Attention parents: James Dobson, founder and chairman of Focus on the Family (a right-wing Christian group) has advice on how to tell if your child is becoming homosexual: [link]
Based on that, I think I was supposed to be gay.
And some commentary on the article: [link] and [link]
from the last link:
Dunk your son into a deep pool of water. If he floats to the top, he is full of buoyant gaymotrons (identified by physicists as the gay particle) and therefore gay. If he sinks to the bottom and drowns, he is a poor swimmer and unathletic and therefore gay. If he begins to sink and then just sorta hangs there, the water is gay.
A male friend once got "If there's anything you need to talk about..." because he carried The Bell Jar in school.
He's not gay. Just well-read and metrosexual, which does mark him as a pinko in these parts.
My favorite FotF article is "Preventing Homosexuality".
[link]
Especially point 6.
6. Psychologist Robert Stoller said, “Masculinity is an achievement.” In other words, “growing up straight isn’t something that happens. It requires good parenting. It requires societal support. And it takes time.”
I snigger over the implication that all boys would grow up gay if not for parental and societal support. Also, the article doesn't seem very concerned about gay girls despite the title.
Oh, and I totally forgot that Wednesday was National Underwear Day
I snigger over the implication that all boys would grow up gay if not for parental and societal support.
Yes, and if your child is gay it's all your fault.
A bunch of really cool bikes: [link]
They look like they were designed by Dr. Seuss.
Yes, apparently FotF believes that being straight is a choice....
From one of Tommy's links:
but it looks like the real comedy gold in Dobson's newsletter involves his proposed cure for the gender-confused young son:
[T]he boy's father has to do his part.... 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.
That's right. Want your kid to grow up straight? Put him in an environment where he "cannot help but notice" other penises. Works every time.
To me, this sounds dangerously close to promoting pedophilia.
This is the part I particularly like:
Recognize that most homosexuals “were not explicitly [so] when they were children. More often, they displayed a ‘nonmasculinity’ that set them painfully apart from other boys: unathletic — somewhat passive, unaggressive and uninterested in rough-and-tumble play. A number of them had traits that could be considered gifts: bright, precocious, social and relational, and artistically talented.”
Folks, if your son isn't as dumb as a box of hair -- you got a "funny" one. If he's not antisocial -- he's probably wearing a dress.
I need to e-mail my newlywed bro and tell him he's gay. (Though, knowing him, he'd e-mail back and say "Well, DUH!")
All the great artists and thinkers were wussy and gay, weren't they?
All the great artists and thinkers were wussy and gay, weren't they?
They didn't see enough penises when they were children.
