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warch 11-17-2004 11:45 AM

Bobby, put that blouse down.
 
According to CNN, a Texas mom is afeared of evil elementary school crossdressing and takes action.

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TWIRP, which stands for "The Woman Is Requested to Pay," was hosted by Spurger schools for years during Homecoming Week -- to give boys and girls a chance to reverse social roles and let older girls invite boys on dates, open doors and pay for sodas.

Plano-based Liberty Legal Institute issued a news release Tuesday reporting that it "came to the aid of a concerned parent" over an "official cross-dressing day" in the school district 150 miles northeast of Houston.

"It is outrageous that a school in a small town in east Texas would encourage their 4-year-olds to be cross-dressers," Liberty Legal Institute attorney Hiram Sasser said in the release

Tanner T. Hunt Jr., the school district's attorney, called Sasser's statement "inflammatory and misleading." He said the district never planned or conducted a "cross-dressing day."

"They are a tiny little East Texas school district," Hunt said. "It never occurred to them that anyone could find anything morally reprehensible about TWIRP Day. I mean, they've been having it for years, probably for generations, and it's the first time anybody has complained."

Delana Davies, 33, said she complained after reading a school notice about "TWIRP Day." Davies, whose 9-year-old son and 4-year-old daughter attend Spurger Elementary, said she viewed the day not as a silly Homecoming Week activity, but rather something related to homosexuality.

"It's like experimenting with drugs," Davies said. "You just keep playing with it and it becomes customary. ... If it's OK to dress like a girl today, then why is it not OK in the future?"
What hijinx instead? Cant the kids have any fun?

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As a substitute for "TWIRP Day," the schools ranging from elementary to senior high decided to hold "Camo Day" -- with black boots and Army camouflage to be worn by everyone who wants to participate.
Hmmm. perhaps it is like experimenting with drugs. Do the kids sign a pre-enlistment contract?

Troubleshooter 11-17-2004 12:07 PM

People are constantly telling me that I am too judgemental, too critical, but damn people...

Maybe she'd like one of my new patented rodeo belt buckles*.










* with the new smaller, more energy efficient, low-level x-ray emitter module built in.

jaguar 11-17-2004 12:13 PM

......All I could think of was
http://blackstatic.net/1029.jpg
Except with it's actually worse....it's got this twisted backward homophobic macho morality thing....about something designed to promote understanding....incredible, the world never ceases to amaze me.

Cyber Wolf 11-17-2004 01:24 PM

I'll bet that mom wouldn't have been so 'offended' if she hadn't been societally told to be offended by it.

Me? I'd write it off as a second Halloween, a day where you can dress up and be anything and NO ONE SHOULD CARE.

garnet 11-17-2004 01:42 PM

"As a substitute for "TWIRP Day," the schools ranging from elementary to senior high decided to hold "Camo Day" -- with black boots and Army camouflage to be worn by everyone who wants to participate."

Do the kids get to bring semi-automatic weapons and hand grenades, too? After all, if they want to encourage this, the costumes should be "authentic." If it were my kid, I'd prefer the TWIRP thing over this camoflage crap. Silly.

Elspode 11-17-2004 02:03 PM

This is a perfect example of the newly prevailing state of Conservative extremism in this country. Unabated homophobia is absolutely okay, and it is more acceptable to dress your kids as little bullet catchers than it is to have them act silly in the tradition of Milton Berle, Monty Python and J. Edgar Hoover.

What country and I living in, again? The Christian States of America, is it?

warch 11-17-2004 02:03 PM

Either way the girls can be tough and kick some Sadie Black Hawkins Down ass.

Trilby 11-17-2004 03:25 PM

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Originally Posted by Elspode
... it is more acceptable to dress your kids as little bullet catchers...

What country and I living in, again? The Christian States of America, is it?



Yes--on both counts. :yelsick:

Happy Monkey 11-17-2004 03:33 PM

I hope they're getting those little girls out of pants and into dresses, too.

slang 11-17-2004 05:21 PM

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Originally Posted by CNN
Spurger schools for years during Homecoming Week -- to give boys and girls a chance to reverse social roles and let older girls invite boys on dates, open doors....


.....get drunk, make the first move, and the second, get the kids jeans off, show the big "O" face in the back seat, make a mess, and drop them off before 11 to spend the remainder of the evening playing GTA.


What could be better? Equality. What a concept.

Cyber Wolf 11-17-2004 05:37 PM

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Originally Posted by slang
... show the big "O" face in the back seat...

Of her mom's stylishly practical minivan instead of her dad's showy girl-catcher sportscar/coupe?

xoxoxoBruce 11-17-2004 05:54 PM

Why are they listening to this woman? Is she speaking for a group? Fuck her, if she doesn't like it she can keep her kids home that day. :mad:

warch 11-17-2004 06:39 PM

Lawsuit! Lawsuit! The Liberty Legal Christian lawyers.

flippant 11-17-2004 07:09 PM

The next time I go to a masquerade ball I'll be careful to not become the bird thats feathers are used to make my mask.
Hiram Sasser, are you kidding me? Is that really his name? Does that Law Institue double as a clown school? What are the entry requirements....the handle off the fridge in mom and dads trailer?

richlevy 11-17-2004 07:09 PM

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Originally Posted by Elspode
This is a perfect example of the newly prevailing state of Conservative extremism in this country. Unabated homophobia is absolutely okay, and it is more acceptable to dress your kids as little bullet catchers than it is to have them act silly in the tradition of Milton Berle, Monty Python and J. Edgar Hoover.

What country and I living in, again? The Christian States of America, is it?

To put everything in perspective -

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Hollywood tough guy Charles Bronson had a rather non-macho childhood. His family was so poor that he had to wear his sister's hand-me-down dresses to school.
...and he was no sissy. :cool:


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