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Friday, August 12, 2005

How to Make your Son Straight

James Dobson - heard the name? Well, Google his name if you haven't, but here is a stupidass blurb I found on andrewsullivan.com on 08/11/05 (it's not Dobson's words but it was in his newsletter) The guy talking is Andrew's guest blogger Dan.

BATS AND BALLS: James Dobson cites some peculiar advice for parents who don’t want their little boys to grow up to be gay cowboys. The gem below, currently up on Dobson’s website, is from quack anti-gay Dr. Joseph Nicolosi:
Meanwhile, the boy's father has to do his part. He needs to mirror and affirm his son's maleness. He can play rough-and-tumble games with his son, in ways that are decidedly different from the games he would play with a little girl. He can help his son learn to throw and catch a ball. He can teach him to pound a square wooden peg into a square hole in a pegboard. He can even take his son with him into the shower, where the boy cannot help but notice that Dad has a penis, just like his, only bigger.
I don’t know whether to file this ridiculous/tragic or tragic/ridiculous.And it’s wrong on so many levels I don’t even know where to begin. I have two older brothers, Bill and Ed. We had the same father, also Bill, and he played the same games with us. I don’t recall ever showering with my dad, but I’m pretty sure Dad didn’t drag my brothers into the shower and waggle his penis in their faces either. So it seems unlikely that my want of face-time with dad’s cock made me gay. And somehow—once again, we had the same Dad—my brothers managed to grow up straight.I have a son, and I don’t shower with him, and I can’t imagine that the Docs Dobson and Nicolosi want me to. My boyfriend, however, does occasionally shower with our son; he takes him swimming at the Y, and you have to shower before you get into the pool. But I kind of doubt that seeing my boyfriend’s penis in the YMCA showers made our son straight. (I’ve been examining my boyfriend’s penis for more than 10 years now—in the shower and other locations—and it hasn’t made me straight.) And I’m convinced our son is straight.

Why? Because the first time he picked up a football he threw a perfect spiral.

http://www.andrewsullivan.com/index.php?dish_inc=archives/2005_08_07_dish_archive.html#112378441518094336
|| willjs, 10:10 AM

2 Comments:

Hmm. It would seem that the good doctor's belief that showering with one's son helps him turn out straight is false. I showered with my dad, and here I am, happily homo.

We threw balls, too. Just in a bowling alley rather than on a baseball diamond.
Anonymous Anonymous, at 4:23 PM  
I actually read the whole article and I can't believe how much spin there is on it. -- I take that back, I can believe how much spin there is on it. Dr. Dobson is caught in his own argument by saying that gays do not choose to be that way while at the same time we are not born that way. He wants to call it a disease, but those darn psychologists who have degrees in psychology, don't know a disease from a hole in the ground. It must be nice to know everything and to be able to deny truth just because it doesn't fit your ideals.

Maybe Dr. Dobson needs to read the site God Made Me Gay to see another Christian perspective on the issue.
Anonymous Anonymous, at 11:35 PM  

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