“I was completely anti-teletubbies....”
Okay. Need to put a pin in that.
“ then one day my son saw it and fell in love with them. I didn't like it, but he wouldn't stop talking about them, so I figured "Why not? What harm could it possibly do"?”
That’s a strange attitude for someone who was completely anti-teletubbies,isn’t it? I mean, seriously, if your thought was ‘what harm could it do?’ then why in the name of the fucking Lord of the Dance were you anti teletubbies? I can’t understand being totally against what you can’t imagine doing any harm?
“Well he's been watching the show for about 2 weeks now.”
Two weeks. About how long it takes to acclimatize if you visit a tropical country.
“He is only 2 1/2, and his vocabulary is outstanding.”
I’ve raised three kids. At 2.5 years old, half of his vocabulary is the parent knowing what he’s TRYING to say. Visitors are going to be baffled.
“Lately,”
In the last two weeks…?
“I've noticed that he is starting to babble. For example, when he doesn't want to do something I tell him, he says something like "No ca cow"! (he used to just say no, don't like it)”
I’m willing to bet large sums that he did not SAY ‘no, don’t like it,’ as much as you HEARD that from whatever he did say.
I do know that many experts dislike the Teletubbies babble, but I have always felt that kids enjoy ‘baby talk’ because grown-ups are making sounds that they are capable of, so they feel like they’re in a conversation. They can’t say ‘full immersion’ but they certainly enjoy it.
So at some point in two weeks of watching a PBS show, he’s talking in ways you haven’t learned to translate, YET. I don’t think this is an issue.
Wait until he comes back from Day Care with his first dirty word.
“I always believed that the rumors that the teletubbies promoted homosexuality, and that was confirmed for me today.”
Wait, what?
You say you ‘believed THAT the rumors,’ and that needs a qualifier.
What did you believe, that they were true, false, exaggerated?
If you believed them, that goes against ‘what harm could it do’ a bit further up.
If you didn’t believe them, then why were you steadfastly anti-teletubby?
You’re making no sense.
Are you thinking that the babbling comes from promoting homosexuality?
Is baby-talk a gay stereotype I’ve never heard of?
WTF?
“My son wanted to play teletubbies games on sprout.com, and I found one called "dirty knees"... the whole game was to clean the teletubbies dirty knees.”
Um… That’s a bit of a stretch for ANY sexuality, in my mind. But I have heard song lyrics about ‘down on my knees for you’ from a woman talking about a man.
I read a book where a character mentioned ‘last time i was down on my knees I was looking for a contact lens’ and that was heterosexual, too.
HOW you zero in on ‘promoting homosexuality’ in this is beyond me.
“As of today, I will no longer let my son watch this show, no matter how badly he cries.”
Wow. What a domineering mother you are.
I have been told by many people that this is what turns boys gay…
“I really believe that it's affecting his vocabulary”
He’s two. I think there’s time before he has to take his SATs…
“and I also believe it promotes and encourages homosexuality.”
I think the tubbies are pretty fucking sexless, myself. I’ve seen more explicit fetishes in Willy Wonka. The whole ‘gay scare’ thing, to me, says more about you being triggered than a tv show forcing sexuality…
“What are your thoughts?”
You’re in desperate need of therapy, a sense of humor, a reality check, and perhaps a spanking.
