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Consequences
Aug. 4th, 2009 04:23 pmAnd another little twitter story of mine up at Thaumatrope. We'll call this one "Consequences."
See the evil effects Sean Penn has on us?
May. 22nd, 2009 10:12 amSixth grader loses her recess period after seeing Sean Penn's movie, Milk, and wanting to talk about it.
The supposed rationale behind this is that the sixth grader's report, on slain civil rights/gay leader Harvey Milk, would be a lesson "dealing with sex," which makes me wonder, not offhandedly, what might have happened in that classroom had students chosen to give reports on, say, Henry VIII or Charles II or Percy Bysshe Shelley (but not Byron!) or even Warren Harding (whose one main accomplishment as president was successfully hiding an affair from his wife).
Although I just realized that from a moral point of view, the stories of Anne Boleyn and Jane Seymour do suggest that if you decide to wait for marriage instead of just boinking the king when he politely asks you, you'll end up either dead in childbirth or with your head cut off, particularly when compared to the considerably happier tales of the various mistresses of Charles II (who all got lots of money and apparently marvelous sex out of the deal) by refusing to consider waiting for marriage for even an instant. Hmm. Maybe this six grade class should just focus on botany reports and avoid biography altogether.
The supposed rationale behind this is that the sixth grader's report, on slain civil rights/gay leader Harvey Milk, would be a lesson "dealing with sex," which makes me wonder, not offhandedly, what might have happened in that classroom had students chosen to give reports on, say, Henry VIII or Charles II or Percy Bysshe Shelley (but not Byron!) or even Warren Harding (whose one main accomplishment as president was successfully hiding an affair from his wife).
Although I just realized that from a moral point of view, the stories of Anne Boleyn and Jane Seymour do suggest that if you decide to wait for marriage instead of just boinking the king when he politely asks you, you'll end up either dead in childbirth or with your head cut off, particularly when compared to the considerably happier tales of the various mistresses of Charles II (who all got lots of money and apparently marvelous sex out of the deal) by refusing to consider waiting for marriage for even an instant. Hmm. Maybe this six grade class should just focus on botany reports and avoid biography altogether.
