1.) Swamp Fox - 10/09/2014

[I]A [B]Nebraska [/B]school district has instructed its teachers to stop referring to students by “gendered expressions” such as “boys and girls,” and use “gender inclusive” ones such as “purple penguins” instead.

“Don’t use phrases such as ‘boys and girls,’ ‘you guys,’ ‘ladies and gentlemen,’ and similarly gendered expressions to get kids’ attention,” instructs a training document given to middle-school teachers at the Lincoln Public Schools.

“Create classroom names and then ask all of the ‘purple penguins’ to meet on the rug,” it advises.


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[B]Furthermore, it instructs teachers to interfere and interrupt if they ever hear a student talking about gender in terms of “boys and girls” so the student can learn that this is wrong.

“Point out and inquire when you hear others referencing gender in a binary manner,” it states. “Ask things like . . . ‘What makes you say that? I think of it a little differently.’ Provide counter-narratives that challenge students to think more expansively about their notions of gender.”

[/B]The teachers were also given a handout created by [B]the Center for Gender Sanity[/B], which explains to them that “Gender identity . . . can’t be observed or measured, only reported by the individual,” and an infographic called “The Genderbred Person,” which was produced by [url]www.ItsPronouncedMetroSexual.com[/url].


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[url]http://www.nationalreview.com/article/389862/school-told-call-kids-purple-penguins-because-boys-and-girls-not-inclusive[/url]


[B]Emphasis mine[/B]

2.) bluecat - 10/10/2014

I saw that yesterday and just had to shake my head. We are going to political correct ourselves into extinction.

3.) luv2bowhunt - 10/10/2014

And heaven help the gender sensitive young man who begins dating and thinks that both genders are the same. As a father of 4 daughters who has had a front row seat to all the discussions, problems, pitfalls of young relationships, I can assure you they think COMPLETELY differently than men do about a wide variety of issues.

To think that we are all the same or all approach life from the same perspective is insanity. Young men, ignore that fact at your own peril. What works when you're out with the boys will kill you when dealing with a young lady.

I would pull my kids out of that school district immediately. They are trying to teach nonsense instead of what you're paying them to do.

4.) Floyd - 10/10/2014

Swamp Fox posts: What would Sister Mary Elephant Do? On a story about boys and girls and purple penguins. :laugh:

That's rich.... ironic....comical....well played Swampy.

5.) luv2bowhunt - 10/10/2014

Ironic or Iconic?

Crazy like a fox, no?

6.) Floyd - 10/10/2014

For sure ironic.

One could argue the iconic.

7.) muleyfever1 - 10/13/2014

wel nerbraska is that state that just lets parents drop off kids when they don't wantem anymor if im no mistken

8.) Swamp Fox - 10/13/2014

I suppose there would be something wrong with asking all the boys and girls to be bananas...

9.) Swamp Fox - 10/13/2014

"Come In, Tokyo..."-----LOL


Apparently this sex thing is tricky in Japan, too...


[B]Japan Zoo Discovers How Not to Breed Hyenas [/B]


[I]Staff at Maruyama Zoo in the northern city of Sapporo spent years trying to get two spotted hyenas to reproduce with zero success only to find that both animals were male.[/I]


[url]http://blogs.wsj.com/japanrealtime/2014/10/03/japan-zoo-learns-one-plus-one-is-two-not-three/[/url]

10.) bluecat - 10/13/2014

As Jimmy Fallon said, "I bet those Hyenas weren't laughing."

11.) Swamp Fox - 10/13/2014

LOL...I missed that...:-)...I only caught the story this morning...:grin:

12.) Swamp Fox - 10/14/2014

[B]WHAT WOULD SISTER MARY ELEPHANT DO?[/B]

[B]...about people who complain about Halloween displays?
[/B]

Here's a topic I originally found on another forum, which I'm 99% sure was copy/pasted from a write-in advice column. The responses on the forum, and the answer on the advice column itself were both interesting and quite entertaining. :wink I thought in the interest of generating a few howls on HC, I'd pose the question direct from the advice column here :


[I]Last year one of our neighbors was really ticked off about our Halloween decorations being too scary. We really do go for the more ghoulish decorating and have a lot of fun with it! What's Halloween without the fog machines, scary music (not loud), ghosts, and gruesome decor? The neighbors on either side of us have joined the fun and put up quite a display themselves. None of the decorations are over-the-top blood and guts, but the standard Halloween fare. The angry neighbors across the street have a 5-year-old daughter. They said she wouldn't sleep with the light off for a month after our "horrifying" decorations "scared the daylights" out of their little girl. They also said they hoped that we would refrain from the frightening decorations since we now knew they upset their daughter. They still will barely speak to any of us who decorated using anything "scary" to a 5-year-old. Prudie, the kids on our street are a wide variety of ages, with the vast majority of the kids being 8 or older. I have three boys ages 8, 10, and 12 who have a great time with the scary stuff. Is it insensitive for us to decorate with tombstones, scary witches, and skeletons? My boys and their friends next door are already planning new ideas for the Halloween display. Should I pull the plug on the fog machine and plan a super-duper Happy Halloween?[/I]

13.) bluecat - 10/14/2014

We have a neighbor about three houses down that turn their 3-car garage into a horror tour. There are live actors (recruited family members) and a host of blood and guts, scary music, ghosts, skeletons, severed limbs, tombstones etc.

The line to get into their haunted house starts at one end of the block and winds down to the other...

14.) Swamp Fox - 10/14/2014

It seems like every year lately I hear stories about people complaining for a variety of reasons. Same thing at Christmas. I'm glad I don't have to choose which group is more loony, because they tend to be the same people (though not always...in which case I'd say the edge for looniness goes to the Halloween protesters, LOL).

15.) Swamp Fox - 10/14/2014

Slow day on the internet, I guess...:tap:


I'm gonna pump this up: Here's a few of my favorite comments from the other forum, LOL:



[I]Quote:
Originally Posted by ____
It's across the street, she has no choice but to see it.

Reply: If decorations across the street scare her, little princess is going to have a rough life.

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Quote:
Originally Posted by ____
If decorations across the street scare her, little princess is going to have a rough life.

Reply: Know how I know you don't have kids?

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Tell them to F-off

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Leave a horse head on their doorstep.

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As long as it's not over-the-top gory (real life cow organs spilling out of fake corpses strung up on trees or something like that) who cares? It's Halloween. No one is holding a gun to the little girl's head forcing her to look. If she doesn't like it, then don't look at it. You shouldn't have to dumb down your quality of life because some snowflake can't handle a spooky holiday.

If that doesn't work rape their dog while staring deeply into their eyes while reciting Christmas carols.


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The little **** had a year to progress, let the smoke and zombies point toward her window this year.


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Quote:
Originally Posted by____
Know how I know you don't have kids?


Reply: We were at Busch Gardens last weekend and didn't realize Howl-O-Scream had fired up. Also didn't realize they started scary stuff before it got dark. They had the sound effects and masked scare troupes roving @ ~ 6pm and my daughter (8) was terrified. I ended up having to carry her out of the park while she sobbed into my shoulder with her eyes closed.

Felt like a fairly ****ty parent that day.

[/I]
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That's about all the sympathy there was for the little girl, LOL. Safe to say this wasn't the Girl Scouts forum (wasn't a hunting forum either, FWIW....LOL)

16.) Swamp Fox - 07/23/2015

I thought I'd get the conversation flowing again...


You can thank me later.



[I]An article about giving government-subsidized tampons to “women” that was published in The Daily Bruin, the student newspaper at the University of California, Los Angeles, came complete with a clarification that the author did not mean to suggest that menstruation was always a “women” thing — so as not to offend any transgender, non-menstruating women readers. The disclaimer, a picture of which was posted on Twitchy, states: “This blog post refers to individuals who menstruate as women because the author wanted to highlight gender inequality in health care. We acknowledge that not all individuals who menstruate identify as women and that not all individuals who identify as women menstruate, but feel this generalization is appropriate considering the gendered nature of most health care policies.”

[/I]Read more at: [url]http://www.nationalreview.com/article/421505/college-newspaper-transphobic-tampons-women-ucla[/url]




So, as the columnist who brings this farce to our attention notes: "Good luck out there, everyone."






[url]http://www.nationalreview.com/article/421505/college-newspaper-transphobic-tampons-women-ucla[/url]




[url]http://www.nationalreview.com/article/421505/college-newspaper-transphobic-tampons-women-ucla[/url]

17.) Swamp Fox - 07/23/2015

I thought I'd get the conversation flowing again...


You can thank me later.



[I]An article about giving government-subsidized tampons to “women” that was published in The Daily Bruin, the student newspaper at the University of California, Los Angeles, came complete with a clarification that the author did not mean to suggest that menstruation was always a “women” thing — so as not to offend any transgender, non-menstruating women readers. The disclaimer, a picture of which was posted on Twitchy, states: “This blog post refers to individuals who menstruate as women because the author wanted to highlight gender inequality in health care. We acknowledge that not all individuals who menstruate identify as women and that not all individuals who identify as women menstruate, but feel this generalization is appropriate considering the gendered nature of most health care policies.”

[/I]Read more at: [url]http://www.nationalreview.com/article/421505/college-newspaper-transphobic-tampons-women-ucla[/url]




So, as the columnist who brings this farce to our attention notes: "Good luck out there, everyone."

18.) Jon - 07/23/2015

so as not to offend any one group, we're all F'd

19.) Swamp Fox - 07/23/2015

Good point.

20.) billy b - 07/23/2015

I am a God fearing person as I know most of you are, I cannot believe how low this country has sunk in the last decade & a half, I am older than 95% of you & I can't believe how much we have gone downhill since I was a mere lad, mostly in the last 10 years. God help us as a nation.:pray:

21.) Swamp Fox - 07/23/2015

So what you're saying is that the country's been going down the toilet since I joined the forum, and you were a mere lad mostly in the last 10 years? :wink


:wave:

22.) Hunter - 07/23/2015

And, none of our leaders seem to care! I find it hard to believe they can't see it.

23.) bluecat - 07/23/2015

Thank God for Texas though. They seem to like the constitution and individual rights.

24.) Swamp Fox - 07/23/2015

A lot of states like the constitution...It just happens to be the constitution of places like France and Cuba...:wink

25.) bluecat - 07/24/2015

Standing by for stricter gun control rhetoric after shooting in LA last night.

26.) Deerminator - 07/24/2015

My :groan:NY governor should be knee jerking like crazy.