My kids do. They were younger than 4 years old when I explained it to them and they didn't have any trouble understanding. Kind of makes me wonder why so many adults have so much trouble.
Little young for geometry, but you do you I guess
Quadratics are child abuse!!
Ah, the ol' switcheroo!
My seven year old explained it to me the other day. Snapped at him half paying attention, thinking he was calling something gay disparagingly. Asked what that word meant to him and he said "when two of the same gender people love each other. Like two boys or two girls." "How do you know that??" "Ms. --social worker at school name-- told me about it" "Oh.. well. Great. Carry on then. Oh! Wait! You know you can love whoever you love right? And Daddy will always love you?" "Yeah of course, can you be quiet so I can watch my show please"
This morning I noticed a black trans lives matter sign on a hallway wall and felt really proud of our school. Fwiw it's one of the lowest income and most diverse schools in our affluent city, debunking "Poors and POC are inherently bigots" bullshit from the academic left.
The academic left? Friend, your kid is well adjusted. More so than you (which is the goal, so good on you)
The academic left doesn't exist. I don't even know what that means, but it's not a real group. It sounds like it came from fox "news"
You're trying. Your kid has been raised to not see the issues we (myself included) get tangled up on. We have to get past the bigotry subtly hammered into us growing up... If you're not pushing our baggage onto the next generation, you're doing great as far as social issues go
No leftist wants anything except for you to be paid more fairly and for your kid's school to be better funded. Doubly so if we're educated enough to recognize systematic issues.
You're on the right side of history... But whatever news programs you've been watching, please stop. They're owned by billionaires actively trying to sow division for their own benefit
Your comment veered right off a cliff with the last sentence there. Where did you get that jumble of words?
Geometry is a gateway drug to Topology and its lesser known brethren, Bottomology
But have you heard of Versology?
When they say that kids don't understand gay people, what they mean is "kids don't understand why gays are bad and disgusting".
It is too late mother I have seen everything, I now identify as non-Euclidean.
I would love to see this in the “jimmy noooo” comic format
I had gay couples explained to me as a kid over twenty years ago and understood it no problem.
Geometry on the other hand, I still struggle with...
"If your child gets turned gay by watching a lil Nas x video just show them the WAP video to turn them straight again. Y'know cause that's how it supposedly works"
I know I butchered the quote but the point is still there
Help they're bisexual now
No, they're asexual.
Straight <=> being only attracted to people of "opposite" gender
Gay <=> being only attracted to people of same gender
{People of same gender as them} ∩ {People of "opposite"/different gender as them} = ∅
=> They are only attracted to the people in the empty set i.e. nobody.
Kids don't even understand straight couples.
They really should stop being so obtuse.
Thats a cute pun.
When I was little, I got to know some of my mother's gay friends.
she just said smth like "they are a couple", and i got it. It's not difficult to teach the existence of gay couples. Unless you teach that couples are specifically man and woman.
I have gay family, and I didn’t need that explained to me. Even growing up in a very christian household, and being in a church that was conservative for most of my time there. I have never seen anyone argue this in good faith, and I don’t think it’s possible to argue this in good faith.
I don't really understand gay couples either, I don't even understand gay people singularly. I think I understood them better as a child to be honest, like oh look two men are in a relationship that's nice for them. Now I see a lot more detail and it starts getting confusing, like when you see two handsome guys just hanging out in a coffee bar holding hands. Where did they meet? It sure as fuck wasn't on Grindr! And how can they just walk around being hot and sexy all day! Why aren't they exhausted by the pure pressure of existence?!
But yeah you don't need to understand, no one understands anything anyway it's far harder to understand why two men shouldn't be allowed to love each other. Can anyone ever actually explain that without evoking a whole big fantasy about a powerful wizard that said it's naughty?
I think that's what they actually mean, it's really hard to convince a kid that two guys shouldn't be allowed to be happy together especially when you can just look over and see two perfectly happy guys in nice clothes who look like they've stopped for lunch before going and bring really good at some racket based sport after which they're going to a movie and sitting with their arms around each other... Strong arms from the racket sport, a slight hint of perspiration even after their shower together...
They taught me how to find the area of a trapezoid and I've been broken ever since. Maybe sucking dick will fix me.
Maybe they wouldn't have trouble understanding it if they weren't constantly told all their life that men need to love women and women need to love men 🤣
What makes it confusing is when it contradicts everything they've been taught their whole life. Don't fill their heads with that shit and they will handle it perfectly fine.
If you have a hard time understanding gay couples, then you must be overthinking straight couples.
Unless your gonna talk about babies there is no difference and if they can understand babies, then they sure as heck understand gay couples.
I understood my (much older) brother's best friend and his boyfriend were gay when I was 6 years old. It took about 10 seconds for my parents to explain the concept.
I never figured out geometry beyond Pi*r^2.
They're both a sin.
Acutely witty.
This only gets funnier if you imagine kids figuring out that Trig and Geometry are from Ancient Greece of all places.
Whats so hard in saying: "some boys love other boys instead of girls"
Well because that hasn't taught me anything about geometry.
"Some boys love other boys instead of girls and the area of the square whose side is the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the areas of the squares on the other two sides."
Is this better?
I thought from the headline this was going to be a sovereign citizen post.
Can confirm it is harder… I don't know why people (not homosexuals just certain people) love eachother but I do know trigonometry.
that's because trig is easy. finding and keeping love is harder.
As a kid, my mom explained that sometimes two men or two women fall in love too, the same as if it were a man and a woman, and that's all I needed to understand.
Now do punctuation.
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Holy shit. I get it now.
My kid is gay. It doesn’t bother me…mostly. Like, I’m 100% fine with it on a social level. I never criticize her, I support her, but when I think about not having biological grandchildren something on a primitive level cries out in me. Her mother is dead, she had one child. As an animal, on a very basic level, she wasn’t successful in reproduction if her genes stop with her only child.
If we’re looking at it beyond just what we can see, people are terrified that their children won’t reproduce. I could be wrong, I’m just an idiot.
As humans we have to contend with our intellect and our nature. A lot of us have very little of one and a whole lot of the other.
I personally feel like I have to be above my fear. My fear is primitive. Humanity is fine if none of my genes ever travel on down the line. My daughter is perfect like she is.
Whether or not a child decides to have children of their own will never be something a parent gets to "fear" or control, straight or gay. All 8 billion humans are conscious enough to realize that individuals aren't responsible for perpetuating the species, and that one specific person's genes aren't any ideal that needs to live on.
I'm glad you support your daughter's chance at happiness rather than her reproduction quality!
Oh no, I agree with you.
That’s the whole point about being above my own fears.
I know it isn’t my decision.
My fear is something I can’t control. How I react to that fear is a whole other story.
I feel like that’s the whole solution across the board. Teaching people that their nature will lead them to fear things irrationally. Their intellect is the answer.
That deep primitive fear you talk about isn’t animal, it’s social.
We’re taught that idea. Family is defined by the state as biological relationship so we all have experience with that structure and conflate it with the biological. States throughout history have done such a good job of reifying the idea that family is blood relation that we don’t question it!
If the cognative notion that your kid wouldn’t have more kids could influence the “animal” fears like fight or flight it wouldn’t come out in dread or anger, it would be hormones and other purely biological effects in your body.
I’m not saying this to be jerk or call you crazy, but fr talk to a therapist about this. Someone who can help you figure out what your feelings mean is really helpful.
You know that being a gay or lesbian doesn’t prevent you from being able to have children, right?
Having a personal issue with her not having children (if that’s what she decides) is ok. Blaming it on her being gay is just bigoted. She could have been born straight and still decided not to have children and you’d be in the same place.
Kill your shitty children, then you won’t have to explain anything to them.
