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Dec. 5th, 2018 10:19 pmAs weird as it seems, I’ve got a seven year old student in MASSACHUSETTS who doesn’t know about same-sex marriage. Which is absurd whiplash from the five year old student who tried to claim me as his boyfriend (I told him you always have to ask to be someone’s boyfriend first, and since he hadn’t asked me, I couldn’t be his boyfriend, but I’m still glad we’re awesome friends).
Last week, she refused to let her friends play with two toy lions as a married couple even after I reminded her boys can marry boys. She still refused to play until I taught them that sometimes, girl lions can have manes (because sometimes, it’s not so obvious who’s a boy and who’s a girl, isn’t that interesting, kids). This morning, she asked why I wasn’t wearing my wedding ring. I answered that it’s because I’m not married “since I haven’t found a best friend I want to spend every single day forever with yet.”
She asked who I live with, then, which is a fair follow-up, and she asked after my roommates. I mentioned that they have girlfriends but are also not married. Child then immediately informed me I should marry my roommate’s girlfriend.
“You should never marry your friend’s girlfriend,“ I told her, because I’m hardly about to mention poly exceptions to a second-grader. “That’s very rude.“
“I’m a girl,“ she said.
“It would still be rude to marry your friend’s girlfriend,“ I said.
“I’m a girl,“ she said.
We then had a five minute long debate as to why she felt I could marry her stuffed animal (a dog) but not my car (who is, unbeknownst to her, a boy).
Last week, she refused to let her friends play with two toy lions as a married couple even after I reminded her boys can marry boys. She still refused to play until I taught them that sometimes, girl lions can have manes (because sometimes, it’s not so obvious who’s a boy and who’s a girl, isn’t that interesting, kids). This morning, she asked why I wasn’t wearing my wedding ring. I answered that it’s because I’m not married “since I haven’t found a best friend I want to spend every single day forever with yet.”
She asked who I live with, then, which is a fair follow-up, and she asked after my roommates. I mentioned that they have girlfriends but are also not married. Child then immediately informed me I should marry my roommate’s girlfriend.
“You should never marry your friend’s girlfriend,“ I told her, because I’m hardly about to mention poly exceptions to a second-grader. “That’s very rude.“
“I’m a girl,“ she said.
“It would still be rude to marry your friend’s girlfriend,“ I said.
“I’m a girl,“ she said.
We then had a five minute long debate as to why she felt I could marry her stuffed animal (a dog) but not my car (who is, unbeknownst to her, a boy).
