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Squeaks of outrage
Nov. 8th, 2011 07:49 pmThe kidlet, being a seventh grader, had Abstinence Education today. To deliver this, the school evidently took them back to the 1950s.
The AE teacher told the girls that every boy thinks constantly about having sex with every girl he meets. Yes, seriously, the phrase "only want one thing" was used. Girls have to police how they dress so as not to tempt boys.
The kidlet sees right through all this, of course -- I mean, the kidlet actually knows some boys, and most of them, if they only want one thing, only want not to have to play dodgeball again -- but naturally they had to share squeaks of outrage with me when I got home and then share more squeaks of outrage with the spouse when he got home.
And then they had to endure me marching up the stairs at lights-out to make the speech that begins "And I suppose they assumed that everybody is heterosexual?" and ends " ... perfectly normal and we would love you in exactly, precisely the same way."
To which they replied, "Yes, but strictly speaking the term for women isn't 'gay,' it's 'lesbian.' "
edited 2019 to retroactively correct the kidlet's gender pronouns
The AE teacher told the girls that every boy thinks constantly about having sex with every girl he meets. Yes, seriously, the phrase "only want one thing" was used. Girls have to police how they dress so as not to tempt boys.
The kidlet sees right through all this, of course -- I mean, the kidlet actually knows some boys, and most of them, if they only want one thing, only want not to have to play dodgeball again -- but naturally they had to share squeaks of outrage with me when I got home and then share more squeaks of outrage with the spouse when he got home.
And then they had to endure me marching up the stairs at lights-out to make the speech that begins "And I suppose they assumed that everybody is heterosexual?" and ends " ... perfectly normal and we would love you in exactly, precisely the same way."
To which they replied, "Yes, but strictly speaking the term for women isn't 'gay,' it's 'lesbian.' "
edited 2019 to retroactively correct the kidlet's gender pronouns