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People.
People.
I know that you're all super busy with all your lesson plans and stuff, and I know that most of you sit through their didactics seminars pretty much on autopilot, but I'd like to point out something.
"The boys should focus on Romeo and the girls on Juliet, because all girls can identify with lusting after the forbidden guy."
Think about this for more than five seconds and you'll see that this is a dumb task with a dumber explanation for its existence. It's factually wrong. This is not PC-ness gone wild, this is a factual error that you're making. I think we all agree about the fact that you shouldn't teach kids wrong things. So get a clue, teacher. Especially given the fact that you feel comfortable saying this to me shows such incredible levels of idiocy I don't even know where to start.
I know that you'll say that you can't pay attention to these things all of the time, because the vast majority of people are straight and ID as either of the two, but seriously, do you also not pay attention to misspelt words if students only get one letter wrong because the vast majority of letters in the word are fine?
I know that there is a reason why I'm made so damn uncomfortable by the fact that everybody loves Romeo and Juliet and other straight institutions so damn much, but really, people, there's a fucking limit.
I know that you're all super busy with all your lesson plans and stuff, and I know that most of you sit through their didactics seminars pretty much on autopilot, but I'd like to point out something.
"The boys should focus on Romeo and the girls on Juliet, because all girls can identify with lusting after the forbidden guy."
Think about this for more than five seconds and you'll see that this is a dumb task with a dumber explanation for its existence. It's factually wrong. This is not PC-ness gone wild, this is a factual error that you're making. I think we all agree about the fact that you shouldn't teach kids wrong things. So get a clue, teacher. Especially given the fact that you feel comfortable saying this to me shows such incredible levels of idiocy I don't even know where to start.
I know that you'll say that you can't pay attention to these things all of the time, because the vast majority of people are straight and ID as either of the two, but seriously, do you also not pay attention to misspelt words if students only get one letter wrong because the vast majority of letters in the word are fine?
I know that there is a reason why I'm made so damn uncomfortable by the fact that everybody loves Romeo and Juliet and other straight institutions so damn much, but really, people, there's a fucking limit.
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Also, on the Tube this morning I saw a poster for a new animated/CGI film called Gnomeo and Juliet, which sounds like it has the potential for all sorts of fail. I don't know what it is with that story either. It's never been one of my favourites, though I do agree, I like the Nurse best. She has the same sort of bawdy humour as some of the working-class East End women I know today.
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Ouch, not good. Hope they get over that, soon! People here are incredibly confused about even gayness vs. straightness, whenever I call them out on fails regarding other fails they just stare blankly, it's frightening.
I saw a poster for a new animated/CGI film called Gnomeo and Juliet
D= Do I even want to know...?
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Some of the more sensible ones seem to be getting involved now, so we can but hope.
Do I even want to know...?
Here's the IMDB page (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0377981/). It's Disney, which probably tells us all we need to know.
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Oh god, that movie. Also, good to see that you're still doing the naming thing there, Disney, what with the male character being named after the species in an everymannish way and the female character getting her own name.