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I am an older gay guy in a long-term wonderful relationship. My spouse and I are in our 36th year together. I love politics and news. I enjoy civil discussions and have no taboo subjects. My pronouns are he / him / his and my email is Scottiestoybox@gmail.com
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Man! That is absolutely spot on! Us guys in the 60s actually did think about the various Barbies like that. In the UK it would be ‘Ha. That’s sweet,’
On the big brother theme, Sheila and I watched a documentary on Barbie a few years back and one middle aged woman said ‘My Barbies had Kens, and they slept with them all,’ (Girls growing up – big surprise there!)
Just goes to show just how pathetic and inadequate these folk getting uptight over Barbie are.
I mean just suppose I went onto one of their sites and said:
‘Yeah! That’s true. Same as in ‘Saving Private Ryan’. Not enough women’s roles in that. We gotta have gender equality. Look at ‘Apocalypse Now’ the only women were Playgirls.. And ‘Little Women’. How come the men an’t the strong interesting characters too?’
That should make their heads spin and explode.
Honestly, how pathetic can you get? Getting angry over a movie about Barbie…Sexual insecurity much guys???
Take care Scottie
Keep your site chuggin’ along👍
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Hello Roger. Well said. I have never understood the complete denial of human sexuality some adults have. Especially this idea that young people don’t have sexual thoughts or desires, that touching themselves never feels good or happens until the magic age of 18 here in the states. I realize age of consent is different in other more realistic countries. But here there is this idea that the night you turn 18 a magic switch gets thrown on, and you suddenly understand and desire pleasant sexual touch / sexual pleasure. How can they think this way when they went through childhood and puberty themselves.
There is an outright panic and refusal to accept that studies show children taught comprehensive sexual education in school from a young age are safer from sexual exploitation, STDs, and pregnancies. But these right-wingers don’t want kids to know they have a right to body autotomy especially girl children. They are not happy with just denying the information or representation to their children but insist on it for all kids despite the wishes of other parents. They want to return to the strictures of the 1950s, their comfort zone where they can ignore all the things they don’t like or understand, pretending the world is the mythical reality they want so badly. Hugs
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Hi Scottie
As the vast majority of folk should know the transition years are complicated and shown to be longer than just 2 or 3.
The current scope of expanding knowledge suggest a fluidity. This bears a parallel with the mental development. Despite the antics of folk such as the fellow who occupied the Whitehouse from 2016-2020, many do developed beyond the perception of children into adulthood, and this in turn can also change along the path of adulthood.
Therefore it follows a person as their body, mind (and if a person has that outlook) their spirituality develops and alters through Life Experience it is possible that for their sexuality to also adjust.
Afterall, the body does. And the body’s alterations impact on both mental and I would suggest sexuality.
This is turn is a very delicate balancing act. A person may find through their social interactions a general preference to change their sexuality, either physically or by orientation; their experiences with one sex or another being say, negative. Much will depend upon the person.
On another tac a person may have such a strong and loving relationship with another than they find it ‘relatively’ easier to forgo their personal sexual inclination to maintain that relationship which they value more than what might be a feeling of lesser importance. Humans are complex constructs.
What is completely negative is to suggest a person can be ‘turned’ by another, that indicates an imbalance in the relationship. This differs from a person being so confident and having deep feeling for another thus quite naturally re-aligning their orientation to be closer to the other, or the two doing this simultaneously. The parallel can be drawn here with friendships or the comradeships forged under duress, which can be very strong indeed.
In short the whole subject is not one in which a group gets to decide what is good for one person and impose their will, by law or coercion.
Hysteria and hyperbolic accusation are of no use to the vulnerable and impressionable. No more than wilful misrepresentation which is a very old trick
In this age there are no simple solutions to these matters. Trying to force everything back into rigid boxes will not work and in fact is tantamount to its own form of abuse.
It is also hypocrisy in its highest form. Those who would force children into roles scream quite loudly when it comes to gun control. It is quite easy to run rings around their arguments using guns as a parallel.
The whole outcome of this narrowness will be a great deal of unhappiness.
We need to think, reflective and treat each circumstance as indivdualistic. No group tells a person what category they should belong to.
And in the name of a religion…that’s another hypocrisy.
OK I think I am done for the present.
Best wishes
Roger
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