I can't believe we've reached a point in society where an almost 50 year old man gets labeled a homo because he disclosed that as a child he and another child relative sexually experimented. Heaven help us the internet is rotting our brains. Do young children even really understand sexual orientation?
They not ready for that level of conversation
A lot of these conversations fall apart because people refuse to use any nuance. Everything gets turned into the worst possible version of itself.
What he described was two kids doing something inappropriate. That’s not the same as an adult situation, and trying to force it into that category just shows people aren’t listening for understanding they are listening to react.
Same thing happens with other topics too. People jump straight to extreme labels instead of understanding context. Everything becomes “this is that,” with no middle ground.
And that’s the bigger issue—people aren’t ready for conversations that require any level of nuance. It’s all black and white thinking.
You can acknowledge something is wrong or uncomfortable without turning it into something it’s not.
But a lot of people don’t want to do that. It’s easier to spin it, exaggerate it, and then moralize from there.
