Exactly! Mothers seldom want to hear this, but boys NEED to have fist fights growing up. They DO NOT need to talk about their feelings or other such nonsense. As a rule, there is no reason that a six or seven year old boy should even WANT to spend time with a girl of the same age who is not his sister.
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Taken by itself, I wouldn't call this fundie. The source does not a fundie quote make. If Rapture Ready told me I should invest in oil futures, it doesn't make the advice fundie just because the death cult advised it. I'm voting low here, Free Republic has way more bat-shit insanity to offer than this.
Fucking hillbilly douchebag.
"Naow Billeh, hit tha' boy until ya make 'im cry like a baby! Go on son, be ah maaaaan!"
"BUT BEING GAY IS ALSO WRONG
Cognitive dissonance much? "
Maybe they posthocrationalise their downlow activities by "beating up" other men, just not with their fist ;)
My nephews love their neice, I guess they're destined to be rentboys or something.
"who is not his sister."
INCEST ONLY
Barbaric? yes.
Fundie? no.
@Paschal Wagner: you win the internet. That movie's hilarious.
Regarding the fundie's comments, my two best friends when I was six were both girls, so wagglebee can go shove his sexism where the sun don't shine.
I agree with the first bit. Most kids, not just boys, not some time in their life when they smack each other around. I disagree, however, with the second sentence. Some of my best friends growing up were the neighborhood girls, and we did all sorts of stupid stuff together, just as crazy as the stupid stuff the neighborhood boys and I used to do.
Oh wait, he's a Freeper. "girls" don't do that sort of thing in his mind.
Paschal Wagner for the win!
Also, my best friend growing up was a boy. He turned out OK after having female friends. So this Freeper fails.
Oh, Aristophanes, we need you now! Ever seen/read/heard of the "Clouds," wagglebee? I thought not.
Basic (parodic) argument: If being beaten as a young boy teaches character, it must do the same for adults. And it's only fair to repay parents' loving concern. Therefore, old men should be beaten by their adult sons. Bend over, waggles.
If I ever have children, I would not let them anywhere near the little yard apes you seem intent on raising, then. Seriously, if you don't think that teaching a child of dealing with things other than smashing things up, you are an unfit parent. Period.
However.
Fundie? No.
As a rule, there is no reason that a six or seven year old boy should even WANT to spend time with a girl of the same age who is not his sister.
Bible belt virgin(n): Girl who can outrun her brother.
Not fundie, just dumbshit, out of date thinking. Yes, fighting things out is much more productive than talking your way through an issue. It just makes so much sense.
Yes, so when they're older, instead of talking things over like civilized human beings, they'll resolve conflicts by smashing their opponents' faces. Smash, smash! Hulk angry! Hulk mad! Don't blame us when your kid ends up going on a shooting spree in school.
Not fundie. A bit ignorant, perhaps (I was spending time with boys of my age when I was a little 6 year old girl- I never really cared about the gender of my friends, nor did they,) but not fundie.
...boys NEED to have fist fights growing up. They DO NOT need to talk about their feelings or other such nonsense.
Yes, lets teach our sons that fighting is the only answer and watch them grow up to become criminals.
As a rule, there is no reason that a six or seven year old boy should even WANT to spend time with a girl of the same age who is not his sister.
But if he spends his entire childhood with nothing but boys, he might grow up to be gay. We don't want that do we?
Honey^H^H^H^H^Hwagglebee, just because you had no interest in having friends of the other sex (ever, I think it may be safely assumed and not just when you were 6 or 7) doesn't mean everyone's like that.
If the girl wasn't his sister, she could be his cousin or probably both.
I think we know wagglebee is someon'e uncledaddy.
Sorry, the comment isn't that dumb (I mean, the no girls thing is slightly misguided, sure, but who isn't?). I agree that most mothers coddle their boys too much. Little boys are not going to be the picture of civilization, it's biology, live with it and stop trying to turn them into girls (ooooh, was that sexist? So terribly sorry to point out the fact that boys are girls are biologically different on a forum so pro evolution).
ENOUGH CALLING IT "NOT FUNDIE!" "Fundie" does not require any sort of religious dogmatism. You people and your strict adherence to dictionary definitions are beginning to get on my nerves. I'm beginning to think this obsession with a narrow definition of fundie is becoming fundie.
Oh, and Steve, above me? Congratulations. You're submitted. The 19th century would like you to come home.
"As a rule, there is no reason that a six or seven year old boy should even WANT to spend time with a girl of the same age who is not his sister."
Not even to "play doctor"?
Oh, right, I forgot, you're a Fundie.
"ENOUGH CALLING IT "NOT FUNDIE!" "Fundie" does not require any sort of religious dogmatism. You people and your strict adherence to dictionary definitions are beginning to get on my nerves. I'm beginning to think this obsession with a narrow definition of fundie is becoming fundie.
Oh, and Steve, above me? Congratulations. You're submitted. The 19th century would like you to come home. "
Stupid dictionary, always telling me how to use words. I'LL USE WORDS HOWEVER I WANT TO!
Stupid 19th century, how dare you you insinuate that males and females are physiologically different? I mean, come on, brain size differences? Behavioral differences? Differences in quantities and effects of hormones? Pfft, all hogwash! All humans, male and female, are identical!
And stupid Biology degree, what do I need you for? The Watcher has all the answers I'll ever need.
I wouldn't go so far as to say boys need fist fights, but it's a rare one who will reach adulthood without being involved in a few. My neighborhood (middle-middle class, 1940s) was chock-a-block full of boys. When we weren't playing sports or jumping off garage roofs a common pastime was beating the snot out of one another. Talk about your feelings? Spare me. Girls? Until we reached 12 or 13 we thought they were some kind of weird sissy people who didn't play football.
Sorry, the comment isn't that dumb (I mean, the no girls thing is slightly misguided, sure, but who isn't?). I agree that most mothers coddle their boys too much. Little boys are not going to be the picture of civilization, it's biology, live with it and stop trying to turn them into girls (ooooh, was that sexist? So terribly sorry to point out the fact that boys are girls are biologically different on a forum so pro evolution).
The concept of differentiation of Gender is a very bizzare one in a culture which understands that both genders are innately equal. And are you assuming little girls should be well behaved? The Boys will be Boys argument is not an adequate one. In lieu of fist fights, one may teach the boys to learn how to solve arguments with words rather than like cavemen.
Need? I seem to remember being outright instructed by my father not to hit anyone unless they hit me first. This included my little shit of a brother.
Seven year olds of either gender are not known to be terribly introspective, but, it is necessary for a person to become introspective and aware of his or her own feelings in order to extrapolate the feelings of others and function in a civilized society. Sorry, but "smash, grab, 'me hungry'" just isn't enough for anything more than a caveman.
As for mixed gendered play, most young kids are pretty homosocial, they only want to play with members of their own sex, that one you've got right. But no one wants to play with their sister or brother at that point, only the parents want to make the kid play with the little shitter who takes up all the attention.
Back at that age, they weren't really fist fights. More like slapping, biting, and wrestling, at least from what I remember.
Nearly 26 years of life, and I've never been in a fist fight. I socialized with the girls in my kindergarten class plenty.
And I'm plenty heterosexual, if that's what wagglebee's getting at.
I'm not seeing any overt disadvantages from any of that. Really, I wonder what the whole point is.
Not seeing the fundie in this. At six or seven boys and girls tend to think the other sex has cooties, especially sisters. And boys tend to be rougher than girls, on average. You do have your tom-boys and your quiet boys. Now if this guy was spouting about beating the sissy out of the boy, that would be a different story.
Ok, and thieves need to steal, murders to kill, people to do illegal things now and then...................
As a rule, there is no reason that a six or seven year old boy should even WANT to spend time with a girl of the same age who is not his sister.
Yes because that could mean he likes her, and that is soooooooooo gay!
There is not that big difference between little boys and little girls. The society imposes differences on them, and little boys learn that they should fight, and little girls learn that they should not. Sure, there might be some predisposition in boys for protection, and in girls for nuturing, since these traits have been important during the ages. But little girls need to have fights too, and learn to stand up for themselves, and to feel good about themselves. Little boys might need to be forced to talk about their feelings.
I'm not a mother, so you can say it to me.
When I was that age the boys were solely interested in how fast my power chair went and whether I'd run someone over for them. The girls, however, were interested in me, the person. Now, which would you choose: someone that doesn't give a shit about youjust your toysor someone that wanted to be friends? In short, there are reasons why a six year old boy would want to hang out with girls his age. Idiot!
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