*puzzled*

[labellementeuse]

So my mother got me a Listener subscription, which is fabulous and kind and has made some people very jealous. But, er, I don't think I got last week's edition, simply because I think I would remember a cover that screamed "GAY PARENTS" at the top of its lungs.

Anyway. It doesn't seem to have been an especially well-researched article, so it doesn't bother me too much. But you guys should read some of the letters in this week's Listener and write snarky responses. Unusually for this area, though, every single writer has made a strong attempt to say nice things about gay people- not nice enough, obviously, but never mind. However one letter in particular... well, y'all just read it, and see if you can guess the one that makes me spit, huh?

I would do it myself, but I want to write them a letter about this week's feature: Tamaki and The Abstainers. *sporks* Okay, now look, abstinence is wonderful. But it is not sensible and it is not realistic. The article quotes statistics showing that, while an abstinence pledge may delay loss of virginity, kids who abstain nevertheless have the same rate of STDs- in other words, the rate of contraction of STDs is much higher among kids who have pledged. Why? because along with abstinence pledges come the inability to be prepared. What are we really worried about for our kids? the contraction of STDs. Your kids are at risk from this policy, and I'm goddamn going to write the Listener and tell them so.

I mean, forget the Gay Agenda- the Destiny Church openly admits to wanting to infiltrate school boards to put gorward their plans for abstinence. >:O

Comments

[labellementeuse.livejournal.com]

:D Hey, randomness! Right on.

As for your comment- wow. I would return the compliment with something equally thoughtful, right this second, but I think I will leave it till tomorrow because it's eleven and I have an eight am lecture tomorrow. >.< But I did want to say, right now, RIGHT ON. *thumbs up* And you hit the exact letter.

Also? Frankly, I think anyone suggesting that their parents' sex lives have any "erotic" influence, whether it be homoerotic or heteroerotic, needs to have their head examined and ask actual people who were actually children how much they thought of their parents having sex. *SIGH*

[kitsunerei88]

then you have to ask yourself how old you were before you even knew what sex WAS. . .

I mean, depending on who you ask and stuff, the kid could just be like "What's 'sex?'" At least, I would have been like that until I was like, ten or something. . .

[labellementeuse.livejournal.com]

... not too old, actually, because some older kid told me. I know that's usually my responsibility, as an oldest child, but when I was little my family hung around a lot with people who had kids up to ten years older than me so, er, I picked up a lot of the facts of life quite young. ;)