"What Do We Say When We Hear ‘Faggot’?"

Talking Point #7

4-11-12

“what do we say when we hear ‘faggot’” by Leonore Gordon talks about how children calls each other when they don’t even know what the word really mean. I myself experience that situation with my little 7 and 8 years old cousins name John and James. One day John (the 8 years one) was playing his video games and James (his little 7 years old) was bothering him and James kept on talking and so John told him to shut his pie hole and I’m like “what?! What did you just said?!” and his answer was “I told him to shut his mouth” and so I said “do you know what that mean? And where did you hear it from?”. He said that he his friend teach him and I’m like why are you using something you don’t know. I tell them every time not to say anything or do anything if they don’t know what that word or whatever it is mean. I know I can’t always tell them what to say and what not, because I’m not going to be there with them when they hear new words at school or anywhere else, but as long as I got that little quote “don’t say nothing if you don’t know what they mean” in their head and make them think before they start saying word to others that they don’t even know what that word actually mean I’m happy enough that I got to teach my little’s one something.