to regret giving my dd a gay packed lunch?

[pointydog]

Dd1 (12) was off on a fun school trip today with a mix of kids from high school.

I suggested a few things for her packed lunch this morning and she went off happily with a peanut butter sandwich, a fruitus bar, a kitkat, some dried apricots, a tub of home-made muesli and a bag of chipsticks.

The tuff kids laughed at her lunch - snorting particularly loudly at the apricots - and called it gay.

I feel like the mum in About A Boy.

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Fair enough Bloss. Don't get how you can do that (how do you switch feelings off and on?), but that's life really - other people's heads are a mystery!

I think Leningrad posted info about the stats (see Wed Jul 1 posts) which back up that homophobic bullying is on the increase, or certainly distressingly prevalent, but for those that dismiss the issue by saying 'it's just kids':

Parents angered by school play that tells kids 'it's OK to be gay' "According to the Drill Hall, the play was written specifically to deal with the problem of homophobic bullying in schools, which it claims is growing as "gay" becomes increasingly used as a term of abuse to describe anything "from not liking sport to wearing the wrong trainers".

There are plenty of other negative words than 'gay' available for a child of average vocabulary to choose.

Glad you and dd chuckled about it tho Fotherington-Thomas

LeninGrad can I just say I really respect you, the way you have been so calm on this thread, well we should all learn from it.

there are plenty of mumsnetters who remain calm on threads...infact most do really...there's only a few hardcore "you tak such shite" posters around....thankfully.

but all respect to you LG...you obviously have it all sorted...that's why you're not threatened by anonymous opinions.

PMSL at Solidgold. But pepperamis are quite thin, surely a cucumber would be more girthy. I remember labelling alot of stuff at school as "gay" when I was younger, when it clearly wasn't literally "gay" it was just seen as amusing.
A non gay/flamboyant/festive packed lunch would be a sausage roll, a packet of doritos and a fruit shoot surely?

lol blackduck...don't put me in charge of the t.shirts..i find it hard going from txt spk to normal...god knows who we'd be following...

added you about an hour ago

lol i dont think its worked

defo used email you gave me....hang on ...will check again..