Bingells' Sociology & Gender Studies 101:
The young male of the species is a boy. The young female of the species is a girl. Referring to each group using those titles does not buy into and enforce sexist stereotypes. When I was younger, I was referred to as a 'girl'. Now I am older, I am referred to as a 'woman'. It did not worry me then, nor does it worry me now. It did not warp me then, nor will it warp me now. I cannot speak for other factors and issues that probably have me warped like a record left outside in summer. For those of you reading this who are under twenty-six years of age, a record is a flat circular piece of round grooved vinyl, which was placed on a rotating thing called a turntable, and a needle-pointed thing called a stylus would dig into the grooves, and cause recorded music to be heard. These pieces of quaint antiquity pre-dated CDs, and if you left them outside on a hot day, you risked them warping. Got it?
Back to my original point. There is nothing inherently wrong with calling the younger section of the species 'boys and girls'. What is very, very wrong (almost as wrong as 'would of' instead of 'would have') is deciding teachers cannot use this terminology when addressing the class. This is bordering on utter face-palming, banging-head-on-desk, cat-kicking, infuriating-to-the-point-of-taking-hostages fuckwittery. Yet a school in the US has come up with this notion. How? Do the people who decide the school's protocol suck on a crack pipe when they're their having their meetings? I have attended school assemblies at the local primary school, where my youngest is still attending, and the headmaster addresses them with a jovial, 'Good morning, boys and girls!' And they respond with a respectful, "Good morning, Mr (His Name)'. And we're all happy and get on with our lives. But someone with too much time on his or her hands (or paws) has decided 'boys' and 'girls' is not the language with which children are to be addressed. Oh, who would be a teacher these days? You get no support from the know-all hoi polloi who think all you do is take long holidays, you can't raise your voice because it might frighten the children, red pen is too negative in its implications when marking work, sending kids to the naughty corner or out in the hall is a violation of their human rights (notwithstanding other kids have a right to learn without some disruptive little fucktard annihilating the class), and now you can't even address the children in gender-based terms. Seriously? Soon, there will be a generation of people who have absolutely no fucking idea whatsoever, because it's been deemed politically incorrect to demonstrate it to them! For those of you who watch 'X-Files', and say the truth is out there, THIS is why aliens don't bother landing on or planet: too many imbecilic, sub-normal, brain-bypassed mutants making decisions.
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