Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I would be less concerned with reporting it thanby making sure DS knows that "gay" is not an insult and anyone who thinks it is is mistaken.
+1
Parent of two middle school boys here.
You are both dead wrong. It is most definitely used as an insult by kids. Now you can live in a PC world where that isn't true, but watch out for the unicorns and other fantasy creatures in that world. In the real world, when a kid tells another "you are gay", it is meant as an insult. A different discussion could be "should" it be used as an insult, but that is not what you've said. Now, depending on the context, it is very likely such a minor insult as to be completely unworthy of a response. But lets not pretend that it was not meant as an insult of some kind. It was. A fourth grader is old enough to tell when someone has insulted him. So "making sure DS knows that "gay" is not an insult" is an exercise is trying to convince him that what he actually knows, he does not know.
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