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Commented on Hiding Your Sexual Orientation From Your Parents 101 (teen-made video)
If you want to call the phrase, "I'm gay" icky, go right ahead, but let us know. That phrase is (part of) a discussion of sexuality and I, for one, see nothing wrong with it. I imagine you don't either,...
Commented on Airlines that charge fees lost more money than airlines that didn't
There are tradeoffs to every change. And in this case, it seems, that the costs outweighed the benefits. However, it would seem to be a mistake to assume that the reason the other carriers are making money is because they...
Commented on Working handcuff keys printed on a 3D printer
#7 If handcuffs are the only thing keeping police officers safe then they are going to be assaulted. People already have methods for opening up the restraints. To pretend that this key drastically alters the risk of assault to police...
Commented on If literary classics had been titled today
Then: Fahrenheit 451 Now: 450 degrees Celsius, the temperature at which paper self-ignites....
Commented on HOWTO avoid cognitive blind-spots, save money and be happy
If you haven't seen them, Ariely's TED talks are fantastic. http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_ariely_on_our_buggy_moral_code.html http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_ariely_asks_are_we_in_control_of_our_own_decisions.html His book is pretty good too....
Commented on Tip to encourage dinner party guests to dispose of olive pits
I wonder if there is a difference between placing a single pit in the discard plate vs. eating an olive and placing the pit on the discard plate. Not because it actually matters, but I wonder what the power of...
Commented on Reading Lamp
My first thought is: how well would this light really work for reading? It doesn't appear to be bright enough. My second thought: what happens when you finish reading a book? You'd have to do something silly to get it...
Commented on Retro-futuristic designs by the bushel
Big pictures are big?...
Commented on OpenSBP, a simple, free standard for CNC machine programming
The, "ShopBot CNC routers" link, links to gadgets.boingboing.net....
Commented on Software reveals drummers who used click tracks
I wonder what Keith Moon's line would look like....
Commented on An amazing and insane Commodore Amiga table mod
I love the website too. Fits the subject matter quite well....
Commented on Pocket Shark: The Pen of Death
I'm really disappointed their Jokes of the Week page didn't have a link to their homepage....
Commented on Life at Wal-Mart
Wal-mart gets low prices (partially) by exerting pressure on some (all?) of it's suppliers through sheer size, I'd imagine that rubs many unions in the wrong way....
Commented on Add the Benny Hill theme tune to any YouTube video
http://james.nerdiphythesoul.com/bennyhillifier/?id=HcbXBdIvefc So many great videos to be made with this little site....
Commented on Arab shoe-tossing isn't a gesture of friendly affection
All I want to know is if throwing shoes is a common insult in the "Arab world"....
Commented on The US Presidential Election: Open Thread
I just want to say thank you to all the Obama Volunteers. Without you this couldn't have happened....
Commented on Sarah Palin, proud socialist
This just proves the hypothesis that Republicans (and conservatives in general) have zero coherent concept of what it means for something to be socialist, or why that is in any way bad....

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zebbart commented on Hiding Your Sexual Orientation From Your Parents 101 (teen-made video)
Cog, I feel the same and I thought your church & state metaphor was illustrative. SamSam I think you found the dividing line in the words "reproduction" and "sexuality." It is appropriate for government schools to teach the former, but not the latter. In the same way that it is appropriate for government schools to teach religious studies, but not spirituality. A sociology class could maybe explain how different people experience and express sexuality (or for that matter spirituality), but no teacher should be guiding kids in how to experience and express their own sexuality (or spirituality). It's not that...
MysticMisfit commented on Hiding Your Sexual Orientation From Your Parents 101 (teen-made video)
Anon # 29 Again, if not parents and educators, where is a good place for kids to learn about sexuality? In the backseat? And no one's talking about discussing sexual fantasies??? Maybe that's where there's some confusion on yours and Cog's part. I think most people are pretty clear discussion would be from a social science/cultural aspect...you know, like a health class meets social studies class...Not some kind of 1-900-confessional. Odd. And Anon29, "if in theory sexuality is normal and ok" ??? Um, sexuality is a fact. It exists, as in, we are sexual beings. How is the fact that...
SamSam commented on Hiding Your Sexual Orientation From Your Parents 101 (teen-made video)
A sociology class could maybe explain how different people experience and express sexuality (or for that matter spirituality), but no teacher should be guiding kids in how to experience and express their own sexuality (or spirituality). Where did you get the idea that anyone wants teachers to be teaching kids "how to experience and express their own sexuality?" The original comment was that it would be "icky" to "discuss sexuality." Everyone else chimed in to say that there should be nothing wrong with learning about sexuality. In the first line of your quote above, you show that you actually agree...
p96 commented on Hiding Your Sexual Orientation From Your Parents 101 (teen-made video)
#41, if you bookmarked this thread, see: http://www.boingboing.net/2009/11/12/to-the-anonymous-gay.html...
Filekutter commented on Hiding Your Sexual Orientation From Your Parents 101 (teen-made video)
I lived with hate, racism, and violence for most of my early years. If it wasn't the 'greasers' who hated my long hair(as we called the 'amerika love it or leave it' bunch), it was blacks jumping me in large groups. Yes, it happened, get over it and realize your myths are shit. No one has the right to even attempt to change your feelings, your sexuality, your mode of dress, your words...and if they do, please... get a very large baseball bat and plow the stupid, ignorant, peasants... into the ground. There are only two rules in life: Don't...

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