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elfsMichael Schwartz, chief of staff for Senator Tom Coburn (R-Oklahoma), this weekend said of boys ages nine through twelve:
I guess I should be furious: Schwartz wasn't one of those kids terrified lest his peers find out that he didn't share their animosity, but instead had a deep fascination: people do that? For fun? Can I do that? Grief, if some of the people I went to school with at that age knew what was going through my head I would probably have never survived sixth grade.
I'm burned out, though. Schwartz is just an idiot who doesn't understand kids at all. I don't think he ever was one.
Schwartz also says that all pornography is gay pornography. Apparently, his logic is something like: boys have a natural inclination. If you show them porn, they'll discover masturbation, and once they've gotten used to holding one penis in their hands, well, you know where that leads...
But it is my observation that boys at that age have less tolerance for homosexuality than just about any other class of people. They speak badly about homosexuality. And that's because they don't want to be that way. They don't want to fall into it. And that's a good instinct. ... It's not genetic. Homosexuality is inflicted on people.Dude, you were so not in my head at that age.
I guess I should be furious: Schwartz wasn't one of those kids terrified lest his peers find out that he didn't share their animosity, but instead had a deep fascination: people do that? For fun? Can I do that? Grief, if some of the people I went to school with at that age knew what was going through my head I would probably have never survived sixth grade.
I'm burned out, though. Schwartz is just an idiot who doesn't understand kids at all. I don't think he ever was one.
Schwartz also says that all pornography is gay pornography. Apparently, his logic is something like: boys have a natural inclination. If you show them porn, they'll discover masturbation, and once they've gotten used to holding one penis in their hands, well, you know where that leads...
