The Urine is Heating

 Okay, I'd been reading about it on Twitter, but with uni, assessments, and work, I hadn't had the chance to view first screening or the repeat. Anyway, let's hear it for iView, where I have just finished viewing last Monday night's episode of Four Corners, you know, the one that explored the practices in the Opus Dei run schools Tangara and Redfield. 

Assuming the veracity of the content is reliable, then what can I say? Holl-lee fuck comes to mind. What is wrong with a school and teaching body that would willingly feed blatant misinformation to impressionable students? The funding given to those schools, who discourage girls from receiving the vaccine against HPV on the grounds it will encourage promiscuity, is far more obscene than any of the pornography they warn against (porn apparently burns holes in the brain, y'see). 

If any of you wank-socks who determine Opus Dei school policy are reading this, can I just point out a few things?

1. I'm not a neurologist, but I'm pretty confident that watching pornography will not cause holes to materialise in the brain like tired old rubber perforating in the sun. Were this true, there would be an awful lot of people getting around with brains like Swiss cheese. 

2. I am not a pharmacologist or endocrinologist, but I'm similarly confident the HPV vaccine does not contain an ingredient that renders the vaccinated lass a raving nympho with a sexual appetite of voracity and ferocity usually associated with stud stallions that have been given a dose of Viagra. It just doesn't happen, okay? 

This is a potentially life-saving vaccine and you're worried some young women might interpret it as carte blanche to bang a few dudes? Stop getting your information and logic from Barnaby Joyce (who opposed Gardasil on the same grounds), but more importantly, STOP POLICING PEOPLE'S SEXUALITY! 

I'm currently working towards a Bachelor of Education (Secondary), and along with teaching English in a fun and efficient manner, I want to create a classroom where the students feel safe and respected. So, guess what I WON'T be doing? That's right, I will not be having the students pass around a piece of sticky tape, such exercise being underpinned by the notion that just as the tape loses its efficacy and value and becomes dirty with excessive handling; so too do girls who are handled by more than one sexual partner. There are better ways to teach a metaphor, and those ways are not potentially harmful and confusing to the psyche of young people. 

I guess it's a tired trope to whinge about the funding these schools receive, but a few years ago, my son asked could he borrow my tired, battered, loved copy of To Kill a Mockingbird because his school (a State school that doesn't teach this poison and respects student diversity) did not have sufficient copies for the students. The thought that places who compare kids to sticky tape and teach misinformation receive serious coin just, to put it bluntly, boils my piss.