Are they really this clueless?

[missmurchison]

I just received an email from a Christian organization with the statement below. I find it hard to believe such an uptight group would make this pun intentionally, but almost as hard to believe that they could miss it

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[missmurchison]

I hope they at least let you learn to write with your left hand. My husband's parents believed that it was a sign of stupidity, and to this day he writes with his right hand, atrociously.

We had a long-term policy in the US of sterilizing people, usually as children, because they were deemed undesirable, a policy that abused many Native Americans, among others. While I sometimes fantasize about temporarily sterilizing every child at the age of about 12 and only reversing the process after they've reached their mid-twenties and passed a parenting exam, I'm sure any similar policy would wind up being equally abusive.

I've raised two kids and watched others grow up, and I've had to acknowledge sadly that while I cringe at things I see other parents do, many of them would be horrified at some of my parenting methods. Even parents who strive do everything right can turn their kids into nervous wrecks.

As a society, we have to draw the line at real abuse, and we don't do a good job of that in the US. Too many children suffer because of lack of funding.

[meko00]

My paternal grandmother had two siblings, both of which were left-handed, and they were born in the 1910s, I think. She was the eldest, and born in 1911. They struggled a lot in school, but I had it much easier. But take for instance most (if not all; can't tell) so-called "left-handed" scissors. What happens is that the plastic mold is done so that it's possible to fit left-handed fingers into them, but they haven't done anything at all to the blades, so that it's impossible to see the dotted line you're supposed to follow. And breadknives are evil. So, I'm hereditary left-handed, as is my only sibling, probably (there are other explanations, but I'm very INTPy like my father), (though both of my parents are right-handed, as was my grandmother). Genetics is cool.

But as a matter of fact, some of my teachers have refused to correct exams because they said they couldn't read what I'd written. But I was allowed to write with my left-hand. Quite possibly my father had a lot to do with it; he was very involved in the Montessori pre-school I and my brother went to.

Ah. I'm not really sure temporary chemical sterilisation even works; how are you to ensure that the pills are swollen? Or maybe something else is done; I don't know....but I think that there are ways around it for the... patient. Haven't really read up on the matter. But no, not really believing that would be a good solution either. ;-)

Mmm, yes. I have no doubt.

Yes, I agree. But at the same time, I remember how my teachers in school complained about our shoddy, old books... and one teacher made us buy our own books because she refused to teach from the old ones. Meanwhile, in the problem areas across town, enormous amounts of money were spent on putting out fires in school hallways and the like. I'm not happy to be scraping and saving just so that irresponsible people can get all the tax money while I'm supposed to be ashamed just because I grew up in a house with a garden in a good neighbourhood. So yes, I'm aware that people suffer in poverty across the world, but it's different in Sweden.