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Focus on the Family warns against the perils of prehomosexual tendencies.

Evidences of gender confusion or doubt in boys ages 5 to 11 may include:

1. A strong feeling that they are “different” from other boys.

2. A tendency to cry easily, be less athletic, and dislike the roughhousing that other boys enjoy. […]

5. A susceptibility to be bullied by other boys, who may tease them unmercifully and call them “queer,” “fag” and “gay.”

If we only work together, we may be able to eradicate the threat of geeks in our lifetimes.

They note further:

“By the time the adolescent hormones kick in during early adolescence, a full-blown gender identity crisis threatens to overwhelm the teenager,” warns psychologist Dr. James Dobson. To compound the problem, many of these teens experience “great waves of guilt accompanied by secret fears of divine retribution.”

What Christ-like compassion they have, to seek to spare them this guilt.

Their advice is self-parodying.

Girls can continue to grow in their identification with their mothers. On the other hand, a boy has an additional developmental task—to disidentify from his mother and identify with his father. At this point [beginning at about eighteen months], a little boy will not only begin to observe the difference, he must now decide, “Which one am I going to be?” In making this shift in identity, the little boy begins to take his father as a model of masculinity. At this early stage, generally before the age of three, Ralph Greenson observed, the boy decides that he would like to grow up like his father. This is a choice. Implicit in that choice is the decision that he would not like to grow up to be like his mother. According to Robert Stoller, “The first order of business in being a man is, ‘don’t be a woman.’”

Meanwhile, the boy’s father has to do his part. He needs to mirror and affirm his son’s maleness. He can play rough-and-tumble games with his son, in ways that are decidedly different from the games he would play with a little girl. He can help his son learn to throw and catch a ball. He can teach him to pound a square wooden peg into a square hole in a pegboard. He can even take his son with him into the shower, where the boy cannot help but notice that Dad has a penis, just like his, only bigger.

But that hasn’t stopped Fafblog from parodying them.

One MeFite sees a business opportunity.

Man, I gotta set myself up as a psychologist that turns kids straight. Then I can say “Hey, look, so long as you live in your parents’ house, keep this on the down-low. They’re fundamentalist lunatics and the rest of the world isn’t like them. Bide your time, then go to college and suck cock like it’s your job. In the meantime, I’ll split the money your folks are paying me with you, so that you can save up to get the hell out of here.”