To the daycare workers with a bunch of four-year-olds on the bus this morning: Keep your hate to yourselves. These kids are very young and impressionable! You’re saying “A pink house? Come on… how GAY are you??”and your kids are learning that that kind of discrimination is okay because they look up to you. It’s because of people like you that my kids will NEVER EVER go to daycare. I wish I’d covered their ears in time. —No Hate in My House
This article appears in Mar 11-17, 2010.
wow, lots of respect for this one. damn those closed minded jerks…
I would have called them out on it in front of everyone
Wouldn’t have my kids anywhere near that place if I heard their teachers talking like that (or knew about it) That would definitely be a time and place to step in and call them out, I agree with Kirbul. They may not be your kids, but they are somebody’s… I’d certainly hope someone would step in like that if it was mine who was listening in on such conversations. What’s the matter with people these days anyway?
not professional at all
I’d step in for sure. One of the perks of working at my daughter’s daycare part time, is that I know I can trust the people looking after her.
And it is a good thing you’re here too angel! I think there a couple of posters lately who are in desperate need of having their diapers changed…… 😛
pacifiers all round and some sippy cups
So maybe it is incorrect to use the word GAY in that context around children. As a gay guy, I guess I am guilty too of saying “Sounds gay” and “That’s so gay.” No different from persons of color using the N-word in their culture.
There are lots of good daycares in the city, and I happen to have my son in one that is fantastic and the daycare providers would NEVER utter something like this. Don’t give all daycare providers a bad name for one incident involving one person.
for you maybe seb….
but that’s like joe blow whitey saying “look at that N_____ swaggering all the fucking place on the bus…”
not quite approved of.
Daycare workers spreading hate to 4 year olds? and people don’t understand why they still burn crosses in Nova Scotia…
well now, if we are going to get all bent out of shape over this, then i guess you haven’t ever watched south park. on damn near every episode is some type f refference to gays. get over your hurt feelings. gays are gays, and the majority are quite happy being gay. this comes from a person who has a lot of gay friends, and am straight.
LS, try to catch up, muffin. The issue is with teaching children the harmful stereotypes associated with being gay, ie. if you’re a boy who likes pink, you must be gay, being gay makes you a sissy or vice versa…essentially indoctrinating children with the idea that ‘gay’ is somehow wrong, outside the norm, or lesser.
yes meow, i agree, but my statement is still valid. teaching any age hate or even instigating a fear or disdain, for any other person or type of person is so wrong. i was pointing out a fact that a lot of people know, south park is extremely open to suggestions.be they good or bad. and as far as that show goes, there are a lot of younger kids watching,than you can imagine.kid about 5, says one day on bus, oh my god, they killed kenny, them bastards.see what i mean. having people say a pink house is gay, that could also mean, it looks like a happy house.being a bright color and all.
I wish you made as much sense as you think you do, LS.
Your previous post was pretty clearly inferring that we shouldn’t “get all bent out of shape” because South Park promotes gay stereotypes too. According to you, OP should “get over their hurt feelings” because daycare workers shouldn’t be held any more accountable for the influence they have on kids than a cartoon intended for adults.
Right. Thanks for chiming in with your wisdom once again, LS. You never fail to enlighten us all.
How this is promoting hate is beyond me. Get a grip. Pink is gay??? I thought it was purple!
meow, i’ll do you one better on the cartoon thing. remember awhile back a kid got hit by lightning, doing his heman impersonation for friends. then there are a bugs bunny toons, that have them shooting each other in the face, and just getting a little blackened. if you want to take it to the extreme, cartoons are the worst things going for forming very young minds. sponge bob comes to mind here, as well as many others could too.no, sterotyping is never good, the same as you yourself will know,looking around. but let’s not get to far off topic.gay is gay, either sexually, colorful, or happy as a whatever you want to insert here.
and by the way,if you have ever been to england, you will hear some real dandies( that one being an elegant gentlemen). and a whole host of other shit that would have you asking, what the fuck are they saying?
and dar, yes, member tinky winky, poor little fucker.
LS is off his meds again… can someone lead him to the nearest pharmacy?
i love pink…very soothing, good for pyscho wards and prisons
I like purple, yet I’m strangely attracted to females. Man I’m all messed up.
When I was 4 I thought “gay” meant happy.
Which confused the hell out of me when I watched Three’s Company.
PK you don’t think Jack Tripper was happy? LOL.
As for pink. I don’t think too many people would go up to Brett “The Hitman” Hart or Jim “The Anvil” Neidhart and call them gay or sissies.
To quote Pink Floyd re this daycare: ” Hey, teacher, leave those kids alone!
I knew jack was happy, but I didn’t understand why mr furley got that “look” on his face (he sort of made his lips look like a butthole) when someone reminded him that jack was gay. I was all “why would mr furley be all buttlipped about jack being happy?”
LS,
Cartoons and daycare workers are a bit different.
I as the parent deem a show appropriate or not for my child.
When my child attends a day care, I dam well expect the “teachers” to behave in a professional and appropriate manner.
I’m half with Life Sucks on this one. Because of South Park tonnes of people nowadays use “That’s gay” to mean ‘bad idea’ or ‘dumb’. So while using the term may still be offensive to some, it doesn’t mean people are degrading ‘homosexuals’. If you talk to the average 15-year-old using those terms to denote something “lame”, they’re most likely very gay supportive. They’d actually be offended that you think they were homophobic. The word just doesn’t mean the same to them as it does to many adults.
So, I guess my main point here is who in the hell would paint their entire house pink??? That is a terrible idea.
dudde. im with sarey.
we’ve been using “thats Gay” forever.
we’re talking since we were five.
i dont have anything against gays. but i still say, stuff like “dude. you wanna wear frills to school? thats gay” or “man, you passed up guilt free sex, because you “respect” her? man thats gay.”
people read way to much into shit nowadays.
I don’t know, Kamen, I don’t think you can separate a word’s connotations like that. Things are called gay derogatorily not because it means happy but because it means homosexual, and that’s a connection that still exists. I’m not gay, but I can’t imagine it would be great to hear a term you identify with used frequently as an insult.
“Oh yeah, gay things suck, but not YOU, man.”
It’s the same reason people called things retarded – sure, they might have no problem with mentally challenged people, but using it as an insult still means you’re judging it as wrong. If you mean to say something is backward, stupid or douchey, why not just say that?