Rou

There really aren't enough eye rolling emoticons in the world for this guy.

His name is James Dobson and he wants to help you raise your child straight. Because anything else is hateful. He's a child psychologist who believes he has found many of the warning signs of your little boy's sexual orientation. He wants to tell you about them so you can... umm... do something about it. Probably something that will result in irrevocable damage to your relationship with your child and have them growing up hating you. But that's just my guess. I'm sure ass-wipe thinks you can change them and all.

So, shall we examine these warning signs? Yes, let’s do that.

1. A strong feeling that they are “different” from other boys.
Umm… check for me.

2. A tendency to cry easily, be less athletic, and dislike the roughhousing that other boys enjoy.
Another check. Silly me. How dare I dislike baseball and wrestling. Me and those silly books I spent my childhood reading… we’ll be the ones over here making a lot of money. I’ll pay the rest of you to change my oil, k?

3. A persistent preference to play female roles in make-believe play.
Ok, not me this time.

4. A strong preference to spend time in the company of girls and participate in their games and other pastimes.
Big check here. At least up until high school, most of my friends were female. In children this is apparently gay. To the adult community it’s called trying to get laid. Go figure.

5. A susceptibility to be bullied by other boys, who may tease them unmercifully and call them “queer,” “fag” and “gay.”
Another check here for me. Now, I hate to split hairs here, but… as I recall, children get called queer and fag long before most children know what the word even means. And generally the kids that get bullied are the smaller kids. Which would mean the problem here is the parents genetic code, right?

6. A tendency to walk, talk, dress and even “think” effeminately.
Damn it. I knew my parents doomed me when they refused to buy me cutting edge fashions. Check.

7. A repeatedly stated desire to be — or insistence that he is — a girl.
Ok, I’ll take another negative here.

So, 5 out of seven signs apply to me. I, as it happens, am not gay. I am, in fact, a well adjusted heterosexual male in a long term committed relationship.

This kind of labeling serves no purpose. It encourages parents to make incorrect assumptions about their children, embarrassing confrontations, and disturbing “treatments” (see my previous rant on Love In Action). Above all, it’s wrong. Those things have more to do with gender roles then sexuality. Maybe the two are often overlapped, but they are not the same thing. Transvestites enjoy dressing as the opposite sex. But most of them are not actually gay. Common misconception. Because that is a gender role, not a sexuality issue. People like this guy make me sick.

You want your boy to grow up into a man? Try loving him for who he is. Not punishing him for being a little different.