is triggered because the teens on her neighborhood dared to go to Pride regardless of their sexual orientations.

This generation supports LGBTQ… deal with it

[Anonymous]

I had massive crushes on boys by the time I was 11. If they’d been on girls or both boys or girls, then I would when known I was gay or bi.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Op here. You guys crack me up. Doesn’t take much to trigger you. All a did was make an observation and comment and you’re all ready to tar and feather me. So much for being accepting of “everyone.”

Are you accepting of everyone OP?

To each his own…. But keep onwith your missile launching at me

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Op here. You guys crack me up. Doesn’t take much to trigger you. All a did was make an observation and comment and you’re all ready to tar and feather me. So much for being accepting of “everyone.”

Are you accepting of everyone OP?

To each his own…. But keep onwith your missile launching at me

So the answer to that question is no?

[Anonymous]

All the media in the universe isn’t going to turn a gay person straight or a straight person gay. If it causes them to truly examine their own desires, great! They will know themselves early on. What a gift.

My first “boyfriend” (we didn’t even sit together at lunch or hold hands, just admitted we liked each other) was at 10–this isn’t a new or uniquely lgbtq phenomenon to have crushes in elementary school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Op here. You guys crack me up. Doesn’t take much to trigger you. All a did was make an observation and comment and you’re all ready to tar and feather me. So much for being accepting of “everyone.”

This is a commonly quoted but in reality fake logic fallacy. Tolerance does not require one to be tolerant of the intolerant.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why is it not OK to question whether social media has influenced kids to explore their sexuality and gender? Why is it not OK to wonder if there is some group think going on? And why is it homophobic to believe this might be a trend?

Not OP, but I don’t disagree with this person’s observation of what’s going on around us. Is it a big deal? Depends. For me, no. For parents whose neurodivergent kid spends an inordinate amount of time thinking about their gender and sexuality in ES/MS? maybe? I don’t know. But it’s just an observation and an interesting discussion. Not hateful, I don’t think.

It goes back to a seriously homophobic trope — those people are turning my child gay. So why do they have to flaunt their sexuality?

When truly all that is happening is that they are existing. More people are comfortable being open about their sexuality (yes, including on social media) and the homophobic trope this echoes is that merely existing publicly as LGBT is turning people.

The reality is that CSA and exposure often does make people gay. If you don’t think this is a motivating factor for some people then you are dangerously naive.

[Anonymous]

I took my 13 year old twins, my 10 year old and friend of on theirs. But I’ve taken them almost every year since they were young. I highly doubt that any of my kids are lgbt. I can assure you with absolute certainty that neither DH nor I would care in the slightest if they were.