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“Does it bother you when you see Daddy kissing Josh?�� he asked.
Ty shook his head and made a funny face. “No, not really. I guess you really like him a lot.��
“I do,�� Rex agreed. “I love Josh.��
“I love Josh too, and so I don’t care if you kiss him. But I thought boys only kissed girls.��
Rex nodded. “Yeah, well, that’s how it is most of the time, but you know some boys kiss other boys and some girls kiss other girls.��
“Well, I don’t wanna kiss no girls!�� Ty said emphatically.
Rex and Josh both laughed. “Maybe someday you will, though. If you do, that’s fine, and if you don’t, that’s fine too. For right now, you can just kiss Daddy.�� He leaned in and kissed Ty on the forehead.”
― Jeff Erno, We Danced

“Now, it’s undeniably true that male writers (including yours truly) are generally and commercially allowed to write about “girl stuff�� without being penalized for doing so. In part this is the same old shit it’s always been ... I’ve said before that men who write mostly about men win prizes for revealing the human condition, while women who write about both men and women are filed away as writing “womens�� issues.�� Likewise, in fantasy, the imprimatur of a dude somehow makes stuff like romance, relationship drama, introspection, and adorable animal companions magically not girly after all.

In a sense, we male fantasists are allowed to be like money launderers for girl cooties."

[Game of Thrones and Invisible Cootie Vectors (blog post, March 30, 2014)]”
― Scott Lynch

“Don't stick that on me until we know for a fact that you have the same power Acheron does to keep cooties off that stuff”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon, No Mercy

“Cooties, doesn't show possibility shows impossibility.”
― Deyth Banger