From a question asked on Yahoo! Answers:
I picture myself having sex with another guy but i definately wouldn’t want to be in a relationship with a guy. I hide this too in front of my friends (like I would insult a gay guy just so they wouldn’t think I’m gay or bi).
I have no idea how old the guy is. (No, it’s not me. Heh.) I assume he was or is a teenager in a public school. The interesting thing was that he feels he has to insult gay guys.
From Wikipedia:
a new diversity education bill by California Assemblyman Mike Eng was introduced on behalf of [Lawrence] King. The new bill would require mandatory classes on diversity and tolerance in California school districts. “We need to teach young people that there’s a curriculum called tolerance education that should be in every school. We should teach young people that diversity is not something to be assaulted, but diversity is something that needs to be embraced because diversity makes California the great state that it is,”
Aside from the bad rhetoric (“teach young people that there’s a curriculum”? yeah, wouldn’t it be better to actually teach them the CONTENTS of the curriculum?), there’s a bad problem with that: It doesn’t particularly work. The message of schools all over the country for the past 40+ years has been that we should “celebrate and embrace” a diversity of skin colors. Does anyone pretend that that’s fixed the problem that skin color is tied with gender for the first thing we notice?
(Meanwhile, what gets dropped from the curriculum to make room for another “tolerance and diversity” class?)
On the one hand, kids will have teachers and school officials claiming that “it’s okay to be gay” and “we should celebrate and embrace our gays, to make sure that our young women will have safe best friends and fashion advisors in their 20s”. They’ll face expulsion or prison or at least detention for the thoughtcrime of associating something they dislike with another thing they dislike.
On the other hand, jokes on the playground, jokes in the locker room, jokes at lunch, jokes far away from school – a good fraction coming from people who don’t actually find them funny but are horribly afraid that their friends will conclude that “no insults” means “they’re gay”.
I kinda think the teachers don’t have much chance.
As far as Lawrence King goes – okay, well, yes, it’s very sad that he was killed, and even sadder that some other kid was so messed up in the head that he actually thought that the best response to a guy flirting with him was to shoot the guy. It’s also sad when someone is shot for a pair of tennis shoes, but I haven’t heard nearly as much outcry over that. Just as well; Mike Eng would’ve introduced a bill to provide two pairs of Reeboks a year to every inner city youth.
Reacting to tragic events with hastily considered legislation is great politics, but pretty poor government. California should be ashamed – any state can harbor isolated lunatics, it takes a majority to elect them to office.
