lucius septimius 10/28/2021 6:04:35 AM

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Kosh's Shadow 10/28/2021 7:05:21 AM

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Florida school board member takes elementary school students on field trip to gay bar

School board member should be criminally charged with corrupting minors, and the bar should lose its liquor license for letting in underage patrons.

JCM 10/28/2021 7:22:11 AM

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Kentucky principal investigated after getting lap dance at homecoming event

A Kentucky school district is investigating after a teenage boy gave lap dances to his high school principal and other staff members during a homecoming event.

Other provocative photos of spirit events at Hazard High School posted on social media showed teen girls parading around the gym dressed as Hooters waitresses and boys being paddled, according to the Lexington Herald-Leader.

Hazard Independent Superintendent Sondra Combs told the paper Wednesday that the incidents are under investigation.

buzzsawmonkey 10/28/2021 7:30:02 AM

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Reply to JCM in 3:

Looks like they were putting the "coming" into "Homecoming."

vxbush 10/28/2021 8:03:04 AM

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In #4 buzzsawmonkey said: Looks like they were putting the "coming" into "Homecoming."

Could the name "Hazard High" be any more accurate? 

doppelganglander 10/28/2021 8:05:03 AM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 2:

Reply to JCM in 3:

My school days, when teachers were sleeping with students and sometimes married them, seem innocent and wholesome by comparison.

Kosh's Shadow 10/28/2021 8:06:33 AM

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In #2 Kosh's Shadow said: Florida school board member takes elementary school students on field trip to gay bar

In #3 JCM said: Kentucky principal investigated after getting lap dance at homecoming event

And these are the people who think they know how children should be taught, and parents should have no say in it.

Occasional Reader 10/28/2021 8:35:58 AM

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In #6 doppelganglander said: My school days, when teachers were sleeping with students and sometimes married them, seem innocent and wholesome by comparison.

Wow.  No, as far as I can recall, we didn't have any of that back in my school days (or not that I heard of, anyway). 

buzzsawmonkey 10/28/2021 8:51:17 AM

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Alice in Dairyland 10/28/2021 8:53:58 AM

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Reply to doppelganglander in 6: Reply to Occasional Reader in 8:

I know of at least two students who married their teachers from my time (early 70's).  One was from my school and one is from the hamlet I live in now.  I do remember one of our younger nuns who was dating our young priest.  They eventually left their calling and married. I know, that's not the same thing but was quite scandalous at the time.

JCM 10/28/2021 8:56:30 AM

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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 9:

“accept the idea that a penis can be a female sex organ.”

Certifiably insane.

vxbush 10/28/2021 9:01:04 AM

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In #11 JCM said: Certifiably insane.

Can't disagree there, but then there is a lot of stuff today that feels certifiably insane. Did our grandparents feel the same way? 

buzzsawmonkey 10/28/2021 9:02:45 AM

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In #11 JCM said: “accept the idea that a penis can be a female sex organ.” Certifiably insane.

It's just a distended clitoris that distributes "gender fluidity."

buzzsawmonkey 10/28/2021 9:06:21 AM

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In #12 vxbush said: Did our grandparents feel the same way? 

Well, I vividly remember my grandfather---a Socialist and union organizer pre-WWI---cursing out the hippie/Yippie/SDS demonstrators at the 1968 Democratic convention, and cheering on the police.

Occasional Reader 10/28/2021 9:17:43 AM

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In #12 vxbush said: Did our grandparents feel the same way? 

Probably as the decade of the 60s got into full swing, yes. 

buzzsawmonkey 10/28/2021 9:19:21 AM

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Insty has a piece on a current "ad" for the Twix candy bar which features a witch-nanny using occult powers to protect her gender-fluid, transvestite charge from a "bully."  It is, BTW, an ad that barely if at all mentions the product.

I will remind anyone surprised by gay-themed Halloween ads that for many, many decades Halloween was the unofficial "gay national holiday" because it was the One Day of the Year when one could not be, or was at least unlikely to be, arrested for wearing drag---which is why Halloween has, for probably more than a century, been the traditional date for "drag balls."

Occasional Reader 10/28/2021 9:24:48 AM

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In #16 buzzsawmonkey said: arrested for wearing drag

Personally, I have never in my life heard of anyone being arrested for wearing drag.  

Not that I'd necessarily be very tuned in to that particular issue; just saying, I don't recall ever hearing about it. 

buzzsawmonkey 10/28/2021 9:50:32 AM

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In #17 Occasional Reader said: Personally, I have never in my life heard of anyone being arrested for wearing drag.   Not that I'd necessarily be very tuned in to that particular issue; just saying, I don't recall ever hearing about it. 

It was much more common prior to the Stonewall Riots.  For photographic evidence, you'd probably have to go back to WeeGee's photos of 1930s/1940s New York, which include pictures of queens in full drag being loaded into paddy wagons, but up through the late '60s/early '70s there were, in addition to "sodomy laws" ("the abominable and detestable crime against nature, with man or with beast, shall be punished by...") still laws on the books in many jurisdictions which forbade: selling drinks to homosexuals; "solicitation for acts of deviant sexual conduct"; persons of the same sex dancing together, and denied the cabaret licenses necessary for dancing to be permitted to establishments which might permit this; wearing the clothing of the opposite sex.  

The sodomy laws and anti-transvestism laws were extremely Biblical in their language (many dated from the 19th century).

All these laws were things that were enforced "arbitrarily and capriciously," i.e., when someone got behind in their protection money, when someone needed to pump up their arrest record, when a forthcoming election mandated heavily publicized police raids on "dens of vice."

I had to do a lot of reading on this topic in law school, given that the moot court topic my first year had to do with a "solicitation for an act of deviant sexual conduct in a public place."

doppelganglander 10/28/2021 10:21:43 AM

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Reply to Occasional Reader in 8:

My friend had a non-sexual affair with her married teacher. He eventually divorced his wife and married my friend's sister. 

buzzsawmonkey 10/28/2021 10:26:54 AM

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In #19 doppelganglander said: My friend had a non-sexual affair with her married teacher. He eventually divorced his wife and married my friend's sister. 

That sounds almost-Biblical...

doppelganglander 10/28/2021 10:32:28 AM

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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 20:
Leah and Rachel indeed. I was close to the whole family at one time. This happened after I moved away and it seemed awkward to ask, so I'm not sure how it worked out. 

vxbush 10/28/2021 12:06:27 PM

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In #21 doppelganglander said: it seemed awkward to ask

Yes, not exactly the standard "how have you been" question directed to friends only seen after ages have gone by. 

buzzsawmonkey 10/28/2021 12:28:22 PM

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lucius septimius 10/28/2021 3:33:10 PM

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Reply to doppelganglander in 6:

I know of several girls from high school who married teachers, as well as one teacher who had a string of "improper relationships" with female students, though I don't know how far they actually went.

lucius septimius 10/28/2021 3:35:09 PM

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In #21 doppelganglander said: Leah and Rachel indeed.

Then was it all about the Benjamins?

doppelganglander 10/28/2021 3:46:24 PM

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Reply to lucius septimius in 26:
Ha!

Occasional Reader 10/28/2021 4:39:52 PM

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Well, here’s something to cheer us all up!

https://www.steynonline.com/11826/coming-apart

buzzsawmonkey 10/28/2021 5:01:45 PM

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In #28 Occasional Reader said: Well, here’s something to cheer us all up!

Stand Up and Cheer: "I'm Laughing"