They usually don’t pick it up. Watch this video of a kid wrapping his head around the concept that the two guys he’s talking to are married…to each other!
Melissa McEwan at Shakesville adds, “Congratulations, kid. You’ve now got a more sophisticated understanding of marriage equality than about a third of the adult populace of the United States.”
She also helpfully provides the transcript, because, you know, even cute kids are hard to understand sometimes:
Text onscreen: Thanksgiving.
[Calen, a little boy, is standing in a bathroom next to a sink, looking up into the camera.]
Calen: A husband’s a boy.
Adult male voice from behind camera: Right.
Calen: A wife is a girl and a husband’s a boy. Then you two are husbands! [He hold up two fingers on both hands.] Wifes are girls; husbands are boys.
Voice from behind camera: Right.
Second adult male voice, from next to camera: That’s right. So, if you’re a boy‚Äî
Calen: You’ll be a husband.
Second Voice: Right.
First Voice: Yeah, we’re both husbands.
Calen: [puts his head in his hand] You’re both husbands?
Second Voice: Is that confusing—
Calen: You married each other?! That’s funny! [slaps hand to head]
Second Voice: That’s funny, right?
Calen: Yeah. [looks thoughtful] I usually see husbands and wives, but this is the VERY FIRST TIME I saw husbands and husbands! [grins excitedly]
[The two men laugh; Second Voice peers around and grins into camera.]
Calen: So funny. [edit] So that means you LOVE EACH OTHER!
First Voice: Yeah.
Calen: Yeah. Yeah, they’re much alike. You’re much alike. Hey, I’m going to play ping-pong now.
First Voice: Okay.
[Camera follows Calen out into the hallway; he turns back and looks at the two men.]
Calen: You can play if you want to.
Text onscreen: You’re much alike.
Just one more example that shows that, for the Religious Right, their war is long lost. It’s just a matter of time and demographics.
(h/t my friend Reha)
That’s so cute. I like how he doesn’t get it at first but then figures it out and is like “Oh, okay, no problem, you can play ping-pong too”.
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It’s really nice to see this. Hopefully those who are becoming parents now will teach their children that, yeah, sometimees, two boys or two girls decide to get married and that’s OK. It is a really cute commercial.
I teach 7th grade in California, and during the last election, we had a mock election at my school. Going by the votes of the students there, Prop 8 would have gone down in flames. It gives me hope for the future.
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What a pity !! They made it private ! I saw it yesterday and kid’s reaction is just great !
Please make it public, its a very good tool against homofobia !!!
They set it to private because unfortunately anti-gay wingnuts are a******s and decided to leave all kinds of cruel comments on the video, hiding behind the anonymity of the internet to cover for their pathetic threatened worldview.
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