# My nine year old brother has some odd notions about homosexuality… **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 14, 2012, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-nine-year-old-brother-has-some-odd-notions-about-homosexuality/634697 "2012-09-14T15:47:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![gamerunknown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/6bbea6/32.png) [@gamerunknown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gamerunknown)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2012, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-nine-year-old-brother-has-some-odd-notions-about-homosexuality/634697/1 "2012-09-14T15:47:14Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2012, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-nine-year-old-brother-has-some-odd-notions-about-homosexuality/634697/2 "2012-09-14T15:57:59Z")
You should slap him ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2012, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-nine-year-old-brother-has-some-odd-notions-about-homosexuality/634697/3 "2012-09-14T16:03:53Z")
I think he needs a lesson in anatomy. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2012, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-nine-year-old-brother-has-some-odd-notions-about-homosexuality/634697/4 "2012-09-14T16:06:00Z")
If [Susan Sontag](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notes_on_Camp) 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.) ---
**Author:** ![Sicks\_Ate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Sicks\_Ate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sicks_Ate)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2012, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-nine-year-old-brother-has-some-odd-notions-about-homosexuality/634697/5 "2012-09-14T16:06:20Z")
I’m just curious how the _other_ 50% would rape me. ---
**Author:** ![grude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47774/32.png) [@grude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grude)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2012, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-nine-year-old-brother-has-some-odd-notions-about-homosexuality/634697/6 "2012-09-14T16:26:39Z")
> [@Beware\_of\_Doug](#): > > If [Susan Sontag](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notes_on_Camp) 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.) She needs to spend more time outside major metropolitan areas. ---
**Author:** ![Sattua](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sattua/32/11906_2.png) [@Sattua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sattua)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2012, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-nine-year-old-brother-has-some-odd-notions-about-homosexuality/634697/7 "2012-09-14T16:31:14Z")
I’d assume he got that idea from church and/or Boy Scout meetings, but I’m a bigoted anti-Fundamentalist like that. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2012, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-nine-year-old-brother-has-some-odd-notions-about-homosexuality/634697/8 "2012-09-14T16:31:33Z")
> [@Sicks\_Ate](#): > > I’m just curious how the _other_ 50% would rape me. Legitimately. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2012, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-nine-year-old-brother-has-some-odd-notions-about-homosexuality/634697/9 "2012-09-14T16:35:30Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > Legitimately. That would be in the butt, Bob. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2012, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-nine-year-old-brother-has-some-odd-notions-about-homosexuality/634697/10 "2012-09-14T16:37:17Z")
That was my second choice of answers. ---
**Author:** ![grude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47774/32.png) [@grude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grude)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2012, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-nine-year-old-brother-has-some-odd-notions-about-homosexuality/634697/11 "2012-09-14T16:40:46Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > That would be in the butt, Bob. They rape in the butt now? When did this start! ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2012, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-nine-year-old-brother-has-some-odd-notions-about-homosexuality/634697/12 "2012-09-14T16:40:48Z")
> [@gamerunknown](#): > > 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. Sounds like the standard “gays are all sexual predators” canard to me. ---
**Author:** ![Taomist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@Taomist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taomist)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2012, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-nine-year-old-brother-has-some-odd-notions-about-homosexuality/634697/13 "2012-09-14T16:58:31Z")
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’! ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2012, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-nine-year-old-brother-has-some-odd-notions-about-homosexuality/634697/14 "2012-09-14T17:17:22Z")
> [@Taomist](#): > > 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. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2012, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-nine-year-old-brother-has-some-odd-notions-about-homosexuality/634697/15 "2012-09-14T17:17:55Z")
> [@grude](#): > > [Susan Sontag] needs to spend more time outside major metropolitan areas. 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. ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2012, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-nine-year-old-brother-has-some-odd-notions-about-homosexuality/634697/16 "2012-09-14T17:38:50Z")
> [@Der\_Trihs](#): > > Sounds like the standard “gays are all sexual predators” canard to me. Or child molesters. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2012, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-nine-year-old-brother-has-some-odd-notions-about-homosexuality/634697/17 "2012-09-14T17:47:08Z")
> [@gamerunknown](#): > > However, he did come up with this gem when probed by my sister Didn’t Jerry Sandusky get into all sorts of trouble for probing nine year old boys? ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2012, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-nine-year-old-brother-has-some-odd-notions-about-homosexuality/634697/18 "2012-09-14T17:49:24Z")
> [@grude](#): > > They rape in the butt now? When did this start! 1947, 'round nine o’clock. ---
**Author:** ![kittenblue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ba8739/32.png) [@kittenblue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kittenblue)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2012, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-nine-year-old-brother-has-some-odd-notions-about-homosexuality/634697/19 "2012-09-14T17:56:22Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![74westy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/74westy/32/3950_2.png) [@74westy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/74westy)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2012, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-nine-year-old-brother-has-some-odd-notions-about-homosexuality/634697/20 "2012-09-14T17:57:14Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > 1947, 'round nine o’clock. Same year as the Roswell crash. Coincidence? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-nine-year-old-brother-has-some-odd-notions-about-homosexuality/634697.md?page=2)