I don't think it is a great life style choice
I think the discussion has mostly been about how likely it is that it's a "style" or a "choice," as opposed to a life, and not a choice.
"We're here, we're queer, and we want to be your son's Boy Scout Master,"
I don't support gay scout masters any more than I do straight scout masters, male, for girl scout troops.
But there are straight male teachers teaching girls, and I have no problem with gay ones teaching boys.
I've mentioned that in my very extended family there's a child who has been clearly gay since he was a toddler. And recognized as such, and loved, by his little cousins, since they were all babies. Nothing could be clearer.
I personally wouldn't, btw, think "queer as a three dollar bill." It implies a defect, and I really don't have that reaction when I meet a gay person.
Just don't push it to the kids as the way to go.
As to pushing gayness on kids as "the way to go," I agree. What disturbs me is making kids who are gay hate themselves, and making their lives painful by promulgating disrespectful social attitudes.
I've mentioned a lesbian aunt of mine a couple of times on SI. Seeing her lonely life, the shaming that was done of her, had a deep effect on me. Efforts were made by her sister (my mother) and her mother (Grandma) to force her to be straight. She tried. So sad, and fruitless. Obviously, her attempts to have a sexual relationship with Klaus was, to her, engaging in a sexual perversion.
She looked very masculine, btw and had quite a deep voice. Everyone thought it was genetic, in her case. Didn't stop them from trying to push the straight life on her.
Most of the pushing goes that way.
Although there's a lot of social "pushing" of women to engage in lesbian sex for the pleasure of viewing males, recently. It's become trendy. IMO, it's not a good thing for young women in general. |
