Posts by Sacha
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Up Front: That's Inappropriate!, in reply to Jacqui Dunn,
some PAS esoteric wording that everyone but me would know, like y'know, "roflnui" or something
Google is your friend..
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Up Front: That's Inappropriate!, in reply to B Jones,
It often seems pure social control of stroppy women, yes.
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Up Front: That's Inappropriate!, in reply to Tess Rooney,
BLAM! Priestly scandal!! I knew it, I just knew it
You bring the Catholic slut-shaming and guilt, Tess, what do you really expect?
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Up Front: That's Inappropriate!, in reply to giovanni tiso,
Yes, because that works. Ahem.
It brings them closer to the fold where they can benefit from the wisdom and.. love of religious elders
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Tess, it’s quaint how you think it’s a school’s job to socially reproduce *your* particular religious conception of sexuality and morality. Thankfully it’s a dying one and we have a secular public education system.
Education about sexuality must encompass more than diseases. Helping equip young people to make good decisions and enjoy themselves needs to transcend religious strictures or intellectual discomfort, so no one is left out. There’s a fair bit of diversity in our country now. Or you can always put your children in a private church school if you insist on keeping them in the dark or throttling their human urges.
I see no evidence in what you say here that you’re applying any attention at all to men, only young women. I have no intention of continuing to discuss this topic within your old-fashioned framing with concepts like ‘promiscuity’ being the province only of women – if I wanted that I’d go to a church. Perhaps one infused with guilt and whose ideas about what makes a good relationship are decreed by supposedly celibate old men with a historical inability to keep their mitts off the altarboys.
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Up Front: That's Inappropriate!, in reply to Tess Rooney,
It’s not a slippery slope, it’s about context and social definitions of signals that certain clothes or ways of dressing send. Togs…undies
Yes, fashion is a social thing, but our agreements and understandings have evolved a little since mediaeval times.
Neither togs nor undies say 'shag me now'. Nor do clothes *force* other people to behave in certain ways. I'd expect young people to learn that at school, not be indoctrinated with the fallacies of their ancestors.
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Hard News: Do you like what we've done…, in reply to 3410,
permalink is now under the “9 milliseconds ago” text :)
snap
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Hard News: Do you like what we've done…, in reply to Russell Brown,
correct
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Hard News: Do you like what we've done…, in reply to Russell Brown,
Ah, thanks. I was expecting that from the All Threads button. Funny how System-centric our expectations can become..
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My point is that we should not be allowing teenagers to dress provocatively
I presume you apply that to boys as well?