When I was in school, I never thought of it being “cross-dressing”. It was Switch Day which was one of the days of Spirit Week before Homecoming. We had Toga Day, Hippie Day, Switch Day…etc. It was just a dress up, like Halloween. It was certainly not mandatory, but it was definitely fun. Seeing the football team dressed as cheerleaders was funny, and no one took offense to it. And I grew up in the Bible Belt.
Where’s Daniel Plainview with a bowling pin when you need him?
You accused the school of withholding information from the parents without a shred ofr evidence. Your only argument is that you are incredulous that not a single parent would find this objectionable. I say that’s a retarded argument, because there’s no reason any parent should find it objectionable. Not everybody is a hyper-reactive douche like you.
By the way, having been a teacher and an in-school tutor, I know something about how this kind of thing works in practice. The boys are not going to school in full drag. These kinds of getups are typically worn over the kids’ regular clothes and the costuming tends to be minimal. What you would see is a few boys wearing skirts over jeans and maybe a wig or some kind of girly top over a t-shirt.
I trying to think of how one would dress up as a senior. Other than wearing your belt up around your chest, I’m drawing a blank. I’m also curious how a girl would dress up as a boy. I see women in jeans and t-shirts all the time.
They tend to wear either sports gear or jackets and ties. It’s hard for girls to really butch things up any more than they already do.
I see the event as reinforcing conservative values, not undermining them. The event is called “Wacky Week”; the explicit message is that dressing as the opposite sex is weird and improper.
If it wasn’t explicit, then how did the kids accomplish dressing up and getting to school unnoticed by the parents?
I see no reason to think that the flyer was not explicit.
[Insert] obligatory ‘not all Christians are like this’ disclaimer[/insert]. Carry on.
Where do you come up with this stuff?! Did you read the article? Do you know what country it is from? For those that do not know the USA is a country with a large percentage of bible-bashers. They even have their own radio stations.
Let’s read what the article says "About 40 percent of the student body dressed up Friday, Hayes estimated, with half portraying senior citizens and half dressing as the opposite sex. " Translation- some kids dressed up as oldies and some girls dressed as boys. Not one boy came in a dress I would surmise. 60% of the kids did not dress up. Did they wear their school uniform? Why only 40%?
LAME theme ! “The theme for Friday’s dress-up day came from students, Hayes said. The Wacky Week schedule was created by Pineview’s Student Senate with the guidance of secretary Shari Miller.” Translation the Dweebs chose the theme. I bet if it was ‘pirate’ day or ‘superhero’ it would have been 90% dressing up.
I am saying that I think that if the school made it explicit what kind of dress-up day they were having there would have been surely one parent who objected. If I had been one of the parents I would have at least phoned the school to remind them that things get reported to radio stations, and not just to christian radio stations.
I do not find the idea of dress-up day at school objectionable. I find the idea of having my son dress up as a girl for school objectionable mainly because of the teasing by other kids.
I expect an apology from you Diogenes the Cynic.
Good surmising, considering you have absolutely no fucking evidence that it’s true.
Possibly because a lot of them didn’t care enough to get anything, or didn’t have close friends of the opposite sex whose clothes they felt comfortable with wearing, or thought the idea was dumb, or just plain forgot.
The percentage probably would have been higher, yeah, because those outfits are a lot more distinctive than just crossdressing.
Why would there necessarily be one parent who objected? These are elementary school kids playing “dress-up”, it’s not like they wouldn’t do this ordinarily, except that a child might get self-conscious taking the initiative to wear clothes normally worn by the opposite sex.
I don’t think kids get teased for dressing up in any manner when the event is officially sponsored. I could be wrong.
For what, pointing out repeatedly that you had no evidence that any parents complained or that the school didn’t tell them exactly what was going to happen?
So what? They objected later.
Yeah, and parents decided it wasn’t a good idea. Now, personally, I don’t have a problem with it. But I don’t see why parents shouldn’t have a say in whether or not their 6-10 years old children go to school dressed up as a member of the opposite sex.
The idea that it is none of this group’s business is simply wrong. If it’s a public school, it’s everybody’s business-- especially those in the local community.
Definition of surmise -To infer (something) without sufficiently conclusive evidence.
Sounds like I used the correct word. I agree that I have no evidence- I am just going by the news story which seems to include a bit of bullshit. There is no need to point out that I have no direct evidence. I know that.
I would like an apology for him calling me names for no good reason.
Obviously, you’re wrong, because none did.
As I already explained, these things tend heavily towards goofiness, not realism. I guarantee that boys are not showing up in literal drag. They are wearing a couple of items over their regular clothes, and they aren’t being teased because everyone knows it’s a goof. The reason no parents objected is because they understood this.
Hah ha ha. Good one.
Actually, the article just says a “local resident” called the radio station, and then they went batshit crazy. The parents weren’t mentioned at all, as far as I can tell.
Cite?
The article doesn’t say that.
They DID have a say. No kid had to participate. Most kids didn’t.
Actually, the article just says a “local resident” called the radio station, and then they went batshit crazy. The parents weren’t mentioned at all, as far as I can tell.
If you have no evidence to back up what you said, why say it at all?
Ah, but he did have a good reason. You’re a fuckwit.
I said "I am saying that I think that if the school made it explicit what kind of dress-up day they were having there would have been surely one parent who objected.
Your job for the rest of the day is to try to understand why your thinking here is illogical. Do not try to think about the issue in this thread. Just try to work out why your thinking in this sentence is illogical. You appear to possess some grey matter. If you spend 8-9 hours just on this, you should be able to understand. I expect no more posts from you today as you should be working on this.
Oh bravo !
Yeah, whatever. I don’t really care whether it was local residents or parents. If it’s done at a public school, it’s everybody’s business. My only objection to the OP is that (s)he somehow thinks people should not express their views about what takes place at a public school, which is funded by taxpayers’ money. I don’t agree with those views either, but if people object, then they have a right to complain.
Let’s suppose that one suggestion was for the girls to dress up as nurses and the boys to dress up as doctors. Would it be “none of my business” to complain about that?