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10-13-2004 12:09 PM |
Leaving the US until after the election: Poll
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Originally posted by leagleaze
I hadn't thought about parents having to deal with those ads. That's pretty funny.
Here's a question for you, Mr. Dad. If you are with your kids and you happen upon a couple engaging in a minor PDA, say they are looking at a view and one person is holding the other one, would you walk the other way with the kids, walk past and say nothing, completely disappear from the area? How do parents deal with this generally?
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Since the most common form of PDA they see occurs between me and the mom-figure, they're just used to it. The younger ones get all "eeewwwww, gross!", while the older ones just grin knowingly. (Well, they don't actually do the "eeww, gross" thing when it's strangers - they're polite, at least - but you can tell they're thinking it.)
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I ask because this weekend we had a family stop dead in their tracks when they saw Mrs. Eaze holding me while we were looking at a lake, they stared at us in horror and then completely disappeared from the entire area.
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I think you've been told about working on your wardrobe.
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I am wondering is this because it was two women and they didn't want to explain to little Timmy the concept of why two women would be holding each other (which by the way I do understand) or just a general response of some parents to PDA?
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Some people hate hamburgers, some like 'em. I imagine if the parents are homophobes, or just anti-PDA, that's what the kids learn, too. I have a neighbor who gets completely roiled at the thought of the local high school teens parking anywhere near our neighborhood. Our kids have a gay aunt, and a gay "uncle" (i.e., not really a relative, but close.) They've seen PDA's in every combination. The youngers give the "eewww, gross!" reaction equally to mixed or matched pairs. The elders grin knowingly at both. No biggie to them.
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