The Lesbians at the Pool

This summer I was a member of the local pool and I took Emersyn there quite a bit.  It is nice because I can chat with the other mom's in my boat, (see Kim Kardashian) and we can all talk about allergies, food allergies, where we got the kid's bathing suits and preschools, ya know, fun stuff like that..

So I ran into the "older kid's moms" the ones I use to hang with. Where we would talk about lunch, hair and which teachers our kids had in school..ya know, fun stuff.

So I was talking to a friend of mine and we attracted a few more ladies over to our conversation and one of the woman ask "did you see the lesbians here last week?' Now as I type that, I laugh because I am sure I see a lot of lesbians and don't even know it, but I answer "no? why?"



She continues, "Well, you should have seen them, they were all over each other, kissing and making out and rubbing up against each other, then they were in the pool together all over each other.  They were like totally butch.  And the kids were around and I was freaking out because I don't need my kids seeing that? And the one is like grinding up against the other one on the pool chair and the other one had like man-hair under "her" pits?! It was totally disgusting!!"

My mind is visualizing all of this. I can see it now. All these suburbia moms watching in horror as these two butch lesbians are all but doing "it" at the community pool.. amazing...I wish I had been there....

She goes on "Hey Donna, I am telling them about THE LESBIANS .....so I go tell Cliff, the pool manager, what is going on and that it needs to stop, and he is circling the pool panicked because he doesn't know what to do and he is hiding behind the guard chair to try and see them, but of course they aren't doing anything when he is watching..."

So I ask, "Did YOU say anything?" She shrugs, "no, we just told Cliff.  What were we going to say?"  "Did Cliff ever say anything to them?" I ask, my mind racing imagining Cliff beside himself not knowing what to do.  "No, he never really saw them do anything, so he really couldn't" She answers.

So there it is. Two people were all but having sex, at a public pool with kids everywhere and nobody did anything about it because the two people were woman? I don't get it?   I don't give a rat's ass if it is two women, two men or whomever,  if something is inappropriate, it is inappropriate, PERIOD!

Some of the woman said "I don't need my kids seeing that?!" and "We just left."

You don't need your kids seeing what?  Two crazy people being all PDA at the pool?  I would have told my kids "ya see THAT?  That is what you would look like if you are messing around and kissing in public. See how ridiculous they look. Awful, you don't act like that in public."

Homosexuality isn't going anywhere. It is not going walk back into the closet, it isn't going to stay in the city.  What it IS going to do, is show up in the schools, at the block party and at the library. Homosexuals are going to be running for mayor and school board and teach, so the best thing to do is just deal with it.

Let's be clear. I get it, I haven't had the gay-sex-talk with my kids? Why would I, as of yet, they both seem to be heterosexuals? But when they ask about homosexuality and "gay people" I just say, "that is that person's preference and it is NOT my place to tell them or anyone else what to do."

Why hide homosexuality? It is on TV, at the amusement park, and now, at the public pool.  My kids come home from school and tell me, "I think this kid, Joel, is gay he says he is, what do you think?"  Kids are talking about gay kids in schools, they are talking about their friends being gay.  Why instill fear in our kids? Why show them that gay people, or kids, are to be hidden, or treated different.  I want my kids to know to treat EVERYONE the same, no matter what.  If we act weird, or nervous, they will see it and they will be weird and nervous about it. IT'S NOT GOING AWAY, WHY INSTILL HATRED?

If you have an issue with homosexuality, that is your right, but just because you don't agree with something, doesn't make it, go away.

That being said, if my neighbors were "all but getting it on" at the pool, I would say something.  These two lesbians knew nobody would say anything to them because they knew the bias and thus, the fear. They knew they were going to get away with whatever, and they did.

When we loose the stigma and the fear, when we lose our messed-up beliefs that people that are different, ARE DIFFERENT, we can then start to live. We can then tell the lesbians at the pool to "get a room!"   If we could learn to close our eyes to everyone's differences and start seeing what is similar, we then, would be playing on the same turf.  We then, start to get real, we then, can feel comfortable about telling, Chris or Pat or Clark to cool it because OUR fears are gone.

The lesbians at the pool weren't afraid to be themselves, but they knew we were.



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