>>3670052Hm, when he was about the same age he was wearing a shirt that said “Victoria, Canada” or something on it. I started teasing him, saying “Oh, a shirt with your name on it, I didn’t know your name was Victoria!”
He got all bothered and started going on about how he couldn’t be a girl because he didn’t have long hair. When I told him a girl could have short hair, he seemed genuinely confused, and asked how you could tell the difference. I wasn’t about to go giving someone else’s kid the talk without permission, so I told him nevermind and tried to play it off…
Of course that didn’t work at all, and he kept asking me how girls and boys were different. In my opinion he was (at 10) way too old not to know those basics, so I asked his Mom if I should give him “the talk” because of all the questions. I hadn’t texted her in quite a while, and with my luck she’d gotten a new phone and I ended up texting some random fucker a paragraph about telling giving the kid a health class talk. Not my proudest moment, but the random stranger seemed extremely amused.
