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I have no idea what the Belgrad city soccer derby is or is like, so I have no idea. I can't intelligently speak to it, and from what you're saying, I'm assuming that the behavior isn't great. Soccer has a reputation for being that way though, whereas sports like baseball and basketball have much better reputations overall.
If it were something where I thought that there would be no lewd behavior, such as the event that another poster mentioned where it was held at an art gallery, I would have little issue. My only hesitation to that event would be that it dealt with sexuality at all, so if the kids and I haven't had a "birds and the bees" talk, I wouldn't bring them to an event dealing with sexuality of any kind. If they were older, then sure.
What I don't want to do is take young children and expose them to things I consider to be graphic sexuality. I understand that we may have some cultural differences on this, but I wouldn't want to expose young kids to 2 men making out in speedos for the same reasons I wouldn't want to expose them to a heterosexual couple making out in revealing swimwear. I just don't want to normalize those kinds of public displays of affection to young kids. I'd like to completely remove the topic of sexuality until they're a little older, and from that point, I'd like for them to then develop a healthy understanding of it rather than learn about it from public displays of affection, what they see in movies or TV, learning about sex through porn, etc.
Yeah fair enough. I have never been to a gay pride parade.
I don't think I will ever go to one I might would have 20 years ago when there was still a cause to be fought over.
But if I think there is concern from a sexual nature I certainly wouldn't take my children.