Rise Up, Oh Heart, For There is Another Battle to Win
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“No, my 10 year old son is not looking for a girlfriend. He likes boys.”
In the beginning of this semester, the school of our children sent home a list of extracurricular clubs available for students. Our younger son chose a board games club, our older son chose Zumba. He loves singing and dancing, and we were all happy.
As the semester passed, they both enjoyed their clubs, but the choice of the older one always received the same reaction, something like “He’s smart. I bet he’s the only boy there and he can choose the girl he wants.”
The first time this happened I was shocked, because I had never thought like that. In our family, we don’t exactly follow the gender roles. My husband is the one that stays home and cooks. We have three sons and what they want to do is simply what they want to do. We accept them. It doesn’t matter if it’s not “male like”. We asked our older boy if being the only boy there made him uncomfortable, he said “No” and that was it.
But people’s reactions bothered me. My older son is gay. Yes, he’s only 10, but he identifies himself as gay since he was 7. So this idea that he was there only for the girls bothered me. For years, we’ve been dealing with a good number of shocked reactions for our son’s sexual orientation, but I never stop being bothered by people assuming that my son’s straight. At some point, I got so bothered that I started to correct people.
“No”, I say, “he’s not interested in girls. He’s gay. He says that girls are his friends.” So the reaction is “Oh, really? How does he know that? He’s so young…” These people don’t see the contradiction in their words. They assumed my son was straight and wanted to be with girls, but he’s too young to know he likes boys. Assumptions are dangerous. This, in particular, implies that is something wrong with my son, and there isn’t. He should be exactly who he is.
I remember my first crush. He was a friend of my uncle. I think I was 6 or 7 and I used to follow him everywhere. It wasn’t sexual. I just knew I wanted to be around him. I see how my son blushes when he talks about a boy he likes. He’s discovering what he likes, like I did. Before gay kids had the opportunity to be raised in a non homophobic environment and with out people in their lives, their crushes that to be kept as a secret. But my son doesn’t have a secret.
I think that it’s important to speak up, correct people when they assume my son is straight. I have to say “No, this doesn’t apply to my son.”
Because kids don’t become gay by magic when they hit puberty. Sexual orientation is something deeper. It’s something that has nothing to do with sex, but with love and attraction. And it’s beautiful. That’s nothing wrong with it.
”—Best mom award. x (via lourrye)guys would there be any interest if i made an asexual jewish blog??
please signal boost if you know you have jewish or asexual-spectrum followers
boys are so sensitive……if a guy told me he likes tall girls I wouldn’t get butthurt I would just be like ok I don’t care but when ur like man I love tall boys all these hobbits come out of nowhere to make sure u know how upset they are
you know girls can tell when you look at their boobs
i don’t care how quickly you glance, 1 second is like 5 seconds in boob time
trans people taking testosterone need to drink orange juice cause testosterone weakens your immune system!! trans people taking estrogen need to drink milk cause estrogen causes calcium to be absorbed less
If you’re lactose intolerant you can eat nuts and if you’re allergic to oranges, most other fruits have vitamin c. If fruits aren’t an option, there’s also vitamin c supplements.
Good info. Pass it on.
Fact: Unlike the gay agenda™, the bisexual agenda contains a 15 minute break for snacks between sessions.
Fact: The asexual agenda is entirely made of snacks, with a 15 minute break for all out anarchy
Fact: The pansexuals, with their extreme love for kitchen ware, make all the snacks.
protect all of the young girls who’s bodies developed quickly and who appear to be older than they are. remember that these girls are still children and their mature physical appearance is not a reflection of their emotional maturity.
PLEASE FUCKING PROTECT THEM THAT WAS ME
Reminder that in Africa people were performing successful cesarean sections and brain surgeries as early as 3,000 b.c.e while whites didn’t even think to wash they asses until hundreds of years later but Africa is always portrayed as some type of monolithic land of savages.
Oh.
I’m not exactly challenging you, but I want a source.
Oh look. I took. Twenty seconds. And did. A damn. Google search. Imagine that.
Leverage FBI agent
aka possibly my new favorite quote
(via renew-leverage)
She was a metamorphmagus so she had the power to change herself into like the most gorgeous woman ever, but she didn’t. Instead she gave herself this bright-ass-pink hair and changed her looks to please herself, not to please others. You go, Tonks.
The only time she changed her looks for others was to tmake them laugh and make them happy by doing funny things. And thats the best way to be a metamorphmagus.
*writes smut that accidentally turns into angst* *slams head against wall* I WRITE SINS NOT TRAGEDIES
hey cuties if you or someone you know is being affected by anon hate, please use this to figure out who is behind this and remember that we’re all here for you and love you
a few days ago bf told me that a couple years ago when he played counterstrike he would respond to dudes getting angry and aggressive and hostile by saying “a kissaroo from me to you” in a slightly goofy friendly voice sort of like the voice you’d associate with a dog muppet. he said they would absolutely lose their shit every time, insisting things like “i dont want a kissaroo from you! only tall blonde girls!”. they always said kissaroo. i cant stop thinking about this
fangirl-thats-christmasing-out:
me: *constantly needs affection*
me: *constantly needs space*me: *constantly uses the internet because that is how i manage to get both affection and space at the same time*
woah i didn’t realize how true and accurate this is
the kid from the nanny mcphee movie is no longer a kid
he’s 23
i see no difference
I’ve never seen a grown man look so disturbingly like a small child.
he looks like a teenage martin freeman
teenage martin freeman
For all of you who are worried that there might be secret mind readers in the room just try MENTALLY SCREAMING and if anyone jumps or flinches, you know
please dont
found the mind reader
do you have those memories that are really cringey and you never speak of and something triggers the memory and you want to fucking wash your brain out with bleach
I don’t just want one Black Widow movie I want a Black Widow origins movie and a Black Widow Budapest movie and a Black Widow movie in the present day and a Black Widow movie where she inherits the title of Thor and a Black Widow movie where she doesn’t even fucking do anything I would literally pay money for a movie about her blinking WHY WON’T YOU TAKE MY GOD DAMN MONEY MARVEL
is this blog stupid? yes. but which one of us is following it?
parent: “Youre going to hell!”
me:
