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If I was a parent of a gay kid, I wouldve pulled my kid out of that system immediately.
There's also this: Differences between a fetish lover, a cross-dresser and a transvestite - by Amanda Fox - Helium
(Not a porn site by the way!)
And the very fact the last post was edited can prove what this sort of thing can lead to if you get exploited. It's a murky little world and it's not unreasonable to protect kids from it until they reach the age where you just can't.
In the past I have been everything from a small time child actor (Commercials only), to the owner/operator of a sports memorabilia store. Sports has always been a passion in my life and I have had the pleasure of competing at the Division I level in both track and cross country. I was a meteorologist with the USAF working primarily in severe weather forecasting, and later in atmospheric research on the private side.
It is my opinion that such people are a throwback to a time when Christianity suffered fewer challenges to it's authority from the sciences and other rational movements. He is a picture of what we can expect, a reminder, if we allow Christianity to go unchallenged. The impulse to cruelty is strong in the human condition. The use of religion in is furtherance sees it at it's most insidious. The only defense: the rejection of claims with no objective evidence.
Looks like that is a no.
Muslims are against homosexuality too but I don't see you jumping on the bash muslim band wagon.
A much deeper problem then, if we take that as an insinuation that she's automatically wrong. (Who's to say she didn't research?) But it looks as if she isn't, otherwise we would have had a counter-link to prove it, rather than an insinuation.
As I say, did he have a psychologist give him the once-over? (Maybe even a psychiatrist for that matter.)
I cant say I'm familiar with that term, but I believe we hold too strenuously to the old ideas of masculinity and femininity but above all we have an extremely difficult time separating "sexuality" (which is a human construct) and "gender" and this causes problems.Am I talking to another 'gender binary society'-type person now?
Why does it have to be a symptom of anything? Why is it not possible that this is simply who he is or that it's just a kid's desire to act out?As you say, harm is a relative measure. In terms of not caring what kind of condition his fetish could be a symptom of (or any peculiar way it manifests itself), none at all.
Again, what is "normal"? Are ANY of us truly normal?Has he been looked at, I wonder? Is there something up with him or is he otherwise normal but just going through some kind of phase?
So we should hide who we are to avoid problems?There are perverts out there enough as it is.
I think you're having a hard time separating the concepts of sexuality and pedophilia. Pedophilia has virtually nothing to do with this discussion.But I don't know. Maybe the morality-softening, gender-bending sexual revoltion's passed most of us by
I'm saying you claim you want to "protect the weak" but all you're doing is calling someone a freak because you dont understand their mindset and are too set in your own to even try to understand theirs.What, saying I wouldn't want to see the strange kid punched?
I believe we hold too strenuously to the old ideas of masculinity and femininity but above all we have an extremely difficult time separating "sexuality" (which is a human construct) and "gender" and this causes problems.
Why does it have to be a symptom of anything?
What you are doing is applying your own standard, drawing your own line, and saying that anything that falls outside that range is abnormal....
So we should hide who we are to avoid problems?
Pedophilia has virtually nothing to do with this discussion.
...all you're doing is calling someone a freak because you dont understand their mindset.
But Liberals do and allowances for things like peadophilia are on their account.
Perv victim support group closed while paedo one backed by taxpayers | The Sun |News|Sun Justice
BBC NEWS | UK | Could you befriend a paedophile?
The worst part is that none of your stories are even in the same country as the OP's story.
There's a difference between the school board saying gay people should kill themselves and a person ON the school board saying gay people should kill themselves.
I, for example, am an American. I say we should blow up the moon. The headline "America says we should blow up the moon," however, is not accurate.
Sexuality is a human constructed idea. And ideas of gender roles are nowhere NEAR static across different cultures.Gender affects the sexuality, which is why, even between alien cultures, men are men and women are women. (On a wider level you can say it's nature which defines the sexuality. Indeed, that's why homosexuals are so few and cannot reproduce.)
Does it matter? I want to see some justification for your treating a kid who wants to go to school in clothes you dont approve of as though he's mentally ill.For that matter why are you so admant that it isn't?
I have my own value system, I just dont impose it on those around me.Not my standard at all. And if you have to ask 'what is normal', then it's probably fair to suppose your own values are so aimlessly fluid that it's a wonder you have any of your own. (And not chewing you out here, honest.)
You apparently have a list of things that shouldnt be shown to anyone. What's on that list.I don't know what you are or whether it's worth hiding you.
Pedophilia is irrelevant to this discussion, this is the last time I'm going to repeat that.But Liberals do and allowances for things like peadophilia are on their account.
The irony here is...staggering. It's wrong for people to dictate the views others should hold...but its equally wrong to say its ok for this kid because that would enforce the idea that he's NOT a freak...I'm not saying it'd be right to persecute the poor little mixed up kid, but it's wrong to dictate the views people should hold. And that's as well as being wrong to say there's nothing strange or bad in it to him because that would only re-enforce the delusion.
Newsflash: people are becoming more open as the years go by and (hopefully) soon we'll be at a place where the vast majority of society can look past exterior details and differences of opinion. Maybe that's overly-optimistic, but in 50 years we went from beating blacks in the streets to a black president, I'd say there's cause to be optimistic.He'll probably always be a weirdo but it's only cruel to all the kids to try to turn a liberal fantasy into a reality. It'll probably even mix him up even more because who'll hold his hand and mind-control everyone out in the real world as an adult?
Ooo, wed hewwings! This sexual liberation and floppy mentality business leads from one example to another, as instigated by the 'binary digit sexuality society' woman. Sorry to have blotted your pure pure minds with my criticism, but hey-ho.
Had I rolled over in agreement on these extra things, your lot would instead tell me 'great relevant points to illustrate the divinity of our ethos further. You've said all the right things and thus won't get lambasted today'. (Well, there'd be silence actually, on the assumption we should all think the same as a matter of course.)
So much for Internationalism! PC so-called Liberals are PC so-called liberals, wherever you go.