[Trek] Mirror, Mirror

[thefourthvine]

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

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[thefourthvine]

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:

1. 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.
   
   
2. 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.
   
   
3. 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

[yan_tan_tether]

That's fabulous! I'd never heard of it either (though I'm a Brit, which may have something to do with it.)

Also, this recap is hilarious - it had me spluttering at my desk.

[melannen]

...my first thought when you said the "Blue dot metaphor" was not the gayness one but the STDs one, where she gives two secret people a dot on their hand, and then they give a dot to everybody they talk to, and then *they* give a dot to everyone they talk to, and I get yelled at for sitting in a corner wisely refusing to talk to everyone until the exercise is over or I'm allowed to cover my hands in Vaseline so the ink won't stick.

[fred_god_of]

You totally should not have gotten yelled at, you were using safe sex techniques ;-)

[nextian]

This baffles me to no end because you are describing exactly the experience I had, down to having health class in fifth, seventh, and tenth grades instead of just one desperate semester. America, wtf.

[eliyes]

I thought everyone got this talk and it was a standard part of the health curriculum. Apparently not!

All of my Health teachers were French, which, despite the stereotypes, meant they were really quite conservative in this area.

Possibly they were just attempting to curtail the amount of boy-kissing in classrooms, but I think actually doing the blue dot thing would have done a better job, really.