"My son couldn’t care less about sports and the great outdoors. He’s painfully shy and easily gets hurt. Other kids call him a sissy. I’ve tried everything. My boy even wimped out of Cub Scouts. What am I supposed to do?"
This, of course, is the point in the blog entry at which I obligatorily point out that:
- I enjoy watching several sports and even participating in a couple of team sports from time to time.
- Hiking, camping, bike riding, rock climbing ... these are all activities I enjoy very much.
- Just about every guy (even the straight ones, amazingly!) I know was called a 'sissy', 'fag', etc., etc., more times than he can count over the course of his childhood. Kids are mean that way.
- Shyness is, equally amazingly, not limited to us queers, in my experience. Actually, most of the queerwimpsissyfags I know are actually substantially more extroverted and outgoing than me.
- I'm an Eagle scout and veteran of the armed forces. So much for their 'wimp' bilge.
- I am far from unique in all of this.
I mean, I know I'm no parent, but it seems to me that a paranoid urge to control your child is indicative of your own insecurities and is ultimately harmful to your child.
And, erm, there's this word that's all over this meanspirited, judgmental, psuedopsychological swill ... 'prehomosexual'.
WTF?
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