Make him play with boys and with boys' toys and games. Let him play with guns, cars, baseballs, basketballs, and footballs. As soon as I could I taught my boy to play baseball and football. When he was about thirteen I bought him an air rifle. When he was fifteen I bought him a .22 rifle. Invariably, when someone admits to me he is a homosexual he relates that he played a lot with girls and participated in feminine activities.
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when someone admits to me he is a homosexual he relates that he played a lot with girls and participated in feminine activities
If this were true, wouldn't that suggest that homosexuality is determined in young childhood - something fundies constantly deny?
... no, see, the one guy in our class that only wanted to play with girls, and everyone thought WAS homosexual?
... Got all the girls.
"When he was about thirteen I bought him an air rifle. When he was fifteen I bought him a .22 rifle"
So being a manly man means shooting stuff? I think Jack has a very destructive concept of masculinity.
Nothing, and I mean nothing sets a boy straight like forcing him to rub up against other sweaty boys while they chase after plump, voluptuous balls.
Well maybe there it one thing, teaching a young man how to properly polish and clean the various long, steel shafts of a gun barrel. Working the gun lube up and down all sorts of different lengths and thicknesses. Yep Shafts and balls, the best way to keep 'em straight.
"Girls can wear jeans
And cut their hair short
Wear shirts and boots
Cause it's okay to be a boy
But for a boy to look like a girl is degrading
Cause you think being a girl is degrading
But secretly
You'd love to know what it's like
Wouldn't you?
What it feels like for a girl"
- "What It Feels Like For a Girl" by Madonna.
My father had me play sports, lots of them, and to this day I'm a sports fanatic. I certainly have a good-sized amount of masculine traits... but guess what? Totally, totally, totally gay.
So, since I played with all the things I could get my hands on except action figures and dolls (wich bored me), and a lot of "unisex" toys like plasticine and plastic animals, I'm going to be bisexual. Hu-uh, okay.
@Fanatic-Templar: I do.
.22 rifle? Ha! Back in my Boy Scout days I was recognized as the best shot in the troop with a 12-gauge, a 50-caliber black powder muzzle-loader, and, yeah, a wimpy little .22 rifle.
I'm also not only gay and most comfortable around women than around men, I'm a raging queen and fairly militant politically.
In summary? You lose, Jack.
You're lying and is a sin. No, when somebody is homosexual, just beds people of the same sex, not adapts to their conventions.
You know, my brother's mentally challenged and is probably a four year old stuck in a teenager's body. He has no idea about sexual orientation or what's wrong or right to play with, but he knows one thing- he likes girls.
You fail, Jack.
For the record, I mostly read books as a child, and I have no idea which way I go. Okay, maybe the Oscar Wilde wasn't such a good idea, lol
Nothing like giving a stupid, trigger-happy teenager a potentially dangerous weapon. Why not just get him a water gun? Much more fun, in my opinion.
(Okay, I know not all teenagers are stupid and violent. But still, this is how accidents happen.)
Uhh, I played soccer and basketball as a child. I played with robots as a child.
And dude, I am really really Gay.
and a gun? You think giving a boy a phallic symbol is going to make him LESS gay?
@Fanatic-Templar: NAY. I OBJECT to the motion to award Andrew an Internets.
Seriously, gentlemen. An? AN!?
I'm surprised that nobody noticed this, but how is this person in a position where he has numerous males admitting to him that they are homosexuals?
What person has that kind of interest in if other males are homosexuals - enough to make an observation of this nature?
Kind of reminds me of the Onion article where the guy complains that homos keep sucking his dick.
... Fooling around with girls is usually a good time no matter what age (do so responsibly of course).
Re: MANLY THINGS TO DO
Guns? What a pansy. Anyone can cap somebody with a gun. You know what takes real manliness!?
Stabbing somebody. Or, better still, garroting them. Hell, forgo weapons entirely, if you need weapons to do your killing, you're clearly not manly enough. Go wrestle that steer to death and we'll call you a man!
More Serious:
If the kid doesn't mind, this seems like a slice of decent home life. The proper use and care of firearms/rifles isn't really essential or even useful in urban centers, but in the country it's a worthwhile and occasionally filling sport, like fishing.
I personally don't like either of those particular out-of-doors activities, but I can see the appeal. Especially when it's beer-battered and fried with a little lemon.
I did a lot of reading and drawing as a kid. I have no clear orientation.
Mr. Hyles, you have no clue what in the world you speak of.
...at age 17 he held up a liquor store, when he was 21 he raped a woman and I helped him burn her body....
@ Alena: same thing that went wrong in mine if I had to guess. Though what exactly that is, I don't know.
When he was about thirteen I bought him an air rifle. When he was fifteen I bought him a .22 rifle.
Marge: Homer, he prefers the company of men.
Homer: Who doesn't?
**
Bart: Something abut a bunch of guys alone together in the woods... seems kinda gay.
**
Moe: Come on, don't take this so hard, Homer. You still got that other kid, uh... Lisa. Let's, uh, take her out hunting tomorrow; make her into a man.
Homer: Aw, she'd never go. She's a vegetarian.
Moe: Oh, geez! Homer, geez! You and Marge ain't cousins, are you?
"When he was about thirteen I bought him an air rifle. When he was fifteen I bought him a .22 rifle."
Bitch please, when I was 13 I got a 7.62 x 39 semi automatic Yugo SKS.
I climbed trees, wrestled, jumped in mud puddles, playfought, played football etcetera. When I got older I played online MMPORGs (only girl on an otherwise entirely male team) or by myself. I like action movies and violent video games.
I turned out straight. I like teh cock, to put it plainly.
I hated dolls and dresses, though (still do). That probably makes me heathen. But it just goes to show that what you do as a child/teen has NOTHING to do with your sexual orientation, Jack-ass!
When he was fifteen I bought him a .22 rifle.
And you people blame shootings on the schools.
No wonder young people are shooting each other since your buying them guns at a young age.
I hope your kid shoots you over his myspace or something.
Doesn't work that way. Being gay MIGHT give him an interest in "girly" things, but having and interest in "girly" things in NOT going to make him gay.
Wasn't your own he-man God-fearin president a former cheerleader?
"When he was fifteen I bought him a .22 rifle.
And you people blame shootings on the schools.
No wonder young people are shooting each other since your buying them guns at a young age.
I hope your kid shoots you over his myspace or something."
That's not how that works. I've been useing firearms since I was 13 years old. Not wimpy .22 bolt action rifles but military grade M16A2s. Nothing wrong with a young one using a weapon provided you teach him it ain't a toy, it's a weapon designed to kill things. He needs to respect it and it's power. Just make sure the child is sane.
"When he was about thirteen I bought him an air rifle. When he was fifteen I bought him a .22 rifle."
Bitch please, when I was 13 I got a 7.62 x 39 semi automatic Yugo SKS."
Really? I want to try it, I havn't used anything that outside the US militaries standard issue (M16A2, M16A4, M4 Carbine... the 720 model, ain't used any of the more modern ones yet).
None of my brothers ever had a gun when they were growing up, only water pistols. My brothers inherited my toys and my sister's toys after us. We played a lot together, the four of us. They, like my sister and me, have played with cars and dolls and books and Lego.
Both my brothers are engaged/married to very charming, strong and self-confident women.
I've always found this particularly baffling, this idea that hanging around with the opposite sex is a sign/cause of being gay. If anything, you'd expect the opposite. To my mind, a guy having an appreciation for the feminine is a very heterosexual thing; it entails admiration of women, after all.
"When he was fifteen I bought him a .22 rifle. Invariably, when someone admits to me he is a homosexual he relates that he played a lot with girls and participated in feminine activities."
Ahem...:
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It's rumoured that there's a few gay men in our SAS. Just say that whilst you're looking down the business end of a 9mm H&K MP5, wielded by a gas-masked, dark-uniformed member of said UK special forces, Jacky-boy. >:D
My nephew - who is in the East Yorkshire regiment - has ambitions to join the SAS:
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(^ Not him, BTW; as per his ambition, he wants to remain anonymous, and all that jazz)
He's his squad's sniper. The SAS would welcome into their ranks an expert in the .50 cal. Barrett M82A1.
"So, David J. Stewart, what childhood influences provoked your obsession with the teenaged girls on Disney Channel?"
This isn't Stewart, it's Jack Hyles, the demented Obi-Wan to Stewart's perverse Luke Skywalker.
Haha, I read that article, and it's inspirational in a twisted sort of way. You can see the sheer bloody-headed (American) emotional strength coming through in the style. It's the wages of being an idiot: you have a conviction and a drive that few rational people have, because you absolutely cannot tolerate any ambiguity whatsoever. Now I understand why people believe these idiots. I can see why someone who isn't very intelligent might be taken in by it. They've got this amazing ability to inflate a stupid idea to monstrous proportions and blast it out their mouths with their whole heart behind it.
I bet Jackass Hyles is just afraid of his son (as well as himself) getting in touch with his feminine side, so that's why he decided to teach sonny boy to become a lowlife scum who probably won't find love.
Anyway, I grew up playing with Legos, toy trucks and cars and video games...and that didn't make me anywhere near a lesbian, so suck it, Jack!
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