I Attempted to Create an Inclusive Environment for My Students. It Totally Backfired.

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[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (9 children)

I used to be a regular commenter on the Slate boards back around 2015 but the troon mod banned me for something & I never bothered to create another account. In fact she (FtM) banned around 90% of the regular commenters in a great purge around five years ago. I'm guessing the combination of testosterone shots coupled with some preexisting mental conditions made her go a wee bit mad.
Anyhoo, there are some pretty good comments from some old buds who are still hanging out there. Here are a couple:

"Throughout my twenty year career....." I think some real teachers might have a problem with an "anti-racism facilitator and volunteer basketball coach" claiming this makes him a "teacher" of long-standing. Doyin, stay in your lane.

Unless you're able to enforce something in a serious way, a sizeable subset of 8th graders will likely care very little about your "class rules" -- especially if they think they can get a laugh or act out. This isn't a corporate seminar; these are middle school kids, one of the most challenging age groups to teach. Honestly, I'd love to see Doyin teach a group of middle schoolers because it would probably be quite amusing.

Slate is so fucked up. There are many stories to tell about how ugly woke internal politics turned a couple of years ago. I'll do a few posts about Slate in the coming weeks.

Here's a horrifying piece from a father turned writer, who enlisted the help of his wife & old college roommate to instruct his teenage son about masturbation best practices. (you might need a shower after reading this) https://slate.com/human-interest/2022/04/how-to-talk-to-a-teenager-about-masturbation.html

[–]Alienhunter糞大名 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (7 children)

“If anyone knows about tween masturbation, it’s your uncle,” I told him. “He was obsessed.”

Uh oh red alert red alert. Abort abort!

And in a science unit on sex and reproduction, he learned that mutual masturbation is a low-risk sexual activity for STDs.

Next they're going to tell him how to use the three seashells.

He brought himself to ejaculation on the toilet. I know this, because the first thing he did afterward was talk to his mom about it

😂 I'm glad I didn't go to school with this kid we'd probably have given him so much shit for this. Lol. Mommy mommy look I rubbed one out is it ok mommy. Christ.

A couple days later, he called again, this time to tell me that he’d masturbated a second time, too roughly. There was blood. ...... He’d been going at it like a physical challenge, rubbing and rubbing until he ejaculated.

No shit this is what happens when you keep talking to your kid about sex constantly with your weird ass sex positive shit. What makes you think the kid won't figure it out himself like you did? Now you've traumatized him. Good lord.

At 12, he’s yet to announce what kind of person excites him and said as much directly: “I’m not sure what turns me on.”

Twelve!?!? Geez I wonder why, maybe because he's not sexually mature yet you ignoramus.

"A few nights later, before bed, my son called me into his room. “Dad, if I seemed emotional earlier today, it’s because I was touching myself and I had an orgasm."

Facepalm.

"Because of all the bullshit baggage I’d been saddled with, inhabiting pleasure, both by myself and with a partner, has been a challenge my whole life. I wish I could say it’s been healing to witness my son blossom open-heartedly into a sexual being, but the tide hasn’t shifted just like that for me. I’m hopeful, though, that one day I’ll experience such full-body joy without inhibition."

So you're hurrying your kid down some path you yourself don't understand in order to further your own sexual wakening? Kid admitted to you he felt shame and you didn't stop to think "huh I haven't raised him with catholic values why would he feel that" but nope don't feel shame at all, tell mommy and daddy everything about your masturbation habits little rascal it's good for you. Feeling shame about masturbation totally isn't an evolutionary response to drive people out of their caves to seek mates irl nope.

[–]jet199[S] 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (5 children)

Also open sexual behaviour in apes is an aggressive behaviour used by males to show their dominance. If you do that shit in public some other man is going to hit you to put you back in your place. That's why you have a natural shame reaction, because other people have a natural hatred of seeing that shit.

[–]Alienhunter糞大名 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (4 children)

Man the kid is basically being given all these books and things from the parents it's gonna fuck with his mental health more than the Catholic shit. It's like D.A.R.E all over again.

"Kid here's a book about how drugs are bad for you and how not to use drugs. This is called a crack pipe and it's used to smoke crack, it's bad for you but people think it makes them feel good so don't use it"

Kid: What's crack? I wanna try it now. Hey I've seen one of these in the Alley cool I just thought it was trash.

Uncool Adult: Drugs and tobacco aren't cool if you smoke them you aren't cool.

Kid: Awesome! Where can I get me some of that!

Uncool Adult: Just say no to those teenagers hanging out by the dumpsters walk away it's not cool.

Kid: Sweet I can get that shit from the teenagers by the dumpsters.

Only conversation you need to have with your kid about "self-exploration" is not to do it in a public place where other people can see you. Same reason why you don't wanna take a shit where people can see you. Goddamn.

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

The biggest problem that I have with that article is that the father chose to not publish it anonymously. And I'm horrified that editors at Slate didn't think twice about the possible ramifications on the teenage son. Granted, the author points out that he cleared it with his teenage son, but fucking hell. The son is 12 fucking years old. He's a GD child. He's not old enough to process the ramifications of this being on the internet for the rest of eternity.
We know that teens can be some of the cruelest mofos on the planet. His peers will mock him throughout high school over this article.

Slate is a major platform, so this isn't just some random blog post. I guarantee you every kid in his school knows about this piece, and know about his masturbation habits. He will be probably be bullied over this. But did his father care? Did the editors at Slate care? No and no.

[–]Alienhunter糞大名 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yeah I agree that's a huge oversight on both the fathers and slates editors. Though reading through some of this stuff on Slate I must say my bullshit detectors are going off. Especially on the "help I have this problem" type stores like the main one linked here.

They're good in the sense that they seem like they are real. But maybe I just still have too much faith in humanity.

Reading this article here it's like "damn this father is a clueless fuck" so honestly it wouldn't surprise me if he's just so far up his own ass he doesn't realize the potential bullying issues. He seems pretty clueless towards human behavior, if you asked him about he'd probably say something retarded like "well my son said it's ok and those bullies shouldn't be mean to him since I've raised him to be comfortable with himself he won't be effected ".

[–]Wanderingthehalls 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Only conversation you need to have with your kid about "self-exploration" is not to do it in a public place where other people can see you.

I don't know. I fully plan on telling my son that he needs to get rid of his used Kleenex or rinse his own crusty socks out. I do not want to be finding them on the floor of his bedroom.

[–]Alienhunter糞大名 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Fair. I'd consider leaving evidence as part of the general idea of not letting other people see you do it. Like you don't shit in the toilet and not flush.

[–]Femaleisnthateful 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

This article is such a clusterfuck. When even Slate subscribers are universally saying it's a terrible article full of bad ideas, that really says something.

When I was a tween, I was given a copy of 'Our body, ourselves.'

This kid appears to be on a fast track to sexual deviancy and public indecency.

[–]Femaleisnthateful 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I used to love Slate back in the day. When the Dear Prudence column changed hands I began to notice a shift in tone. It started turning into a Dan Savage style column, where everything was somehow about sex and kinksterism. Now the whole website is basically PinkNews.