Skirting around the problem
I was browsing around the Interwebs last night [as one does].
I came across a post by Longrider.
My reaction was to sigh and mourn for the good old days. I’m not saying that everything that was taught was pure fact [thinking of religion and history] but generally politics was kept out of things and political correctness consisted of not using a few select words.
.But then I came across another article.
The madness is getting too fucking close for comfort!
A Co Wicklow primary school is introducing a new gender neutral school uniform policy which will allow boys to wear skirts or girls to wear trousers from next September.
Primary schools here cater for kids from around five years of age up to around eleven or twelve. In other words, they are children, not mini-adults or even teenagers but children. What the fuck are they doing worrying about gender identity?
I vaguely remember my Primary days. What I do remember was a time of innocence where the word sex or gender was rarely mentioned. I knew what females were because I had a mother and a sister, but apart from having the notion that they were different and somehow responsible for babies I wasn’t particularly interested. The notion that someone might be male but fee like a female would have been a joke. Sex was gender and that was that.
Now I have nothing against anyone who gets caught up in all this gender stuff, and people can have as many operations as they like, or wear whatever they like provided they are adult enough to know what they are at.
Just for God’s sake let children be children and stop filling their heads full of shite.
Amen to that. I totally agree. However I was a bit put out regarding that lad of 17 kicked out of his class for asserting that there were only two sexes/genders in humans. The teacher accused him of being wrong, not inclusive and what he said was against school policy. The boy argued in a calm way but got kicked out of class. The only higher organism with more than two sexes are certain fungi. For example Schizophyllum commune has 23,000 sexual identities. We have only two, regardless of school policy. That said I suppose those in the public sector have to very careful regarding what they say. It is all very 1984.
Chromosomes
XX – Female
XY – Male
YYY – Delilah
OK, I'll get my coat.
Incidentally – from the same article –
Jesus H. Christ! Why can't these shit for brains liberals just act right? There are only two genders! There are many sexual preferences. Go ahead and have any sexual preference you want. Have two if you so feel it's necessary but hot damn there is only X and Y as far as genders go. What the hell is wrong with these people?
Fucking Political Correctness. That's all.
This is a no brainer for the school. They introduce a dress code change that ticks the rainbow box and they leave it up to the parents to sort out.
It's the cowards way out and many are taking it. Which is fine until one parent decides that the school hasn't done enough so their kid can go to the same bathroom as the opposite sex.
What a farce. Can't wait for the pendulum to swing the other way as it always does.
Can't wait for the teasing [and bullying] to start.