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News & ArtsThursday, March 1, 2012
LGBTQITSLFA Well Done, Monkeys
Posted by Dan Savage on Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 4:00 PM
Just got a call from a buddy at the ACLU: The principal who called an assembly to tell gay students they were going to hell—and to threaten to expel any students who engaged in same-sex PDA—has resigned.
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Tis nice to hear that she will seek to find employment that is better suited towards her need to impose her religious ideology. I hope she read at least some of our letters, I assume I wasn't the only one who addressed her directly and wrote to her superiors. Although the wish that she consider the point of view of others is likely a foolish hope. I'm glad her soon to be former students will never have to listen to her use an assembly as a pulpit again.
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We are not "monkeys" goddammit. We are FLYING MONKEYS, not some ordinary red-ass motherfuckers snacking on each other's scalp bugs and shit. Be correct.
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Silver-lining-ish, a few well-publicized occurrences like this, where the backlash is fast and furious, will tend to prevent an unknown number of other occurrences. I just feel so desperately sorry for the individual students who are unfairly thrust into the national spotlight or who feel, however briefly, publicly singled out and/or excoriated among their peers or within their communities.
No humiliation or career derailment suffered by someone like Dorothy Bond is even in the same neighborhood. She's an adult, goddammit, and has adult coping mechanisms and escape options. May you have many sleepless handwringing nights, Miss Priss.
No humiliation or career derailment suffered by someone like Dorothy Bond is even in the same neighborhood. She's an adult, goddammit, and has adult coping mechanisms and escape options. May you have many sleepless handwringing nights, Miss Priss.
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She has now, and will likely always have, no understanding whatsoever of what she did wrong.
That type never do.
That type never do.
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@8, venomlash I swear. Blind monkeys have no one to send them chasing after enemies. Without us being flying monkeys Dan is just Marjorie Main, not the Wicked Witch of the Motherfucking West.
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I must side with Gus on this important issue. We are Flying monkeys, NOT blind monkeys. Any self-respecting fan of the Wizard of Oz would know the difference.
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17 & 18 are correct. And today it's particularly apt since we were asked to go after Dorothy. Mwahahahahaha
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I hope this was more because of complaints from the people living in that school district than because of bad national reaction.
Well, one can dream.
Well, one can dream.
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"Further, the Haywood County Board of Education strives to provide an atmosphere of tolerance and diversity while maintaining high academic standards."
WTF? That wording seems to imply that they think they two goals are at odds with each other...?
WTF? That wording seems to imply that they think they two goals are at odds with each other...?
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Gosh, the news article you linked to.... It's amazing how some reporters manage to tell a story without actually telling you the story.
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...the Haywood County Board of Education strives to provide an atmosphere of tolerance and diversity."Do. Or do not. There is no try." —Yoda
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Dan must be the king of the monkeys, since the WWotW is dead, and Dorothy gave him the hat the third time she called him.
Not that I was a giant Oz nerd or anything.
Not that I was a giant Oz nerd or anything.
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Dan must be the king of the monkeys, since the WWotW is dead, and Dorothy gave him the hat the third time she called him.
Not that I was a giant Oz nerd or anything.
Not that I was a giant Oz nerd or anything.
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@27: Yay! I love someone who references the Oz book(s) instead of the MGM movie.
Nice to meet you, fellow Oz Nerd.
Nice to meet you, fellow Oz Nerd.
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I love that image of the Flyimg Monkeys setting off on a mission.
It's the best, simply the best.
It's the best, simply the best.
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Reason 152 why we've decided to homeschool our kids. This country has turned our public schools to shit.
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Too soon after Davy Jones' death...thought that somehow the surviving members had something to do with this.
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Went to a state high school championship game last Saturday. Sat on the side of South Saint Paul - its an older hard-core working class suburb, pre WWII factory & slaughterhouse deep blue collars.
A row of boys came in & as they sat down one of them gave the guy next to him what I could only think of as a 'love bite' I was surprised a bit because I assume its a community where that would draw a harsh response. Later I notice the guy put his arm around the other guy & pulled him in to him. It was sweet.
But if the wingnuts have lost a community like that, to the point where they felt comfortable with a PDA then they have really lost. It made me happy all day long.
A row of boys came in & as they sat down one of them gave the guy next to him what I could only think of as a 'love bite' I was surprised a bit because I assume its a community where that would draw a harsh response. Later I notice the guy put his arm around the other guy & pulled him in to him. It was sweet.
But if the wingnuts have lost a community like that, to the point where they felt comfortable with a PDA then they have really lost. It made me happy all day long.
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Damn. This is what I get for not checking this site everyday - I missed out on writing these wingnuts. I have to agree with the person who said they hoped it was as much about outcry in the community rather than national attention. I would like to think that people who are there can inflict greater pressure and have a greater impact on the outcome.
Either way - nice win for the good guys :)
Either way - nice win for the good guys :)
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It's great to rout a bigot because bigotry sucks. We may be ignoring the much larger issue here, the powerful trend that specifically targets the separation of church and state. We have a state and we should all work to make it function better and more ethically. Yet we have the freaking Blunt-Rubio bill that tries to let religious employers (who define their own set of morals) to opt out of providing health care services that they've self-defined as immoral. We have got to keep the government from letting religious organizations sway politics. They are essentially serving as large lobbying organizations. At the very least, we should end tax-exempt status for all churches that get involved in politics.
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@28 Nice to meet you! I had the bittersweet experience the other day of realizing how ridiculously expensive the old versions of those books are. Sad, because i'm not paying $50 for an old book, but happy, because that means people still love them and want to have them.
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@23 - The version Dan linked to looks like an earlier version of the story. For a longer version, see here: http://www.jacksonsun.com/article/201203…|mostview
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