Happy Pride, everyone!

[la_rainette]

A few weeks ago Tadpole and I had a Conversation in the car.

Tadpole: oh, and mum?
Me: yes?
Tadpole: we made buttons at my club and some people from the club sold them at the Café event and we made FORTY DOLLARS! Isn't that cool?
Me: you're in a club?
Tadpole *patiently*: and we made forty dollars selling buttons
Me: what club?
Tadpole: The Gay Straight Alliance, why?
Me: OMG THAT IS AWESOME!
Tadpole: it is?
Me: It's so, so cool!
Tadpole: ... okay, mum.

My kid is so cool she doesn't know or think she's cool. That's because she is really cool.

Or maybe the world is just changing.

Froglet: ... so the Theatre class showed us their, ahem, WORK, right? And it was hilarious! S played a gay guy...
Me: really? That's pretty cool! I didn't think he'd do something like that!
Froglet: yeah, well, he's this total HOMOPHOBE, you know. Hates gays.
Me: ...okay, I don't get it. Why did he choose to play a gay character, then?
Froglet: Well, they all had to play someone who was their polar opposite...
Me: I still don't get why he would choose to play a gay character
Froglet *with a smile that would make any piranha proud*: ... and the other members of the theatre class got to choose who the others would play. So they picked the gay character for him. Because he's uncool and homophobic and he needs a lesson.
Me *glees inwardly*

It's the end of the school year. I promised Tadpole I would get us all rainbow flags (WORLD PRIDE!) but I am running around like a chicken with its head cut off and I haven't had the time to trek down to the Village recently. So imagine how thrilled I was yesterday when I found out that Husband had found a rainbow flag (while buying shorts. Heh.) Because it's WORLD PRIDE, rainette you idiot, and rainbow flags are EVERYWHERE.

Me: OH YAY THANK YOU HUSBAND!
Husband: Er. I got it for Tadpole, actually.
Me: ... I am crushed.
Tadpole: YAY DADDY GOT ME A RAINBOW FLAG!
Husband: what are you going to do with it?
Tadpole: put it in my window where everyone can see it.

She hasn't done it yet. She's having way too much fun prancing about the house waving her Rainbow Flag.

I must be doing something right. :)

Comments

[jae]

Awesome. :)

How do you say "Gay/Straight Alliance" in French, anyway?

-J

[la_rainette]

I think she said something like "Alliance homo-hétéro" :) It sounds a bit like something you would do in chemistry class, but it's a literal translation.