I'm not going to guess, but what if the kid had moved fairly recently and the bag was a gift from a friend at his former location? Would honoring/remembering his friend be a bad thing? — my point is that the possession/use of the item mightn't be due to his love for the show at all, though even if he did like it, so what?
From the article:
“Eleven to 15-year-old boys are very much at risk for thinking about suicide when they’re perceived as being gay,” bullying prevention expert Nancy Mullin told WTVD.
This actually mirrors an article I came across a while back: C.S. Lewis and how the acceptance of gay sex leads to the eradication of friendship
Exactly. I read that by C.S. Lewis, too.
We are in a homeschool group where I honestly don’t think parents talk about homosexuality to their kids a whole lot. They mostly ignore it.
At our very large co-op, my son will sometimes be so happy to see another boy that he’s missed that he’ll give him a big hug. And last week two girls in my class held hands the whole time because they’re friends.
My M-I-L who is 85 said that when she was a teenager, girls who were friends loved to hold hands when they were out and about, and thought nothing of it.
We honestly just avoid public-school bullies by homeschooling. Sure - my kids and the other homeschooled kids have problems and work them out, but it’s not to the same extent, and the parents are usually in the know. When we’re adults, we have that choice. We left the bullies behind in high school. I extend that choice to my kids - they’d rather not be cooped up in school with unimaginative bullying kids.