The Choices Ten Year Olds Make
Sadly, No brings us James’s Dobson’s instructions on how to tell if your son is gay:
Evidences of gender confusion or doubt in boys ages 5 to 11 may include:
1. A strong feeling that they are “different” from other boys.
2. A tendency to cry easily, be less athletic, and dislike the roughhousing that other boys enjoy.
3. A persistent preference to play female roles in make-believe play.
4. A strong preference to spend time in the company of girls and participate in their games and other pastimes.
5. A susceptibility to be bullied by other boys, who may tease them unmercifully and call them “queer,” “fag” and “gay.”
6. A tendency to walk, talk, dress and even “think” effeminately.
7. A repeatedly stated desire to be — or insistence that he is — a girl.
If your child is experiencing several signs of gender confusion, professional help is available. It’s best to seek that help before your child reaches puberty.
“By the time the adolescent hormones kick in during early adolescence, a full-blown gender identity crisis threatens to overwhelm the teenager,” warns psychologist Dr. James Dobson. To compound the problem, many of these teens experience “great waves of guilt accompanied by secret fears of divine retribution.”
Gee, James, you don’t think that fear of divine retribution could come from charlatans like yourself pushing a theologically dubious hatred of all things homosexual onto them , do you? More importantly, Dobson’s organization treats homosexuality as somethig that is not innate, something that could be changed. The implication is that gays can choose to not be gay. And the implication of that is that your 5 to 11 year old boy is choosing the wrong gender identity, which will cause them to choose homosexuality when they become adolescents. It’s insane.
It is more than insane — it is cruel. Dobson is telling parents that they must crush any child who doe snot conform to the very narrow notion that Dobson has of what a little boy should be. Any deviation from that template, even in children as young as five, is a dangerous sign of gender confusion, worthy of “professional help”. Dobson is allowing his own twisted readings of scripture and the bigotry those readings engender to warp his duty to protect children. He is so afraid of homosexuals that he is willing to crush little children’s sense of themselves and belief in their own personality to combat it.
If it wasn’t so dangerous, I could feel sad for Dobson, trapped in that twisted, stunted little world of his. But it is dangerous, and real children are going to suffer because of his demented attitudes.
Johnny, Are You Queer?
Via MetaFilter comes James Dobson’s checklist to help you find out if your kid might be gay.
I thought I’d go down the list and see how I did.
1. A strong feeling that they are “different” from other boys.
Oh y…
Which of Dr. Dobson’s 7 points is wrong? Do you have a problem with identifying someone as gay? Do you think the boy should hide it? How liberal of you.
God bless Dr. Dobson.
Kevin wrote:
Dobson is allowing his own twisted readings of scripture…
Which scripture does Dr. Dobson twist?
Fred, you disingenous chuckle-head, Dr. Dobson wants parents to identify their children as gay so they can be subjected to “reparative therapy” brainwashing, which has been rejected by mainstream psychologists and is provably harmful. Sheesh.
crap, spelled “disingenuous” wrong.
Ab_Normal, I didn’t ask why he wanted to identify homosexual boys. I asked which of his seven points are wrong. Before you get your panties in a wad, try responded to what I said and not what you make up that I said. Do you think boys should be ashamed of being homosexuals?
I hope that Dr. Dobson can be useful in saving boys from lives of perversion.
Why is it that liberals are not capable of responding without namecalling? Is it in the genes as you claim homosexuality is?
BTW, if you want a good laugh, get some old books by “mainstream” psychologists of the early 1900’s and read what the accepted treatments were for mental problems.
Very strange. This website accepted my earlier posts but all of a sudden the spam filter starts blocking my posts. I guess I had better start saying only positive things about liberals.
Dobson has a corn cob up his butt.
Steve Plonk wrote:
Dobson has a corn cob up his butt.
Fred: It’s better than having a corn cob between the ears.
Yes, this is simply crushing innocent boys to try to change their thinking. And while we’re at it, we damn well better not crush them in other ways, like correcting behavior that society might frown upon, like stealing, driving drunk, or other activities that might cause harm to others or (gasp!) to themselves.
Let me ask you…if your son had a penchant for screwing the dog outside, would it be crushing him to try to convince him that it really isn’t good to engage in such behavior??
However, Paul, the difference is…people are humans, and animals are animals. It’s scientifically and biblically proven and society/common sense and nature support that fact. There is a difference between loving another human and using an animal as a sex toy. To try and change innocent boys’ thoughts is like stealing someone’s personality– not forgivable, perverse and hateful. You’re not accepting them for who they, as humans, are. The greatest commandment is LOVE; now show some of that love to the little boy in his mommy’s dress, don’t tell him that the God he loves hates him.