Student Sex

To be honest, this link made me laugh at first. Especially the title, "Fairy Tales Don't Come True." The whole thing was so fraught with fear-based rhetoric, I just had to chuckle. But I quickly sobered up and realized there are thousands people who really do believe that shit. They really think the Nasty Queers are actively recruiting their awkward, shy teenage children. How do we address such a worldview in a way that is productive and not antagonistic? How on earth can we show that the reality of our lives - both inner and outer - do not comport with their perception of our reality? Yes, I was an awkward teenager. And I'm queer. But the fact that I got hot for girls since my early early childhood seems completely immaterial to those who so fervently believe that heteronormativity rules the day.

This one is just sickening. "Personally offensive" is so broad. I'm personally offended by uptight, puritanical prisses who insist on dumbing down education to the most whitewashed common denominator. Besides, professors don't get paid enough as it is. To insist that they create alternative class content for those who can't handle higher education is similarly offensive. Who's going to accommodate the offense that I'm taking?

On a slightly happier note, something called Sex Week at Yale is happening. Not promoting sex, just sexual awareness. My favorite part was this: "for all their good grades, ... Yale students seemed less clued in about sex than students elsewhere" and "the dating scene is notoriously complicated at Yale, where every grade matters, every extracurricular is essential and everyone is in competition." I guess that makes sense. Perhaps I'm jaded, but it seems as if those in the Ivy League are so conditioned to compete that it would naturally spill over to the animalistic mating game. And create a vacuum of experience and practice with non-Ivy Leaguers. I'm glad I don't attend Yale. And I'm sure Yale is glad I don't either.