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- From: mdrayton@sr.hp.com (Mike Drayton)
- Subject: Re: Homosexuals raising children
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- Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Santa Clara Division
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- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 20:07:25 GMT
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- Chris Black (black@lester.sybase.com) wrote:
- > In article <BxM8Cz.Jp0@scd.hp.com>, mdrayton@sr.hp.com (Mike Drayton) writes:
- >
- > |> I finally said "I'm gay" to my 9-year-old son...
- >
- > One thing you should be aware of (we should all be aware of; it's
- > pretty horrible) is that a lot of kids today use "gay" as an all-purpose
- > synonym for "bad". They'll say "that's so gay" in a situation where I
- > and my friends in our youth might have said "that's so stupid". So
- > maybe it's partly about the associations the word has in his circle.
-
- Yeah, I imagine so. I haven't heard things like "that's so gay" in
- person when I'm around kids that age, but I heard this morning that
- they have a game called "smear the queer", in which they pick on
- one kid to jump on and lightly rough up. Early training for gay-
- bashing, I guess. It looks like they learn the words and negative
- associations first, and learn the adult meanings (I was going to
- write, "lexical meanings") later.
-
- > Best wishes in your ongoing coming-out process.
-
- Thanks. It's kind of a hobby.
-
- Mike Drayton mdrayton@sr.hp.com Hewlett-Packard Co.
- Santa Rosa, California
-