tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23020174.post115590277187348922..comments2023-12-02T05:36:17.832-05:00Comments on Sexuality and Religion: What's the Connection?: JonBenet and MikeyDebra W. Haffnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03018331891805010135noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23020174.post-1156052122731051492006-08-20T01:35:00.000-04:002006-08-20T01:35:00.000-04:00This is the section of your post I find most distu...This is the section of your post I find most disturbing: <I>According to Gender Pac, he's not the only boy child who has been killed because of gender variant behavior.</I><BR/><BR/>Many little kids at 3 years old don't fit neatly into a specific gender identity -- they are all over the place, depending mostly on their mood on any given day. <BR/><BR/>A few years ago, while visiting a friend, her little four year old boy wanted us to play "Sleeping Beauty" -- and you guessed it, HE wanted to be Sleeping Beauty. It was great fun.<BR/><BR/>Just a few weeks after that visit, a little girl came to my door on Halloween dressed in a Superman costume. When I commented on what a great Supergirl she was, she emphatically corrected me saying she was "SuperMAN." <BR/><BR/>This precious little boy was only three years old. At three you shouldn't have to fit neatly into a gender-specific category. Heck, you shouldn't have to fit into one at 33 or 103!<BR/><BR/>We need to challenge the media to tell these stories.<BR/><BR/><BR/>BAC<BR/>www.firstfreedomfirst.orgBAChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04394238321236592123noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23020174.post-1156045456482047042006-08-19T23:44:00.000-04:002006-08-19T23:44:00.000-04:00You asked why the national media did not report on...You asked why the national media did not report on Mikey but they did on JonBenet. The answer is simple, "White Female".Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23020174.post-1155928923179618592006-08-18T15:22:00.000-04:002006-08-18T15:22:00.000-04:00Thank you Debra for this post--it fills me with sa...Thank you Debra for this post--it fills me with sadness to read. I commend you for bearing witness to this tragedy.<BR/><BR/>I also think about how gender roles played out in the media attention to JonBenet's murder. Her hyperfeminine presentation (plus the fact that there were so many images of her from her modeling/pageant career) made the case get more attention than it would have otherwise.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23020174.post-1155920457260854992006-08-18T13:00:00.000-04:002006-08-18T13:00:00.000-04:00This is very touching. I found myself thinking, wh...This is very touching. I found myself thinking, when the JonBenet story led every other story on the morning TV news shows, of all the little children who have died in the past weeks from the wars and terrorism in Lebanon, Israel and Iraq, in the genocide in Darfur and from HIV/AIDS in Africa. These children are and always will be anonymous to us. I take comfort in Jesus’s words, “suffer the little children to come unto me.”Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23020174.post-1155908151047279182006-08-18T09:35:00.000-04:002006-08-18T09:35:00.000-04:00Interesting...this JonBenet thing is just too biza...Interesting...this JonBenet thing is just too bizarre...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com