In the June 22 issue of Le Ligueur, Pascal De Sutter, a doctor in psychology at UCL, once again expresses his views on homosexuality and the comments some children may hear in the school playground.
And his proposal, in the article (of which you'll read only the title, since Le Ligueur preferred to let only subscribers read the full text, after giving access to all) is to "virilize" the little boy who is called a "fag" so that "he lives with the codes that society expects of him".
https://www.laligue.be/leligueur/articles/il-se-fait-traiter-de-pede
(edit: the Ligueur article was modified a year after its release and then deleted)
Interested, even dismayed, by this advice, I ask my little boy, almost 12, how he responds when called out in this way by a child of the same age. I take the opportunity to ask him if he would like to be "virilized so that he can live with the codes that society expects of him".
After all, he's rather slight, wears pink when he feels like it and takes ballet classes. I don't doubt for a moment that he has to endure the occasional derogatory quip.
But above all, he doesn't have his tongue in his shirt and he's a Takattak player, so, rather than trying to match anything and especially Mr De Sutter's wishes, to the "lil' fag" spike, he preferred to respond using the game's instructions:
Self-deprecating
- Not that little!
- You're really the only one who doesn't know.
- You see me offended.
- And on the nights of the full moon, I turn into a straight man.
Pirouette
- Do you know the date of the next Gay Pride?
- Oh! A fly!
- Oh dear, I've lost my pink bag...
Insolence (now Boomerang)
- You don't stand a chance. I only like smart boys.
- ...says the one who cries when he doesn't have his teddy bear...
- Surely, with your smelly sneakers, it won't happen to you.
Truth
- I don't see the problem. Do you?
- I'm still surprised you're upset.
- Oh! You have read my diary?
Question
- Do you know the origin of this expression?
Compliment
- You're really good at seducing girls: a real lady-killer. Can you teach me?
- You're a very handsome straight man.
Song
If the song doesn't quite fit, feel free to change the lyrics.
Here, he's simply replaced "unloved" with "little faggot".
You'll see, it's just in time:
Imagine a world where everyone fit the norm, running with the wind, swimming with the current, and bleating together.
The rules of society are not the rules of the road. In life, we can go blue as well as pink, putting the twaddle-tongues and the fortune-tellers in their place.
Do you have any suggestions, responses or ripostes?
Geneviève
"'Little fag'!" Should we let it go?