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**NodePark** · 04-23-2009, 04:31 PM

I don't think so....you as a straight person (i'm supposing you are straight), would not have the same feelings of shame, or guilt inflicted upon you, as if you were actually gay.

I didn't have ANY feelings for men or women at that age.

MOST kids don't. Are we all getting so old that we forget when we started looking at porn mags we snuck from daddys (or uncles) drawer and actually got a reaction other than knowing we were doing something wrong?

Pinning this directly on one insult is a little biased and most likely predicated on the people seeing the situation from their own perspective as a sexually aware adult placed in the head of the insulted child.

I am not saying that this word does not have more impact later in life as the child becomes more aware of who they are and new "feelings" awaken, bust saying a 10/11 year old is having sexual identity problems is a little premature....

You know it to be not true, and it's just some kids treating you like chit.

Actually being(or thinking you might be) gay, and having names like faggot, queer, sissy, etc., endlessly hurled at you, can be much more devastating- and a lot more shameful and hurting. BTW, sissy has nothing really to do with gay other than the stereotypical gay male is seen AS a sissy (they obviously have not been around the Gyms in the village area.....). This is not helped by te media, or other deliberate adoptions of stereotypical "weaker sex" mannerisms by some wanting to broadcast this. (Since when does homosexuality require a lisp?)

But getting back to its increased potentcy, yes, when you start to develop it does have more bang to it. But people keep trying to put kids directly into the land of adulthood.

Calling his Pokemon collection gay would have probably hurt more than calling him gay directly (since that is a direct object that he valued).

Hell, I was afraid of being called a girl before I even knew what a girl really was!

04-23-2009, 04:31 PM	#14
NodePark Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 500 Senior Member	I don't think so....you as a straight person (i'm supposing you are straight), would not have the same feelings of shame, or guilt inflicted upon you, as if you were actually gay. I didn't have ANY feelings for men or women at that age. MOST kids don't. Are we all getting so old that we forget when we started looking at porn mags we snuck from daddys (or uncles) drawer and actually got a reaction other than knowing we were doing something wrong? Pinning this directly on one insult is a little biased and most likely predicated on the people seeing the situation from their own perspective as a sexually aware adult placed in the head of the insulted child. I am not saying that this word does not have more impact later in life as the child becomes more aware of who they are and new "feelings" awaken, bust saying a 10/11 year old is having sexual identity problems is a little premature.... You know it to be not true, and it's just some kids treating you like chit. Actually being(or thinking you might be) gay, and having names like faggot, queer, sissy, etc., endlessly hurled at you, can be much more devastating- and a lot more shameful and hurting. BTW, sissy has nothing really to do with gay other than the stereotypical gay male is seen AS a sissy (they obviously have not been around the Gyms in the village area.....). This is not helped by te media, or other deliberate adoptions of stereotypical "weaker sex" mannerisms by some wanting to broadcast this. (Since when does homosexuality require a lisp?) But getting back to its increased potentcy, yes, when you start to develop it does have more bang to it. But people keep trying to put kids directly into the land of adulthood. Calling his Pokemon collection gay would have probably hurt more than calling him gay directly (since that is a direct object that he valued). Hell, I was afraid of being called a girl before I even knew what a girl really was!
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