Dan Savage interviewed on NPR

Dan Savage, author of the new book The Committment is interviewed on NPR about his book and the recent marriage to his partner of 10 years. Their son, DJ, was originally opposed to his parents getting married . . . for "interesting kid logic reasons":

School is very conformist, and one of the very first conforming that goes on in pre-school and kindergarten is gender. Suddenly, things he'd always liked, he came to understand them as not things that he liked, but things that he liked because he was a boy: they were boy things. And the whole world got divided into boy things and girl things, and marriage was a girl thing. Marriage, as DJ understood it, at five and six, was nuclear cooties: it was something that the girls threatened to do to the boys. I mean, it wasn't a pleasant thing.

[Amateur transcription mine . . . as are the transcription errors.]