Wednesday, August 15, 2007

kids should learn about sex from blogs

Maryland public schools teach kids about gayness and that is controversial.

I'm torn. It's only fair that more public resources go to gay stuff, because a lot already goes to anti-gay stuff (for example $15,000 public money to a private lawyer to fight gay marriage in RI). Plus as a gay I believe that gayness should be everywhere all the time, rammed down throats, rubbed in faces, massaged into vulvas*, etc.

But as someone who struggled to achieve a C in sex ed, I believe that the class should be shorter. Here's how not to get pregnant; here's how not to get herpes; here are the statutory rape laws.

The tie-breaker is that if teachers delivered a pro-gay message, that would hurt gay kids and no one else.

Someone in the article argues that schools teach values all the time. For example, capitalism is better than communism. I agree, but I also think that students should challenge values taught in school.

And kids would challenge the pro-gay message, if only because it'd be delivered cheesily. The teacher would have two options: squelch the opposition with force or with reason. Force would obviously be awkward for gay kids, especially when the anti-gay kid gleefully sued the school. If the teacher used reason then-- oh God! You trust teachers to wield reason? How do you think I turned into a communist?

* Most sources say the correct word is "vulvae" but they're wrong. Vulva has been an English word since 1548 so we should pluralize it in English.

PS: Writing all that out made me change my mind. Let gayness fight in the marketplace of ideas. Some freaks will stake out the anti-gay stance but others will say pro-gay things. Considering the paranoia that accompanies being a gay kid, any support could be a pleasant surprise.

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