Posted on 05/16/2011 8:00:26 AM PDT by ConservativeStatement
I went to school in a tiny rural English village and when I started there there was a boy in my class who, from day one, was far more comfortable around girls and playing their games, join the netball team and so on, than he ever was with other boys. He was friendly enough, just not into the same things we all were.
At age 10 the boys went to the boys secondary school, the girls went to the girls secondary, and this chap spent the next 2 years of his life helping the librarian out every lunchtime.
I was a computer geek so I was in the library too so we talked from time to time.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen a guy so scared of PE as he was - when swimming season started he started to go AWOL just as everyone else was hitting the changing rooms, turn up after we’d all finished, apologise, and accept a detention.
It goes without saying that while he was at university he came out of the closet and when he admitted it to a bunch of us down the pub we all pointed out that even the school had figured it out - and that’s why he got so little grief for bunking off!
Funny thing is, you’d have thought given that so many people had him pegged years before he admitted to it, at least one person would’ve outed him.
Nobody did, though. Guess it’s because people could see he wasn’t exactly revelling in it, and thought it better just to give him some space.
Yeah, I don’t think it’s been all that fun (especially in earlier decades) for boys who know they are “different” in that way to get through school. I don’t think they want to be that way, just as a kid with tics or Asperger’s or any disability wants to be that way.
I know that being conservatives we hate the Gay Agenda, and pushing it onto school curricula, and needing to “celebrate” it relentlessly in media, but my gosh, kids who have these differences should be treated as kindly as kids with any other disability. They can’t help it. Why make them feel so bad? They are just little kids.
Yohoooo.... Shepard Smith....
Another homosexual that was molested as child, providing more evidence that molestation is a root cause of homosexuality.
I know that being conservatives we hate the Gay Agenda, and pushing it onto school curricula, and needing to “celebrate” it relentlessly in media, but my gosh, kids who have these differences should be treated as kindly as kids with any other disability. They can’t help it. Why make them feel so bad? They are just little kids.
I myself have a disability, the harsh, yet meaningful thing that I was taught was that sorry, I had to act unselfishly by adaptation. People loved me by their discipline. I personally am glad that I am working on my own, graduated from college, etc., and I sound somewhat decent and mature in writing and speaking. Disabled, sure, but that disability didn’t have to be my own excuse throughout my life, I don’t have to set myself apart from others with these identity politics stuff. By all means, I am a decent guy, despite being somewhat forgetful about things from time to time, but I don’t go call the press for attention about it. Life isn’t easy, but there isn’t anything I can make better for myself with whining about my problems all the time.
I completely agree. It’s one thing to be against the agenda, but to be against individuals who’re going out of their way to fit in with everyone elses’ expectations is just wrong.
We bang on a lot about the homosexual agenda here, the only agenda that I got sick and tired of when I was at middle school (11-13) was the jock agenda!
Not only did they all conform to this annoying stereotype of thinking the only important thing in life is sports, acting like boorish self-centred prats every time a girl got within taser distance of them, and deliberately playing dumb in class to avoid any possibility of them standing out on academic merit... they expected everyone else to do it.
Which isn’t any fun for those of us who simply wanted to knuckle down, do the work, and act like we weren’t still in kindergarten.
Fortunately the UK education system where I grew up discriminated in favour of academic merit and good behaviour, as opposed to how well you can kick a ball. So they got scholarships alright... to the run-down “you’ll never amount to more than factory fodder with that kind of attitude” local comp.
We bang on a lot about the homosexual agenda here, the only agenda that I got sick and tired of when I was at middle school (11-13) was the jock agenda!
Understood, some guys are real jerks. I had my share. I did enjoy sports though. I wasn’t the biggest or best out there, but I did get involved in track, Cross Country, and Rowing (or if you will, crew) It was great to know that I started high school in pretty bad shape, but could eventually run miles, enjoy the scenery, etc. I felt stronger, and that was good, but I never had to be in your face about it.
Could also be the consumption of soy formula which contains a very high proportion of phyto-estrogens that can significantly harm the baby's future sexual development and reproductive health. From one of many articles on mercola.com, (Google "soy formula estrogens"):
In 1998, investigators reported that the daily exposure of infants to isoflavones in soy infant formula is 6 to11 times higher on a body-weight basis than the dose that has hormonal effects in adults consuming soy foods. Circulating concentrations of isoflavones in infants fed soy-based formula were 13,000 to 22,000 times higher than plasma estradiol concentrations in infants on cow's milk formula.Approximately 25 per cent of bottle-fed children in the US receive soy-based formula - a much higher percentage than in other parts of the Western world. Fitzpatrick estimated that an infant exclusively fed soy formula receives the estrogenic equivalent (based on body weight) of at least five birth control pills per day. By contrast, almost no phytoestrogens have been detected in dairy-based infant formula or in human milk, even when the mother consumes soy products.
Scientists have known for years that soy-based formula can cause thyroid problems in babies. But what are the effects of soy products on the hormonal development of the infant, both male and female?
Male infants undergo a "testosterone surge" during the first few months of life, when testosterone levels may be as high as those of an adult male. During this period, the infant is programmed to express male characteristics after puberty, not only in the development of his sexual organs and other masculine physical traits, but also in setting patterns in the brain characteristic of male behavior.
In monkeys, deficiency of male hormones impairs the development of spatial perception (which, in humans, is normally more acute in men than in women), of learning ability and of visual discrimination tasks (such as would be required for reading). It goes without saying that future patterns of sexual orientation may also be influenced by the early hormonal environment.
Male children exposed during gestation to diethylstilbestrol (DES), a synthetic estrogen that has effects on animals similar to those of phytoestrogens from soy, had testes smaller than normal on manturation[sic].
Learning disabilities, especially in male children, have reached epidemic proportions. Soy infant feeding - which began in earnest in the early 1970s - cannot be ignored as a probable cause for these tragic developments.
As for girls, an alarming number are entering puberty much earlier than normal, according to a recent study reported in the journal Pediatrics. Investigators found that one per cent of all girls now show signs of puberty, such as breast development or pubic hair, before the age of three; by age eight, 14.7 per cent of white girls and almost 50 per cent of African-American girls have one or both of these characteristics.
New data indicate that environmental estrogens such as PCBs and DDE (a breakdown product of DDT) may cause early sexual development in girls. In the 1986 Puerto Rico Premature Thelarche study, the most significant dietary association with premature sexual development was not chicken - as reported in the press - but soy infant formula.
The consequences of this truncated childhood are tragic. Young girls with mature bodies must cope with feelings and urges that most children are not well-equipped to handle. And early maturation in girls is frequently a harbinger for problems with the reproductive system later in life, including failure to menstruate, infertility and breast cancer.
I completely agree. It’s one thing to be against the agenda, but to be against individuals who’re going out of their way to fit in with everyone elses’ expectations is just wrong.
The odd things that bother me sometimes about a number of these agendas is why they have to be separate from the others sometimes. Why do gay seniors need a completely separate facility from everyone else as seniors when they supposedly also wish to be viewed or accepted as the same? I don’t have explicit hatred, but then again, it’s pretty odd considering people like myself who are unusual in our own way, work on doing the opposite from time to time.
So when life throws you a lemon.... make lemon AIDS?
True, and yet I am disconcerted by the double standards in the argument sometimes.
OK, some homosexuals want to be treated differently. But there are a lot of straights who want that too.
Every guy, as a teenager, lives in mortal terror of a hormonal rush giving them away at the worst possible moment.
Straight or gay, the last thing any teenage boy wants is a boner when they’re in a public swimming bath and everyone can see.
It’s rather daft, actually, to think that homosexual teenagers are far less likely to be mortified at the prospect than straight ones are - especially given that the worst thing a straight lad can expect from it is humiliation while a gay lad in the same situation might expect humiliation AND a right good kicking.
With the possible exception of those weirdos at the gym who oil themselves up and mince about in their budgie smugglers, who WANT straight men and women to ogle them but are outraged at the prospect of a homosexual taking a look, nobody really makes a distinction between who they do and don’t mind looking at them.
If you want an example of gays being seperated out, look at the military morale issue. I mean, come on! We’re supposed to believe that in a battlefield situation, the worst possible person to have in the same foxhole as you, is Private Poof?
The only way that’s ever going to be plausible is if one is Adonis personified and one’s oiled onesself up with supercharged pheromones.
And I think a lot of guys who make that point about not liking gays “eyeing up” their “junk”, are telling us more about their own inflated egos, than they’re saying about homosexuals.
To wit, they are People Who Think Everybody Fancies Them But Don’t Like The Idea Of ‘Everyone’ Including The Gays.
I mean, you only have to look at what some of the military are saying. It is tantamount to: “Even with bullets flying around us, any gay’s going to be transfixed by the sheer awesomness of the junk beneath my combat fatigues, ‘cos I’m that awesome, and I can’t handle the responsibility!”
A soldier should not be distracted in a battlefield situation, by sexual thoughts, whatever those thoughts might be. Not if he’s gay, not if he’s straight.
And, sorry to burst the bubble of all those macho military guys here, but if a truly professional soldier who happens to be gay shouldn’t be distracted by even a prizewinning thanksgiving turkey in your underpants, chances are he won’t be distracted by what’s really there, i.e. something that in all probability looks less appetising than the last scrawny chicken in the shop.
That’s what I am talking about. Let kids be kids and then adults should do their best to conform to a values driven society. Strike out if it’s truly wrong and unfair (slavery, Jim Crow, Naziism) but otherwise do your best to fit in. We don’t need whole agendas for gays. We do need gays to be allowed the privileges of freedom and peaceful lives. You are a great example. It must have taken a lot of courage.
It could be soy. I am sure there have ALWAYS been homosexuals, but there could be more now due to one of these influences either in utero or in babyhood, like with the soy formula.
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