how to explain lgbtq to 5 year old? (beehaw.org)

submitted 1 year ago by sleepybisexual@beehaw.org to c/lgbtq_plus@beehaw.org

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[-] PostmodernPythia@beehaw.org 22 points 1 year ago

Explain it as “People love each other. Sometimes it’s a boyand a girl. Sometimes it’s two boys or two girls. (Not getting into enbys since this is 101.). And sometimes people, whoever they love, want to build a life together.”

[-] sleepybisexual@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

Sounds good. Sadly telling her directly is a risk as I probably will be outed. Is there another way I can do it?

[-] Exaggeration207@beehaw.org 13 points 1 year ago

You run the risk of being ostracized by a conservative social group if you share any opinion that contradicts the teachings of the church school. I'm straight, but the hicks I went to high school with shouted every homophobic slur they knew at me anyway, because my opinions sounded "gay" to them.

That being said, you could tell her that the church has held opinions in the past, which they decided to change when we learned more about the world. The church persecuted Galileo for suggesting that the Earth revolves around the Sun. They called Leonardo da Vinci a necromancer for studying human anatomy. And 98 years ago, Christians wanted to hang John Scopes for teaching evolution in Tennessee.

Basically, if you can't tell her directly, you can at least suggest that the church is not infallible when it comes to certain topics. Again though, people will consider you subversive even if all you're doing is relaying pure, historical facts. There's no safe way to contradict a zealot.

[-] sleepybisexual@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

I'm not in the church school and since last April I ditched my conservative friends. I really want to mess with the church school tho. While I havent executed anything yet I was considering sending letters and pretending to be the devil. What do you think

[-] leigh@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 1 year ago

I know it sounds fun, but that will almost certainly backfire. Most likely it would feed the “persecution complex” many religious groups feel even when they’re in the majority and convince them to “dig their heels in” and become even more staunch in their wrong-headed beliefs. 😔

[-] sleepybisexual@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah. They are already terrified of satanists. To the point where they will make the most random bs. I can tell you some of that be if you'd like to know. But yea Christians have a huge persecution fetish

[-] PostmodernPythia@beehaw.org 8 points 1 year ago

I’d suggest phrasing the question differently. You don’t want to explain queerness to a 5-year-old. You want to figure out how to salt the earth of the fields of bigotry in her heart so nothing can grow. And I’m so sorry I have no answer for that.