If God had wanted boys to wear earrings, he'd have made them girls!

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Inertia wrote “It seems to me MD that you’re almost as intolerant/nearsighted as the venerable Gov. Wearing body jewelry/art anywhere is silly. Yes, even women wearing earrings and or necklaces serves no practical purpose whatsoever…”

We’re talking about an 8 year old boy here. OK? I didn’t say anything about adults and what they wear or don’t wear. Point is, he’s to young to be wearing earrings or bodyart. I’m generally very tolerant/liberal. I just have a thing about little kids “expressing” themselves that way. Parents need to know when to say “When your older.”

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The answer, my friend, is blowin’ in the wind . . . the answer is blowin’ in the wind.

Or, depending on how you look at it, the answer, my friend, is just a bag of wind.

“monolithic jockstrap”

Band name!

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A follow-up story.

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I am a native of Alabama. I love this state. I love its history, culture, and (with obvious exceptions) its traditions.

It is a wonderful place. It has beautiful natural places, beautiful cities, and a rich history. Stand in any given spot in Alabama, and you can think back to DeSoto exploring its then-pristine forests, Indian culture, wars, struggles for civil rights, etc.

Montgomery was the first city in the world with an electric trolley system. City planners from San Francisco came here to model their system after it.

Huntsville was one of the birthplaces of the U.S. Space Program.

Mardi Gras was born in Mobile.

The blues first became popularized through W.C. Handy, a Muscle Shoals musician.

Rock n’ Roll as we know it was also born here, in the form of a certain producer named Sam Phillips.

The fight for African American Civil Rights took place all over the South, but so many important battles were fought here in Alabama. Selma. Montgomery. Birmingham. The Stand in the Schoolhouse Door. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Ah, to hell with it. What I’m saying is that there’s so much good here, and still, because of morons like Roy Moore and Don Siegelman and Jeff Sessions perpetuating the ages-old stereotype, everyone in the country looks at us as if we’re rustic, primitive idiots that would love nothing more than to live in a tarpaper shack, eat chitlins, and string us up a black person or two.

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So, Ogre, yo still dating your sister?

Ow! Hey, stop throwing things. I’m just joking, fercriminysake.

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Maybe it was the parents’ idea. I’ve seen infant girls with their ears pierced.

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Yow. Remind me not to go to 'bama. I just wouldn’t be happy. No sex toys allowed, no sexy boys with tongue studs and earrings…

what misery for a whackjob like me. :smiley:

jarbaby

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That’s not to piss everybody off, you just want to look like Harley in Boy Meets Boy.

[sub]link provided not for Matt’s sake, of course, just for the rest of y’all[/sub]

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Jack. Jack Jack Jack. Don’t get me started on you pansy liberal fruits out in California. :slight_smile:

Besides, the bitch left me for Cousin Jimmy Earl.

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I realize that this is MPSIMS, and therefore GD-style comments are inappropriate, but what the hey…

Just for the record, since when has being the governor of a state empowered anyone to be an arbiter of what is appropriate to a citizen of that state. Granted that the kid is 8, and therefore subject to parental control and guidance, without explicit court mandate the governor or the school administration cannot become in loco parentis and determine what is appropriate or not appropriate for that child. That is his decision, and that of his parents in this case (he being a minor).

Granted there may be some grounds for the school to determine – after the fact – that a certain garment or ornament is disruptive to the primary function of the school – the provision of an education – and should therefore be omitted at school. However, this seems to be a case of mandated conformity, not a question of disruption.

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Ugh. I once saw a one year old girl getting her ears pierced at the mall. She was SCREAMING her head off.

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Well, Polycarp, the governor does have the right to have whatever opinion he wants about boys having earrings, or girls having earrings, or whomever. I doubt that the school’s ban on earrings comes from the state, anyway…it’s probably a local school policy decision. If I had to guess how the governor’s comment came about, I’d guess that some reporter asked him, “Governor, what do you think about the 8 year old boy suspended for wearing an earring”, and the governor thought, “Huh? What boy? What earring? Don’t girls wear earrings? Gotta say something…don’t want to contradict the school board. That’ll make it a big deal.” leading to the quote in question.

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The governor is RIGHT ON! Earrings on a man look effeminate. Not only that, but piercings make a person look like a damn freak. Next time I see some low life chick with a ring through her nose I’m going to ask her if I can loop a chain through her nosering and lead her around like a bull!

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I knew a family back in grade school who had their daughter’s ears pierced when she was an infant.

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Assuming for the moment that this is not meant in a positive light:

What the heck’s the problem with a man looking effeminate? matt_mcl is a man and is effeminate. Something wrong with that?

Please, do enlighten us.

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Hah…Hahahahahaha…oh god…my side…ow!
[sub]I’m going to be needing a new keyboard soon. I don’t believe the various drinks getting spit on it all the time from reading the sdmb are doing it much good.[/sub]

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:climbs resignedly out of trench:

Okay, here we go again…

As I understand it the Biblical motivation for not wearing earrings is that under Mosaic law, when the year of Jubilee came round (all slaves go free and all debts are cancelled), if a slave didn’t particularly want to leave a good master, the master would nail his earlobe to a doorpost, marking him as a slave for life. So earrings are bad because they mean slavery. What I’ve never understood about this (aside from why women are allowed them and men are not) is that, okay, maybe earrings on non-Christians can be a mark of slavery to something other than Christ: but can’t Christians mark themselves as Christ’s slaves? I mean, it’s about willing submission to a good master, right? I may well be missing something; it’d hardly be the first time.

As for the tattoo I believe it was associated with pagan rites and therefore prohibited, along with cutting oneself.

:jumps straight back into trench in anticipation of knee-jerk machine-gun volley:

:raises head in worried surprise at silence:

Hey, are you guys still there? Everything okay?

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I would agree with you if you were talking about tattoos, but ear piercing is different. It’s not permanent, and if you don’t want to wear earrings, you don’t have to.

I had my ears pierced for the first time when I was four. My mom is a total earring person, and I loved looking at all her pretty jewelery. I begged and begged, and finally my mom agreed. She pinched my ears hard and said, “This is what it feels like. Are you sure you can handle it?” I said yes, and my mom took me to have it done. It wasn’t “expression” - I was four! I just wanted to have shiny stuff in my ears! Ear piercing is not very painful and unlikely to be very traumatic for young kids. If a child wants it done, why not? Not too long after I had my ears pierced, my good friend Daniel, who was a year younger than me, got his left ear pierced. I once heard Daniel and his younger brother arguing about which of them as gay, and Daniel said, “Yeah? Well, I have my left ear pierced, so I’M GAY!” Their mom was a lesbian. I didn’t see the humor in this until much later. :slight_smile:

(FTR, my mom did draw the line at two holes in each ear, when I was fifteen. I had to wait til I was eighteen to get my third holes. Ironically, I am now entirely uninterested in earrings - I go for years at a time without changing my tiny studs, and I never ever ever wear dangly earrings.)

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That law was struck down last year.

Outsiders may be interested to know that the current governor, a democrat, was elected in part because people got fed up with the republican governor’s focus on school prayer to the exclusion of other issues.

This wasn’t mentioned in the article, but the high school team in that school district is the Buccaneers. Naturally, the mascot wears an earring. What rich irony.

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Bite my tongue. I guess I should pay more attention to local news. The lower court ruling on sex toys was overturned by the appeals court, which remanded it to the lower court for a clarified ruling. That’s apparently where things stand today.