Comments on: YouTube video released of fathers reading a children’s book about coming out gay /artsentertainment/a-new-australian-childrens-book-about-coming-out-as-gay/132680 Setting Australia’s LGBTI agenda since 1979 Thu, 19 Feb 2015 12:09:51 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 By: Marty Richter /artsentertainment/a-new-australian-childrens-book-about-coming-out-as-gay/132680#comment-333937 Thu, 19 Feb 2015 12:09:51 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=132680#comment-333937 you can encourage a child to be gay and it is good, but encourage a child to have hetro sex and you are a pervert??????

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By: Daniel Hofmann /artsentertainment/a-new-australian-childrens-book-about-coming-out-as-gay/132680#comment-333810 Thu, 19 Feb 2015 08:26:41 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=132680#comment-333810 Micah Winter

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By: Josiah Hosking /artsentertainment/a-new-australian-childrens-book-about-coming-out-as-gay/132680#comment-333629 Thu, 19 Feb 2015 04:27:53 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=132680#comment-333629 Friends, Let’s support this program

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By: Simon Peschar /artsentertainment/a-new-australian-childrens-book-about-coming-out-as-gay/132680#comment-333529 Thu, 19 Feb 2015 01:08:34 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=132680#comment-333529 In reply to Stephen Hooper.

No offensive words should ever be used. End of story. We should not be teaching our kids to tolerate hate, we should be teaching them to put a end to it.

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By: Stephen Hooper /artsentertainment/a-new-australian-childrens-book-about-coming-out-as-gay/132680#comment-333480 Thu, 19 Feb 2015 01:07:02 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=132680#comment-333480 In reply to Sean McAlpine Jones.

Then the book wouldn’t be needed by you as you would already know how to address the issue with yr lucky kid. If you had a Father like mine you would agree.

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By: Stephen Hooper /artsentertainment/a-new-australian-childrens-book-about-coming-out-as-gay/132680#comment-333479 Thu, 19 Feb 2015 01:04:56 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=132680#comment-333479 In reply to Stephen Hooper.

What rubbish. would you prefer Fag, Faggott, pillow biter, Wufter? Did you think that maybe the Author actually deliberately used that word because the kids going to grow up being teased (just as we all were) albeit with laws and protection we didnt’t have. Poof, I think is the least offensive of them all.

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By: Simon Peschar /artsentertainment/a-new-australian-childrens-book-about-coming-out-as-gay/132680#comment-333478 Thu, 19 Feb 2015 00:55:54 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=132680#comment-333478 In reply to Stephen Hooper.

Any gay person who uses the word ‘poof’ has blood on their hands. Stop actively trying to destroy our progress for equal rights.

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By: Simon Peschar /artsentertainment/a-new-australian-childrens-book-about-coming-out-as-gay/132680#comment-333481 Thu, 19 Feb 2015 00:51:59 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=132680#comment-333481 In reply to Brad Tennant.

“one big poof”. The one thing i hate more then homophobic straight people are homophobic gay people. Stop using such extremely offensive slurs.

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By: Blake O'Brien /artsentertainment/a-new-australian-childrens-book-about-coming-out-as-gay/132680#comment-333338 Wed, 18 Feb 2015 21:39:58 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=132680#comment-333338 Love the idea behind the book. Just not the word “poof”. There’s better words that could have been used. Especially for a children’s book. I think he should rethink the words he uses.

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By: Paul Manos /artsentertainment/a-new-australian-childrens-book-about-coming-out-as-gay/132680#comment-333097 Wed, 18 Feb 2015 13:58:50 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=132680#comment-333097 The concept is good, but the text is lacking. Perhaps a joint authorship with the writer’s parents might have avoided some of the more gauche passages.

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By: Craig Boreham /artsentertainment/a-new-australian-childrens-book-about-coming-out-as-gay/132680#comment-333098 Wed, 18 Feb 2015 13:26:14 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=132680#comment-333098 Well done Samuel Leighton-Dore. Definitely gonna grab a copy to read to my kids.

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By: Adam Hayes /artsentertainment/a-new-australian-childrens-book-about-coming-out-as-gay/132680#comment-333030 Wed, 18 Feb 2015 11:37:18 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=132680#comment-333030 Celeste

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By: Sam /artsentertainment/a-new-australian-childrens-book-about-coming-out-as-gay/132680#comment-332978 Wed, 18 Feb 2015 10:32:27 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=132680#comment-332978 I think its heart is the right place and the illustrations are good but I don’t like the overall message.
It perpetuates stereotypes and how it depicts women is awful – either as wombs for hire or punishment for straight men as “wives”.
I applaud the effort but I think it needs a re-write.

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By: Colin Kent /artsentertainment/a-new-australian-childrens-book-about-coming-out-as-gay/132680#comment-332997 Wed, 18 Feb 2015 10:28:48 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=132680#comment-332997 Been called ‘poof’ by poofs, i’me ok with that, also tells me quite a bit about the callers!

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By: Richard Orchard /artsentertainment/a-new-australian-childrens-book-about-coming-out-as-gay/132680#comment-332960 Wed, 18 Feb 2015 09:52:34 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=132680#comment-332960 Fuck me swinging. Note to self never never attempt to make any contribution to anything- or else a professional offence taker of some kind will vilify me for even having a go. It’s not a choice to be same sex attracted, but it is to be an annoying twat who puts shit on some bloke and his book. So what if it it’s crap- I think people will work that out at the time of purchase or use. You all don’t have to save the world from him.

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By: Pete McErvale /artsentertainment/a-new-australian-childrens-book-about-coming-out-as-gay/132680#comment-332961 Wed, 18 Feb 2015 09:11:25 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=132680#comment-332961 In reply to Alan Player.

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By: Ryan Jackson /artsentertainment/a-new-australian-childrens-book-about-coming-out-as-gay/132680#comment-332923 Wed, 18 Feb 2015 09:02:38 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=132680#comment-332923 In reply to Alan Player.

Totally agree with your assessment.

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By: Damien Timms /artsentertainment/a-new-australian-childrens-book-about-coming-out-as-gay/132680#comment-332922 Wed, 18 Feb 2015 08:37:56 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=132680#comment-332922 This is a monumental fail. And I hate the word poof.

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By: Sean McAlpine Jones /artsentertainment/a-new-australian-childrens-book-about-coming-out-as-gay/132680#comment-332921 Wed, 18 Feb 2015 08:16:47 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=132680#comment-332921 In reply to Hayden Green.

All you had to do was click the link and watch the video of the 3 Dad’s reading it out loud, Hayden. Not that hard really. But hey, you did comment anyway even though you said you couldn’t. lol

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By: Brenton Parry /artsentertainment/a-new-australian-childrens-book-about-coming-out-as-gay/132680#comment-332876 Wed, 18 Feb 2015 07:26:47 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=132680#comment-332876 In reply to Alan Player.

So we need to reinforce straight acting masculine only stereotypes instead? Why is your set of cliches more valid? The author is a very sweet young gay man who is trying to get across parents acceptance and you cut it down? Don’t buy the book. It’s written simplistically to suit kids.

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