Patrocles……. first, I think that most little boys are attracted to masculinity but only a part of them has that attraction “sexualized” later on. So, memories of early SSA may be erroneous.

You may wish to believe it but I have talked with many a gay man who has said they understood something was different about themselves as early as age 5 only to understand that once puberty kicked in.
I don’t think you remember such a thing wrongly in your life because you easily recognize that it sets you apart from the greater part of males.

At fourth, I’m definitely a conservative. In a small way, I want to to conservate traditional masculinity as one of the most charming and attractive traits in humanity. But mostly, I want to conservate freedom of speech – once the glory of the United States, thereafter apparently the glory of the “western world”, then ridiculed and shunned by the “cultural marxists”, until most people have forgotten why it was intitutionalized at all. And I’m definitely against any anti-bullying campaigning which hasn’t a clear and robust preconception about the uses and the importance of freedom of speech.

So are you saying that a child’s right to free speech should preclude learning a lesson about socially acceptable forms of interaction?

when he was 10 or 11. Did you realize that you were ‘erotically turned on’ by people of your own gender at that age?

By 11, yes!
It strikes me as incredibly sad and tragic that we can’t seem to come together on this issue. Kids who are gay are killing themselves due to bullying they receive because of their orientation, and some who are not gay but are suffering bullying because they are perceived as gay and are killing themselves as a result – yet the conservative Christians want to forbid any speech that they don’t like regarding gay bullying. They have much for which to answer!

first, I think that most little boys are attracted to masculinity but only a part of them has that attraction “sexualized” later on. So, memories of early SSA may be erroneous.

What does this mean in your world?

Lets hope things move quickly and good results are seen.

Hear, Hear!

“Jamey spoke openly to his parents about the bullying he endured as a sixth- and seventh-grader at Heim Middle School, but became more withdrawn about it when he entered high school, according to his parents. One of his last online posts, discovered by his parents after his death, read, “I always say how bullied I am, but no one listens. What do I have to do so that people will listen to me?”