You Can't Silence Us

Michael Woods, a special education teacher in Palm Beach County, said legislators and parents are looking for a “solution to a problem that doesn’t exist.”

“Teachers do not go out of their way to create these moments where we’re ‘indoctrinating’ students,” said Woods, who is gay. “If I could indoctrinate a student, it would be to bring a pencil and a piece of paper, and if I was really good at ‘indoctrinating,’ I would be able to get them to do their homework.”

Teachers not indoctrinating? You look at a picture of him in his classroom and tell me what you think he is doing…

Now the lawsuits are arriving about Florida’s parental rights bill. The claim is that it violates the free speech rights of teachers who want to teach homosexuality to 5 year old children.

For the reasons that I discuss in this post, I disagree.

A New York lesbian couple is suing a fertility clinic because their child is a boy instead of a girl. They said of their son:

Heather said she could not bear touching him because it “sent electric shockwaves through me.” She said she also experienced “extreme anxiety” because when she looked at her son, he would “contort into the faces of all these grown men that I know.”

Then there are guns and camouflage.

People say, ‘Oh, he’s a boy, let him hit you,’ and all the camouflage and guns don’t help. It reinforces masculinity,

So how does she feel about her son?

She said she experienced “complex postpartum depression,” including “several incidences of suicidal ideation.”

If seeing her son makes her suicidal because he is a boy, that child needs to be removed from that household.

MIT has decided to resume the requirement for applicants to take the SAT or ACT exams. Other colleges, California state for example, are unlikely to. They claim that actually requiring students to know things is discrimination.

We are truly entering the dark ages.

I have seen so many people react with disgust because Will Smith slapped the shit out of Chris Rock. Smith did so because the joke Rock told was mocking a disability of Smith’s wife, and this wasn’t the first time he had done so.

Earlier this month, there was a case where a Dunkin employee punched customer, which resulted in the death of that customer. The worker delivered the deadly blow because the customer called him a “nigger.” The worker received a very lenient sentence of two years’ house arrest. He KILLED a man, but many people understood and condoned the attack because the man called him a name which anyone knows is highly offensive.

I agree. There are things that one person can say to another that simply BEG for a physical response. Each of us has a hot button issue. The one thing that someone can say to us that is worthy of delivering a knuckle sandwich. A man defending the honor of his wife falls in that category. If my wife were disabled and a man made fun of that disability after being warned, I certainly would feel obligated to defend her.