I wish I could bottle my 7 year old daughter and share her around. She has the most wonderfully refreshing and incredibly down to earth attitude towards LGBT issues (most issues in fact) and has asked several times what other people's problem is. I've been treated several times to her rants and speeches about 'when two people love each other does it matter?'
She's awesome, and a little bit of hope in what's sometimes a shitty world. A reminder that, in spite of occasional evidence to the contrary, we've done a pretty good job raising her.
The other night I was talking with a friend about the Walking Dead and fanfiction, when E piped up with 'Rick and Daryl would make a cute couple if only Rick would stop talking about his feelings all the time'
Friend: 'But they're both boys.'
E: 'So?'
Friend: (nodding) I think so too.
(I'm not sure whether letting a 7 year old watch something like the walking dead makes me the best, or the worst mother on the planet, but when she says something like that, I'm pretty proud of her)
As I mentioned in this thread : http://www.absolutewrite.com/forums/showthread.php?t=289157
earlier today, when I clicked on the anti gay marriage ad she voiced 'what a load of shite' - which warranted a small chat about appropriate language.
Aside from my daughter, I once had an eldery female relative (in her early 80's) in the same room when a friend (a lesbian who works in a fetish club as a female acting as male drag queen - there's probably a correct term for that, but I'm sorry, I don't know) sent me some photos of her and her girlfriend in lingerie. Elderly relative, looking over my shoulder, didn't ask why I was looking at pics of other girls in their pants, or why they were kissing each other, instead she said, 'I like her pants, do you think they came from Marksys?'
I loved that line so much I ended up using it in a book a wrote the following year.
I know the most awesome people.
She's awesome, and a little bit of hope in what's sometimes a shitty world. A reminder that, in spite of occasional evidence to the contrary, we've done a pretty good job raising her.
The other night I was talking with a friend about the Walking Dead and fanfiction, when E piped up with 'Rick and Daryl would make a cute couple if only Rick would stop talking about his feelings all the time'
Friend: 'But they're both boys.'
E: 'So?'
Friend: (nodding) I think so too.
(I'm not sure whether letting a 7 year old watch something like the walking dead makes me the best, or the worst mother on the planet, but when she says something like that, I'm pretty proud of her)
As I mentioned in this thread : http://www.absolutewrite.com/forums/showthread.php?t=289157
earlier today, when I clicked on the anti gay marriage ad she voiced 'what a load of shite' - which warranted a small chat about appropriate language.
Aside from my daughter, I once had an eldery female relative (in her early 80's) in the same room when a friend (a lesbian who works in a fetish club as a female acting as male drag queen - there's probably a correct term for that, but I'm sorry, I don't know) sent me some photos of her and her girlfriend in lingerie. Elderly relative, looking over my shoulder, didn't ask why I was looking at pics of other girls in their pants, or why they were kissing each other, instead she said, 'I like her pants, do you think they came from Marksys?'
I loved that line so much I ended up using it in a book a wrote the following year.
I know the most awesome people.