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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The situation:

A sixteen year old girl, who has never had a boyfriend and who is sensitive about this, wanders into the room where her dad is sitting with his oldest friend.  The friend has a wife and a daughter of his own, who is daughter's age.  The friend looks at daughter and says, "So, Larla, why don't you have a boyfriend?  Are you a lesbian?"  And Larla snaps at the dad's friend that[b] "what you're saying is really insensitive."  [/b]

Dad tells off daughter for being rude to his friend.

I think the friend WAS insensitive.  Daughter is embarrassed about not having a boyfriend, especially when around dad's friend's daughter, who is very popular at their school.  Her father should have defended her, right?

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Tell us what the kid really said because what you wrote did not come out of a 16 yo mouth.[/quote]

Today's teens are, to borrow their phrase, very woke.

They do not hesitate to call out adults for being insensitive or homophobic or other -phobics.

My MIL made an insensitive comment about one of my daughter's friends at her grad party last week.  I was not present for the comment, but I've heard from several people that my MIL said, after meeting my daughter's nonbinary best friend, "So I guess Larla is choosing to be a girl today since she's wearing a dress.  Too bad she didn't also choose to shave her legs!"  My son, who is 16, told his grandma that what she said was incredibly ignorant.  My MIL took offense to being called ignorant, of course, and told my husband that my son needed to be punished.  Once what happened was relayed back to both of us, including several adult and teen witnesses, we agreed with our son; MIL was being ignorant.      [/quote]

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