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Anonymous wrote:The assless chaps aren’t my problem. It’s explaining shirtless men who’ve had breasts removed and are wearing pasties but who look different enough that my kid would ask a ton of questions. Or explaining myriad shirts with sexual content about orgasms or oral sex or the simulated sex and bending over shaking and spanking butts. I love pride, but once my kids got to be about 6 we took a break. I’ll take them back when we can have more frank conversations about this stuff around 13 or so. FWIW I’m no prude. I always used appropriate language for body parts, told my kid where babies come from as soon as they asked, etc.

I don’t know what parade you’re going to but I’ve not see any of this at the DuPont area parade and I’ve taken my kids for the last 5 years. And even if I did, you get kids won’t get what they’re doing and your older kids probably look at worse on YouTube. I’m not a “wild” person at all and always found the parade to be a loving family friendly event.

I went with a friend this year near 16 and P. I saw all these things. As I said, once my kids turned 6 and could read and catch on to certain things we are on a break. My kids are 8 and 10. They don’t go on YouTube. It’s loving and wonderful but my kids don’t need to see adult sexuality on full display until they have at least gone through puberty.

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Anonymous wrote:The assless chaps aren’t my problem. It’s explaining shirtless men who’ve had breasts removed and are wearing pasties but who look different enough that my kid would ask a ton of questions. Or explaining myriad shirts with sexual content about orgasms or oral sex or the simulated sex and bending over shaking and spanking butts. I love pride, but once my kids got to be about 6 we took a break. I’ll take them back when we can have more frank conversations about this stuff around 13 or so. FWIW I’m no prude. I always used appropriate language for body parts, told my kid where babies come from as soon as they asked, etc.

I don’t know what parade you’re going to but I’ve not see any of this at the DuPont area parade and I’ve taken my kids for the last 5 years. And even if I did, you get kids won’t get what they’re doing and your older kids probably look at worse on YouTube. I’m not a “wild” person at all and always found the parade to be a loving family friendly event.

Anonymous wrote:The assless chaps aren’t my problem. It’s explaining shirtless men who’ve had breasts removed and are wearing pasties but who look different enough that my kid would ask a ton of questions. Or explaining myriad shirts with sexual content about orgasms or oral sex or the simulated sex and bending over shaking and spanking butts. I love pride, but once my kids got to be about 6 we took a break. I’ll take them back when we can have more frank conversations about this stuff around 13 or so. FWIW I’m no prude. I always used appropriate language for body parts, told my kid where babies come from as soon as they asked, etc.

Anonymous wrote:Was anyone near DuPont at the time of the not really active shooter? That is my fear always with large events and why I did not take DD this year. Ugh. How to go show support in numbers without being in a crowd

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Anonymous wrote:Was anyone near DuPont at the time of the not really active shooter? That is my fear always with large events and why I did not take DD this year. Ugh. How to go show support in numbers without being in a crowd

Ugh is right.

It sounds like someone pulled a gun but didn’t fire any shots. Which doesn’t make me feel much better honestly.
That said I’ll be out again next year with kids. I’m not letting gun stuff get me down.

Anonymous wrote:Was anyone near DuPont at the time of the not really active shooter? That is my fear always with large events and why I did not take DD this year. Ugh. How to go show support in numbers without being in a crowd

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Anonymous wrote:Wow, there are a lot of people posting from Pride circa 1982. Meanwhile yesterday my child frolicked in a bubble pit provided by a local gay bar, ate a funnel cake, got her picture taken with ms trans 2019, and saw a lot of people running around in matching corporate tshirts with nary a hairy ass or gimp mask in sight.

I specifically asked my 13 year old about the PP’s claim of assless chaps and leashes. She said she didn’t see anything that would scandalize her 76 year old Catholic grandma.

In 6 years of Pride festivals, I've never seen any leashes. Assless chaps, yes, but my kids have seen more skin shown at the pool in Fairfax.

[b]And for the Catholic grandma:
So perfect that Pride and Pentecost fall on the same weekend.

"Whoever loves me will keep my word, and God will love him." Or her. or them. The word is LOVE.

As a Catholic you should know that the official teaching of the Church (reference The Catechism of the Catholic Church) is love the sinner but hate the sin. So Catholics are invited to be welcoming and caring toward LGTBQ people (every person is God’s child) but firmly condemn homosexual acts (that are considered illicit as any other sexual act outside heterosexual marriage).

I'm not Catholic. My Catholic friend posted this on Facebook this morning, and I thought it was appropriate. You should know that Catholics come in all stripes, and in all degrees of tolerance towards the issue of homosexuality.

Yes, Catholics come in many different ‘flavors’ but one of the main characteristic of the Catholic Church is that we have a Pope and follow Catholic teachings well codified. The problem, especially in US, is that many Catholics are pretty ignorant about their own faith. Many just stop learning about it after First Communion or Confirmation.

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Anonymous wrote:Wow, there are a lot of people posting from Pride circa 1982. Meanwhile yesterday my child frolicked in a bubble pit provided by a local gay bar, ate a funnel cake, got her picture taken with ms trans 2019, and saw a lot of people running around in matching corporate tshirts with nary a hairy ass or gimp mask in sight.

I specifically asked my 13 year old about the PP’s claim of assless chaps and leashes. She said she didn’t see anything that would scandalize her 76 year old Catholic grandma.

In 6 years of Pride festivals, I've never seen any leashes. Assless chaps, yes, but my kids have seen more skin shown at the pool in Fairfax.

[b]And for the Catholic grandma:
So perfect that Pride and Pentecost fall on the same weekend.

"Whoever loves me will keep my word, and God will love him." Or her. or them. The word is LOVE.

As a Catholic you should know that the official teaching of the Church (reference The Catechism of the Catholic Church) is love the sinner but hate the sin. So Catholics are invited to be welcoming and caring toward LGTBQ people (every person is God’s child) but firmly condemn homosexual acts (that are considered illicit as any other sexual act outside heterosexual marriage).

I'm not Catholic. My Catholic friend posted this on Facebook this morning, and I thought it was appropriate. You should know that Catholics come in all stripes, and in all degrees of tolerance towards the issue of homosexuality.

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Anonymous wrote:Wow, there are a lot of people posting from Pride circa 1982. Meanwhile yesterday my child frolicked in a bubble pit provided by a local gay bar, ate a funnel cake, got her picture taken with ms trans 2019, and saw a lot of people running around in matching corporate tshirts with nary a hairy ass or gimp mask in sight.

I specifically asked my 13 year old about the PP’s claim of assless chaps and leashes. She said she didn’t see anything that would scandalize her 76 year old Catholic grandma.

In 6 years of Pride festivals, I've never seen any leashes. Assless chaps, yes, but my kids have seen more skin shown at the pool in Fairfax.

[b]And for the Catholic grandma:
So perfect that Pride and Pentecost fall on the same weekend.

"Whoever loves me will keep my word, and God will love him." Or her. or them. The word is LOVE.

As a Catholic you should know that the official teaching of the Church (reference The Catechism of the Catholic Church) is love the sinner but hate the sin. So Catholics are invited to be welcoming and caring toward LGTBQ people (every person is God’s child) but firmly condemn homosexual acts (that are considered illicit as any other sexual act outside heterosexual marriage).

Anonymous wrote:I took my 91 year old Jewish grandma to pride in New York a few years ago and she loved it. But, I figured if she survived hitler she could handle assless chaps.

Anonymous wrote:tbh, kids see so much objectified female sexuality these days anyway, a guy in assless chaps is likely a necessary corrective. I would draw the line at actual sex acts or if everyone was naked, but a few random gay male butt cheeks are not exactly on the top of my list of concerns. [/quote

My small kids aren’t going just bc they may already see objectified female sexuality and already be desensitized. That’s ludicrous.