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Writer's Block: School days
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No, of course not, sex is a very personal issue and I want my children to find out about it based on their secret observations on RedTube at a friend's house, playground hearsay about Coke being a great contraceptive and whatever people harassing them online or IRL tell them. Formal education on the subject would completely ruin their innocent outlook on life!
How is this even a question, LJ?
No, of course not, sex is a very personal issue and I want my children to find out about it based on their secret observations on RedTube at a friend's house, playground hearsay about Coke being a great contraceptive and whatever people harassing them online or IRL tell them. Formal education on the subject would completely ruin their innocent outlook on life!
How is this even a question, LJ?
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(Anonymous) 2011-03-28 12:32 am (UTC)(link)no subject
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Instead I got, what I called it at school, "Health and heterosexuality class - heteronormativity in action."
...That was the only class I ever got a C in, by the way. Proves I'm just not cut out to be heterosexual.
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Looks like we got the same class, too - I don't think I ever heard about anything but heterosexual sex, AIDS, prevention thereof and pregnancy, how not to have one school. Those were usually like, "name your MAN!!! parts or your WOMAN!!! parts", "what nature intended you to do with those parts: PIV", "what will happen if you actually use those parts: male orgasm, illnesses and pregnancies".
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Although I do remember one of the pages in our 'booklet' was about a girl with an abusive boyfriend or something like that, and we were supposed to give her advice. I put down something like, "Drop the dude and date chicks. Or, really, dump anyone who doesn't respect you and your body - take it to the authorities if you have to, and tell people about it so they can help protect you. Research the help services for abuse. Get a restraining order if you have to."
When my friends saw the answer they wondered how on Earth I got credit, but the teacher had underlined the first line and scribbled, "Well, it is advice..."
I also brought up LGBTQQIAP issues as often as I could. I'm sure I sounded a bit like a soapbox preacher. :Þ
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All the better for your classmates! :D
I'm at a loss as to what your teacher might have been expecting if not that, for advice, I mean. Is there anything else she could do, or did she think people should go for, "stick with him, you can chaaaange him!!!!"?
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...I really wish I had had the lesbian health teacher...
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...I really wish I had had the lesbian health teacher...
I can imagine. :D I wish I had had a competent sex ed teacher once. I had two people who were incredibly anti-body themselves, so that went well.
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It was a win-win situation.
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Hehehe.
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But the notion, somewhere, that people might like saying yes to each other, or that sex is more than what married people have to do to get babies, might have been welcome. A mention of the clitoris wouldn't have come amiss, either.
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See, I had the Newbie Teacher who had obviously come to teach gym, and left soon after my last health class with him. The other teacher, though, was a lesbian - not out to students, of course, but some students (coughmecough) had especially open ears for such things.
Our two health classes played a strange game of Jeopardy against each other. Given that I hadn't memorised the advantages and disadvantages of each contraceptive nor every single symptom of each sexual disease, I hid a book beneath my desk and read. Soon enough I heard, "The female equivalent of a penis that is the only anatomical part entirely for pleasure" (or something of that sort) and I had hit the button and called out "What is 'clitoris'?" before more people had finished listening. Ms. Swain looked at me with pride, if I recall. (And it's worth further note that my health class didn't actually teach us about the clitoris.)
One of my friends looked at me and questioned, "Kiwi, how did you even know that?" and I told her, very seriously, that a "lesbian had to know the clitoris."
I think
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/irony
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I wouldn't like to poor fizzy drink down my private parts, anyhow, and doubt anyone would go for that.
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