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[quote=Anonymous]I find this thread profoundly depressing.  Sexuality is not something that should be a social status thing, a "how cool a parent am I to be so open minded" thing, a state to be bragged about thing, a "selfied" and made into social media piece of internet fodder.  Or a new benchmark to be reached to show openness.  SEXUALITY IS.  We should accept it, respect it, not judge it and educate about it.  But this whole thread demeans those who have put their livelihoods and sometimes lives on the line to let people live as they must live.  Half the posters on this thread are dealing with sexuality like it's a cool thing, a right-of-passage thing or a Vanity Fair cover or a Vogue spread inspired thing.  A boundary to be challenged just because we are running out of boundaries to challenge.  A way of rebelling when staying out a bit late has lost its parental outrage mojo.  If one of my kids thought that being sexually ambiguous was the new frontier of coolness I would be tempted to give them a good hard shake.  And tell them about relatives and friends whose genuine, hard-wired, soul-crucifying need to be respected and able to live freely has impacted their lives in a way that no Katy Perry song, Caitlin reality show or adolescent arrogance can ever articulate.  So before you slavishly tell your teens that it's okay to do whatever they want, do tell them that sexuality is not like choosing chicken over fish in a restaurant.  A social media brag in this context is like pretending that your tan makes you African American because you want a bit of exoticness and a taste of the struggle.  Hey kids.  Before you go home to your middle-class existence, your college education and your neo-liberal utopia think about what it means to someone else's struggle to make it a transitory bit of frivolity on your part.[/quote]

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