http://brettberk.com/2008/12/15/love-treed/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:17:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://brettberk.com/2008/12/15/love-treed/comment-page-1/#comment-665 thegayrecluse Mon, 15 Dec 2008 16:22:20 +0000 http://brettberk.com/2008/12/15/love-treed/#comment-665 Although I'm (almost) never in favor of pushing someone into a tree, I identified with this boy, because I remember feeling rather terrorized as a first grader upon learning that a girl "liked" me, and somehow knowing that I could never like her back, at least in the way that was expected of me. I'm not saying the boy in this case is (or will be) gay, but I do think it can be very alarming to be confronted with these expectations at a young age. (Also tangentially: parents should stop assuming their kids are (or will be) straight, just because they're "straight-acting"!) Although I’m (almost) never in favor of pushing someone into a tree, I identified with this boy, because I remember feeling rather terrorized as a first grader upon learning that a girl “liked” me, and somehow knowing that I could never like her back, at least in the way that was expected of me. I’m not saying the boy in this case is (or will be) gay, but I do think it can be very alarming to be confronted with these expectations at a young age. (Also tangentially: parents should stop assuming their kids are (or will be) straight, just because they’re “straight-acting”!)

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