Corruption of Catholic youth: Progress report

[muckefuck]

I'm not sure if I told y'all about the time when AWI was only a few months old and playing with multicoloured plastic beads. I rearranged them into proper Roy G. Biv order before handing them back; I then pointed out to my sister that the rainbow was a gay pride symbol. Her response: "Give it your best shot."

Looks like (a) my influence is far more insidious from 300 miles away than I could ever have imagined or (b) my work's been done for me. I've already mentioned his "purse" (i.e. the pretty bag he totes his Hot Wheels around in). But here's a list of new signifiers observed in the course of one short weekend:

• Coordination After he grabbed a liquid yoghurt (which his mother likes to serve dissolved in milk), he told his mother he needed an orange cup, to match the orange yoghurt container. She gave him red, since that was the closest available, and he trotted into the playroom with that and a teal sippy cup of juice. He then went through his immense box of Little People, found the figure with the closest matching red and the figure with the closest matching teal and put these atop the respective cups.
• The Princess We then preceded to tear apart the playroom and the living room in order to help him find "my p'incess", a female Magus in blue with a gold circle.
• Underwear At one point, when his mother was getting him into fresh pants, I pointed out his Spongebob Squarepants underoos. My sister said, "He wanted Dora the Explorer, but I figured pink was something we didn't need to deal with."
• The Princess II Later in the day, he was seen cavorting with a silver plastic tiara on his head.
• Fastidiousness At one point, his mother offered him some chocolate chips. "Hold out your hand!" she told him. "But I need them in a bowl!" (Only when she threatened him with no chips at all did he take them in his palm.)
• Dolls His favourite seems to be a butt-ugly baby girl from Spain in pyjamas. (Her little cap is constantly falling off, forcing him to ask for help pulling it down over her bodacious brunette curls.)

Sure, he's only four, and he still has the fearsome abyss of heterosexual indoctrination (i.e. kindergarten) ahead of him, but as of right now it's looking like I can coast.

Comments

[keyne.livejournal.com]

Heck, M showed many of those same signs, and we were crossing our fingers, but then he came home from school a couple of weeks ago announcing that he was in love.

"Oh? Who is ... it?" I said carefully.
"Her name is Therese and she's a girl!" he informed me.

Oh. Well. We tried.

[muckefuck.livejournal.com]

Maybe it's just a phase...

[snowy-owlet.livejournal.com]

You are WAY ahead of me in my directive to turn GirlKit into a dyke.

[welcomerain.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure why pink isn't something to deal with when you're four, unless it has to do with the inherent ugliness of pink as a color in and of itself.