I read in the paper today that administrators at a local area high school used footage from a security camera to "catch" two girls kissing. They showed the video to the parents of one of the girls because they had expressed "concern" about their daughter and wanted the school officials to keep them "appraised" of their daughter's behavior.
Yikes.
I thought we were beyond this. I thought, even though people were bigots that they'd learned to keep their mouths shut. I thought they'd found out that homophobia was out of style.
Guess not.
"Catching" "concerns" requires stealth. One must be kept "appraised" of such horrors as kissing and it's not an easy task. One must employ covert operations to carry on this important infraction. An infraction far more important than any local, national, or world event apparently. More serious than car bombings in Iraq, this kissing. More serious than presidential lies. More important than girlfriends of World Bank leaders getting huge salaries and prestigious jobs. More important than assistants to the Secretary of State who hire prositutes to "massage" them.
Yes, two girls kissing is significantly more important than most things I can think of.
Let us install security cameras at every high school in America. Perhaps we'll even catch boys kissing and wouldn't that be a travisty. We should all be appraised of that most certainly.
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This happened very near where I live - and has caused a huge uproar.
I read that the video camera was originally installed to try and catch thieves or vandals... but when the private moment between two people was viewed, a teacher decided to show it to the parents of one of those filmed because said parents had "expressed concerns recently" regarding their daughter.
The principal spoke out against that decision, but the damage was already done by that point.
Of the girls involved, I read that one's 'concerned' parents have removed her to another school district while the other is speaking out (with full support from her parents) against how the entire situation has been handled.
I'm with you here, na. Of all the 'concerns' likely going on at any given high school at any given moment - I am beyond stunned that anyone believed for a moment they had any business "sharing" the videotape with anyone else.
And I too am angered and saddened that we are obviously not beyond this yet...
bs
Yes indeed. Let us first focus on girl/girl kissing. This is not only unnatural, it is naturally titillating. Then, let us go to boy/boy kissing. Then, let us go to man/woman kissing. This, too, seems slightly odd, now that we think of it. Slimey. Sloppy. Too intense. In all these cases, too intense. Even in the case of the two girls, where the kissing was apparently not intense at all. "Friendly kissing," they called it. Ha.
The girl/girl episode was particularly ugly because the girls were so particularly pretty. What shall we do about this? Family therapy with a Christian COunselor, perhaps. Cosmetic therapy with a big lip gloss corporation (it's a new kiss and slide away theory).....we have found, actually, that the video scenes only assist in drawing more and more people's attention to these perverted actions, which only excite the public and end up giving us the wrong results. Rememeber. We know what people should do. We know what people should not do. We know what people. We know what. We know.
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