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13 May 2011, 11:22 am

Is it weird LGBT is next to Kid's Crater?

I am not saying it is bad or anything. It just seems strange to place it here because our community often goes into deep discussion about things of a sexual nature (or things that might be kid inappropriate).

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13 May 2011, 11:35 am

techn0teen wrote:
Is it weird LGBT is next to Kid's Crater?
No. It exists on the list of forums so people can access it.
If someone wants to access it, and provided the forum allows access for a given user, they can.
The position isn't relevant.

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(or things that might be kid inappropriate).
Not sure I understand what that means in this context.


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13 May 2011, 12:25 pm

No. You're reading waaay too much into things.



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13 May 2011, 2:10 pm

I don't think so. Besides, kids don't have any access to it anyways.


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13 May 2011, 2:22 pm

CockneyRebel wrote:
I don't think so. Besides, kids don't have any access to it anyways.
Oh, right. That makes sense I guess.
I wondered if it might have already been age-restricted (which, IIRC, on WP means 18+) but I don't remember seeing anything about it.
(a bit old for the UK, unfortunately: the age of consent here is 16, irrespective of sexual orientation. One of very few things we got about right. :roll: )


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13 May 2011, 3:19 pm

Cornflake wrote:
CockneyRebel wrote:
I don't think so. Besides, kids don't have any access to it anyways.
Oh, right. That makes sense I guess.
I wondered if it might have already been age-restricted (which, IIRC, on WP means 18+) but I don't remember seeing anything about it.
(a bit old for the UK, unfortunately: the age of consent here is 16, irrespective of sexual orientation. One of very few things we got about right. :roll: )

It must be lower than 18, because I'm only 17.



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13 May 2011, 3:34 pm

AstroGeek wrote:
Cornflake wrote:
CockneyRebel wrote:
I don't think so. Besides, kids don't have any access to it anyways.
Oh, right. That makes sense I guess.
I wondered if it might have already been age-restricted (which, IIRC, on WP means 18+) but I don't remember seeing anything about it.
(a bit old for the UK, unfortunately: the age of consent here is 16, irrespective of sexual orientation. One of very few things we got about right. :roll: )
It must be lower than 18, because I'm only 17.
Hmm, good point.
Any advance on 17?
Anyone? :lol:


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13 May 2011, 6:07 pm

Cornflake wrote:
AstroGeek wrote:
Cornflake wrote:
CockneyRebel wrote:
I don't think so. Besides, kids don't have any access to it anyways.
Oh, right. That makes sense I guess.
I wondered if it might have already been age-restricted (which, IIRC, on WP means 18+) but I don't remember seeing anything about it.
(a bit old for the UK, unfortunately: the age of consent here is 16, irrespective of sexual orientation. One of very few things we got about right. :roll: )
It must be lower than 18, because I'm only 17.
Hmm, good point.
Any advance on 17?
Anyone? :lol:


Well, I'm 15 and I can view this and post. :P



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13 May 2011, 6:15 pm

kittie wrote:
Cornflake wrote:
AstroGeek wrote:
Cornflake wrote:
CockneyRebel wrote:
I don't think so. Besides, kids don't have any access to it anyways.
Oh, right. That makes sense I guess.
I wondered if it might have already been age-restricted (which, IIRC, on WP means 18+) but I don't remember seeing anything about it.
(a bit old for the UK, unfortunately: the age of consent here is 16, irrespective of sexual orientation. One of very few things we got about right. :roll: )
It must be lower than 18, because I'm only 17.
Hmm, good point.
Any advance on 17?
Anyone? :lol:
Well, I'm 15 and I can view this and post. :P
Oh well, there ya go! :lol:
Even if there is one, something less than 15 doesn't seem too bad.


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13 May 2011, 7:54 pm

One of the particularly awful things about being LGBTQetc and a teen is often the lack of support and information available. One of the problems is the characterization of these topics as not appropriate for children.



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13 May 2011, 8:13 pm

Verdandi wrote:
One of the particularly awful things about being LGBTQetc and a teen is often the lack of support and information available. One of the problems is the characterization of these topics as not appropriate for children.


I was thinking that too. I'm 14 and I can read this forum.



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13 May 2011, 9:10 pm

IIRC, the only age-restricted section of this forum is the Adult Issues forum, and that is 17+



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13 May 2011, 10:37 pm

Personally, no I don't believe it's inappropriate or "weird". It's simply placed below the kids section to be placed there.

LGBT is still a controversial topic among many, so it would vary on the person if kids can and should be able to view this or post here. Kids WILL be curious and WILL ask questions if they have them about LGBT. And really it's the individual's responsibility (or the guardian's) to control how people respond to "hot" topics or boards that contain this material.

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One of the particularly awful things about being LGBTQetc and a teen is often the lack of support and information available. One of the problems is the characterization of these topics as not appropriate for children.

^Ditto. I would have loved to have known the parts of sexuality that I know now, such as what it means to be LGBT, and what my feelings meant when I felt a certain way about someone or lack thereof. It would have saved quite a bit of heart-ache and confusion for me. But you can't change the past, you just have to make the best of what you have unfortunately.



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13 May 2011, 10:51 pm

Verdandi wrote:
One of the particularly awful things about being LGBTQetc and a teen is often the lack of support and information available. One of the problems is the characterization of these topics as not appropriate for children.


Have you noticed that heterosexual people talk about sex all the time, but they seen to not be conscious about it? When someone talk about having kids, they are talking directly about sex, but our way of reproducing is sexual. When that old aunt of yours ask you if you already got a girl/boyfriend she wants to know what are your sexual interests. When your elders ask you when you're gonna marry and create a family they are actually wanting to know if you intend to have a lot of sex with someone of opposite gender in a predetermined situation that they feel is proper to raising children. When a parent admire how pretty their children is and says things like she is going to "be trouble" for the guys when she grows older, they are talking about sex again! It's all sex, sex and sex, at least at my AS guy ear.

Now, when we start to talk about non traditional couples, like we do in lgbt forums, it all become a big issue. The same people who don't see a problem talking about straight sex like I put on previous paragraph are suddenly over conscious of the sexual nature of what we talk about in lgbt forums. It seens to be some kind of "normative blindness", dunno the exactly word/term in english, but I hope you grasp what I mean.

*edit for spelling(english is not my mother language)



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14 May 2011, 2:56 am

I don't think it's bad to be next to the Kids but I think the organization of Age/Gender related discussions would make more sense if it was a little different. I think it would look better like this :arrow:

Kids' Crater
Adolescent Autism Forum
LGBT Discussion
Women's Discussion
Adult Autism Issues
In-Depth Adult Life Discussion

LGBT is more relevant to Adolescents than kids so it would make more sense next to that


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14 May 2011, 7:35 am

Verdandi wrote:
One of the problems is the characterization of these topics as not appropriate for children.
:roll: God yes.
The twittering "won't someone please think of the children?!" nonsense.
Right when they need the information most, it gets hidden away instead.


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