Ropponmatsu posted:
@appbeza
It's not a fictional idea, tbh. I was a pretty late bloomer in real life, and I certainly remember thinking "oh, so two girls can do that?".
I have a 10 year old niece and I have a hard time explaining to her (without getting too specific, of course) how or why two persons of the same sex could be a couple or even in love. That's something alien to most children, even when the parents (my brother is rather supportive) are not mocking or talking bad about gays. It's just a whole environment. The whole of society shows as an unshakeable truth that a couple is a boy and a girl. Period. The teacher don't even have to talk about it. The kids teach each other, from what they gather from home.
When she talks about elementary school "loves", she talks about how such girl likes such boy or that this boy and this girl are "lovers" (with the usual amount of snickering and embarrassment). It's just the way things are. That two boys or to two girls could be in the same situation doesn't enter their world, unless they have a example close to them. And even then, talking about it at school would draw incomprehension and "ewww" comments. I try to defuse and explain to her that "for some people, it may happen that they like someone of the same sex and that there's nothing wrong with it, even if it's unusual", but what she hears on the school playground about homosexuals is what most kids bring from home : "it's gross".
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