#i'm all about depicting healthy relationships too. idk. not telling them any stories about children dating any time soon sooo | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

stormy-nights-are-best · 8 months ago

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By trying to evade tackling the whole "there are other kinds of couples besides man+woman" thing with my little cousins (until they're old enough), I found out I seem to have just, accidentally taught them I dislike straight couples??

The other day I asked about two movie characters they liked, a boy and a girl that had an obvious thing going on,

"ooh are they dating~~~?"

And my cousin quickly went "NO!!! No they're just best friends!!" and changed the subject like he didn't want me to look any deeper into it

SORRY KID WHERE DID I GO WRONG

#like yeah I'm not the BIGGEST fan of children dating in kids' media but even that is a lil hypocritical on my part #had my first date on first grade! it's whatever! kids are dumb!#I know they probably got it from my stories‚ 'cause they all have two main characters - a boy and a girl - that are always /only/ best frie #but if there ever /is/ a couple‚ it IS going to be a straight couple so I don't know how I managed to confuse him like that #i'm all about depicting healthy relationships too. idk. not telling them any stories about children dating any time soon sooo #ig this will just have to ride itself out #text post #lgbtq #heteronormativity #don't even know how to tag this ill leave it like that

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