Authors with such minds need to be scientifically studied.
I’ve only been peripherally associated with one stomach pumping event. The person involved complained, not about the pumping out, but about the activated carbon slurry that they pumped in first. It doesn’t get pumped all the way out and has to work through.
If the ER didn’t know why the stomach was hurting, wouldn’t they use the charcoal? And wouldn’t that make anything that was pumped out look like charcoal slurry?
Average amount of human male ejaculate is under a teaspoon, and there are 192 teaspoons in a quart. I can conceive of circumstances where it would be possible to get that much all at once, but I won’t pollute your minds’ eyes with a description.
You motherfuckers do realize that continuing to discuss this in any form other than condemning their very existence is just perpetuating the underlying homophobia behind both these lies, right?
Agree
Condemned…oh heck yeah.
Don’t believe it.
I know peeps do stick things in places they shouldn’t.
But this is ridiculous to even consider.
The stomach pumping is also suspect, regardless of those in the know with info. Don’t think that would’ve ever happened. IMO
Sequel to Cocaine Bear?
I hope this refers to gerbils and freezers.
Discussing the utter absurdity of 40 year old urban legends we heard in high school is perpetuating homophobia? No one here is saying they believe them.
I believe Rod Stewart is on the record as saying that the rumor was started by a disgruntled roadie during a West Coast tour. The fabricated story involved the pleasuring of a platoon of Marines or sailors at Camp Pendleton. Stewart also said his friend Elton John found the story so hilarious, Elton actively perpetuated the rumor as a lark.
Note to self: never smoke what Dan Jenkins smoked when he wrote “You Gotta Play Hurt”…
Repeating them, giving them any oxygen at all, making fucking jokes about them, all of that, anything but calling out their inherent homophobia, is perpetuating it.
You don’t have to think they’re true to be giving them power. And here they’ve spread to a second thread, like the cancer they are.
What were you (all) THINKING, indeed.
That’s pretty fair. I regret naming names and continuing the discussion. Their persistence across decades of American tween schoolyards notwithstanding, kids to day do seem better about such stuff than we were in the 1970’s. Hopefully less chatter about them can help them fade away entirely one day. I do wonder if they are still rumors one hears today at 12, most of us here are relics from the past. But it’s probably not worth engaging on in “public.”
When I was at the age when I heard those rumors, in the late '70s and early '80s, it was also, of course, before the Web. There was no good way for us – especially as credulous kids – to disprove them, or learn more about the history behind how the rumors had started. And so, ludicrous or not, true or not, we accepted and repeated them. It undoubtedly did not help that it was also at a time when homophobia was common in our society, and such rumors fed into that.
I was certainly raised in an environment where homophobia was normal and prevalent. It wasn’t until my early adulthood that I realized how wrong it was. It was also the first time I associated with (and befriended) anyone who was openly LGBTQ+. My children are fortunately growing up in a time when people are more accepting.
Eh, I thought it was funny.
I will note that, as a teacher, I hear a fair amount of teenage gossip, and I don’t think I’ve heard any of it about anyone being gay or trans.
My son went to high school one day in full drag (and often wore a skirt) and i expressed concern that another child night beat him up. He replied, “mom, it’s not like that any more”. Another mom, who was one of my coworkers, did once say to me in hushed tones, “do you know your son wears a skirt to school?” And I said, “yes”, and then we had an awkward conversation. But that was her problem, not the other students.
He tells me that once, (coincidentally on the trans day of visibility) a carload of teenage boys pointed and laughed at him for wearing a skirt. But only once. It’s not a common problem.
I worry about our political environment, but i do take hope from the younger generation.
Actually, I should refine that statement a bit. Who’s dating whom is, of course, a common topic of gossip (as it always has been and, I imagine, always shall be). And sometimes both of those whoms are the same sex. But the orientation of either of the parties isn’t the relevant part.
It’s not a common problem where you live.
There certainly are areas of the country where a boy / teen in a skirt is in some danger from his classmates. Which in turn ties directly into your second point about current politics.
I would be reluctant to assume that any of the LGTBQ+ gains of the last 50 years will survive the present far-right turning. I wish it will, I hope it does; but I doubt it will.