He was using “gay” as an epithet when my sister interjected with “what’s wrong with homosexuality”. I didn’t get involved since I figure pretty much every juvenile male goes through a phase of “gay is icky” - if they have a working mind, they fairly rapidly get over it.
However, he did come up with this gem when probed by my sister as to why he didn’t like homosexuals: “50% of homosexuals would like to rape your heart out”. I honestly have no clue where he came up with that.
You should slap him
I think he needs a lesson in anatomy.
If Susan Sontag was right about the gay male sensibility being the key esthetic of modern life, I can almost understand a young, pre-socialized, but presumptively straight male child feeling a little aggrieved about the world he was growing up into. (I know I did. But I wasn’t nine. More like 12 or 13.)
I’m just curious how the other 50% would rape me.
She needs to spend more time outside major metropolitan areas.
I’d assume he got that idea from church and/or Boy Scout meetings, but I’m a bigoted anti-Fundamentalist like that.
Legitimately.
That would be in the butt, Bob.
That was my second choice of answers.
They rape in the butt now? When did this start!
Sounds like the standard “gays are all sexual predators” canard to me.
You’re his older brother. No matter the age difference, he is going to learn some of his attitudes towards sexuality from YOU. You may want want to start either correcting his views, or at least teach him that not everything you hear is the truth. He is definitely the right age to learn that last, and it sounds like he needs a lesson in gullibility, stat. Get crackin’!
Good point. And an older brother is entitled to smack the younger one upside the head for emphasis without legal, moral, or ethical complications.
She’s dead. She was also a cranky Jewish lesbian literary and cultural critic who had no more place outside major metropolitan areas than a rubber duck has outside a bathtub.
Or child molesters. :rolleyes:
Didn’t Jerry Sandusky get into all sorts of trouble for probing nine year old boys?
1947, 'round nine o’clock.
He’s nine. All his life he’s been told to beware of strangers who want to abduct him. These strangers aren’t women. So when young boys try to puzzle out amongst themselves what a guy who abducts them would do to them, of course they work out or are told that they would be raped and then possibly killed. Since they are also told that males who want sex with males are homosexual, if stands to reason from his viewpoint that there are a lot of homosexuals who rape boys. So his opinion isn’t exactly odd from his standpoint.
Same year as the Roswell crash. Coincidence?