Comments on: As Good as a Mile http://www.robustmcmanlypants.org/blog/2009/06/22/as-good-as-a-mile/ Camo Pants with a Lavender Fringe Sun, 18 Jul 2010 01:51:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: KJ http://www.robustmcmanlypants.org/blog/2009/06/22/as-good-as-a-mile/comment-page-1/#comment-13831 KJ Wed, 24 Jun 2009 13:07:14 +0000 http://www.robustmcmanlypants.org/blog/?p=941#comment-13831 Just finished reading a book called "Telling Tales out of School", edited by Kevin Jennings. It's a collection of essays written by LGBT adults reflecting on their experience at school (mostly middle and high school) from the 40s through the 80s/90s. One of the more positive essays is by Randy Fair, who speaks of 2 teachers he encountered in high school (1978) in Weaver, Ala., that he says "threw me a lifeline" and inspired him to become a teacher so he could provide that same lifeline to others. Contrast that with your experience with the teachers in your school; Fair closes with the sentence "These two people showed me that my sexual orientation was nothing to be ashamed of, and that the real shame would be to maintain the narrow ideas I had been taught to believe." It's a real shame those legislators wanted to keep the bill narrow, because bullying comes with a very wide swath of possibility. But I'm glad to hear the inclusionary language was kept. Just finished reading a book called “Telling Tales out of School”, edited by Kevin Jennings. It’s a collection of essays written by LGBT adults reflecting on their experience at school (mostly middle and high school) from the 40s through the 80s/90s. One of the more positive essays is by Randy Fair, who speaks of 2 teachers he encountered in high school (1978) in Weaver, Ala., that he says “threw me a lifeline” and inspired him to become a teacher so he could provide that same lifeline to others. Contrast that with your experience with the teachers in your school; Fair closes with the sentence “These two people showed me that my sexual orientation was nothing to be ashamed of, and that the real shame would be to maintain the narrow ideas I had been taught to believe.” It’s a real shame those legislators wanted to keep the bill narrow, because bullying comes with a very wide swath of possibility. But I’m glad to hear the inclusionary language was kept.

]]> By: Aaron http://www.robustmcmanlypants.org/blog/2009/06/22/as-good-as-a-mile/comment-page-1/#comment-13824 Aaron Tue, 23 Jun 2009 16:11:51 +0000 http://www.robustmcmanlypants.org/blog/?p=941#comment-13824 Yep. Just my opinion, but I think the whole "we don't need to name specific categories" is usually a sign that person HAS a problem with that category and just doesn't want to admit it. Yep.

Just my opinion, but I think the whole “we don’t need to name specific categories” is usually a sign that person HAS a problem with that category and just doesn’t want to admit it.

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