Elementary school forces boys to dress like girls to "celebrate women"

[The Village Idiot]

Why are freaks and perverts running our public schools?

Just in case all that other crap wasn't bad enough.

http://www.facebook.com/jachin.patlur?v=wall&story_fbid=108123729224663#!/note.php?note_id=413434930189&id=1178010740&ref=mf

My son's Elementary School forcing kids to Cross-Dress for Women's History Month


You know...I'm always praising the Maple Shade School district where we live for the great job they do with my kids. Because of that, I have overlooked the Politically-Correct-insanity that has changed "St. Patricks Day" to "LEPRECHAUN DAY", and Christmas to "WINTER Holiday", or "Good Friday" to "Spring Day"...but NOW THEY'VE GONE TOO FAR!



I support the idea of teaching about Women's History Month, in regards to our rights, equality, and roles in US and world history...but asking my 9 YEAR OLD SON to dress like a woman in a school FASHION SHOW in school in front of his peers is crossing the line for me. They sent home a memo telling us that regardless of male/female, ALL students must participate....and I am PISSED.



How is dressing like a woman from any era going to teach him about history? Why not let him do a report, poster, or other project on this subject? If he was attending a vocational school in the field of textiles, women's fashion, etc, then it would make sense. My son is adamantly opposed, and I dont see how FORCING my 9year old to CROSS-DRESS in front of the ENTIRE SCHOOL BODY is going to teach him ANYTHING about Women's History.



I am not prejudiced, and I have gay and/or cross-dressing friends whom I love dearly, but this sounds more like a sneaky lesson in social tolerance, and that is MY JOB, not the school district or local government. If my son decided he wanted to do it, for "fun", like as if it were Halloween, then that I would support.



I resent the fact that the Maple Shade School District is telling me that HE and I have no choice. That my son must dress like a woman, because "women's fashions" are vital to his understanding of the history of this country....and we have NO options. Why not teach him/them about Betsy Ross, Susan B. Anthony, Harriet Tubman and/or Helen Keller?



Further, just like the whole "Healthcare" debacle, I believe it is for ME to decide, and not for the government, or governmental agency to force me to do something that is against my son's identity, our religious beliefs or parental rights.

[littlelamb]

Will they suspend any of the boys who do not do this?

[rich_t]

I'd tell the school to go to hell.

[The Village Idiot]

After all of the crazy things we see in the news about schools these days, it would not shock me at all if this were true.

A school fashion show for boys wearing dresses. geesh.

[dutch508]

Have him dress like Calamity Jane.



Martha Jane Cannary Burke, better known as Calamity Jane (May 1, 1852 – August 1, 1903), was a frontierswoman, prostitute, and professional scout best known for her claim of being an acquaintance of Wild Bill Hickok, but also for having gained fame fighting Native American Indians. She was a woman who exhibited kindness and compassion towards others, especially the sick and needy, who also was an alcoholic and traded sexual favors for money. This contrast helped to make her a famous and infamous frontier figure.


I might leave some of that info out of the presentation.

[The Village Idiot]

It might not even be true.

But it would be very believable after all the other crap we read about coming from publik skools.

[DumbAss Tanker]

Have him dress like Calamity Jane.



Martha Jane Cannary Burke, better known as Calamity Jane (May 1, 1852 – August 1, 1903), was a frontierswoman, prostitute, and professional scout best known for her claim of being an acquaintance of Wild Bill Hickok, but also for having gained fame fighting Native American Indians. She was a woman who exhibited kindness and compassion towards others, especially the sick and needy, who also was an alcoholic and traded sexual favors for money. This contrast helped to make her a famous and infamous frontier figure.


I might leave some of that info out of the presentation.

Hell yeah, that's what I'm saying - dress your boy in Levis and a flannel shirt, and have him tell the dumbshits who came up with this that he's dressing as Melissa Ethridge or K. D. Lang.

Serve it right back to 'em.

[JohnnyReb]

Hell yeah, that's what I'm saying - dress your boy in Levis and a flannel shirt, and have him tell the dumbshits who came up with this that he's dressing as Melissa Ethridge or K. D. Lang.

Serve it right back to 'em.

Suits me.....and rename the event "T-girl Day".

[longview]

Hell yeah, that's what I'm saying - dress your boy in Levis and a flannel shirt, and have him tell the dumbshits who came up with this that he's dressing as Melissa Ethridge or K. D. Lang.

Serve it right back to 'em.

Oh that he's dressing as a woman rancher from Wyoming.    Or a woman heavy equipment operator at one of our mines.  Or a lumber jill. 

Gads!  That's actually exactly what I have on!   

[vesta111]

Have him dress like Calamity Jane.



Martha Jane Cannary Burke, better known as Calamity Jane (May 1, 1852 – August 1, 1903), was a frontierswoman, prostitute, and professional scout best known for her claim of being an acquaintance of Wild Bill Hickok, but also for having gained fame fighting Native American Indians. She was a woman who exhibited kindness and compassion towards others, especially the sick and needy, who also was an alcoholic and traded sexual favors for money. This contrast helped to make her a famous and infamous frontier figure.


I might leave some of that info out of the presentation.

Brilliant idea, don't forget the 3-4 woman that dressed in Union uniforms and fought  along side men in the Civil War, until they were ordered to bath in the company of their fellow warriors.  

Then that woman whose name escapes me that was the only female to captain a pirate ship, she sure did not wear a bussell on the high seas.

Dutch, I applaud you for your idea on how to cause a riot with in the school district.

Unfortunately the teachers will try to add all kinds of cravats to this and get all huffy about being bested by the uppity parents.     One can only pull a cats tail so long and it will bite.

Just a few minutes on the internet will bring up pictures, drawings actually of the most feared woman ever to live on earth.  The Amazons that wore just a loin cloth, filled their teeth to razor sharp and fought to the death.

On the other hand it may be that we have misunderstood the actual premise of this.  Woman in the times of the British Empire were introduced to the hoop skirt not for fashion but because of the size prevented them from climbing the back narrow stairs to catch their sons and husbands in the maids chambers.

In the 1600-20 Th. century the cause of the the majority of death for woman was that their flowing skirts would catch fire as they cooked or washed clothing in big pots outside.

Corsets were a torture devise, woman could not breath and often passed out, their internal organs were all mashed together.  I and my Mom still have some of my G-G-Grandmoms corset stays, made of very thin whale bone and about 18 inches long, they held in and arranged the female shape.

We look in horror at the Japanese tradition of foot binding yet think nothing of how our very own ancestors had to go through having their liver pushed up between their lungs.

Just saying.

[jinxmchue]

Hell yeah, that's what I'm saying - dress your boy in Levis and a flannel shirt, and have him tell the dumbshits who came up with this that he's dressing as Melissa Ethridge or K. D. Lang.

Serve it right back to 'em.

Pfft!  Even they wear clothes that are at least a little femmy.  Try dressing like this... thing... instead:





It's a hip Harry Potter!   

[The Village Idiot]

UPDATE:

Its been canceled!!

The light of truth was shone and the freaking perverts caved!!

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/04/13/nj-school-cancels-cross-dressing-fashion-complaints/

[longview]

Very good.

"misunderstanding"  Yeah, right.

[The Village Idiot]

This misunderstanding printed up 16 page booklets and made this an end of course grade. Meaning that not showing up could have caused a kid to fail the year.

That is some misunderstanding.

[The Village Idiot]

I can't even mention some of the sickest stuff I have seen online that is apparently legal. Some people are just perverted.

I know that some of you think I'm a weirdo because I'd like bullets in brains of anyone who thinks kids and sex go together. I have neices and nephews and I could not imagine what I would do to these crazy idiots.....

[rich_t]

I can't even mention some of the sickest stuff I have seen online that is apparently legal. Some people are just perverted.

I know that some of you think I'm a weirdo because I'd like bullets in brains of anyone who thinks kids and sex go together. I have neices and nephews and I could not imagine what I would do to these crazy idiots.....

I with you on this one all the way.

[Splashdown]

I'm the dad of two little girls, 8 and 5.

I'm a teacher.

I think it's strange that--if you're going to look at the contributions of women to society--that you do a "fashion show." A little sexist, don't you think? How about doing reports on great female scientists? Marie Curie... Great authors? Jane Austen, Emily Dickenson, Mary Shelly, etc...

Isn't a "fashion show" the wrong way to go about celebrating women anyway?

Just expanding on a point that FGL made earlier...

[jinxmchue]

I'm the dad of two little girls, 8 and 5.

I'm a teacher.

I think it's strange that--if you're going to look at the contributions of women to society--that you do a "fashion show." A little sexist, don't you think? How about doing reports on great female scientists? Marie Curie... Great authors? Jane Austen, Emily Dickenson, Mary Shelly, etc...

Isn't a "fashion show" the wrong way to go about celebrating women anyway?

Just expanding on a point that FGL made earlier...

It's only sexist when someone who isn't a liberal does it.

[vesta111]

NEXT UP----A visit to a art gallery in a big city to check out the clothing worn by MEN in by gone years painted by famous artists.

Fantastic for those that push a " be kind to gays days."

14-to 19 century clothing of the most influential men in recent history.

Men wore powered wigs and make up.   Men placed cod pieces in their pants to make their man hood look bigger.     Men, even savage Pirates wore ruffles and silk shirts when ashore.

Actually back then those with money and high up in the military of Europe were called FOPS or Yankee Doodles for their femmin ways of style and dress. 

Today the leaders of the courts and Parlament of England still wear those strange wigs as tradition.   

It was the Men of the time that wore lipstick, powder and blush on their Rosy cheeks. 

Fashion design, well look at General Custer that had this great pride in his long flowing locks of blond hair.

Just saying here, the door swings both ways.

[The Village Idiot]

Only the "fashionable" or wealthy did that I suspect

[JohnnyReb]

 ....he's all for causing trouble but he doesn't want to be on the air.

http://www.sondrak.com/index.php/weblog/teh_plotte_thickens/

....and another one bites the dust.

[DumbAss Tanker]

Vesta, get a grip.  Those styles were not regarded as effeminate at all in their own times.

[vesta111]

Vesta, get a grip.  Those styles were not regarded as effeminate at all in their own times.

If what you say is true, then why did the COMMON FOLK refer to them with disparaging words  as in Fops and Dandy's? 

And who the heck was that Macaroni that Yankee Doodle put a feather in his hat for.?   

[tuolumnejim]

UPDATE:

Its been canceled!!

The light of truth was shone and the freaking perverts caved!!

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/04/13/nj-school-cancels-cross-dressing-fashion-complaints/

Thats great, now what you need to do is get anyone that was connected to that trash FIRED!