[Antoninus]

"Lesbians in middle school? I don't think so."

Believe it. I've seen it.

I'm not saying I don't believe it. I'm saying that lesbians are made. At age 12, a girl doesn't just decide she's a lesbian without some kind of outside trauma. A girl claiming to be a "lesbian" at 12 usually has suffered some severe emotional trauma--rape, sexual abuse, statutory rape, etc.

Only a severely broken society produces 12-year-old lesbian bullies. Philadelphia is just such a society.

[FITZ]

I'm not saying I don't believe it. I'm saying that lesbians are made. At age 12, a girl doesn't just decide she's a lesbian without some kind of outside trauma.

Normally yes --- but there is some kind of weird fad going on now --- first it was bisexuality a couple years ago but it's a fad to be gay. My daughter is only 14 and said there are lots of lesbians in her 9th grade class --- she says she thinks they just pretend because they think it's cool but she says they're very annoying because they bother the regular girls.

[Capriole]

When I was 11 there were rumors in my school about a friend of mine. "Don't spend the night at Susan's house," girls said. I was too innocent to know what they were talking about. One weekend my parents let Susan and me have a sleepover at my house. I found out. This girl had never had any traumatic experiences and came from a loving family background, but she was all over me. Her seduction technique was pretty sophisticated, too. She was 12.