Creepy Yes on Prop 8 ad

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I know this is old news (I saw a vague reference to this on a metaquotes discussion and googled it), but I just found it really bizarre seeing an ad actively promoting homophobia. I guess it hadn't really sunk in that that's what people were doing.

Yes on 8 TV Ad: Everything To Do With Schools
I imagine the others are just as bad but that was enough for me.

Am I the only heterosexual person who would have no problem with my kids reading gay fairytales? Then again, when I was a kid we used to play pretend at being lesbians(*) so, you know... :D

(*)I'm trying to think of a way to make this sound less weird, but in retrospect, it was pretty weird. Ironically, the only boy we let play is the only one of us who ended up actually being gay, afaict. See! No harm done!

Comments

[alias_sqbr]

Really? Kids at my school were very aware of homosexuality. Sure, it was almost always used as a thing you accused boys of to make them upset, but we were definitely aware of it. When I bumped into a younger girl from my school a few years later she said "You went to that posh girls school right? Aren't they all lesbians? Are YOU a lesbian?".

Then again, we are Australian :D

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How does a kid pretend to be a lesbian in Australia?

[alias_sqbr]

See reply to baby_elvis below. It was ok to pretend, same way it was ok to pretend to be a horse or a murderer but you'd get into trouble if you tried to say you actually were one :) (Also I don't think any of the boys would have pretended to be gay, that would have gotten them beat up)