- When someone says “Kids won’t understand how

 - When someone says “Kids won’t understand how two men can be married” what they mean, what they’re trying to say, is “I don’t understand how two men can be married.” When they say “Kids won’t understand why their dick looks different from daddy’s” they’re trying to explain “I don’t understand why you want to be different from tradition.” When they say “Kids won’t know who’s the daddy and who’s the mommy” they are telling you “I cannot comprehend a world without very rigid gender roles, and as far as I know neither can anyone else.” If anyone can think of a counterexample, let me know, but from where I’m standing, it looks like every use of the “confused kids” argument is just people pushing their own incomprehension off onto some largely-hypothetical kids.

(via Somebody please think for the children, by Noah Brand)

Au passage, pour les anglophones, I highly recommend you to read the whole article : Greta Christina (Why I Probably Won’t Do Porn Again: Sexism and Being a Woman on the Internet)

Comments

[diane]

Hi Dwam, it was nice talking to you the other day, so I wanted to know more about the subject and so I am reading your blog. I completely agree with you and this text reminded me of a Louis CK show and what he said on gay marriage:

"It doesn’t have any effect on your life. What do you care? People try to talk about it like it’s a social issue. Like when you see someone stand up on a talk show and say “How am I supposed to explain to my child that two men are getting married? I dunno, it’s your shitty kid, you fucking tell them. Why is that anyone else’s problem? Two guys are in love but they can’t get married because you don’t want to talk to your ugly child for fucking five minutes?"

Anyway, maybe you know this quote already, anyway I wanted to share.