On the way home today, Crash asked me what homosexual meant. I explained it means the same thing as gay, and is when two men are boyfriends or husbands, or two women are girlfriends or wives
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Hey, that is some good associative reasoning skill -- "Is that sucking dick?" He's applying theory to lived experience.
I'm also kind of fascinated by kids who know the terminology out of context. I remember learning the word "homosexual" some time around fifth grade, but nobody ever said "gay" back then. "Gay" was still a proud in-group term in the 1970s. Proving that anything can be turned into an insult by the right people. It reminded me of when I was teaching a bunch of ten-year-olds the Witch Doctor song as a fun nonsense sing-along. One of them asked what witch doctor was, and I said it was a slang word for a shaman. She was non-plussed, and thought it was silly not to just call him a shaman, though she was still having fun with the culturally insensitive "ooh-ee, ooh-ah-ah, bing, bang, walla-walla bing-bang."
Crash is probably a bit immature to be reading Scareteen himself, but I bet it would be a good place for you to look for resources.
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KC is silently seizing on the living room floor right now, wordlessly mouthing "JUSTIN BIEBER!"
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I'm also kind of fascinated by kids who know the terminology out of context. I remember learning the word "homosexual" some time around fifth grade, but nobody ever said "gay" back then. "Gay" was still a proud in-group term in the 1970s. Proving that anything can be turned into an insult by the right people. It reminded me of when I was teaching a bunch of ten-year-olds the Witch Doctor song as a fun nonsense sing-along. One of them asked what witch doctor was, and I said it was a slang word for a shaman. She was non-plussed, and thought it was silly not to just call him a shaman, though she was still having fun with the culturally insensitive "ooh-ee, ooh-ah-ah, bing, bang, walla-walla bing-bang."
Crash is probably a bit immature to be reading Scareteen himself, but I bet it would be a good place for you to look for resources.
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