Jodie Foster Finally Comes Out!

[BarTopDancer]

Hopefully in our life time we see this as such a non-issue. We, as in the world. Or at least our country. Studies have shown that children who see successful people who look like them, who are the same religion as them, the same shape as them, etc do better. It's 'nice' that gay children are able to see normal, hard working adults like them. You don't hear about Neil Patrick Harris, David Hyde Perice, Sean Hayes, Ellen, Rosie in the media driving drunk, caught showing their 'bits'. But you see them acting, working hard, doing their job. I suspect as soon as this becomes 'old news' that you'll see as much from Jodie Foster. But gay kids will be able to see hard working normal adults who they have something in common with.

Heck, compare the 'gay role models' to the 'straight role models'* (Brittany, Paris, etc..) and wow.

We never had our 'role models' showing their 'bits', driving drunk to this extent. Yes, we lost River Phoenix to drugs. There were a ton of drug issues. But it wasn't plastered all over the media like it is now. It was bad, it wasn't cool.

*by role models I mean people the media pays so much attention to that this is what kids see as 'normal celebrity behavior'.

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Originally Posted by BarTopDancer

Hopefully in our life time we see this as such a non-issue. We, as in the world. Or at least our country. Studies have shown that children who see successful people who look like them, who are the same religion as them, the same shape as them, etc do better. It's 'nice' that gay children are able to see normal, hard working adults like them.

Absolutely. When my attraction to girls hit my personal radar, I didn't have a name for it, or any idea what it meant. If there had been someone else, I could have named it, and known better. Going it alone is harder than it should be.

With silence from gay people of all stripes, kids have to go it alone. It sucked, and I was 22, not to mention difficult. I can't imagine what it is like for normal kids, young and insecure. I was convinced I couldn't be the only person feeling this, but apparently it's more normal to think you *are* the only one.