Posted on 08/14/2005 10:23:15 AM PDT by A. Pole
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With crystal-blue eyes, wavy hair, and freshly scrubbed faces, the boys look as though they stepped out of a Pottery Barn Kids catalog. They are 7-year-old twins. I'll call them Thomas and Patrick; their parents agreed to let me meet the boys as long as I didn't use their real names.
Spend five seconds with them, and there can be no doubt that they are identical twins - so identical even they can't tell each other apart in photographs. Spend five minutes with them, and their profound differences begin to emerge.
Patrick is social, thoughtful, attentive. He repeatedly addresses me by name. Thomas is physical, spontaneous, a bit distracted. [...] The differences are subtle - they're 7-year-old boys, after all - but they are there.
When the twins were 2, Patrick found his mother's shoes. He liked wearing them. Thomas tried on his father's once but didn't see the point.
When they were 3, Thomas blurted out that toy guns were his favorite things. Patrick piped up that his were the Barbie dolls he discovered at day care.
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Their mother - intelligent, warm, and open-minded - found herself conflicted. She wanted Patrick - whose playmates have always been girls, never boys - to be himself, but she worried his feminine behavior would expose him to ridicule and pain. She decided to allow him free expression at home while setting some limits in public.
That worked until last year, when a school official called to say Patrick was making his classmates uncomfortable. He kept insisting that he was a girl.
Patrick exhibits behavior called childhood gender nonconformity, or CGN.
(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...
Indoctrination and perversion. Next question?
Childhood Gender Nonconformity bump!
Hey, that was quick!
later pingout.
I Hate my Newspaper. Boston Globe=Little New York Times
The question of "genetics" is irrelevant. Obesity, alcoholism and other BEHAVIORS may have a genetic component. That does not mean that society must encourage such behaviors.
Because they hold the Vice President in high regard?
Reading the Boston Globe and the Boston Phoenix for a start. Real men read the Herald.
Dysfunction and social experimentation.
Watching the BRAVO channel.
Don't forget "Sundance, Lifetime, and We...."
I know of just such a family where 2 of the 3 brothers turned out queer, and the third brother overcompensated by trying to steal everyone elses girlfriends in a pathetic effort to prove he wasn't gay.
One of the most profoundly dysfuctional families I have ever encountered.
You forgot a big offender, OXYGEN.
What makes people gay? I'd say listening to George Michael 24x7 would do it.
Exactly right. We also do not need to tolerate them.
GMTA!!
Designer shoes seems to play a role.
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