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these guys think about sex and children too much to not be pedophiles.
and this is the number one legislation you'd want to pass if you wanted to make it easier to engage in pedophilia.
They just want Florida schools to make victims.
If theres no sex and no ed how is it sex ed?
It isn’t. Florida needs pregnant teenagers who can’t get abortions so that they can use their children to sit on the coastline and pedal the land up out of the water. This is also where they will get their electricity. It also needs a constant supply of these children because they’ll have to replace them after every hurricane.
Everything I just typed is probably more likely to work than abstinence based sex ed is to prevent pregnancy and is just as scientifically valid as a sex ed class with no sex and no ed.
Nice, Five Million Merits mixed with dystopia environmentalist catastrophe, I love it
Florida biology classes mostly center around the four humors.
You joke, but it does feel as though dismantling public education is just a knock-on effect of all these gag orders.
If you want your kids to get a serious sex-ed or biology background, you're obligated to send them to private schools.
Don't necessarily need to go as far as full private education. Unitarian Universalists have put together workshops for sexual education.
I'm not a member of UU, but I have friends who are and the curriculum seems legit.
That's their plan. Educated citizens vote less often for restrictive, backwards Republican culture warrior control freaks.
Has the tourism industry in Florida taking a hit yet?
I've been there probably five times in my life, the last time being right before this dumbass was elected; remember back when they were sandbagging all the black voters, booting hundreds of thousands of people from the voter rolls right before election day? Feels like it was thirty years ago.
Edit: forgot to say, have passed on two or three more opportunities to go there and no plans to go back. I'm glad I got to see it before it becomes covered in dead seaweed piled 10 meters deep but if there's one thing I don't like to be surrounded by more than seaweed it's uneducated dumbasses.
Won't anybody think of the children!?
The age old adage of the oppressor
Many, many doctors and health professionals are saying Florida Gov. Ron Desantis has a truncated and bifurcated chungus, and this has led to his fear of high school anatomy class.
Many people enjoy inserting and removing a their gun from a holster, however, it's important to remember that discharging your gun in the holster can have dire, life altering consequences.
Not that this is how it should work at all, but wouldn't an easy work around for this be to simply teach this as part of human anatomy In science class rather than sex education in health class or physical education? Or does it ban these things in all its forms throughout school? Maybe they can use photos of animal sex organs 😂
We avoid health learning like the plague in the US. You have to opt into it in college. It should be a running subject just like STEM and along with the lack of financial classes, and the death of Home Ec, shows just how much school is meant to churn out workers instead of adults.
Scared of the vagina. And women in general. Who are these weak men? They shouldn't have power anywhere.
I'm not sure they're scared, I think it's more about control and to make sure kids don't understand what's happening to them if they're subjected to abuse or when they reach puberty. It's all about power and control over the body of other people.
The need to control raises from fear.
They are scared of losing power. Shitty rulers always are, because they know how bad they are, or at least they assume others would treat them just as badly if given the chance, which is almost synonymous.
Have you ever seen a vagina? Its terrifying! /s
These words include abuse, consent, domestic violence, fluids, gender identity and LGBTQ information, she said.
Bro what. Ok ok I understand, no matter how much I disagree with it, why they think pictures of stuff are icky but c’mon, people.
I remember sex ed class having textbooks with drawings, not photographs. It wasn't icky. The topic was awkward AF, of course... Well, I dunno what textbooks are like these days tho.
It's beyond apparent they want women locked into abusive marriages again. If they could get away with it they'd be rolling back their abilities to use banks, get a driver's license, or even work without the consent of their husband.
Ah yes, more "protecting the children"* to pander to an angry and stupid electorate.
* "Protecting the children" is a phrase used here to mean, "ensuring the next generation of an angry and stupid electorate."
The next *large and extremely young generation
This is how you get teens pregnant. And/or full of STDs.
Sick improvish children are easy to control.
If the revolution needs a baby sitter, then the revolution will probably just stay home instead.
When Fidesz banned sex ed here in Hungary on the basis of "child protection", we got an immediate rise in child pregnancies.
And children and teens groomed and assaulted.
When your thirty year plan as a governor is just to keep the Florida man meme alive forever.
Ok, the title comes from the linked article, but they aren't banned from "mentioning anatomy". They are banned from showing pictures of reproductive organs.
I don't know why some people seem compelled to take a story that's plenty horrible as it stands and give it a deceptive headline... seems like I'm seeing more of that recently. Are we really in a post-truth era?
Ok, the title comes from the linked article, but they aren't banned from "mentioning anatomy". They are banned from showing pictures of reproductive organs.
How is that any better? Next your going to rationalize having no books in a literature class, showing no pictures of cells in a biology class, or having a trigonometry class without using the devil's radians.
I don't know why some people seem compelled to ignore all context and rationalize state sponored religious persecution in the name of "protecting the children". It's not post-truth just because you've decided to willfully ignore all the context.
Exactly. Because it's not any better ("plenty horrible as it stands" as I put it in my original comment), the deceptive headline is not only unnecessary, but also taints the entire story with falsehood when it should not be so degraded.
Mentioning anatomy isn't substantially different than photos of anatomy in a classroom setting unless you're a troll looking for a knit to pick.
We live in an age where people are obsessively needy about being outraged to the point where they need to make shit up topics one another off.
Lemmy is probably the best example of this behavior.
I'd guess it was an attempt to keep the title succinct, then not proofing it properly. In any case, always read the article before commenting as titles are frequently misleading (intentional or not).
So are they just going to pray in class now? Practice their purity vows? Maybe we can have the creepy dad wedding right there in school.
States rights is just a cover for them, so fuck it let's do some pre-empting from the federal level. Either that or use the Dept. of Education to put up billboards around Florida's interstates. Give them Sex Ed one way or the other since they don't want to have consent as a thing either.
Well lookie here. It's Big-Government DeSantis creating the Junior Anti-Sex League.
The Junior Anti-Sex League represents the Party's efforts to control the most intimate aspects of individuals' lives in "1984".
Unlike Winston, [Julia] had grasped the inner meaning of the Party’s sexual puritanism. It was not merely that the sex instinct created a world of its own which was outside the Party’s control and which therefore had to be destroyed if possible. What was more important was that sexual privation induced hysteria, which was desirable because it could be transformed into war-fever and leader-worship.