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Enjoying April Fool’s Day

April 1, 2015 Comments Off on Enjoying April Fool’s Day

Enjoy the fun of the day, but, please, consider the person you’re pranking.  We’ve all been the butt of cruel April Fools jokes that have humiliated us, or watched jokes pulled on others that were obviously an expression of the jokester’s prejudices, using the day as an excuse.  These tricks not only feel bad but seem to give some legitimacy to cruelty and prejudices.

There are so many pranks that are harmless and so ingrained in our culture that few people are terribly embarrassed by them, like the Whoopie Cushion, switching the Push and Pull signs on a door, and putting hundreds of post-its all around someone’s office.

But something that is dangerous, will clearly mortify someone, makes a person look stupid, or is based on ethnics, gender, religion, or sexual orientation is not okay.  And that means no posting of the victim online, which makes it even worse.

So, go ahead and enjoy the day.  But be mindful of the person you’re pranking and how it will affect him or her.  Remember that your joke reflects who you are as a person.

 

 

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School Boards, 9th Graders, & Sex

August 18, 2014 Comments Off on School Boards, 9th Graders, & Sex

School boards can be so dumb!  If you’re not from California you may not have seen this on the news.  The Fremont, CA School Board has delayed the adoption of a 9th grade text that they’d previously approved of.  It’s a new health book, called Your Health Today.  What’s wrong?  Is it because it was difficult reading, having been written for college kids, not 9th graders?  No.  Is it because it’s too expensive?  Apparently not.

The problem is the sex education chapter.  It discusses pornography, bondage, prostitution, sex toys, and the like.  Didn’t anyone on the Board read the thing before deciding it was good for those young students?!  Mmmmmm…..

Anyway, I have a solution.  Keep the books and just tell the kids that they’re forbidden from reading that chapter.  And have the parents do the same thing.  After many years as a high school teacher and parent, I’m SURE that will work!

Oh, and tell the kids that other chapters are being considered for the ban, as well.  That way most of the kids will read most of the book and think they’re getting away with something.

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Focus on Kids, not Parental Sexual Orientation

July 15, 2014 Comments Off on Focus on Kids, not Parental Sexual Orientation

Why (according to a University of Melbourne study) are kids of same-sex parents healthier?  One possibility cited is that same-sex families tend to get along better.  Another is that because same-sex parents are likely to share more child-rearing duties, basing them on skills rather than traditional gender roles, the children grow up in a more harmonious household.  These factors lead to increased health for a child.

But how about in other areas–temperament, behavior, mental health, emotional role, and self-esteem?  Those children scored the same as ones in the general population.  Except that kids with same-sex parents suffered due to the stigma of their parents’ sexual orientation.

What hurts most, apparently, is a child’s growing up in a single-parent household, especially with as single mother, who tends to struggle more financially than a single father.

In my opinion, this shows that a child thrives best in a home in which parents work at their marriage, share their talents in caring for a child, and maintain a harmonious household, whatever the sexual orientation of the parents.  No sensible person believes anymore–considering all the studies and anecdotal evidence–that homosexual parents raise children to be homosexual.  So why not concentrate on how kids are being raised and not add stress to their lives by focusing on what their parents do in the bedroom?

 Read about the study at http://www.nbcnews.com/health/kids-health/children-same-sex-parents-are-healthier-study-n149901.

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America’s Dirty Not-So-Little Secret

January 14, 2014 2 comments

Human trafficking is America’s dirty not-so-little secret. It’s all around us. Here are but three examples:

Domestic workers are easy prey for exploitation because they don’t have legal protections regulating overtime pay, a safe work environment, or workplace discrimination. Traffickers control them with threats of deportation or physical harm to them or their families, by confiscating their documents, by restricting their movements and who they communicate with, and by trapping them into debt.

Sex trafficking (NOT the same thing as prostitution).  UNICEF estimates that some two million children in the U.S., mostly girls, are sexually exploited in the commercial sex business, which is a $9.5 billion a year American industry.

Agricultural workers. Like domestic workers, migrant and seasonal farm workers are commonly exploited because they, too, lack basic labor protections enjoyed by workers in other industries.

January is National Human Trafficking Awareness Month. It’s an important enough issue for you to learn more about it and act when you see people being forced to work against their will for the benefit of others. If you observe such a situation, please call the National Human Trafficking Resource Center’s 24/7 Hotline at 1-888-373-7888.

 

 

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Miley’s Act Was NOT Out of Bounds

August 27, 2013 Comments Off on Miley’s Act Was NOT Out of Bounds

Poor Miley Cyrus is being unfairly criticized for being lewd and crude on the music awards.  It simply isn’t true…according to today’s music-world standards.  After all, everyone knows it is no longer enough just to sing, that is, if you want to sell your music.  You must give performances and produce a video in which you dress minimally, take erotic stances, thrust your hips provocatively, lick your lips while letting your gaze wander into Wonderland, and engage in suggestive moves with co-singers or back-ups.  It’s all part of the package.  Sometimes people take it to extremes, which Miley seems to have done.  But she has to if she wants to leave Hanna Montana behind her and be a success in the music world.  What’s a girl to do?!

Okay.  We old fogeys yearn for the day when we watched a singer perform and felt the emotion the words and music were trying to convey. We knew that sex was being implied in the romantic relationships being sung about.  But we had an advantage over modern music-lovers: we had an imagination.

 

 

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