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originally posted by: Degradation33
a reply to: Asmodeus3
25 years ago in a galaxy and time far far away, when I was going through my "be as offensive to conformity as possible" phase I bought a shirt at a Cradle of Filth concert I snuck out to go see. Hid it, and then wore it to school the next day.
Remove photo if still to racy.
This one. Thought it was so funny. I was very proud of it.
I was suspended 5 days, threatened with arrest, lost the shirt, got banned from listening to the band, and grounded a month for that. It made it an Olympic event to see what I could get away with thereafter. The only thing I regretted was losing the shirt, which you could only buy from their concert merchandise stand.
But it was and still is an offensive pornographic and vulgar shirt.
And this kid gets kicked out of school for offending the liberal snowflakes? With a selectively offensive shirt?
Is this a zero tolerance for insensitivity thing?
What would this same district do with a kid that wears the shirt I wore to cause a stir?
originally posted by: halfoldman
Perhaps I'm just so used to being lumped into the LGBTOI+ collective (for anything that isn't heterosexual, I guess), that I feel "gay" has a specific meaning, to which I refer in my post above.
And I don't think this article clarifies very well whether this Muslim family allegedly discriminated against gay men specifically, or whether "gay" is used here as a kind of inaccurate metonymy/synecdoche.
After all, if, for example, I used the term "Christian", that could refer to anything from Kenneth Copeland to the Pope.
Yeah, thousands of sects and denominations that might not even recognize each other as Christian.
originally posted by: halfoldman
a reply to: Asmodeus3
Oops, just came home and doing everything at once.
Actually I mean to reply to this this thread:
www.abovetopsecret.com...
Sorry, but still something I feel, and could be relevant to both threads.
originally posted by: halfoldman
a reply to: Asmodeus3
I think the shirt should have read there are only two sexes.
Provably sex is between the legs, but gender is between the ears (the mind or brain), and that is limitless.
Well, a decade or so ago that's how we were taught in college: "Sex is between the legs; gender is between the ears".
But it seems nowadays the concepts have become fused, or "confused".
P.S Intersex people notwithstanding, given a developmental choice they do slot into either binary.
originally posted by: halfoldman
From an English studies' point of view I also say it is outrageous to enforce upon people that the body must always match the imagination (as current transgender theory seems to demand).
Surely what makes us human is also the empathy and sympathy that arises from narratives and storytelling when we indeed imagine ourselves as the other, and put ourselves in the shoes of the other, while acknowledging it is a fairytale ... I am what I am.
It is my rendition of the Other (yeah we've noticed).
But at some point the covers must close and it's back to reality.
Ugh.
originally posted by: PorkChop96
www.foxnews.com...
Glad he is getting a little more help in his battle with a corrupt school system.