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𝐿𝒶𝓃𝒶 "not yet begun to fight"2d ago

"how am I supposed to explain gay to a child?"

My brother in Christ have you ever actually been around a child?? They will straight up ambush you with the most unhinged, bonkers, nihilist questions with a completely straight face. Questions that will cause grown adults to have an existential crisis if you think about them too long. Just yesterday in class a student stopped in the middle of playing a scale to ask me how does she even know if I exist or not and I had to sit quietly in a corner with that one for like an hour. PLEASE let me explain the gay. Explain the gay is fucking easy.

Matt Hall 2d ago

Riiight?!

I'm just saying I'm CIS-99% straight (I will always make an exception for Henry Cavill and I _will not_ be judged for it) and this is like the least threatening thing to talk about with a child.

It's not war, it's not famine, it's not injustice, it's just _love_. Love's easy. There's even a fairly decent description of it in their damned _book_.

@401matthall @Lana "Some boys love other boys. Some girls love other girls. Some people love many genders, others love no genders. It's fine."

@401matthall @Lana Now explaining homophobia...

@JessTheUnstill @401matthall @Lana
"Some men are afraid of being treated the way they treat women".

Ted Jackson 2d ago

@leeloo @JessTheUnstill @401matthall @Lana bingo

Cassandrich 2d ago

@JessTheUnstill @401matthall @Lana "Some people pick out something different about someone else and organize others to be mean to them to make themselves feel big. We call them bullies. Some people never grow up and still act like that when they're adults. Sometimes they even become presidents."

meta physical deflationist 1d ago

@dalias @JessTheUnstill @401matthall @Lana
i think "even when things are getting worse and there is no hope you still have to be your best self possible or youll hurt yourself and others more"

is so much harder than oh yeah people have butt sex, kids laugh at that one

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having to explain to the kid that things feel bad and they might keep feeling bad very often and that sucks and its real and i believe them and am right there with them and what sucks even worse is knowing the only way to not make sadness worse is to sit with it and not rage against it without intention

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Cassandrich 1d ago

@glassresistor @JessTheUnstill @401matthall @Lana Like, there's no need for discussing the mechanics of sex in explaining homophobia any more than there is in discussing the existence of straight people. 🤷

@dalias @glassresistor @401matthall @Lana Not that people (should) really go into detail about het sex until kids are well past the age that they're aware of gay people anyways.

meta physical deflationist 1d ago

@JessTheUnstill @dalias @401matthall @Lana explaining sex to my kid was basically the xkcd 2051 cartoon except the punchline is my kid demanding to know which feldspar i was repeatedly

Felis_Catus_Domesticus 1d ago

@JessTheUnstill @401matthall @Lana

eestileib (she/hers)2d ago

@JessTheUnstill @401matthall @Lana

"Some girls like playing games with both boys and girls, but only fall in love with girls"

𝐿𝒶𝓃𝒶 "not yet begun to fight"1d ago

@JessTheUnstill @401matthall

And some boys like girls and also Henry Cavill and that's ALSO fine

Matt Hall 1d ago

@Lana @JessTheUnstill

<3

Faith, Purple haired feminist 🧋

@Lana I'm 99% gay and I'd probably make an exception for Henry Cavill. 😂

@JessTheUnstill @401matthall

@faithisleaping @Lana @401matthall I mean sometimes hot people are just hot. (I still don't know who the fuck that guy is 🙃)

Matt Hall 1d ago

@JessTheUnstill @faithisleaping @Lana

Matt Hall 1d ago

@JessTheUnstill

He's literally Superman, Jess. Come on, now. ;)

@faithisleaping @Lana

@401matthall @faithisleaping @Lana Ah that makes sense. I never saw a single one of his movies 😬

Matt Hall 1d ago

@JessTheUnstill

It's even more of a fantasy because he's a total nerd. Dude almost missed a call to try for Superman because he was running a Raid with his World of Warcraft Guild and he was the primary healer.

Anyway, if I get a terminal disease he's my Make-A-Wish.

@faithisleaping @Lana

𝐿𝒶𝓃𝒶 "not yet begun to fight"1d ago

@401matthall @JessTheUnstill @faithisleaping

Because OF COURSE he plays a healer

Matt Hall 1d ago

RIGHT?! This is what I'm saying.

@JessTheUnstill @faithisleaping

cognitively accessible math 1d ago

@JessTheUnstill @401matthall @faithisleaping @Lana Thanks for asking ne meither

Faith, Purple haired feminist 🧋

@401matthall Eh, I could take or leave Superman. But Geralt... 🫠

@JessTheUnstill @Lana