Quote:No, and I get your point before you have to make it. I can only go by a conversation I had with my niece when she was 12 (13 now), and my own memories of my childhood, when I came to grips with the reality of African-Americans and homosexuals not being what the current societal norms said they were.

 

Are you telling me a parent cannot have a conversation with their children that will set their minds at ease when they hear a long steady stream in their adjoining bathroom stall?

 

I don't know how to have a conversation with an 8-year-old girl who is becoming sexually aware and has been cautioned against trusting strangers that it's okay to allow a strange man to follow her into the bathroom to stand inches away in the next stall while she is at her most vulnerable with her pants down. That's a line I'm not prepared to cross.

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