Stop it...Enough is enough
jd50ae
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Who ever came up with this should be tarred and feathered. When does the stupidity end?
One of the nation’s largest public school systems is preparing to include gender identity to its classroom curriculum, including lessons on sexual fluidity and spectrum – the idea that there’s no such thing as 100 percent boys or 100 percent girls.
Fairfax County Public Schools released a report recommending changes to their family life curriculum for grades 7 through 12. The changes, which critics call radical gender ideology, will be formally introduced next week.
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Not long ago, some clown in Southern California (I think) came up with the idiotic one called Ebonics. Remember that one? There's just no end to that kind of silliness.....
lessons on sexual fluidity and spectrum – the idea that there’s no such thing as 100 percent boys or 100 percent girls.
The above copied text will be the fly in the ointment, i believe. By the sound of it, it still isn't acknowledging that homosexuality is genetically determined - not a conscious choice that people make. It's amazing to me the number of people who don't yet believe that.
I went back to school in the early 70's and took a few college courses. One was a course in psychology. Believe it or not, at that time they were still teaching that homosexuality was nothing more than arrested development - the mind not maturing normally through the stages of Id, ego, super-ego, etc. We've come a long way since then....
"If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." -- Mark Twain
transgender not is defined by sexuality. You can be a man living as a woman but attracted to women. Transgender is how you project your inner self - not who you are sexually attracted to.
And get the notion of "tolerance" out of your head. It is a bad choice of words and I have never understood how it is used today.
Exactly how I feel. Far too many people are so worried about this or that when it doesn't even affect them other than it being something that they don't believe in.
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It is funny that they have to DEMAND anything. In my world and America, my God tells me everyone is worthy of respect. I offer it to everyone - they don't need to demand it from me. But I'm comfortable in my own skin, and had intellectual conversations and humorous conversations with people of all races, ethnicities and sexual persuasions. I'm married with three kids and 1 grandkid and can hang out with whites, blacks, Hispanics, straights, gays, lesbian, or transgenders. What I cannot hang out with are unintelligent homophobic condescending Americans with better than thou attitudes that think the old America is better than the now and future America. That is more or less what I was trying to say...
I think they are good conversations to have. I was closed minded on many of these issues for a long time and it is mainly because of my wife for my enlightening. America was once the greatest country in the world. If we want to regain that title, we need to have these and many other conversations similar to this.
Case in point, a young gay friend of mine, son of a friend of mine, was once saying; "Sex sex sex, I don't see why everyone is so obsessed with Sex!"
"Well," I replied, "That's because you're not doing it right."
I then went on to ask him about his feminine mannerisms. "If you're going to be a guy who likes guys, why not act like a guy?"
Like I said, I just don't get it.
"If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." -- Mark Twain
I totally respect that - and from my perspective that's the point of the class. To educate people so they do get it. First things first - I always thought homosexuality was a choice people made. There may be some who choose that but for most they are genetically predisposed to it. Again, it was after reading most of the materials my wife uses in her course that started me really thinking about this and you may think I'm being funny when I say this but I'm being totally serious. What convinced me was the fact that there are homosexual animals in the wild and a video of two male lions allowed me to understand and accept it.
There are so many differences that I think there is a move to add more letters to the LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender) moniker which has been around since the early 90s. They want it to be LGBTQIA to include queers, intersex (people physically born with both male and female parts, and asexual (people with no physical attraction to either men or women).
There are gay men attracted to alpha gay men and gay men attracted to feminine gay men and straight men attracted to dominating women and straight men attracted to passive women and so and so on. The point of the class is to identify all the difference so you can understand it. Understanding is the first step to respecting and accepting. Our country is moving forward...I teach my kids 1 really important lesson -- 'If your not moving forward you are falling behind because you are being passed by those who are moving forward'. I'm not condoning or condemning anyone and their opinion. I am simply trying to highlight how my wife changed my mind and it didn't happen with one conversation. "Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it" - there was a time when a majority of Americans disregarded Black Americans because they were genetically predisposed to having a different skin color. We became a better and more inclusive America and that march forward is continuing.
I hope you don't think of me as one of the unintelligent, homophobic, condescending, Americans you're referring to. I'll assume you're just generalizing in broader terms because hey, I think of myself as a nice guy too. I align myself with the same values you claim. I believe everybody deserves tolerance and for their rights to be respected and to be treated kindly.