Today I heard some year eight son of a bitch saying to his friend 'Do you know how to tell if someone's gay? Their hole is red! Get it? Get it?'
Yeah, I get it, asshole. But I don't think it's very funny.
I personally don't know anyone who's openly gay - I go to school, and schools are extremely conservative, especially a goody two-shoes school like mine. Even year twelves having sex, and with the year twelves being seventeen this is really no big deal, is a massive scandal. Any guy who went to my school who was gay would be bashed up by one clique or another.
I've always said that my school should do better screening when they select students to attend what is supposed to be an exclusive academic facility. You get people who simply aren't interested in learning - which is fine, but they're not really appropriate for our school. You get hooligans and idiots we're all trying to escape from, but a dumbass who has a high IQ is such a tragic story they really shouldn't be let in either. And then you get people who make these gay jokes, sexist jokes, or go around asking agressively 'ARE YOU A FEMINIST?'
Nobody should make a sexist or a rascist or a joke based on sexual orientation, even just for fun, even if you don't think you are a sexist or a rascist or a homophobe. This is where the root of the problem is - Hitler's crazy Holocaust and anti-Jew policies was sparked from a a random disparaging remark about rich Jews. People don't understand the power of the word.
The school is not doing enough to ensure that we get what we ask for. Every time the principal speaks she makes it like we all live happily in a happy little nerddom and we're all gonna mate and spawn more happy little nerds. It's not like that.They can't just judge us on a test. Some of the world's greatest tyrants are also some of the world's smartest people, but they don't belong here. Every time something stupid comes out of their uncivilized mouths it's like sparks emitting in a pile of firewood. Sooner or later we're gonna have a bushfire - and blood - on our hands.
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Is the wanting to spawn more "happy little nerds" eugenics or euthenics? (There's a distinction: eugenics is from the genes, and euthenics is from the environment. High IQ - let alone happiness - comes from both, and some unknown factors).
Well, this is an opportunity for student leadership.
When members of staff appear to be in denial, this is not good for the reputation.
(How does the chaplain; the psychologist; the advocacy group come into it? I admit this is a conversative response: the appeal to authority/soft power/"who takes direction from whom").
Or she may well think she is looking at the big picture, above the petty things on the ground.
As for the "hole is red" jester, has he been very long at your school?
You can't bash who someone is: you only make them (and your clique) fearful.
So what comebacks do you make to "Are you a feminist?"
And it's the things we do for fun which reveal us.
And one factor making a school conservative is probably the degree of censorship/freedom of speech.
(Exclusivity is not a guiding radical virtue).
An English cricketer recently revealed that he was same-sex-attracted.
Yes, the bushfire. We can all clear away the wood and cut the grass, and remember that burnoffs are for clear areas.
I do worry about the climate of selective schools, especially the non-academic values and virtues they aim to promote.
And something about putting yourself where diversity is needed most. That is a valuable part of community service.
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