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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Janice Shell who wrote (18752)	3/17/1998 10:35:00 PM
From: anthic p, moorphro	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Gay adults might not care what kids think (although does any adult want to be the object of ridicule by children, and some badly brought up children do ridicule gays) but isn't it really important that children be tolerant of their peers? In every class there will be a boy or two that gets called a sissy in the younger grades and later a fagot, and worse. We have all seen this. Who doesn't remember some lonely kid in the drama club that got his name written on the bathroom walls? It happened when I was a boy and it still happens now that my sons are almost men. What if one of my sons was that lonely boy? Would I want his classmates to humiliate and ostracize him? Of course I would accept him, and love him, but a father's love isn't enough for a teenager. No I would not want him ridiculed and ostracized. And because of that I've told my boys never to use epithets like sissy and gay. Of course I'm sure they've done this anyway, I suppose it is a test of one's manliness to cast doubt on other men's sexual prowess. But deep down they know that their mother and father do not approve of this. And I hope that will make them the kind of people who will never intentionally hurt another human being for loving the "wrong" sex. Sorry Christine, I know you wanted to drop the topic.