More US insanity (and it isn't from Kansas)

[Stuie]

Originally posted by Arrian
And that's all well and good. YOU did that. With YOUR kids.

This is about what's done in/by the school, which is another matter.

-Arrian

So until it is brought up by the school, it should just be ignored? If students ask questions are they referred to a later health course and told to shut up about it until then? Or do we use some demeaning slang term for genitals until some magic age is reached at which we can expose the children to the truth (which will be too late, by the way, because the demeaning slang term will have taken hold at that point).

It's a vagina. Vagina is not a bad word - it is the correct word.

[Guynemer]

Why do you hate America?

[Stuie]

I'm just a foot soldier in the war to protect vagina.

Oh, wait, that sounds odd...

[Guynemer]

That's a war we can all get behind.















...that sounds odder.

[Elok]

"My short skirt is a liberation flag..." WTF? That should not have been read at a public school. Not because it's obscene (it isn't), but because it's stupid. I never read the Vagina Monologues, since I gathered from the title that it would be, well, a lot of clunky no-talent radical-feminist crap such as the excerpt in question. IT'S A BODY PART. PENIS GOES IN. BABIES AND BLOOD COME OUT. THAT'S ABOUT IT. DON'T MAKE ME RECITE THE FIVE-ACT OPERA I MADE UP ABOUT MY COLON. Sheesh.

Drix, subtlety isn't everything. I liked you better as RoboCon.

[Stuie]

Originally posted by Elok
Drix, subtlety isn't everything. I liked you better as RoboCon.

That's who/what I was reminded of as well.

[EyesOfNight]

I have absolutely no idea what you're talking about. However, I find this game of trying to guess who I am amusing and therefore I grant you permission to continue. Entertain me!

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by Elok
"My short skirt is a liberation flag..." WTF? That should not have been read at a public school. Not because it's obscene (it isn't), but because it's stupid. I never read the Vagina Monologues, since I gathered from the title that it would be, well, a lot of clunky no-talent radical-feminist crap such as the excerpt in question. IT'S A BODY PART. PENIS GOES IN. BABIES AND BLOOD COME OUT. THAT'S ABOUT IT. DON'T MAKE ME RECITE THE FIVE-ACT OPERA I MADE UP ABOUT MY COLON. Sheesh.

[Dinner]

Originally posted by Drixnak
Who cares about free speech, the play is just stupid and should be banned. These girls should be supended for reading such a ridiculous excerpt. Feminazis.

I thought it was a good play when I saw it back in college; of course, the fact that it was filled with scantily clad young women might have influenced my opinion. It certainly got my attention when the Womens' Studies and Performing Arts departments made a 12 foot high paper-mache anatomically correct vagina to get people interested in their play.

[DinoDoc]

Originally posted by mactbone
I thought the purpose of a government was to accomplish goals that an individual cannot - or at least accomplish them in a better manner.

If you are to ****ing lazy to give your kid the talk about the birds and the bees, you shouldn't be having kids in the first place mac.

[dannubis]

Well, replace lazy with christian/catholic/wathever and we are there...

[Jon Miller]

plenty of atheists don't give their kids the talk either

in fact, I haven't noticed it to have any correlation with religiousity... which implies that there is no relation

JM

[Ogie Oglethorpe]

What JM said. Point of the matter is many christians have those talks early on if only so they can identify the assailant priests later on in life.

Seriously, tho', no correlation.

[Arrian]

Originally posted by Stuie


So until it is brought up by the school, it should just be ignored? If students ask questions are they referred to a later health course and told to shut up about it until then? Or do we use some demeaning slang term for genitals until some magic age is reached at which we can expose the children to the truth (which will be too late, by the way, because the demeaning slang term will have taken hold at that point).

It's a vagina. Vagina is not a bad word - it is the correct word.

I would appreciate it if you read what I wrote. Carefully.

I've repeatedly said that this incident was ridiculous. I also agree with you that, as the "proper" word for that particular body part, it shouldn't been kept from kids.

I made a distinction, however, between mentioning the term (either in biology class or sex ed class or wherever else the body part naturally comes up) and performing/discussing the Vagina Monologues. Personally, were I a parent I'd be fine with the VM presented/discussed in highschool. Others may feel differently (some might think middleschool is appropriate; others may think that it's not appropriate at all, I don't know).

-Arrian

[Elok]

It occurs to me that this incident would have been much funnier if they had attempted to circumvent the censorship by using a...less formal term than vagina. Let the kids learn the proper terminology as used by longshoremen and construction workers.