please read this, I wanna talk about internalized homophobia.
so, my cousin (she is six years old) is staying over tonight and about an hour ago, I was playing barbie with her. We wanted to make couples, but we only have one ken, so there were a few single Barbies left.
Anyways, I decided to put two barbies together to represent a lesbian couple, just to see how my cousin would react.
She looked at me, and then told me why I put those barbies together, since both of them were females. I told her because it was normal, like, why not?
After a small silence, I asked her what was bothering her about the two barbies being a couple.
She answered that she just didn’t like two women being together.
This is internalized homophobia (in my opinion at least). Of course, she grew up only knowing straight couples, only knowing two genders because no one told, or showed her otherwise.
Personally, I think we need to change that. This is my opinion, but we, as gen z, need to be different parents. We need our children to that there are more sexualities than just heterosexuality.
As for me, I don’t want to label my sexuality. I’m too young to know everything about life or even myself, but as long as I like a person, I don’t care about their gender. Also, I think that there are more than two genders and countless sexualities. Every single one should be accepted.
Again, this is just my opinion, but you’re always welcome to tell me your own opinion, as long as it doesn’t hurt anyone!! <3