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Post by Gray on Jul 16, 2009 21:13:20 GMT -5
Spiritualnihilist: Knowing the secret of the whole tearing-through-phonebooks thing, I'd have systematically exposed all of their bullshit to a live audience. But that's just me. Dude, it wasn't worth it. Really. The vice principle at my school didn't put up with shit and my classmates already hated me enough.
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Post by Tiger on Jul 16, 2009 21:14:39 GMT -5
I was taught in highschool that this was how condoms work with AIDS. And that was in 2004. *sigh* I wish I knew what I know now so I could call them on their bullshit. What the hell?!!?!! They were teaching outright lies. Glad I went through high school before all the abstinence only bullshit. My 8th grade geography teacher took time out of teaching us geography to tell us that too. Wish I could go through his class again just to call him on everything he told us that I now know to be bullshit.
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Post by Admiral Lithp on Jul 17, 2009 0:14:26 GMT -5
Spiritualnihilist: Knowing the secret of the whole tearing-through-phonebooks thing, I'd have systematically exposed all of their bullshit to a live audience. But that's just me. Dude, it wasn't worth it. Really. The vice principle at my school didn't put up with shit and my classmates already hated me enough. Correction: The vice principle DID put up with shit. Namely, that group. And if your classmates already hated you, that would be all the more reason to do it. At least, that's my opinion. Specifically, on the classmates thing, if they gave me the evil eye, I'd just point out how stupid they were for buying into it all. ... I am not a nice person.
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Post by Gray on Jul 17, 2009 10:54:26 GMT -5
^^ Honestly, I wish I had, but I was kinda timid back then. It was just easier to go with it and roll my eyes.
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Post by SimSim on Jul 17, 2009 11:56:47 GMT -5
Tiger and cheese007, that's really scary. Especially Tiger's case, that's clearly not geography, if it was a public school, or even a non Christian private school, I hope that teacher was reported. I suspect had it been a Christian school, reporting it wouldn't have done anything, except maybe cause you issues.
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Post by Tiger on Jul 17, 2009 12:33:56 GMT -5
Tiger and cheese007, that's really scary. Especially Tiger's case, that's clearly not geography, if it was a public school, or even a non Christian private school, I hope that teacher was reported. I suspect had it been a Christian school, reporting it wouldn't have done anything, except maybe cause you issues. It was a non-religious private school. I didn't know enough to report him back then, and since, in eight grade, I was a fundie who lapped up all the right-wing talking points he worked into his lectures, I wouldn't have anyway.
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Post by Mira on Jul 17, 2009 13:55:52 GMT -5
My public school health course made no mention of condoms, and I live in a liberal state. The worst part is that most of the students there are low income.
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Post by Caitshidhe on Jul 17, 2009 14:07:13 GMT -5
I feel quite fortunate. My "health education" class (which was all about health and only partially about sex and sexuality) did have discussion of condoms, BC pills, male and female sterilization, and IUDs (as well as the history of contraceptives--newsflash, people have ALWAYS been trying to temporarily remove the possibility of pregnancy from a nice romp in the hay!)--but kids were still allowed to "opt out" and sit out of class and be given a separate "abstinence only" unit. It was up to the parents. You had to get a form signed to opt out of comprehensive sex-ed. Frankly, I think nobody should be allowed to opt out. It's a disservice to your teenager to keep them ignorant about these things.
But then again, this county voted AGAINST a sex-education video that showed how to properly put on a condom. The video depicted a real condom, and a cucumber. They also voted against allowing "alternate sexuality" to be discussed in sex-education classes. This meant that if a student asked about homosexuality, bisexuality, transexuality, or anything like that, the teacher would've been allowed to answer--as it stands, the teachers can lose their job for answering questions honestly about sexuality other than heterosexuality. Sometimes the place I live confuses me.
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Post by Vene on Jul 17, 2009 14:44:44 GMT -5
Because you'll never have to interact with homosexuals, bisexuals, or transsexuals ever. As a completely irrelevant side note, one day I was with Magni in Wal-Mart picked up medication for Oriet. Note that Magni is physically female, so we were putting in the order and zie called Oriet "she" without thinking. The problem was that the pharmacy had her legal name, a male name. The woman probably thought that I was Oriet and you could just see the gears working as she tried to figure out why my "wife" had just called me "she."
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Post by Caitshidhe on Jul 17, 2009 14:55:48 GMT -5
*cackles* I'm pretty sure that pharmacist is still standing there trying to figure it out. And probably will be for a while.
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Post by erictheblue on Jul 21, 2009 8:06:10 GMT -5
Because you'll never have to interact with homosexuals, bisexuals, or transsexuals ever. As a completely irrelevant side note, one day I was with Magni in Wal-Mart picked up medication for Oriet. Note that Magni is physically female, so we were putting in the order and zie called Oriet "she" without thinking. The problem was that the pharmacy had her legal name, a male name. The woman probably thought that I was Oriet and you could just see the gears working as she tried to figure out why my "wife" had just called me "she." I've found that people just take things at face value and try not to think too much. I am read as male pretty much all the time, but have not gotten around to legally changing my name yet. But even when people hear my (obviously female) name, they still read me as male.
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Post by The_L on Jul 21, 2009 10:50:13 GMT -5
Because you'll never have to interact with homosexuals, bisexuals, or transsexuals ever. As a completely irrelevant side note, one day I was with Magni in Wal-Mart picked up medication for Oriet. Note that Magni is physically female, so we were putting in the order and zie called Oriet "she" without thinking. The problem was that the pharmacy had her legal name, a male name. The woman probably thought that I was Oriet and you could just see the gears working as she tried to figure out why my "wife" had just called me "she." I've found that people just take things at face value and try not to think too much. I am read as male pretty much all the time, but have not gotten around to legally changing my name yet. But even when people hear my (obviously female) name, they still read me as male. Judging by your pictures, I'm not surprised.
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Post by Vene on Jul 21, 2009 18:16:27 GMT -5
Because you'll never have to interact with homosexuals, bisexuals, or transsexuals ever. As a completely irrelevant side note, one day I was with Magni in Wal-Mart picked up medication for Oriet. Note that Magni is physically female, so we were putting in the order and zie called Oriet "she" without thinking. The problem was that the pharmacy had her legal name, a male name. The woman probably thought that I was Oriet and you could just see the gears working as she tried to figure out why my "wife" had just called me "she." I've found that people just take things at face value and try not to think too much. I am read as male pretty much all the time, but have not gotten around to legally changing my name yet. But even when people hear my (obviously female) name, they still read me as male. Heh, sounds like Magni going out and using zir chosen name (a male name) and people assuming female.
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