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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ugh, why is this is a thing?

My kid is only in 4th grade but the boys play a game where they say whoever does x first (talk at lunch, move on the recess, walk down the hall) is gay[b]. DD first encountered the game at lunch and told them to stop and to stop using gay as an insult. Then they turned on her [/b]and were like, you must be a lesbian. To her credit she said that it wasn’t their business if she was and doubled down on telling them that it wasn’t an insult and to stop using it as one. These are 9 and 10 year olds!

The worst part is that she said teachers were standing right there and heard the entire exchange. And she says it happens other places where adults look the other way. As long as adults are too embarrassed to interrupt this behavior and call it out, it’ll persist. [/quote]

Well yeah, she broke the social rules by interjecting herself into other people's business and scolding them.

That's considered an attack basically, to tell other people how to behave, and obviously the other kids would see that as an opportunity to tease her, because she gave a reaction they wanted by being offended. If she behaves like that as an adult, she could wind up really hurt, talking physically. [/quote]

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