I am not confused about my sexuality. I know perfectly well what my sexuality is. I certainly know more about my sexuality than Fistful, or any other poster on this board (2swap included) is even theoretically equipped to know. The idea that I somehow am not qualified to decide who I am attracted to I - not even who I should have a relationship, but simply, who I am ATTRACTED to is beyond ridiculous and laughable.
Just about anything with an R rating. Do they edit the Hollywood product for you Israelis? 'Cause gettin' it on is standard fare in cinemas over here.
Help me here. I don’t watch films at a cinema, I watch them at home. Of recent films, I’ve seen “Avatar”, “Kick-ass” and some B-movies. Kick-ass was R-rated, and it had a very limited sex scene lasting about 3 seconds (far less explicit than the one in Terminator), only basically serving to point out that Katie and the protagonist were in a relationship. Of course, this does advance the plot.
Not that it matters to me. I’m not a fan of high-brow films. I want explosions, breasts, and shiny guns as far as the eye can see. I don’t really care if Arnie firing the Gatling gun in T2 advances the plot. It was cool then and it is cool now.
.... or a (nationally known) WAACP NAAWP, or a striaght people's month.....
Try to get into a liberal’s mind, here.
These people believe - and I’m not agreeing, but outlining their position which is not mine - that society has for a long time not paid attention to minorities. To a leftist, 11 months of the year are White Heterosexual History Months, anyway.
But my greater argument is this:In the present system, public schools exist. The President has no real authority over them (although the bully pulpit allows him to do things like this).
Public schools will probably continue to exist in some fashion - local and charter schools for the poor, like in the early 19th century - even in the libertarian future.
The struggle for their content will
always be politicized. THe government giveth, and the government taketh away.
Right now, the liberals won a specific battle which doesn’t really enable them to enforce the gay stuff on, say, Texas schools, and they won a battle on an issue on which I agree with them.
At about twelve years old, sexual desires begin to slowly awaken in any individual, especially a boy. This isn’t a function of liberalism or conservatism, but a function of hormones. Now, this young boy is too young to act on these desires, but the danger exists he will do so anyway. It’s likely he’ll act on them somewhere before he’s out of high school, as he gets older. Maybe he’ll have sex with someone (what’s the average age of virginity loss? 16 now?), maybe he’ll just make out with a girl or a boy. Again, this isn’t a point of moral evaluation, these are facts. It’s the duty of the people responsible for the individual - his parents, his teachers - to lead him through these changes. They are occurring. It’s a fact. The question is not whether they need to be dealt with but how.
The struggle over sexuality in public schools is a political struggle. There is no specific right for you to win this fight. We can argue - if you like - at what level it should be determined (I note that the Constitution does not prohibit the President from making symbolic announcements on this issue), but the issue remains the same. If we were all on a school board, it would still come down - just like deciding what color to paint the school - on whether the supporters of Gay Month outvote the opposition or not. This time they did. Don’t like it? Private and home education is that way.