Is it just "good fun" for adults to tease little children about having a boyfriend/girlriend?
For generations adults have teased young children about having opposite sex romantic relationships. I think I was between 3 and 5 when one day my family of 10 started teasing me about having a girlfriend. I felt assaulted, humiliated and overwhelmed. I recall running into the kitchen and grabbing a yard stick and bringing it into the living room waving it around and thinking I wanted to hit anyone making fun of me. I resolved at that moment I would never be attracted to girls or have a girlfriend. For the next several years I frequently expressed my distaste for girls and insisted I would never be atttracted to them. I tried to foster anger towards girls and make myself hate them. In my late teens I tried to do the same thing with men when I found I was attracted to them. Well, I did end up being attracted to girls despite my best efforts. In the meantime I resisted and rebuffed any attraction girls displayed to me and told them firmly , "I don't like girls&q