GIRLS' SEXUAL PREFERENCE: David Morrison

[Commenting on the Post piece]

...I am merely observing that even back when I was a gay activist, which is over a decade ago now, women were always understood to be a bit more flexible about their sexual identities than men were. For example it was possible, particularly in academic circles, to meet women who would self-define as lesbian for openly feminist or political motives whereas I never ran into a guy who self-define as gay to make a political or social point. ...

...Am I surprised that a little more common sense would have prevailed before [the Edmund Burke School] asked students, some as young as 13 or 14 if the entire school was involved, to self-identify as gay or lesbian or bisexual? Absolutely.

In my opinion doing something like this is a terrible thing, bordering on destructive. ...

A while back I remember I was looking after a neighbor's nine-year-old boy while they were caught in a bad traffic jam and couldn't get back in time to let them in from school. In the course of our hanging out conversation he blurted out Mr. Morrison I think I am gay. When I asked him why he thought that he said it was because he and his best friend wanted to be together all the time and do all the same things and, when I asked further, would even be brothers if they could. That experience, which I think should be part of every little boy's experience of being a boy, had been characterized in his understanding as "gay."

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