"Mommy, they are just like me." (Read the whole thing. Way too cool of a mom & dad!)

[WillParkinson]

“Mommy, they are just like me.”

My oldest son is six years old and in love for the first time. He is in love with Blaine from Glee.

For those who don’t know Blaine is a boy…a gay boy, the boyfriend of one of the main characters, Kurt.

This isn’t a ‘he thinks Blaine is really cool’ kind of love. It is a mooning at a picture of Blaine’s face for a half hour followed by a wistful “He’s so pretty” kind of love.

He loves the episode where two boys kiss. My son will call people in from other parts of the house to make sure they don’t miss his ‘favorite part.’ He’s been known to rewind it and watch it over again…and force other to, as well, if he doesn’t think people have been paying enough attention.

This infatuation doesn’t bother me or his father. We live in a very hip-liberal neighborhood, many of our friends are gay, and idea of having a gay son isn’t something that bothers either of us. Our son is going to be who he is, and it is our job to love him. End of story.

He is also six. Six year olds get obsessed with all kinds of things. This might not mean anything at all. We always joke that he’s either gay, or we have the best blackmail material in the history of mankind when he’s a 16 year old straight boy. (Take that naked bath time pictures!)

http://getstooobsessed.tumblr.com/post/9004061623/mommy-they-are-just-like-me-my-oldest-son-is

[hakko936]

1. Blackmail material?

Why on earth would you use it as blackmail material if he is stragiht?

[WillParkinson]

2. Pretty sure it's meant in humor...

n/t

[joeybee12]

12. Yeah, like those naked photos on a rug after a bath parents always

took of their 6 month-old kids.

[vi5]

3. Something is odd about this article...

I'm not sure why. I'm as pro-gay as they come. My kids (5 and 10 year olds) know about being gay and think it's perfectly normal. And we've never discouraged my daughter from doing typically masculine things or my son from doing typically feminine things. They have our undying support no matter who they are and what they do as long as they are happy and not hurting anyone else.

That being said....the point about "blackmail" material just seemed odd to me. Plus, letting a 6 year old watch what is decidedly a very adult (or at the very least older teen) show. I'm not exactly a prude and watched a host of inappropriate material as a kid, and I'm pretty lax on what my kids watch. But there's a lot of things on that show that a 6 year old shouldn't be hearing about (and I don't mean any of the gay stuff).

It just seems like the whole article reeks of "trying too hard".

[WillParkinson]

4. I think people are reading too much into the 'blackmail' comment...

I'd be willing to bet it was just meant in humor, not something to be taken literally.

[vi5]

9. Yeah, but it's more than that...

If it were that in isolation then you're right. But the whole tone of the article didn't sit right with me. I also think that treating a gay child like they are some kind of novelty or liberal badge of honor can be detrimental as well. Not as much as being against it or making them feel like their parents are ashamed of them. I just think it's one of those things where it's a fine line to walk. Especially at that young an age where a lot of it is projection rather than actual manifestation of sexual preference.

[amyrose2712]

7. I think that the blackmail comment is a joke, like the picture my mom

used to joke about, me dancing naked on the piano. Also, I remember being that age and having HUGE crushes on Treat Williams character "Berger" from the movie "Hair" and ABSOLUTELY LOVING Harrison Ford in the movie "Frisco Kid" not to mention the crushes I had on Gilligan and Mork from Ork. I couldn't have been more than 8 or so. I THINK i turned out ok.

[WillParkinson]

8. Or the pictures my mom has of me...

One when I was about 7. She put a long black t-shirt and a belt on me and put a candy cigarette in my hand and has me posed like a woman.

Or the one where I'm sitting on the floor with some relative or other and didn't realize that you could see my boy parts.

She laughs about it and asks if she should show it around. Mom's do that kind of thing.

[Lisa0825]

10. I don't have kids but everyone I know with young kids has potentially embarrassing

pictures of them, that they plan to spring on them the first time they have a serious girlfriend or boyfriend, or at their graduation party or wedding reception. It's a joke. I thought EVERYONE had "blackmail pictures" that their parents brought out to tease them with.

[vi5]

11. I get that part of it...

and as I said above if it were just that in isolation in the middle of an otherwise reasoned and thoughtful article then I wouldn't really have taken note.

But the whole thing just has a tone that I find annoying. Whatever. It's probably just me.

[HockeyMom]

5. Who knows?

He is very, very young. My older (gay) daughter was always very "boyish", but then so was her younger (straight) sister. I work in Pre-K and there are quite a few 4 year old boys absolutely in LOVE with Justin Bieber! lol There was one boy who used to like dressing up in the little girls princess costumes, high heels, etc. What will be, will be. He was a smart, very well behaved child. That's all that matters.

[xchrom]

6. very cool. nt

[dsc]

13. She evidently has followed up

http://www.popnography.com/2011/08/a-mother-considers-the-effect-her-blog-about-her-possibly-gay-son-has-had.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Popnography+%28Popnography%29

[Sentath]

14. Kicking the followup

Yes, she does deserve a prize.