My kids do. They were younger than 4 years old when I explained it to them and they didn’t have any trouble understanding. Kind of makes me wonder why so many adults have so much trouble.
My seven year old explained it to me the other day. Snapped at him half paying attention, thinking he was calling something gay disparagingly. Asked what that word meant to him and he said “when two of the same gender people love each other. Like two boys or two girls.” “How do you know that??” “Ms. --social worker at school name-- told me about it” “Oh… well. Great. Carry on then. Oh! Wait! You know you can love whoever you love right? And Daddy will always love you?” “Yeah of course, can you be quiet so I can watch my show please”
This morning I noticed a black trans lives matter sign on a hallway wall and felt really proud of our school. Fwiw it’s one of the lowest income and most diverse schools in our affluent city, debunking “Poors and POC are inherently bigots” bullshit from the academic left.
The academic left? Friend, your kid is well adjusted. More so than you (which is the goal, so good on you)
The academic left doesn’t exist. I don’t even know what that means, but it’s not a real group. It sounds like it came from fox “news”
You’re trying. Your kid has been raised to not see the issues we (myself included) get tangled up on. We have to get past the bigotry subtly hammered into us growing up… If you’re not pushing our baggage onto the next generation, you’re doing great as far as social issues go
No leftist wants anything except for you to be paid more fairly and for your kid’s school to be better funded. Doubly so if we’re educated enough to recognize systematic issues.
You’re on the right side of history… But whatever news programs you’ve been watching, please stop. They’re owned by billionaires actively trying to sow division for their own benefit
More so than me? You’ve got me really open to hearing you out the gate with the ad hominen. Cool. You missed the part where I’m the one raising him to be this person. But kids are no reflection on those who raise them I suppose.
“The academic left” are out of touch progressives that speak like everything is academic and about philosophical principle, while alienating the actual minority groups they claim to speak for. (E G. I got on board with LatinX and every single Latino/Hispanic friend “outside the movement” fucking hates it.)
You don’t know me. You don’t know that I’ve alienated myself and lost friendships over participating in being the elitist sociology major in the office.
You don’t know I’ve been an activist for almost 30 years. In real life. With a bullhorn in my real hand. Talking to real people. Not on the Internet. Save the lecture for someone who needs it please. This is the problem with self proclaimed leftists. You always fuck with your comrades and push them away, while bitching that average Dems should be spending time persuading Trumpers to switch sides instead of working together on practical solutions to stopping fascism and solidifying democracy so we can actually work on things like universal healthcare, minimum living wage, ending citizens united, repairing the supreme court, reminding cops they’re the 99% and breaking up the gestapo, stopping mortgage derivatives from coming back worse than '09, regulation off big business, anti trust, codifying Roe etc etc etc etc bc Genocide Joe.
Edit: actually, you suck. I tried to hold back that and put down my anger over that first comment. But I just reread my original upvoted by the community comment… and you suck. I’m out here talking about supporting trans kids of color and teaching it to five year olds in public school, and debunking stereotypes about bigotry and bias in minority communities. You picked me of all people on this site to lecture with that shit? I’m sorry man, you kinda suck. A lot.
I’m sorry you took that so personally…I don’t think you heard what I was trying to say.
What I’m saying is you’re projecting goals and opinions on a group of very different people based on traits they loosely have in common.
You can criticize academia all you like, but what you did isn’t that.
You’re framing “them” as an enemy declaring “poors and POC are inherently bigots”. That group doesn’t exist.
Are there elitist assholes and people with a savior complex? Sure. I’m sure plenty of people have said similar statements, there’s a lot of really dumb individuals
But anyone who makes the statement you accused “them” of making would be torn apart both in academia and from any even slightly progressive group (not only is it not a true statement, it’s extremely bigoted)
What is true is that bigotry is more common in lower socio-economic regions for inherent reasons - but that’s reasons inherent to the group, such as less opportunities for travel, higher education, or relocation. There’s plenty of sociology studies that explore that with nuance and statistics to back it up.
Somehow, you’ve reframed that (or more likely had it presented to you) as a group of “them” with goals that are in opposition to you. As an accusation against you and your community.
The group you speak of doesn’t exist, someone made it the fuck up. It’s a harmful idea that you’ve internalized.
Your comment veered right off a cliff with the last sentence there. Where did you get that jumble of words?
Geometry is a gateway drug to Topology and its lesser known brethren, Bottomology
But have you heard of Versology?
When they say that kids don’t understand gay people, what they mean is “kids don’t understand why gays are bad and disgusting”.
It is too late mother I have seen everything, I now identify as non-Euclidean.
I would love to see this in the “jimmy noooo” comic format
I had gay couples explained to me as a kid over twenty years ago and understood it no problem.
Geometry on the other hand, I still struggle with…
Maybe you just never approached it from the right angle. I bet if you tried a new approach the subject matter wouldn’t be quite as obtuse
what if the shapes were kissing on tv?
“If your child gets turned gay by watching a lil Nas x video just show them the WAP video to turn them straight again. Y’know cause that’s how it supposedly works”
I know I butchered the quote but the point is still there
Help they’re bisexual now
Straight people - “That means you’re gay”
Gay people - “That means you’re straight”
No, they’re asexual.
Straight <=> being only attracted to people of “opposite” gender
Gay <=> being only attracted to people of same gender
{People of same gender as them} ∩ {People of “opposite”/different gender as them} = ∅
=> They are only attracted to the people in the empty set i.e. nobody.
Kids don’t even understand straight couples.
They really should stop being so obtuse.
When I was little, I got to know some of my mother’s gay friends.
she just said smth like “they are a couple”, and i got it. It’s not difficult to teach the existence of gay couples. Unless you teach that couples are specifically man and woman.
I don’t really understand gay couples either, I don’t even understand gay people singularly. I think I understood them better as a child to be honest, like oh look two men are in a relationship that’s nice for them. Now I see a lot more detail and it starts getting confusing, like when you see two handsome guys just hanging out in a coffee bar holding hands. Where did they meet? It sure as fuck wasn’t on Grindr! And how can they just walk around being hot and sexy all day! Why aren’t they exhausted by the pure pressure of existence?!
But yeah you don’t need to understand, no one understands anything anyway it’s far harder to understand why two men shouldn’t be allowed to love each other. Can anyone ever actually explain that without evoking a whole big fantasy about a powerful wizard that said it’s naughty?
I think that’s what they actually mean, it’s really hard to convince a kid that two guys shouldn’t be allowed to be happy together especially when you can just look over and see two perfectly happy guys in nice clothes who look like they’ve stopped for lunch before going and bring really good at some racket based sport after which they’re going to a movie and sitting with their arms around each other… Strong arms from the racket sport, a slight hint of perspiration even after their shower together…
Maybe they wouldn’t have trouble understanding it if they weren’t constantly told all their life that men need to love women and women need to love men 🤣
What makes it confusing is when it contradicts everything they’ve been taught their whole life. Don’t fill their heads with that shit and they will handle it perfectly fine.
If you have a hard time understanding gay couples, then you must be overthinking straight couples.
Unless your gonna talk about babies there is no difference and if they can understand babies, then they sure as heck understand gay couples.
I understood my (much older) brother’s best friend and his boyfriend were gay when I was 6 years old. It took about 10 seconds for my parents to explain the concept.
I never figured out geometry beyond Pi*r^2.
They’re both a sin.
Acutely witty.
Whats so hard in saying: “some boys love other boys instead of girls”
Well because that hasn’t taught me anything about geometry.
“Some boys love other boys instead of girls and the area of the square whose side is the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the areas of the squares on the other two sides.”
Is this better?
