Art and and Downfall of Modern Society
Has everyone heard about the tragic misuse of field trips in Texas? They actually let 5th graders view ancient works of smut! Nude people! In an Art museum! I am appalled! Disgusted! Distraught!
Um, no.
Disgust doesn’t even come close to my steaming pile of righteous indignation. Ms. McGee should sue the shit out of the Fisher school system. Interfering with her right to do her job, censorship, hypocrisy, being stupid, I don’t know, we should create laws just so she can sue them some more.
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Teaching children that the human body is shameful, dirty or bad is perpetuating the terrible rash of low self esteem, body dysphoria and obsessive guilt that pervades this country. I’m not going to tell a person how to raise their children, but to create such a nervous, hysterical environment in the public schools is a crime.
Not the least of the issues that this brings up is sexism. Girls’ breasts are ‘bad’, but boys should have strong sculpted pecs and show them off at the beach or truck pulls. Looking a male without a shirt is just fine, but anyone who looks at a topless woman is always sexual and just a little ‘wrong.’ And god forbid a woman takes her top off, what a slut.
The moral of this story? Texas is again showing the world that is Americans are backwards, insane, oversensitive and completely stupid. I wish the rest of the country was beacon of logic and civility to prove this one sad exception wrong, but we have TWICE elected the epitome of everything wrong with this country, so I don’t see much hope for proving Texas wrong.
I’m with the Dixie Chicks- this incident, along with so, so many others- makes me ashamed to be an American in this day and age.
(And yes, I realize that this tirade against Texas is hypocritical- one school board and one(or two) citizens in the public eye should not be representative of the state, nor its population, as a whole. Just like Texas shouldn’t represent America as a whole. BUT- between the current administration and various entertainment industries such as sports, music, TV, and a hundred other things, Texas is portrayed everywhere as an example of Real America (Wild West, Sports are everything, Cowboys, ‘We don’t need no book learnin,’, etc.) , and I don’t like what that says about our country. That’s all I’m saying.)