(1/6) I'm gonna' give a little lesson here why teaching kids from a young age that gay people exist is in fact, healthy & good, due to some dumb pushback from this tweet I made:
Every kid that exists is learning about the world around them, they have a lot
https://twitter.com/AestheticGamer1/status/1505582600353562626
Every kid that exists is learning about the world around them, they have a lot
(2/6) to lean, naturally have questions. This is during a phase of child development that the kid is both learning about their world, their place in it & what's normal. There is information that children are not ready for & we agree they shouldn't be exposed to.
Being Gay is Okay
Being Gay is Okay
(3/6) Children since birth will be aware there's parents. They're born from parents, parents raise them, they see parents every day. Parents come in all shapes & sizes, & they'll have a lot of questions about that. Why do those parents look different? Why do their parents allow
(4/6) them to eat ice cream for Dinner, when I don't. Stuff like that.
Media consumption & the classroom, where a bunch of different children with a bunch of different experiences, will mix & help broaden a child's view to the world. One could say one of the most valuable things
Media consumption & the classroom, where a bunch of different children with a bunch of different experiences, will mix & help broaden a child's view to the world. One could say one of the most valuable things
(5/6) in early child development they pick-up is the breadth of different people out there.
Being gay is not a sexual, devious thing. If you think that, you're homophobic, straight-up. It's love, just like any other sorta' love. A gay couple is no different than a straight couple
Being gay is not a sexual, devious thing. If you think that, you're homophobic, straight-up. It's love, just like any other sorta' love. A gay couple is no different than a straight couple
(6/7) They'll bring their kids to school to be taught, because we're all human. Questions will be asked. Gay & trans people exist, trying to make them invisible has been a long fought over issue from xenophobes who don't accept that different types of people exist, that don't fit
(7/8) a closed minded world view. But part of any good education system is to teach the breadth of the world to children in an educational way. It's part of child development where we learn to care about more than just ourselves. Children use school & media to help develop their
(8/9) worldview. So it's hardly surprising xenophobes have tried their hardest to limit what can be shown on TV & in School on LGBT+ people even existing, because it pushes a "Normal" that excludes LGBT+ people out, to teach a heterosexual white normalcy that's not true to the
(9/9)breadth and variety of people out there.
Anyone who tries to limit a child from learning other people exist aren't thinking of teaching their children about the world, they're enforcing a closeted world view where they want only people who fit into categories they approve of
Anyone who tries to limit a child from learning other people exist aren't thinking of teaching their children about the world, they're enforcing a closeted world view where they want only people who fit into categories they approve of
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