Monday, June 13, 2005
That's strange...the child development books don't say ANYTHING about when to expect the onset of gaydar...
Ever since Sophie started talking, I've been trying to prepare a strategy for responding to the inevitable publicly voiced question about people's differences. Basically, the best I can come up with is to cross that bridge when we come to it. And, depending on what she says, maybe to duck and run.
Most parents worry that their kids will ask insensitive questions about people with disabilities or people of other races and ethnicities. These types of human differences have drawn nary a second glance from Miss Sophie. Oh sure, there has been the occasional comment about extremely large people and heavily tattooed people, but you know what REALLY gets her attention when we're out in public? Gay people. SHE JUST KNOWS. Recently Sophie has graduated from pointing out women with masculine haircuts to alerting everyone within earshot to the presence of gay couples.
I'm simultaneously mortified (because a coupla nice gay guys out on a date ought to be able to enjoy their dinners without having to endure a toddler bellowing, "Hey, look! No mommies over there with those two men!") and amazed. This is the child of a woman who was 20 years old and in college when she finally understood that 1980's joke about Boy George in a sleeping bag being called a fruit roll-up.
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