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CAN BOYS BE LESBIANS? I kid you not....this came up in my class this afternoon. Little Frankie said he was a lesbian. I heard the word clear as a bell. The students were getting ready to go outside for a 'below freezing recess' but they'd been kept inside all day. It was 'warmer' in the afternoon.

I asked the kids who were involved in the discussion, if they knew what a lesbian was....

"Oh yeah! It's a girl who likes another girl".

When I asked Frankie why he thought HE was one...he replied,

"Coz I like girls."
I pointed out that HE wasn't a girl so he was 'normal'. He didn't seem to 'get it'.

Isaiah's being teased by people calling him Igaya....and he IS effeminate etc. the way he speaks, plus his mannerisms.

How the hell do I deal will all of this?
This was never 'touched on' in Teachers' College in the '70s.

Heeeelllllpppp!

Where the hell did the 'innocence of childhood" go?

LG

LG

Just ignore it. Pretend it isn't happening.

I used to be a Lesbian.

But not in a g....

Methinks you know the rest...

Regards

Bet Lynch's girlfriend. (As was.)

I'm not a Gynecologist, but I will have a fuckin good look at it for you! I'm as Lesbian as any Dyke. Ask my wife!

Seriously, If a boy wants to be a Lesbian, just sniff at it.
No! Boys do say shit to get attention. When I was 9, I made out I was gay so I got invited to pyjama parties!




Love you Lady Godiva


Arm xxxx

Thanks you lot? Very helpful...as per usual.

Seriously - I know English is a second language for most of my kids (low German is spoken at home) but they HAVE to be taught NEW VOCABULARY...it's in the curriculum...I just didn't think that the word LESBIAN would be one of their 'new' words.

The Mennonites kids often shout 'shit' when they're annoyed. They don't know it's 'frowned upon' by those of us 'adults' who use the word 'shit' on a regular basis.

'Fart' is a very common word over here...yet WE were not allowed to use the word when we were growing up in England.

'Fanny' - say no more....it's a BUM here....bottom...arse...whatever you call it - but say ASS (which I think of as a donkey) and the kids FREAK OUT.

My dog....English is so very different over here.

LG

You should have told them that you can only be a Lesbian if you come from the island of Lesbos.

Iain

Lady G see here

You're the teacher. I don't ask you how to do my job do I?

As Clyde Barrow once said, "Ain't life grand?"

Then again, wasn't it Nazimova who once said to Gary Cooper and Lowell Sherman, as they were jockeying for position to see who would be the initial go-to pud stud to squire Marlene Dietrich once she hit Tinseltown, "Hey, I was here first!"

No wait, what the hell was I thinking, that was Claudette Colbert.

Either way, Warner Baxter, Ramon Novarro, and/or Margaret Lindsay were, as always, sadly out of the running when it came time for first dibs on any new arrivals.

Or, as our scoutmaster Mr. Ron always liked to say, "Boys will be boys."

Exactly.

No matter where the time and/or place. Especially when it involves everything in the neighborhood south of the next pretty face.

I realize, of course, this in no way answers any questions, or even begins to seriously address your current dilemma, Lady G., but it was either this, or try and sit still and listen to the State of the Union address and unravel the mystery of the moment at hand.

As for what the other one is up to, that depends on if the nearby glass is soon gonna be half empty, or no longer in any way shape or form, half full.

-john peurach.