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  1. Alceste

    What's a "Purple Penguin"?The gender inclusive name for boys & girls in Nebraska public schools

    Me neither, but I was somewhat disturbed by my school segregating students by gender and making all the girls take home economics while all the boys took shop. That reinforced irritating customs at grandma's house, where all the women and girls did all the cooking and washing up while all the...
  2. Alceste

    What's a "Purple Penguin"?The gender inclusive name for boys & girls in Nebraska public schools

    I completely agree. Nevertheless, our gender binary culture assigns genders to intersex children via surgery based on the whims of their parents. The surgery makes no difference to the child's gender identity. They'll "feel" biologically male, female or androgynous regardless of the junk they...
  3. Alceste

    What's a "Purple Penguin"?The gender inclusive name for boys & girls in Nebraska public schools

    Nobody is arguing against acknowledging that there are basically two biological genders and most people fall into one genital category or the other. (And if they're born between the two, they get a gender arbitrarily assigned at birth by surgery.) They are arguing for not describing gender to...
  4. Alceste

    What's a "Purple Penguin"?The gender inclusive name for boys & girls in Nebraska public schools

    Yeah, they're not attacking the fact that most people have one type of genitals or another. They're protecting the classroom from the inadvertent reinforcement of retarded social customs that dictate that if you've got a vagina, you're supposed to be into housework, dolls and boys, or if you...
  5. Alceste

    Why are you interested in debating?

    A sub-category of "not persuasive".:D
  6. Alceste

    What's a "Purple Penguin"?The gender inclusive name for boys & girls in Nebraska public schools

    Yeah, I guess I can't see this as having anything to do with people being sensitive about having their feelings hurt. It's more to do with teachers being concerned about their students being bullied and ostracized, or feeling alienated in a way that inhibits their learning. And they should be...
  7. Alceste

    What's a "Purple Penguin"?The gender inclusive name for boys & girls in Nebraska public schools

    Male and female was never good enough. Gender is about more than your basic biology, and even if it weren't, there have always been children born intersex - both male and female.
  8. Alceste

    Edward Snowden - Revoltingistan's Human Of The Year

    Doesn't look bad either. We weren't easily finding terrorists or rescuing hostages before the world knew about the NSA and their partners around the world, and we're not doing it now. Is there any evidence of a change in the success rate of combating terrorists as a result of governments having...
  9. Alceste

    What's a "Purple Penguin"?The gender inclusive name for boys & girls in Nebraska public schools

    I get that you're being funny, but can you explain how creating a non-gender-binary learning environment has anything to do with persecuting cis white males? I'm not seeing it. :shrug:
  10. Alceste

    Why are you interested in debating?

    I completely agree. I'm a language skeptic too. I'm interested in piecing together the puzzle of what people mean. The words are just clues. Sometimes words are just slogans memorized by rote to protect the ego. Finding meaning in there often calls for a sledgehammer approach. :D
  11. Alceste

    What's a "Purple Penguin"?The gender inclusive name for boys & girls in Nebraska public schools

    Yeah, nor me.
  12. Alceste

    What's a "Purple Penguin"?The gender inclusive name for boys & girls in Nebraska public schools

    You didn't click the link apparently. It's on a tea party blog. I'm not exactly reaching here to make that connection.
  13. Alceste

    What's a "Purple Penguin"?The gender inclusive name for boys & girls in Nebraska public schools

    It's given as an example of a class name. My grade seven class picked "the wizards" as a class name. It's not new. Team names of all kinds have been common since forever.
  14. Alceste

    Why are you interested in debating?

    Yeah I agree. Another issue is that people don't seem to differentiate between facts, opinions and experiences. Facts are either right or wrong, and there's no point debating something you can just look up. Experiences are subjective. The "expert" in expressing an experience is the person who...
  15. Alceste

    What's a "Purple Penguin"?The gender inclusive name for boys & girls in Nebraska public schools

    Great, since that's the sort of label this pamphlet recommends. So there's no problem. :)
  16. Alceste

    What's a "Purple Penguin"?The gender inclusive name for boys & girls in Nebraska public schools

    Fortunately the feeling is mutual. Others don't care how you prefer to identify them to the same extent that you don't care how they prefer to identify themselves.
  17. Alceste

    What's a "Purple Penguin"?The gender inclusive name for boys & girls in Nebraska public schools

    Students, then.
  18. Alceste

    What's a "Purple Penguin"?The gender inclusive name for boys & girls in Nebraska public schools

    Oh yeah, exactly. :) Relieving a small amount of the pressure to conform to gender norms is all this could ever do. Kids will still get it at home, in the media, in the toy store, from their friends, etc. But perhaps a seed could be planted at school that sprouts when the kids grow up and...
  19. Alceste

    Woman shot and killed for refusing to give man her phone number

    I think you're probably right about that. My suspicion is that awareness of one's privilege is painful at first, and so the knee-jerk response is to deny it. You don't have an easier life because of your race, sex, ability, wealth, etc. but because you are more capable, smarter, stronger, or...
  20. Alceste

    What's a "Purple Penguin"?The gender inclusive name for boys & girls in Nebraska public schools

    Yeah, but the idea isn't to avoid talking about gender at all. It's to avoid classroom segregation based on biological sex, dissuade students from viewing LGBTQ students as abnormal or freakish, and combat gender based bullying in schools by discussing gender as a spectrum rather than either / or.
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