No, how hard is it to tell your kid something like"they like each other a lot"
“The homos should stay in the closet because I don’t know how to explain their behavior to my children” is a statement of moral and intellectual cowardice. Period.
I had considered starting a Pit thread on this subject, but honestly, I’m just too tired of this shit to get worked up over it any more. I’ve resigned myself to responding with a “talk to the fatigued hand” attitude.
You can’t be serious, kaylasdad!
They really were doing it to make all the good, gawd-fearing, Christian Amerikans mad as hell!
- TBJ
WON’T SOMEBODY THINK OF THE CHILDREN111???////
This is such an idiotic fallacy that needs to die a painful death. Parents have to explain things to kids ALL THE TIME! If I were a parent I’d be more distressed at explaining why the sky is blue, or why people murder people, or why grass is green.
How about we just accept the fact that Gay people and Lesbians exist and always have and always will? You don’t have to hang out with them, just get over it. I guarantee you that in 40 years time we’ll be looking back on this era in the same way that we looked at segregation.
“How will I explain this to my children?” is code for, “I’m too stupid to explain my prejudices in a way that would make sense to a six year old!”
So many people hide behind the “I’m okay with it, but I just don’t want to see THEM flaunting it in public!” when the “flaunting it” involves behaviors that are perfectly acceptable when performed by heterosexuals.
Two guys holding hands? Flaunting it. Shoving their orientation in everybody’s face. Undermining traditional American values.
Two heterosexuals holding hands? Expressing their love.
Two women exchanging brief kisses? Flaunting it. Shoving their orientation in everybody’s face. Undermining traditional American values.
Two heterosexuals exchanging brief kisses? Expressing their love.
Two guys or two women engaged in heavy petting or “tonsil hockey”? Deliberately attempting to undermine traditional American values, deliberately attempting to offend, people, shoving their orientation in everybody’s face.
Two heterosexuals engaged in heavy petting or “tonsil hockey”? Inappropriate PDA, but NEVER identified as flaunting their sexuality or shoving their orientation in everybody’s face.
And the “won’t someone think of the children??!?!?!” argument? Weak, obviously transparent, and a front for the parents’ own prejudice and bigotry.
In fact, a better “think of the children” argument is to tell these people to put their big girl/boy panties on and deal with living in modern society by addressing these things with their children instead of trying to get the rest of society to support them in their ignorance.
Nice.
Which is kind of ironic, since such prejudices usually sound like they’re coming from a six year old.
Other team? What are the uniforms, pray tell. And the insignia. And the mascots.
It’s not only unjustified, it’s borderline irrelevant. Up to a certain age, your average kid’s eyes will glaze over if you give them more than a five-word “explanation” for anything. “Because they like each other” is about the limit.
Past a certain age, they’ve already learned not to ask their parents to explain anything anyway.
“Ladies and gentlemen, it’s the San Diego Chickenhawk!”
There are a few pretty good ideas in this thread
Parents have to explain all sorts of things to their children: cruelty, prejudice, the infield fly rule, to name just a few. That’s part of the job of parenting and if someone’s not willing to do it, I really don’t know what to tell them. Kids are going to witness all sorts of things their parents disapprove of, whether it’s too women kissing, littering, or the Seahawks losing the Superbowl a couple of years ago. Part of the job of parenting is making your values clear to your kids and letting them know what you do or do not approve of, regardless of how many others share your views.
Wanting people to stop doing things because you’ll have to explain them to your children is, hang on a minute while I dig around for a simile, like wanting someone to prepare food for your children. Somethings are inherent to the job of parenting.
By the way, Shodan, I got your joke, if that’s worth anything.
It’s lazy and gutless and evasive. Basically, there’s nothing to explain. “They kiss because they like/love each other.”
The real problem is that sometimes the behavior that kids observe around them contradicts what their parents have told them previously. If a parent tells a kid that only men and women should kiss each other, it’s not everybody’s else’ job to play along with that for the kids’ sake.
When you get right down to it, what upsets these people is that they’re being exposed as liars to their children, and they don’t want to have to explain why they lied in the first place.
Reading the story, I find considerably more offensive the detail that both women were eating “garlic fries” while kissing.
“Not everyone puts a hot dog in the bun, honey: some only like the bun!”
And then there are the real odd-balls, who like their bun with garlic fries.
This issue is just like abortion. Both sides start with completely different sets of rules and assumptions and just can’t fathom why the other side feels/thinks the way they do.
If you start with the premise that homosexuality is a legitimate, alternative lifestyle, then of course the comment in the OP is silly.
If you start with the premise that homosexuality is immoral, strange, and an illegitimate lifestyle, then of course you want to watch a baseball game without explaining the details to your six year old kid…
I think that the idea of two ladies kissing should be self-evident. What’s to explain? They’re kissing.
I think we need to start walking around in containment suits so no one is ever infected by anyone else.