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"If you're not having fun, you're not doing it right." -- Helyn D. Goldenberg

"I love you and I'm not afraid." -- Evanescence, "My Last Breath"

“If I hear ‘not allowed’ much oftener,” said Sam, “I’m going to get angry.” -- J.R.R. Tolkien, from Lord of the Rings

Thursday, March 11, 2010

The Kids Will Manage

This sort of shoots a hole in the "Save the Children!" argument. This kid's about as cute as it gets.



A transcript from Melissa McEwan at Shakesville:

Text onscreen: Thanksgiving.

[Calen, a little boy, is standing in a bathroom next to a sink, looking up into the camera.]

Calen: A husband's a boy.

Adult male voice from behind camera: Right.

Calen: A wife is a girl and a husband's a boy. Then you two are husbands! [He hold up two fingers on both hands.] Wifes are girls; husbands are boys.

Voice from behind camera: Right.

Second adult male voice, from next to camera: That's right. So, if you're a boy—

Calen: You'll be a husband.

Second Voice: Right.

First Voice: Yeah, we're both husbands.

Calen: [puts his head in his hand] You're both husbands?

Second Voice: Is that confusing—

Calen: You married each other?! That's funny! [slaps hand to head]

Second Voice: That's funny, right?

Calen: Yeah. [looks thoughtful] I usually see husbands and wives, but this is the VERY FIRST TIME I saw husbands and husbands! [grins excitedly]

[The two men laugh; Second Voice peers around and grins into camera.]

Calen: So funny. [edit] So that means you LOVE EACH OTHER!

First Voice: Yeah.

Calen: Yeah. Yeah, they're much alike. You're much alike. Hey, I'm going to play ping-pong now.

First Voice: Okay.

[Camera follows Calen out into the hallway; he turns back and looks at the two men.]

Calen: You can play if you want to.

Text onscreen: You're much alike.


McEwen's comment sums it up:

"So that means you love each other!" Congratulations, kid. You've now got a more sophisticated understanding of marriage equality than about a third of the adult populace of the United States.

3 comments:

Piet said...

The kids are all right, all right. They're much more resilient and damage proof than the fearful Right want them to be. I've always said that if a child asks about marriage equality, all you have to say is Mommy and Daddy love each other and got married; Uncle Tony and Uncle Nick love each other, so they got married, too. And the kid will say, Oh. OK. Can I have a pony? And some chocolate milk? -- And that will be the end of it, with the lesson learned. Sheesh. This is not rocket science.

Hunter said...

Hup! The anti-gay right doesn't believe in science, rocket or otherwise -- they think Paul Cameron does research.

The thing about kids is that if you answer their questions honestly and directly, they're fine. They're funny that way.

Hunter said...

PS -- good to hear from you.