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Post by rhiannon on Mar 6, 2015 16:10:41 GMT
So it's World Book Day in the UK and on that day schoolchildren dress up as their favourite literary characters. So s mother gets the big idea to dress her kid as Christian Grey and then makes a fuss when the school doesn't allow it. I get her point that one of the teachers should not have been dressed as Dexter, either (don't think kids are supposed to be watching that...), but still... link |
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Post by ella on Mar 6, 2015 23:18:18 GMT
Why would she dress her kid up as a character from a book that is not meant for children? Most of the kids probably wouldn't get who he was supposed to be.
She wants to like the book, whatever, I'm done being mad at these people; but what was she thinking that would be suitable for kid to dress up specifically as him.
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Post by rhiannon on Mar 7, 2015 0:51:54 GMT
I don't have children but I thought the whole point was that they were supposed to dress as characters from books THEY had read, yeah, and you would not expect that an 11 year old would have read 50 Shades, unless the mother really IS sick in the head. The teacher that dressed up as Dexter was totally wrong too, but that doesn't make the Christian Grey thing right.
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Post by Subtract Hominem on Mar 7, 2015 1:04:59 GMT
This parenting. This fucking parenting.
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Post by mrgbh on Mar 7, 2015 8:54:57 GMT
Anyone else find the creepiest thing to be that she dressed her son up as a character that she was attracted to? That's just squicky.
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Post by annie on Mar 7, 2015 12:04:22 GMT
She said that her son is old enough that all his classmates knew who he was supposed to be and found it hilarious. She claims it was meant to be funny, a joke. She also got bent out of shape because the school said he could lose the zip ties and eyemask (yes, seriously, that was part of his costume) and be James Bond. Mum threw a fit because James Bond is a philandering murderer. Because a stalking, abusive rapist that tries to use kink to cover his crimes is so much better, right?
I just can't wrap my brain around why his mom thought that was at all appropriate for an 11-year-old nor can I grasp why she's surprised at the backlash.
It also sounds like that school needs some very clear rules and guidelines for the costumes, like, now. Even if they can't be used until next year. Seems to me like they had inappropriateness all over the damn place. It sounds almost like they need to make a large list of options based on grade and tell students/parents that they can only choose from that list.
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Post by arowhena on Apr 14, 2015 20:36:19 GMT
I don't have children but I thought the whole point was that they were supposed to dress as characters from books THEY had read ^^This, and also that kid is the most slappable kid I've ever seen. On the subject of book day, I bike past a goth mum on my way to work each morning and on book day her eldest son and daughter were a pirate and a fairy. I got all judgey pants in my head re. gender stereotype but then saw the littlest kid, who was a girl, bringing up the rear in a carefully crafted Inspector Gadget outfit. Also I was being doubly unreasonable because I can't swear down that the pirate was male. |
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Post by muskratthemink on Aug 21, 2015 22:32:25 GMT
I just had someone on youtube respond to a comment I wrote months ago about how 50 Shades should be banned because it promotes violence toward women.This person's exact words were: "There is no violence towards women in that book. Its just sex."
You would not believe, okay, maybe you can, how long it took me to calm down enough where I could write a coherent response: "No violence toward women? What version of the book did you read? Not only does Christian stalk Ana across the country, he basically kidnaps her while she's unconscious. There's also the little matter of him manipulating and threatening her in to doing whatever he wants her to do."
I have a feeling I still wasn't clear enough, though, but since I wanted it to be short enough they might have the attention span to read the whole thing, that's as far as I got.
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Post by mrgbh on Aug 22, 2015 9:16:00 GMT
I somehow managed to accidentally disable my laptop's ability to comment on Youtube videos. It has saved me from getting into some worthless arguments.
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Post by muskratthemink on Aug 22, 2015 12:40:33 GMT
I somehow managed to accidentally disable my laptop's ability to comment on Youtube videos. It has saved me from getting into some worthless arguments. Yeah, I know they're worthless arguments, but if I see a chance to tell people how completely shitty these books are, I tend to take it. :/ |
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