Quote: CAVHe's a kid.
Are you people going to tell me that you were all friendly and interested in the opposite gender when you were 8-11? It's possible but most kids that age aren't interested at least, and are all "ewwww girls/boys are icky" at worst.
Seriously stop acting like he's a 19 year old damning an entire gender.
Depends on what you mean by 'interested', but when I was a kid I was very friendly with boys and had no problem with them whatsoever. I just saw fellow kids, not some 'Other'.
TBH, the 'ewwww girls/boys are icky' thing never made sense to me when I was a kid and even now it still doesn't, because, really, why? Kids or adults, we're all people. Gender is no object, it doesn't lock people in a box, and there's no reason it needs to be doing any of that.
..I mean, well, when I was around five years old a boy punched me in the face because he hated girls, so I guess I don't find what's considered 'normal' for young kids to be the most healthy mindset around. But I better stop rambling.
As for the situation here... Really, would it have killed anyone who yelled at him to at least be polite instead of insulting? He's not really going to learn if you just bash him. He's just a kid who in this case said something ignorant. It happens.
EDIT: guess it figures another post gets in while i type this.