of course not - that is inappropriate - just as many other behaviors children do that are learned from their parents or from media their parents expose them to. Those kids that act like that should be punished and taught what is appropriate and what is not. My point is that dressing up as something you are not for fun is harmless. The fact that this story is about dressing as the opposite sex is irrelevant to me. This cross-dressing has nothing intrinsicly wrong. It is the parents who put those ideas into it out of homophobia.
Blah, blah, blah. What values are absent in wearing girl's clothes and having fun with it? I guess the lesson here would be not to mess social regulations and do your best to be self-conscious. Don't ever question your role...
i agree with this entirely. i had no problem with the event, itself. no problem at all. this used to go on at my high school. i don't know how cool i am with this at an elementary school, complete with a beauty pageant...but nevertheless...that's not what raised my hair...it was the stories that Castor told. and if that's the effect of it, then maybe it's best to consider letting it go.
blah, blah, blah, yourself. raise your kids, and i'll raise mine. you make your own value determinations, and i'll make mine.
Ok I want to clarify a few things in my above posts. First, I personally have no problem with a TWIRP day at the High School where I teach. Last year the contest was carried a little overboard, and that is why it got canceled at my district. The previous times they had presented it, I had heard no major complaints. For Oski, the stuff at my district was done at the High School in a program that was presented to the community. The dress-up day at Spurger was done in a 1A sized district durning the school day. I have no problem with it in principal , except for the fact that the school is so small that all grade levels are in one building. That means that the Kindergartener's are often in the same areas as the high school age kids. The incidents that I spoke of there( the flashing and the feeling themselves up) were documented on the local newscasts (I live about 20 minutes from Spurger and the first 7 minutes of the newscasts were interviews with parents and kids from the district). The funny thing is, most of the High School aged kids that they interviewed could have cared less about the theme switch.
Guess what. I wear men's jeans. I usually put them on, and/or men's sweat pants, at some point every day. I've been doing it for years. Some of my shirts and jackets come from that department as well. Also, when I was young I dressed up like Papa Smurf for Halloween. It was just meant to be a tribute to my favorite cartoon character. My parents had no problem with it. So I should be messed up by now, right? I should be attracted to women and all that by now, right? Well, no, not at all. If anything, I've always been too straight and thought about guys too much, and that's shown no sign of changing. Still attracted to men like moths to a bug zapper...
That's the funny thing about society. Society could care less if a woman wears traditional men's clothes (as you mentioned above, jeans, sweats, shirts etc) but society gets all up in arms if a man dresses in women's attire. Why is that?
What I find funny is that the district had been doing this for years and years and never once had it ever even come up that this could lead to homosexuality. It actually took people who are against homosexuality to put 2 and 2 together. Is it just me, or is it gayer to dress up little children in opposite-gender clothing or to clearly see the inherent gayness in an elementary school boy dressed as a girl? Methinks it is the latter.
Well I also live about 20 minutes from Vidor (So I have whackos on either side of me), when I first heard about this story I half expected the lady to be a crazed Vidorian transplant. But she was actually pretty well-spoken.
This seems like a perfectly normal thing for a kindergartener to be subjected to. It's not like they're making them do something disgusting like say the pledge with 'Under God' in it.
Damn right, if I don't want my son to be exposed to black people, they shouldn't have to. What's next, black people drinking out of the same fountain as every one else, oh the horror
As long as you are not hurting anyone I think it is fine for you to have those beliefs. Narrow minded, yes, but someone's right I would think.
come on, dude. that's ridiculous. no one is saying that. codell's saying he'd rather not have his little kids cross-dressing or being exposed to pole dances. what a bullcrap post.
That's just absurd. It's the cross-dressing black people that you don't want your son to be exposed to.
Oh no, the majority that formerly thought they were the minority are now trying to make the minority do what the majority wants them to do. ****, I'm confused. I think I'll wear a dress.
