"Openly Gay", 13 Year Old?

[Slartibartfast]

Originally posted by richlevy


If we could find some way to give school boards detention, suspensions, or better yet corporal punishment when they do some mind-boggling stupid acts, I'd be all for it.

If you want to really make it hurt, pull the funds out of the School Board's SALARY rather than the school funds.

[Griff]

The Barbie shirt is better than the street-walker appropriate clothing, often worn by middle school girls these days... meanwhile, I'm gonna keep paying Catholic school tuition, while folks try to decide whether or not children are important enough to hold to some level of decorum. There are consequences to having education controlled by politics. Griff is apparently a mouth breathing conservative on the issue of ruining kids lives for the sake of political ax(e) grinding.

[ladysycamore]

Originally posted by jaguar
and people wonder why I disparage the US school system.

And why I wouldn't even dream of raising a kid in today's school society.

*gettin' old...*

[wolf]

What's needed is a kid to sue for emotional distress over the comment about Barbie ... Mattel could testify as to Barbie's sexual orientation at the trial and settle the matter once and for all.

[tw]

Well at least we now know why Barbie broke up with Ken.

[warch]

I wonder what the "series of discriminatory incidents" were. I've seen some torture go down unaddressed or encouraged. I would say that there are 13 year olds that have identified their sexual orientation, even if generally not sexually active. Rock on, lil' rebel dyke.

[Torrere]

According to what I've read in parenting literature, young girls often test their sexuality and decide to be lesbian for a while. If a girl decides to come out of the closet, it's quite likely to be 'just a phase'. If a boy decides to come out of the closet, he's much more likely to remain gay.

I recall my first 'girlfriend' as having boasted to the boyfriend of her best friend that she had made out with her before he had. Months later, the first girl was going out with him, and, to my knowledge, still is.


As an aside, I wonder what a thirteen year old girl will do with thirty thousand dollars. I hope that her parents(/guardians) stow it away to pay for collelge five years in the future.

[xoxoxoBruce]

I've been told "every" girl has an "experience" with their college room or class mate. But 13, seems young to be decided. I guess I'm out of touch with youth. Hell, I barely remember youth.

[wolf]

I appear to have missed a stage of development.

Or is this something that only applies to women born after 1970?

[godwulf]

Originally posted by xoxoxoBruce
I've been told "every" girl has an "experience" with their college room or class mate.

Alas, probably more male fantasy than reality. I've read confidential surveys that pretty uniformly suggest that a higher percentage of boys than girls actually have some kind of same-sex contact, even after the age of 16...perhaps as high as 90 percent.

I read a routine that Lenny Bruce used to do, back in the early '60s, about men and sex. He had a guy who'd been stranded on a desert island admitting to his wife that he'd had sex with mud. She's like, "Well, was the mud better than me?" Bruce also said that the difference between a man and a woman is that a woman could not go through a plate-glass window and be having sex forty-five seconds later.

I guess the point is that - without bowing unduly to sterotypes - a lot of men tend to take all sex less seriously...at least assuming that they are in some way a participant...and that would seem to include sex with other men.

Interesting episode of 'Law & Order:Special Victims Unit' last night - the murderer turned out to be a member of a group of half-a-dozen black men who get together for sex with one another but deny that they're gay. The cop played by Ice-T called it something like "the down-low".

Mmm...how do I get this thread back to Barbie now? Uh...hey what was Ken's black friend's name, anyway?

[MrKite]

Originally posted by jaguar
and people wonder why I disparage the US school system.