It's small comfort, but on Friday I saw the new Royal New Zealand ballet performance of Cinderella, which was suuuper queer, included Fab Five fairies doing the makeover and the prince having a happy ever after with another prince. The audience was so warm, and so happy, and there were cheers when the princes kissed on stage.
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What a load of tosh. I was given this sort of rubbish when I was about 10. It's sad to see that over half a century later these morons are still trying to push back against normal human behaviour. And get this: women should not adorn themselves with braids and costly jewellery (and, one assumes, eyeliner), but women naturally gravitate towards beauty, "fixing" their hair and spending lots of time dressing. Make your mind up! The poor souls are terribly conflicted about long hair on men, too. That wretched Samson really set them a problem (and let's not forget that Jesus is invariably portrayed as having long hair).
As a women who has long hair and never wears make up, but nearly always earrings - am I good or bad? I suspect that the fact I built my own boat and live on it alone, puts me firmly in the bad camp, especially as I'm afraid I ignored the call to go forth and procreate!
Again and again with Christianity, I come back to the fact that Jesus said "I bring you a new testament": does that not imply he was saying chuck out the old one? And who are Peter and Paul - apparently single and debtably misogynistic - to tell women how to behave? For heaven's sake, if you have to slavishly follow another person's example, because you are too lazy to work out the difference between right and wrong yourself, at least don't get sidetracked by all the different interpretations of what he meant, often written decades later by men who never even met him!
Incidentally, a huge number of animals, whose bodies are also shaped to fit perfectly for the purposes of procreation, have male to male and female to female sexual encounters.
In reality, it's very easy to know whether to read any further with this garbage: if the text mentions "mom", you know it's USAnian and therefore, to put it politely, moot. In this country children still talk to their mum.
Is there any advice on the conversation you need to have with a young man about the appropriate expression of masculinity, after said young man has bashed up a 13 year old with his fists and the legs of a bed?
CFLE: Christian Family Life Education. We started this about age 11 at Catholic school and it basically covered exactly what you have provided the background reading for here (plus tampons are somehow slutty). At that age things already didn't make a lot of sense to me from a Christian perspective and their view on sexuality and gender roles unimpressed me even more. That was almost 30 years ago. THIS CONTENT IN 2022 IS BEYOND INSANE. Pink fucking pajamas, wow.
I hope teachers feels able to challenge this. There surely must be so many that find it fundamentally awful and in contradiction to their roles as educational and moral leaders.
It's horrifying. I feel like we're moving into a Handmaid's Tale-type future.
I went to an all girls Catholic high school. Our sex education in 1991 consisted of an horrifically violent abortion video and the message "just say no". I was 16. In the 7th form (Year 13) a young, new nun joined the staff. She risked her job and vocation to give us (there were only 30 of us - small school) a quick run down on the actual important bits of sex ed and handed out brochures for the Family Planning Clinic. She was a wonderful, brave woman ahead of her time. She "left" soon after.
When I completed my secondary teacher training in 2013 at AUT, the trainee science teachers in my cohort that were sent to Kingsway (Christian school in Silverdale) for their practical training segment had to pretend they didn't believe in evolution. You know, only one of the most basic scientific principles that underpins the study of biology!
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"eager posture" is hilarious (if also tragic in this context!)...it's got the sort of spectacular Japanese-mistranslation vibes that would make it a cool tour name for an alternative rock band
On the reading list there are books and websites, as well as recommended videos curated by the same Christian teacher who arrogantly wore a MAGA hat to a Black Lives Matter protest in 2020. Again… extreme margins of the religious right in America.
I feel like this part is almost mentioned in passing, though I know that's not the intention.... Why is this guy influencing anything? It makes me so angry as a teacher. My recommended reading lists are about being a positive leader, helping boys struggling with writing or the new New Zealand histories curriculum. Not anti- feminist, anti- trans, anti-LGBTQ+, pro-colonialist rubbish.
Good to see that some of those who received the email with the reading list were disgusted by it. I really hope that these people GO to the symposium, and speak up loudly and often against this.
The people that are already in these environments but who are against this far-right political brainwashing are the best hope for changing it. If the crazies pushing this shit don't meet any opposition to it, they are just going to get more momentum, and will take it further.
For any people reading this who are able to go, and to speak against it, please, please do.
I just reorganised the books in our Playcentre library, including shelves labelled Community, People, Feelings and Our Bodies. I feel like my selections would out-class every single one of these recommended readings.
We need an "outraged yet not surprised" button alongside the "like" button.
It's small comfort, but on Friday I saw the new Royal New Zealand ballet performance of Cinderella, which was suuuper queer, included Fab Five fairies doing the makeover and the prince having a happy ever after with another prince. The audience was so warm, and so happy, and there were cheers when the princes kissed on stage.
What if my theological foundation came with theological eyeliner and theological high shine gloss?
What a load of tosh. I was given this sort of rubbish when I was about 10. It's sad to see that over half a century later these morons are still trying to push back against normal human behaviour. And get this: women should not adorn themselves with braids and costly jewellery (and, one assumes, eyeliner), but women naturally gravitate towards beauty, "fixing" their hair and spending lots of time dressing. Make your mind up! The poor souls are terribly conflicted about long hair on men, too. That wretched Samson really set them a problem (and let's not forget that Jesus is invariably portrayed as having long hair).
As a women who has long hair and never wears make up, but nearly always earrings - am I good or bad? I suspect that the fact I built my own boat and live on it alone, puts me firmly in the bad camp, especially as I'm afraid I ignored the call to go forth and procreate!
Again and again with Christianity, I come back to the fact that Jesus said "I bring you a new testament": does that not imply he was saying chuck out the old one? And who are Peter and Paul - apparently single and debtably misogynistic - to tell women how to behave? For heaven's sake, if you have to slavishly follow another person's example, because you are too lazy to work out the difference between right and wrong yourself, at least don't get sidetracked by all the different interpretations of what he meant, often written decades later by men who never even met him!
Incidentally, a huge number of animals, whose bodies are also shaped to fit perfectly for the purposes of procreation, have male to male and female to female sexual encounters.
In reality, it's very easy to know whether to read any further with this garbage: if the text mentions "mom", you know it's USAnian and therefore, to put it politely, moot. In this country children still talk to their mum.
Is there any advice on the conversation you need to have with a young man about the appropriate expression of masculinity, after said young man has bashed up a 13 year old with his fists and the legs of a bed?
So Māori children had no education before the Europeans came along, eh?
CFLE: Christian Family Life Education. We started this about age 11 at Catholic school and it basically covered exactly what you have provided the background reading for here (plus tampons are somehow slutty). At that age things already didn't make a lot of sense to me from a Christian perspective and their view on sexuality and gender roles unimpressed me even more. That was almost 30 years ago. THIS CONTENT IN 2022 IS BEYOND INSANE. Pink fucking pajamas, wow.
I hope teachers feels able to challenge this. There surely must be so many that find it fundamentally awful and in contradiction to their roles as educational and moral leaders.
It's horrifying. I feel like we're moving into a Handmaid's Tale-type future.
I went to an all girls Catholic high school. Our sex education in 1991 consisted of an horrifically violent abortion video and the message "just say no". I was 16. In the 7th form (Year 13) a young, new nun joined the staff. She risked her job and vocation to give us (there were only 30 of us - small school) a quick run down on the actual important bits of sex ed and handed out brochures for the Family Planning Clinic. She was a wonderful, brave woman ahead of her time. She "left" soon after.
When I completed my secondary teacher training in 2013 at AUT, the trainee science teachers in my cohort that were sent to Kingsway (Christian school in Silverdale) for their practical training segment had to pretend they didn't believe in evolution. You know, only one of the most basic scientific principles that underpins the study of biology!
"eager posture" is hilarious (if also tragic in this context!)...it's got the sort of spectacular Japanese-mistranslation vibes that would make it a cool tour name for an alternative rock band
On the reading list there are books and websites, as well as recommended videos curated by the same Christian teacher who arrogantly wore a MAGA hat to a Black Lives Matter protest in 2020. Again… extreme margins of the religious right in America.
I feel like this part is almost mentioned in passing, though I know that's not the intention.... Why is this guy influencing anything? It makes me so angry as a teacher. My recommended reading lists are about being a positive leader, helping boys struggling with writing or the new New Zealand histories curriculum. Not anti- feminist, anti- trans, anti-LGBTQ+, pro-colonialist rubbish.
Good to see that some of those who received the email with the reading list were disgusted by it. I really hope that these people GO to the symposium, and speak up loudly and often against this.
The people that are already in these environments but who are against this far-right political brainwashing are the best hope for changing it. If the crazies pushing this shit don't meet any opposition to it, they are just going to get more momentum, and will take it further.
For any people reading this who are able to go, and to speak against it, please, please do.
I have just suggested to my SO that she should adopt an "eager posture" because it is "gods will". Yeah, it went about as well as you'd expect.
When the bulk of your recommending readings come from Family First, you know you should run fast in the other direction.
I just reorganised the books in our Playcentre library, including shelves labelled Community, People, Feelings and Our Bodies. I feel like my selections would out-class every single one of these recommended readings.
Holy shit that was an intense PS - was not prepared for that