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[Trek] Mirror, Mirror

Jan 18, 2010 18:22

Mirror, Mirror won the poll handily, and is now appointed Lord High King of All Episodes TFV Should Watch after the Gay Sex One, the Robot Kirk One, and the One Where Everyone Is CreepyAnd the poll was right! Or the voters were, anyway. Mirror, Mirror is amazingly good. And it was educational for me; I never knew, before this, why people said ( Read more... )

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runpunkrun January 19 2010, 03:15:02 UTC

We pause so I can explain the blue dot metaphor to Best Beloved, who somehow missed that part of health class.

I...don't get it. Did I miss that part of health class too?

lucia_tanaka January 19 2010, 03:17:03 UTC

heh, I just asked the same thing. :deletes that comment lol: seconding this.

misspamela January 19 2010, 03:39:36 UTC

Thirding. Though I did miss a lot of health class.

thefourthvine January 19 2010, 04:15:37 UTC

OH MY GOD YOUR ICON IS FREAKING ME OUT.

Um. Anyway.

Explanation! Apparently this is less common than I always thought. Whoops!

thefourthvine January 19 2010, 04:15:04 UTC

Explanation! Apparently this is less common than I always thought. Whoops!

thefourthvine January 19 2010, 04:13:18 UTC

Weird. Okay. Maybe it was just my health teacher's thing? But I've heard it other places! Maybe she adapted it freely.

So. One morning, everyone on the earth wakes up with a blue dot on their forehead corresponding to how gay they are - the darker the color, the higher the person is on the Kinsey scale. Barely there light blue = a 1, dark dark midnight blue = 6. Her main points:

Almost everyone in the class would have some blue on their heads. No, really, you're laughing, but studies show that only 10% of you wouldn't have any blue at all (pretty sure she made this number up), so that's three of you.
We normally think of "gay" as the darkest blue people, and "straight" as almost everyone else, but it doesn't work like that - true gay and true straight are the rarities. The norm is to be somewhere in between.
So when you say "faggot" or "that's so gay," you're saying it in the hearing of people who are at least somewhat gay, and it's probably as true of you as it is of the people you're saying it to, and if it's true of basically ( ... )

lucia_tanaka January 19 2010, 04:18:26 UTC

Talking about gayness? In health class? WHAT BIZARRO WORLD DID YOU ATTEND SCHOOL IN? Do they have goatees there?

runpunkrun January 19 2010, 04:22:30 UTC

This was my PRECISE reaction. I'm pretty sure the word never even came up.

thefourthvine January 19 2010, 04:24:29 UTC

But - but - like half the class was AIDS (and other STDS): don't get them. How do you have that discussion and not talk about the sex people actually have? *mystified*

lucia_tanaka January 19 2010, 04:28:29 UTC

Answer: You just don't. Advocate abstinence and keep mum on everything else.

I just got out of high school in Rural Missouri, so YMMV, but sex is barely mentioned in school at all, and gayness just isn't talked about at all.

thefourthvine January 19 2010, 05:47:36 UTC

See, I find this really depressing. You JUST GRADUATED. This is backwards. *shakes fist at all Abstinence Only bullshit everywhere*

j00j January 19 2010, 04:29:49 UTC

Sex ed in US public schools is, by and large, not effective because it *doesn't* talk about the sex people actually have. I went to a good public school in a liberal Chicago suburb in the late 90s and while we did talk about contraception and STD-prevention, there was almost no discussion of what kinds of risks were involved in different acts. The talk we got at one of the gay-straight alliance (the school did have one of those without much fuss) meetings was *much better*.

thefourthvine January 19 2010, 05:49:02 UTC

...You didn't get the chart showing the risks of various sex acts, then? We got one, although it turned out it was wrong, but it was right in terms of what we knew at the time.

Apparently my health teacher was ahead of her time. If she's still teaching, and she might be, she's probably STILL ahead of her time.

azurelunatic January 19 2010, 06:04:28 UTC

We got the condoms, the other forms of birth control, the dental dams, the risks of sex acts, but not the orientations. (Alaska, and with an AWESOME teacher.)

runpunkrun January 19 2010, 04:31:55 UTC

Yeah, easy, you don't mention AIDS or STDs, or sex at all, really. We didn't put the condom on the banana either.

I remember we had "sex ed" in health in junior high, for, like, a day. I honestly don't remember any sex ed in high school health. Though I do remember having to do an embarrassing oral report (can that be TRUE?) on artificial insemination.

thefourthvine January 19 2010, 05:54:16 UTC

We put the condom on the banana, and we also had the lady from Planned Parenthood come in. She put the condom over her HEAD. ("If anyone tells you the condom is too small for his great big penis, I want you to remember what I'm about to do.")

My junior high health class was awful and sex-ed-free, because we had a teacher who hadn't trained for it and she was hideously uncomfortable with the whole topic of human bodies (I knew we would not be doing much sex ed when she starting blushing and stammering uncontrollably while we talked about the digestive system), but in high school, we had half a semester of sex ed, which divided into Don't Get Sick and Don't Make Babies. (Ironic, of course, because one of the girls in my class was finding out she was pregnant - unplanned, of course - at 13 just as we started the Don't Make Babies bit; she sat next to me, and I remember her looking at the early pregnancy symptoms chart and turning white and whispering, "Oh god, oh god ( ... )

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