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lederhosen) wrote2005-08-11 08:51 pm
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Useful advice from James Dobson
I happened across this while browsing friends-of-friends...
James Dobson of Focus on the Family, offers useful tips from his friend Joseph Nicolosi on preventing your child from growing up gay.
Some of the highlights:
Perhaps you are concerned about your child and his or her "sexual development." Maybe your son or daughter is saying things like, "I must be gay," or "I'm bisexual." You've found same-sex porn in his room or evidence that he has accessed it on the Internet. You've found intimate journal entries about another girl in her diary. The most important message I can offer to you is that there is no such thing as a "gay child" or a "gay teen." [But] left untreated, studies show these boys have a 75 percent chance of becoming homosexual or bisexual.
Mmm. Snooping in the kid's private diary, very classy. Having parents s/he can't trust makes it SO much easier for a kid to deal with these issues.
Meanwhile, the boy's father has to do his part. He needs to mirror and affirm his son's maleness. He can play rough-and-tumble games with his son, in ways that are decidedly different from the games he would play with a little girl. He can help his son learn to throw and catch a ball. He can teach him to pound a square wooden peg into a square hole in a pegboard. He can even take his son with him into the shower, where the boy cannot help but notice that Dad has a penis, just like his, only bigger.
Hell, they can pull on skin-tight costumes and cruise around town fighting crime together!
James Dobson of Focus on the Family, offers useful tips from his friend Joseph Nicolosi on preventing your child from growing up gay.
Some of the highlights:
Perhaps you are concerned about your child and his or her "sexual development." Maybe your son or daughter is saying things like, "I must be gay," or "I'm bisexual." You've found same-sex porn in his room or evidence that he has accessed it on the Internet. You've found intimate journal entries about another girl in her diary. The most important message I can offer to you is that there is no such thing as a "gay child" or a "gay teen." [But] left untreated, studies show these boys have a 75 percent chance of becoming homosexual or bisexual.
Mmm. Snooping in the kid's private diary, very classy. Having parents s/he can't trust makes it SO much easier for a kid to deal with these issues.
Meanwhile, the boy's father has to do his part. He needs to mirror and affirm his son's maleness. He can play rough-and-tumble games with his son, in ways that are decidedly different from the games he would play with a little girl. He can help his son learn to throw and catch a ball. He can teach him to pound a square wooden peg into a square hole in a pegboard. He can even take his son with him into the shower, where the boy cannot help but notice that Dad has a penis, just like his, only bigger.
Hell, they can pull on skin-tight costumes and cruise around town fighting crime together!
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Because girls aren't supposed to play catch?
He can teach him to pound a square wooden peg into a square hole in a pegboard.
Because girls aren't supposed to recognise shapes?
He can even take his son with him into the shower
Wasn't this supposed to be stopping him being gay?
These people confuse me.
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The part that really threw me, was that guys were the focus, and the girls could do what they pleased.
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I'm also wondering exactly how much teaching is required to pound a square peg into a square hole. (And exactly how the ability to do that affirms one's masculinity.)
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He acknowledges the existence, apparently, so that's not it. But clearly the Lesbos are much less dangerous to the fabric of society. After all, two girls is *sexy* while two guys is just icky.
Or something along those lines.
Also: the "pounding a peg into a board" comment almost makes me suspect a spoof. I mean, fer crying out loud.
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Ungh! Urgh smash! Urgh pound peg! Urgh use hammer! *grunt grunt*
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..... wow. That bit right there... wow. Uh. Yeaaaaah.
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Take your son into the shower with you? The hell?
playing catch
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How come most of the women in America aren't lesbians, then?
How do you explain that it's not about who you hate, but who you love?
Edie
Somewhere in the wilds of Yosemite.
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Re: playing catch
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But then, in a way the whole article is about hammering square pegs into round holes...
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This is so funny it's hard to do a parody of it...
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For me the most distressing thing here is the deliberate stipulation only bigger. The rest of the sentence would have sounded semi-normal without it. But let's not forget that size separates real men from weenies.
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That's when the screaming begins.
Re: playing catch
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Poor dog :-(
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I really wish sometimes that the earth would open up and swallow Mr. Dobson....
penises
Re: penises
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It's things like this which make me glad I have this icon loaded. I mean, really. WHAT THE FUCK?
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