I no longer know how to feel about all those memes and jokes about kids being able to understand concepts of lbgt culture way easier than adults because life has proven me that, just as anything ever, it's incredibly more way more complex and situational
Went to do my practice classes yesterday at my 6th grader brother's school and the 2nd grade teacher left me with the kids because she was busy with the principal and while I was helping one them read a text all the others were pointing out how the images she had given them to color of a school with a boy in girl's uniform and visce versa were "weird" and "wrong" and I was like "ok how do explain a bunch of influentiable toddlers that crossdressing, a non-necessarily gay thing is okay and exists and is okay to exist" and then a bunch of other kids from dog-knows-which other class gathered in the door and they all began making fun of the pictures and insulting the kids in the image and I genuinely didn't knew what to do because if I tried to explain it to them then the other older kids (who to my knowledge are part of an actual fucking gang, my brother told me so) would probably start teaching them homophobic words so I just told them to scram unsuccessfully
And that's how I got called the hard F-slur by a 11yo