WHy the hell do my comments keep cutting out? I had another two paragraphs after this! *kills LJ and hotmail, for whatever part they have to play in this irritating, bad for communication, turn of events*
And the last two paragraphs were the best... I just can't remember what they said anymore...
At the end of that paragraph I said that I have proof of my best friend saying that people in denominational schools have a fiercer negative reaction to homosexuality, with the bias/proof coming from the fact that last Friday I came out of that nasty, caustrophobic closet to her.
The next paragraph was about childhood perceptions, which makes your wishy-washy statement about being positive towards Lisa be completely meaningless. The word 'gay' doesn't have any meaning for you as a child, not until you understand sexuality more, when you can start to understand about "different" sexuality (and even then you can't really - more proof: I can't understand heterosexuality, however much I'm bombarded with it from life and everywhere), so the only people who would have had objections to your gay teacher would have been parents and possibly the school body. If someone (say the child of gay parents) is brought up to a greater level of understanding then the word 'gay' will mean a lot more to them at a younger age; but to you and your classmates you barely distinguished between female and male then - boy and girl, yes, but not with adults, because they were primarily adults. And so the level of contact that a playground society has with the gay world, the better their reaction will be (so the kids who the child grew up with, if they had contact with the gay couple, would probably not give the child much shit at all, because they would be familiar with homosexuality and the individuals. In effect, the child would be fine through primary school, but if he/she moved in highschool they would have to start from scratch again).
(This is not as good as the original, I can tell...)
Another point (probably finally, because the ideas are lost to the stuffed up cyberspace! *sobsob*) is that the child ends up a bit more mentally messed up in adolescence than your average. A lot more tolerant, mature and understanding (because of the ignorance they are destined to run up against), but a lot more insecure about their own sexuality. The parents would have to have talks about 'it's okay if you're straight', because the desire to please and be like your parents is incredibly strong, so some children might want to be/pretend to be gay in order to please their parents, in the opposite to what a numder of gay kids do. I don't even know if I'm saying that as a negative or a positive... Positive in it's a greater level of understanding and questiong, a negative in the higher probability in upsetting your parents and so feeling angished about this and less security about your own place in the world.
That was about what I said before... I am sad, and am procrastinating. And shall go off to your journal to post the thing in full so it doesn't cut off again.
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Date: 2004-05-14 12:23 pm (UTC)And the last two paragraphs were the best... I just can't remember what they said anymore...
At the end of that paragraph I said that I have proof of my best friend saying that people in denominational schools have a fiercer negative reaction to homosexuality, with the bias/proof coming from the fact that last Friday I came out of that nasty, caustrophobic closet to her.
The next paragraph was about childhood perceptions, which makes your wishy-washy statement about being positive towards Lisa be completely meaningless. The word 'gay' doesn't have any meaning for you as a child, not until you understand sexuality more, when you can start to understand about "different" sexuality (and even then you can't really - more proof: I can't understand heterosexuality, however much I'm bombarded with it from life and everywhere), so the only people who would have had objections to your gay teacher would have been parents and possibly the school body. If someone (say the child of gay parents) is brought up to a greater level of understanding then the word 'gay' will mean a lot more to them at a younger age; but to you and your classmates you barely distinguished between female and male then - boy and girl, yes, but not with adults, because they were primarily adults. And so the level of contact that a playground society has with the gay world, the better their reaction will be (so the kids who the child grew up with, if they had contact with the gay couple, would probably not give the child much shit at all, because they would be familiar with homosexuality and the individuals. In effect, the child would be fine through primary school, but if he/she moved in highschool they would have to start from scratch again).
(This is not as good as the original, I can tell...)
Another point (probably finally, because the ideas are lost to the stuffed up cyberspace! *sobsob*) is that the child ends up a bit more mentally messed up in adolescence than your average. A lot more tolerant, mature and understanding (because of the ignorance they are destined to run up against), but a lot more insecure about their own sexuality. The parents would have to have talks about 'it's okay if you're straight', because the desire to please and be like your parents is incredibly strong, so some children might want to be/pretend to be gay in order to please their parents, in the opposite to what a numder of gay kids do. I don't even know if I'm saying that as a negative or a positive... Positive in it's a greater level of understanding and questiong, a negative in the higher probability in upsetting your parents and so feeling angished about this and less security about your own place in the world.
That was about what I said before... I am sad, and am procrastinating. And shall go off to your journal to post the thing in full so it doesn't cut off again.