Lie Like We do, Children
And in classroom surrealism news:
A primary school has held up a trans man as a positive example of masculinity in teaching materials for its pupils. Streatham Wells School, in south-west London, said Elliott Page, the Canadian actor who medically transitioned with cross-sex hormones along with gender surgery and now identifies as a man, showed that masculinity “can mean softness and strength.”
The school used the example of Page, along with the singer Harry Styles, to show children how men can be multi-dimensional.
In an article for the online newsletter Teachwire, Sarah Wordlaw, the head teacher… wrote: “It is important to teach pupils about harmful stereotypes about masculinity… It is extremely important to teach about positive masculinities.”
Because a mentally ill, self-harming woman, one seemingly forever on the verge of tears, is now a “positive example of masculinity.” A role model for primary-school children.
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Next week: cutting!
So the kids will learn never to trust teachers…
Well, I’m inclined to wonder what will happen when one of the children raises the obvious objection – i.e., that Ms Page is not, in fact, a man. Given the presumption of the teachers, the ideological overreach and casual arrogance, I’m not expecting much room for realism, or honesty.
Trusting government employees is always dangerous, think of COVID-19, Climate madness and your local school or university.
In other school news, in Brazil a university janitor and paper pusher are nicked for “social racism” because in Brazil apparently “troon” is now a race. I can’t help but think that these bozos would be less likely to be “mis”gendered if they made half an effort actually to look like what they pretend to be.
See also this, also from Brazil, where a sales clerk was saved from charges by CTV.
The typical way things go seems to be that teachers, full of the idiocies of the present day, attempt to impart these upon children at school, who in turn conclude that the teachers imparting idiocies upon them are idiots, and that education in general is nonsense, and who react to their education in a completely different way to which their teachers expect.
So, one wonders, what will be the cultural reaction to the present bunch of kids to this present-day idiocy?
The next few decades are going to be a *wild* ride.
“Computer, end programme”
And then there’s the small matter of what will happen when a parent objects to their child being taught to lie – and being subjected to what one might call ideological molestation.
I expect Chaz Bono would have been a more representative FAKE man …
Not a bad thing. I learned. Never early enough tho.
They’re dismissed outright and, should they persist, subjected to arrest & prosecution. At least that’s how it seems to work in much of the United States.
BTW, ‘ideological molestation’ has to be the most succinct description of the phenomenon I’ve encountered.
Muslim parents will love this.
And not in fact men.